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Upcoming Event: July 2026
Past Event: June 2026
Summary:
In this highly interactive, PowerPoint-free, high-energy session, Niels will discuss with us how software development organizations can move towards flow, rhythm, and high performance, raising effectiveness tenfold, by abandoning notions of capacity orientation and by becoming truly time-oriented. This is a no-nonsense session where Niels will not only cover the abstract concepts. He will also discuss with us how to make the necessary change happen: fast and effectively, within development teams and beyond.
What beliefs, patterns, tools, structures, and frameworks do we need to leave behind to produce a time-oriented, high-performing software development?
The answer is: An awful lot.
In effect, this session is about how to break through the barriers that have stood in the way of adopting truly agile, truly democratic ways of working.
Books:
Book- What would Ernst Weichselbaum do?
Ebook- What would Ernst Weichselbaum do?
White Papers:
Introducing Time-Oriented Software Development (TOSD)
Patterns of Time-Oriented Software Development (TOSD)
Takeaways:
- How an “architecture in time” harnesses human and machine creativity—but also keeps that creativity in check
- Why concepts such as the OK Point and the Daily Portion are antidotes to AI-induced chaos in product development
- How to bring time orientation, flow, and rhythm to software development – leaving behind planning, scheduling, and measuring overkill, queuing, delays, and constant interruption
- How a European software company adopted a Time-Oriented Software Development (TOSD) system within a few weeks. Why you can (and should) do the same
- Why the AI breakthrough in software development is unlikely to happen without proper time orientation
About the Speaker:
Niels Pflaeging, a management exorcist, author, and researcher, is a passionate advocate for a new breed of leadership and profound change in organizations. He is the founder and associate of the BetaCodex Network, as well as a co-founder of Red42 and managing director at qomenius, with headquarters in Wiesbaden, Germany. Niels authored 11 books on organizational leadership and change, including the worldwide best-seller Organize for Complexity, which was published in several languages. Together with Silke Hermann, Niels Pflaeging is co-creator of the open-source approaches Cell Structure Design, Relative Targets, OpenSpace Beta, and OpenSpace DEV. He and Silke Hermann also co-created several influential concepts of organizing, such as Change-as-Flipping, Org Physics, and Peer Recruiting. For the last two decades, Niels has been strongly involved in transformational change projects for organizations across Europe and the Americas. The Financial Times Germany wrote: “When Pflaeging shakes the dogmas of management, they crumble in his hands.”
In the Fall of 2025, Niels launched Time-Oriented Software Development, TOSD, bringing rhythm, structure, and consistent time orientation to software development – well beyond “Agile-as-we-know-it.”
Niels frequently publishes new articles on the free web magazine “Transforming organizations for good. Fast”.
