To survive and thrive, your business needs effective feedback. This allows all complex systems to adapt, survive, and thrive across time. If you want to refresh and accelerate your business success, learn how to apply the Adapt and Grow phase of StrategyOS.
The Transform phase of StrategyOS delivers your Vision. Many businesses struggle to implement after putting together a bold strategic plan because they lack the practices to turn planning into reality. As Prussian field marshal von Moltke once said, "No plan survives first contact with the enemy.” In this case, the enemy presents as risks, uncertainty, …
David Anderson at Agile Management has two new blog posts that got me thinking. The first is How to Start with Kanban which lays out how to implement Kanban for software development in 10 easy steps (I like its simplicity.) The second is Blogosphere Buzz about Lean & Kanban which is a comprehensive review of …
It is time for lean six sigma to grow beyond its focus on process improvement and deliver the reality of an agile enterprise. Capping a series of articles, I explore the organizational need for a Process Center of Excellence, how it would work and the agile results it would deliver.
Although they have value, I'm not here to talk about quick hit or proof of concept projects. I'm talking about what leaders can learn from the disciplines of piloting aircraft. I earned my private pilot license in May of 2005. This post is a reflection on that experience and how it applies to business. Coaching …
I laughed out loud as I read this post from Tom Perry. He is Co-presenting the topic: Swarming - The Birds and the Bees and Agile at Agile 08. It would not be quite as intriguing if it were titled: Slime Molds, The Birds and the Bees and Agile. I am sure there is something analogous …
If you need more than one person to get a project done, start with creation of a team charter. Charters document and communicate a team's purpose. The process of creating and maintaining the charter builds understanding of and broad commitment to that purpose.
What should an agile organization look like?
"...when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in thought advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be." - Lord Kelvin “There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that …
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Variability is the root of all evil in development and must be eliminated.
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