Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
This is the website for Karl Scotland. I help businesses become Learning Organisations, through outcome-oriented, continuous transformations, with everyone, everywhere.
Over the last 20+ years I have been an advocate of Lean and Agile approaches to achieve this, working with companies including the BBC, Yahoo!, EMC Consulting, Rally Software, Cisco, Legal & General, HSBC and Sky.
During this time, I have been an early adopter of XP and Scrum, a key contributor to Agendashift, and a pioneer in using Kanban Systems and Strategy Deployment for product development. I am a founding member of both the Lean Systems Society and Limited WIP Society, as well as being active in the community and a regular conference speaker. As a result, I was awarded the honorary Brickell Key Community Contribution Award at the 2013 Lean Kanban North America conference.
What is the relationship between OKRs and the X-Matrix? The answer lies in recognising the difference between Strategic and SMART objectives.
Jim Benson and I will be at Kanban Edge on March 6th in London and are teaching our Making Strategy Visible workshop again the day after the conference.
The book Flow Engineering describes an approach to creating flow through value stream mapping, and which can be described in terms of Strategy Deployment.