3 Amazing Reasons Your Agile Transformation May Go South
What important lessons can we learn from the story of Scott and Amundson’s race to the South Pole that we can apply to an Agile Transformation?
50 Quick Ideas To Improve Your Agile Transformation
Inspired by a card deck of tactics on how to do strategy, this post suggests 50 ideas for a strategy deployment deck to be used in an agile transformation.
How to Measure the Predictability of Agile
This post follows up on a Twitter thread I posted in November exploring ways of measuring the predictability of teams. I also discussed some of these ideas in a Drunk Agile episode. When I begin working with an organisation on the agile transformation, an early conversation is around successful outcomes. My work on Strategy Deployment is all about answering the …
Strategy Deployment and Idealised Design
This post introduces Idealised Design, as described in the book Idealized Design: How to Dissolve Tomorrow’s Crisis…Today by Russell L. Ackoff, Jason Magidson and Herber J. Addison, and explores how it relates to Strategy Deployment. The post is a continuation of the series on Strategy Deployment And other approaches. What is Idealised Design? The basic premise of Idealised Design is …
OKRs and Kanban – Working Perfectly Together
I have previously posted separately about Strategy Deployment and OKRs and Kanban. This is a guest post by Matt Roberts on OKRs and Kanban that brings the two together. With a degree of confidence, I am going to assume that you know what Objective and Key Results or OKRs are. As a goal-setting framework, it has become a favourite amongst …
Continuous Strategy is the new Strategy Deployment
I’ve been trying to come up with a better name for Strategy Deployment for a long time. One that has stuck with me recently is Continuous Strategy.
Time Capsules and Transformations
Time capsules can be a metaphor for transformation; a prediction of what we think people should know in the future, based on what we know today.
Backbriefing and the Curse of Knowledge
In a previous post on backbriefing, I described it as “a process with which people can check their understanding of the intent of their work and whether their plans will meet that intent”. On reflection, I realised I missed an important element. It is also leadership checking whether they have described their intent with enough clarity. Put another way, backbriefing …
Curiosity Theory and the Principle of Optimum Knowledge
When I talk about curiosity I usually talk about experimentation and the need for failure. When teaching experimentation with games such as Eleusis Expeditious, I inevitably end up talking about the Information Theory curve. I learned about Information Theory from Don Reinertsen in his book Principles of Product Development Flow – specifically Principle V4: “The Principle of Optimum Failure Rate. …
What is a True North?
The True North is the first element of my TASTE model and is in the middle of my X-Matrix template. It is the central piece which holds the other elements together. On the X-Matrix I define the True North as: The orientation which informs what we should do. That is a bit abstract and jargony, so lets unpack it a …