Nine Surprising Strategy Deployment Books with Powerful Lessons
This post is a list of recommended books that have influenced my thinking on Strategy Deployment over the years, with links to related posts.
The most important X-Matrix lessons I have learned
A post describing the most important learnings I have had over the many years of using the X-Matrix with Agile Transformation.
Strategy Deployment and Team of Teams
This post is about Strategy Deployment and the book Team of Teams – another great book which has nothing to do with Lean or Agile explicitly but contains some great, relevant stories and lessons.
The Miroverse Now Has An X-Matrix Template
You can now easily create and collaborate an X-Matrix in Miro with a Miroverse template. Read more to discover how to find and use it.
The Ultimate X-Matrix For Your Agile Transformation Is Here
A description of an X-Matrix from an agile transformation I have recently been involved in, and which is something I can publish with some minor tweaking.
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 …