Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
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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 …
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 …
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 can be a metaphor for transformation; a prediction of what we think people should know in the future, based on what we know today.
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 …
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 …
I talk about Backbriefing a lot in conference presentations and will have mentioned it in a number of blog posts. In particular I put together a Backbriefing A3. However, I don’t think I’ve ever really described what I mean by backbriefing or what it involves. Time to rectify that. Background I first learned about backbriefing in Stephen Bungay’s book The …
This is a slightly different variation on my series of posts comparing Strategy Deployment and other approaches. SAFe is definitely not a form of Strategy Deployment, but it does include references to strategy, so this post is more an exploration of how SAFe could work alongside Strategy Deployment. First, lets get the usual caveats out of the way. I’m not …
I’ve blogged about my thoughts on Strategy Deployment and Agendashift (as well as how to use Agendashift with the X-Matrix) some time ago, and more recently I wrote about Strategy Deployment and the Four Disciplines of Execution. Over the last few months I have had the opportunity to combine the two models, and this post will give a high level overview …
This is another post comparing my views on Strategy Deployment and other approaches. This time the Four Disciplines of Execution (or 4DX), described in the book of the same name. I’d heard about 4DX from a few people over the last years; notably Hakan Forss and Matt Wynne. I finally got around to reading the book, found it immediately useful, …