Tag: agility
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OKRs for Organizational Agility
Organizational transformations feel transactional but their success is measured in behavior change. Here’s how to use OKRs in this scenario.
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OKR Leadership: A safe culture of learning
OKRs require the psychological safety for teams to be wrong and a culture that celebrates the learning they bring from…
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What is Agile?
You can laud the idea and still be critical of the implementation. That is the true spirit of Agile. Here’s…
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Inspect and adapt, with respect
We all know go to the gemba tell us to go and see and we inspect and adapt. But there’s…
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Bottom-up? Or Top-down? What’s the best way to set OKRs?
Don’t assume that telling your teams what their OKR goals should be is the best approach. Here’s a better way.
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How to inspire creativity and innovation with one simple prompt
If you’re not getting the kind of creativity and innovation you know your team can deliver, reframe your requests to…
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SAFe is Not Agile
SAFe – the scaled agile framework – attempts to bring agility and scrum to large enterprises. In my experience, it…
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Selling underwear: How developers learned to love talking to customers
Not everyone wants to do product discovery but everybody should. Here’s a story about one way I convinced a group…
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Volkswagen’s electric car ambitions: a Sense & Respond case study
Volkswagen’s electric vehicle ambitions reveal how their manufacturing history gets in the way of their technological success.
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Agile frameworks aren’t the destination. They are the starting points.
Following recipes is the beginning of your agile transformation. To reach true agility you must become a chef.