For so many companies, inability to estimate, forecast, budget, and manage expectations of clients, users, and management is a big issue. Below, are some of the most commonly heard concerns: Our teams cannot accurately estimate work. Our teams are not stable and not dedicated. Capacity is unpredictable. Not everyone is cross-functional and everyone does their … Read more
Has your organization decided that it no longer wishes to be fooled by the “Agile Theater” that peppers tens of thousands of people with shallow, superficial and fake changes? Do you feel that you wish to improve your organizational design more systemically, by bringing delivery people closer to users/stakeholders/customers, while reducing redundant org layers? Great! … Read more
3 days of deep insights, system thinking, reflections, discovering and owning the system we operate within! Thank you Gene Gendel for the recommendation! 3 days with Craig Larman were thought provoking, deep, and inspiring! Read the complete Linked post by Elena Aminova “To the wall” is something you’ll hear a lot from Craig Larman when you take … Read more
Connect with Gene Download materials Feature Teams vs. Product Teams? Organizational Implications of False Dichotomy LeSS and SAFe: Understanding The Differences LeSS ‘Getting Started’ steps Product Discovery & Definition Workshop (download free templates) Virtual Events(Tips & Tricks) Self-Assessments Upcoming LeSS training You Get What you Ask For: Agile Coaches-“Centaurs” (about coaching & coaches) Global … Read more
What we have covered (~13 minutes): Where do great Product Owners and Area Product Owners come from? What are some of the most classic omissions with selecting candidates for the roles? Addressing the issue from the standpoint of product centricity and organizational design
Synopsis: Most of ‘agile transformations’ are failures and/or fakes. Many people that claim triumphing successes with agile transformations, do this to simply to advance upwards on their own career ladder, since their compensation and promotion are dependent on their own claims of success. Nowadays, the words “agile”, “enterprise” and “scaling” are mostly misunderstood and frequently … Read more
The New New Product Development Game (NNPG) [Takeuchi, Nonaka, 1986] introduced to a far greater audience what the most successful product companies were doing at the time. The research found that the most significant influence for successful products is the creation of teams that follow “a holistic or “rugby” approach—where a team tries to go … Read more
Additional References: Coaching Tool/Technique: System Modelling (w/ Causal Loop Diagram – CLD) LESS TALKS: System Modelling of HR-Related “Nuances” System Thinking & Modelling (reference library)
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