Lean Thinking, Experience and Experiments
in Enterprise Knowledgework and Services
Recent Recipes
Canonical good practices that consistently work in nearly all large scale knowledgework contexts.
Focus: A Leadership Superpower
Extreme focus on the Wildly Important is a critical enabler for delivery.
read moreUnwinding Back to Trust
Better ways of working unwind the journey towards formal relationships. Building personal trust increases collaboration.
read moreBetter Backlog Prioritization Draft
I’m delighted to announce the launch of Better Backlog Prioritisation – a compilation of methods used to prioritise a backlog.
read moreRecent Patterns
Good practices that are well tried and found repeatedly successful, but have more contextual variability.
The Empowerment Revolution Will Not Be Enforced
Cultivate decentralisation by inviting autonomy instead
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Colocated Teams, Distributed Organisations
Non-colocated teams can work; it’s just harder, particularly with newly formed teams or inexperienced people.
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Now Is Not The Time for #NoProjects
Recent Experiments
Ways of working that should work, but context may render them ineffective. Some have been tried, some are suggestions based on thinking only.
Scaling Self Selection
Team self-selection is a growing ‘opt-in’ approach to building successful Lean/Agile teams, with resulting reports of increased effectiveness.
Are there lessons we can learn from this in our wider Organisational Transformation approaches?
read moreBi-Modal Delivery is Inevitable. Get Over It.
GIVEN: Big Bang change is ineffective & painful
WHEN: We deliver integrated capabilities during transformation
THEN: Bi-Modal is inevitable
Coffee Rules for Curating Collaboration
Two simple, concrete changes that use coffee to build and engrain good collaborative habits.
Recent Writing
Compulsory Basic Training
We need to revisit the meaning and intent of the training classes we run, treating classes such Certified Scrum Master as a professional entry level, the point at which learning starts. A reflection, based on going through Compulsory Basic Training to ride a motorcycle.
read moreNew Slides: Meaningfully Reframing PI Planning
Slides for Meaningfully Reframing PI Planning
(the Lightning Talk I wrote for last week’s European SAFe Summit) are available. This is new thinking, that I’ll be expanding significantly on in the near future.
SAFe RTE Class Review
A class for practitioners to learn, not to insta-certify wannabes. A big step forward in how classes should be run.
read moreFocus: A Leadership Superpower
Extreme focus on the Wildly Important is a critical enabler for delivery.
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