Category: Transform Ways of Working
Transformations Explained in 5 Acts
Organizational Transformation explained in 5 Acts: 1 True Approach: Iterative, Non-Invasive, Sustainable, Empowered, Self-Improving Transformation 2 Pre-Conditions: Clear Business-Driven Outcomes & Capable Progressive Leaders (ideally aligned) 3 Common Paths: A Evolve the Product (drive: revenue), Evolve the Approach (driver: productivity), Evolve the Tool / Tech (driver: expenses) 4 Cyclical Stages: 1 Beautiful Bold Vision, 2 ...
Accelerate OKRs – Coaching Support for faster easier Adoption
General OKR knowledge is readily available via videos, blog posts, and great books. However since OKRs are applied to a messy organization with unaligned leaders in often complex rushed circumstances, you need applied knowledge that only comes from experience. This article is part of a larger series: Ten Most Important OKR Accelerators I acknowledge this is ...
Video from Feb 11 session at DevOps North America Summit
For those of you that couldn't come to our session @ "Your DevOps Rollout is Stalling! Why... and now HOW to Course-Correct it!" at the February 11 DevOps North America Summit (originally scheduled for 4:00 PM but later bumped up to 11:30 AM NYT)... shared with permission from GWS1.21 (session questions omitted) https://videopress.com/v/oZ0nkiFE?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata Deck used ...
COVID-19 Business Resilience Workshop… have Readiness Plan in just 3 hours
Get your business COVID19 ready and your staff from worried / scared / surreal to focused / energized / confident before lunch, in just three hours. This is a self-help guide on how to run a COVID19 Business Resilience Workshop in your organization. This is the fastest way to decide on your core services, resilience policies, and appropriate communication plan... but also to turn your staff from scared to focused.
Using Complexity to Answer 5 Tough Agile Questions
Can a single insight answer five tough questions facing Agile today? Let's find out! Here are the topics we'll be wrestling with in this article: Why is it so difficult to predict or provide delivery dates in Agile? Why doubling team size doesn't necessarily increase team productivity? Why Agile requires executive and stakeholders to change? ...
Agility for Executive Teams
I recently had lunch with a former colleague turned friend. Teina is an executive innovator and disruptor in one of the largest global non-profits in the world. Besides family and work updates, she posed a great question we wrestled with over our lunch… now covered in this article: "How can an Executive Team become more ...
We implemented Agile but it’s not bringing expected results… What’s next?
Organizations have been implementing Agile since late 90's. One of the more recent and most reliable stats is from 2017 PMI Pulse on the Profession stating "71 percent of organizations report using agile approaches for their projects". That same publication elaborates that only 21% of projects are done in Agile alone and another 20% in ...
Digital is in Wild Wild West and IT is stuck in Legacy… Now what?
Digital and Customer Transformations are more difficult for more complex and larger businesses. In earlier stages of their Digital Maturity, as they transition from functional silos to more value-centric and cross-functional organizational structures, it is very common to hear the following the "us vs them" sentiments. IT reflects on borderline negligent adoption of technology (often ...
Value Transformed 