[#014] What is leadership?
Captain David Marquet gives us his view on leadership. This video is a great overview of his wonderful book “Turn the Ship Around!”
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What is Training from the BACK of the Room?
Training from the BACK of the Room! (TBR). It’s a strange name. It’s the title of a book by Sharon Bowman. The book is an exceptional treasure trove of accelerated learning and instructional design techniques. Sharon brought together her great experience of corporate training and as a teacher to create a wonderful resource. However, it’s
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Can Kanban and Scrum work together?
Students and clients ask us “Can Kanban and Scrum work together?” all the time. The answer is an emphatic, “Of course!” However, what do you mean by “Kanban”? If you are talking about Kanban as a strategy for optimizing the flow of value through a process that uses a visual, work-in-progress limited pull system, then
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[#013] Introduction to Wardley Maps
Wardley Maps are a really powerful tool for deciding strategy. Here is Simon Wardley giving a very entertaining Keynote at OSCON 2014 where he discusses how he came to invent it as a technique and briefly runs through how it can be applied.
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[#012] The Smell of the Place
Professor Sumantra Ghoshal talks about culture at the World Economic Forum – what he refers to as “The Smell of the Place”. He talks about what management can do to create and sustain the culture they want rather than allowing undesirable norms to grow.
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[#011] If Russ Ackoff had given a TED Talk… Systems Thinking
“The peformance of a system depends on how the parts fit, not how they act taken separately.” Dr. Russell Ackoff In this inspiring talk, Ackoff discusses the importance of looking at systems as a whole when improving. He discusses the folly of looking at a system as individual parts and improving them in isolation. Finally,
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The Flight Levels Academy takes off!
The Flight Levels Academy was officially launched on 09 Nov 2019. Following the success of the Flight Levels case study described in Klaus Leopold‘s “Rethinking Agile” book and after strong demand from customers and practitioners, we are delighted to announce the launch of its: Practitioner Community to connect and share personal experiences and knowledge. Foundational Education Program
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[#010] The Resource Utilisation Trap
We have a sticker that says “utilisation is the enemy of flow”. All too often at work, we want everyone to be super busy all of the time – without realising it, we are killing our ability to deliver. This is what Henrik Kniberg of Crisp calls “The resource utilisation trap”. In the video below,
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A Lean Agile Coach’s Toolkit – Guides, cinema, coffee, lunch and Lego.
Abstract As a coach it is easy to fall into the trap of trying to make a splash. This is especially the case if we are new or external. This can stop self-organisation in its tracks. It makes the organisations we work with dependant on us. What happens when the coach is not there? All
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[#009] The Backwards Brain Bicycle
“It’s like riding a bike.” “It’s like riding a bike” is a phrase that we use in English that means, “once you’ve learned how to do something, you will never forget it.” This video shows us that we take our truth for granted, unaware of our bias. It also shows that knowledge does not equal
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