Talks: Visualising Waitflow – how efficient is your end-to-end flow?
Presentation History Virtual Flight Club – Online – 20 May 2020 Abstract TBC Slides & Videos Download the slides: Visualising Waitflow
Business Agility
Flow Efficiency: The Hidden Truth of Agile Teams
When you think of being agile, what comes to mind? I doubt Flow Efficiency is the first thing you think of. My guess is it might have something to do with value delivery, methodologies, frameworks, events, or roles. These are all things that we sometimes hear people say when we ask them what “good” looks …
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[#019] The Efficiency Paradox
Niklas Modig uses the example of a child needing medical help to illustrate the difference between flow efficiency and resource efficiency. It serves as an excellent emotional hook to highlight this key idea of why flow efficiency is so important for business agility.
Talks: Introduction to Flight Levels Workshop
Presentation History Lean Agile US – Ft. Lauderdale – 26 Feb 2020 Abstract Agile is cool, agile is trendy! Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, MorE or LeSS… Teams are trained so that the company finally becomes agile in the market. However, most of the time NOTHING positive happens! How is that even possible? In this workshop we …
[#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.
Business Efficiency? Watch the Ball, not the Player
In football, the team that wins is the one that gets the ball in the other team’s goal most times. Not the one that runs the most. What matters most is what is happening to the ball. So, we need to watch the ball, not the player. Business is no different. In Knowledge Work what …
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How Well Does Your System Flow?
When working with a flow-based Kanban system there are a few statements that I would suggest most teams should bear in mind. One of my Kanban class attendees labelled these as “Jose’s Rules for Flow” Whilst I wouldn’t go so far as to say these are hard and fast rules, they are some suggestions for …
Mastering the Art of Practicing Kanban
Practice! Practice! Practice! We know that the only way to really master new knowledge is by practising it for a substantial period of time. This is the most crucial statement in the Agile Manifesto: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. But, “doing” is not everything. …
[#005] How to Get Better at the Things you Care About
I recently discovered this video thanks to Boaz Zehavi at Vonage. The TED talk by Eduardo Briceño is excellent and covers a lots of relevant topics to Business Agility. As I was watching it, I made notes of things that reminded me of. This is the list: Learning/Performance zone has lots of parallels to Mihaly …
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[#003] Building a Psychologically Safe Workplace
This video explores the concept of Psychological Safety. This is at the core of the Google research on great teams and working spaces. It is particularly true for environments with high interdependence and uncertainty as the vast majority of software companies are. Building a psychologically safe workplace Amy Edmondson 11:26 AFTER WATCHING THE VIDEO This is …
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