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Agility

Agile Learning Loops: How to Integrate Skill Development into Every Sprint

🚀 Why the Next Frontier of Agility Isn’t Faster Delivery, It’s Faster LearningIn most organizations, learning still exists outside the work environment. It happens in workshops, HR portals, or during...

Tips

Is Scrum Really Too Many Meetings

A common complaint on Scrum teams is, “We have too many meetings.” However, I would like to argue that the issue isn’t the number of activities in Scrum; it’s how...

Business Transformation

Crisis Drills and the Ecosystem Scorecard

Let’s take a look at a couple of different orgs I have had the pleasure to work with and their response to “problems”. I am reminded of my practices in...

Business Transformation

Co-Innovation With Design Partners: Learn Fast Together

A SaaS checkout team and their payments partner invited two long-time customers to be design partners for a new Pay-in-4 API. Week one, they shipped a guarded pilot to a...

Agility

Flow Signals Across Company Boundaries

This week, we have been exploring real-world scenarios at an organization where I worked; they were a retail provider. While I spent most of my time in the technology operations...

Business Transformation

Trust, Data, and Operating Agreements: From Vendors to Partners

You’ve seen this before, perhaps. On paper, everything looked fine. Our logistics partner was hitting every pickup window; our carriers generally met transit SLAs; the warehouse was definitely locked in...

Business Transformation

See the Whole Network: Map Value Across Companies

Two months before the holiday launch, an electronics company I have worked with held its Thursday portfolio review. Exciting right?Every internal chart looked green; our sprints were on track, test...