Original insights and unique perspectives from our founder, Glenn Smith.
Moving to a product-centred delivery approach provides substantial benefits to producers and consumers. Having telemetry is essential in understanding how their products perform as customers use them. Telemetry enables you to understand how customers use your solutions, and the data it provides will enable more confident, faster decision-making. Gartner’s 2023 Top Strategic Technology Trends highlights,…
Treating limited delivery capacity as a risk never leads to happy outcomes! Doing so will challenge your programmes, and teams will hate working on them. Risk is uncertainty, generating either a positive or negative result. The capacity you have today is constrained. People fall into the trap of calling it a risk because the capacity…
There was a time when enterprises acted as if they knew best—forcing products on the market that didn’t genuinely fix the customer’s problems. Then, if you can call being late and over budget delivered, they would deliver these products with massive projects that took months, if not years to complete. (If this feels like I…
In an Agile, iterative product development approach, we talk about embracing failure. To be clear, we do not want to fail to deliver as we want to ace that part. To enable this, we want to probe ideas and solutions so that the delivery does not fail, but this will only happen if we have…
4 patterns to consider in choosing the Product Owner for a SAFe System Team.
It’s quite common for people to think they cannot draw. This is often reconfirmed when they draw a humble stickman. They draw it, step back to look at it and wonder why it doesn’t look quite right. You can understand their confusion, we all know what people look like and know a stickman is ‘simply’…
So you want to improve your service? The chances are you make improvements by getting approval for projects to be spun up and deliver some change. Doing so though runs the risk of reinforcing bad behaviours, wasting money and creating a bloated product. Why should making improvements be that structurally different from running your business?…
When did you last get feedback? Maybe you asked for it, or it was given to you unsolicited. Irrespective, it is pretty natural to think back to when your manager or colleague last shared an observation with you about yourself in response to this question. If feedback can be useful to you for your career…
I’ve been mainly having my head down in to two books over the last couple of weeks. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing ImprovementEliyahu Goldratt This is a parable that explains the concepts of production flow through the story of Alex who runs a manufacturing plant. I found it a very interesting read and didn’t…
There is so much fabulous content out there today that it could be a full time job just reading a small part of it. This is a start of what I hope to be a semi-regular series of snippets from articles, blogs and books I’m reading that I haven’t selected to spend more time on….
Is your organisation successful in delivering value through agile methods? If not you are not alone. A great many who are either new to agile or have been doing it for a while struggle to get value delivered. While there can be many reasons for this, one common reason is that there is a lack…
While facilitating a stakeholder workshop recently, I ran two rounds of grouping and ordering. One, I used dot voting, and one didn’t. On reflection, I was surprised by the results. The question asked during these processes follows a pattern of, what are your top three things you do/don’t like about a tool. The stakeholders wrote…
