Are You Struggling to Scale Your Organization ? Need agility but dubious of process BS/dogma? I share reflective, pragmatic, principled takes on how to approach scaling your organization leveraging the essence (rather than theater) of product operating models, agile practices and frameworks, and business operating systems such as EOS and OKRs.
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Do you ever have nightmares of underpant gnomes running your transformation? Process Theater happens when people focus on following the process instead of connecting it to outcomes and impact. It's like the South Park underpants gnomes, who never managed to figure out the connection between stealing underpants and world domination. So, how can we break the downward spiral caused by process theater and switch to a positive transformational flywheel? Outcome Mapping can help us clarify the real behaviors and results we want to see. We can then set objectives and key results (e.g,. in OKR form) around those instead of process compliance vanity metrics. âRead How To Break Process Theater Using Outcome Orientation On Your Browserâ Listen to How To Break Process Theater Using Outcome Orientation on the Scaling w/ Agility Podcast â PS If you're stuck in an OKR theater, the Who Does What by When OKR Masterclass can help you write better OKRs that drive the right behaviors. â Yours, |
Scaling w/ Agility
Are You Struggling to Scale Your Organization ? Need agility but dubious of process BS/dogma? I share reflective, pragmatic, principled takes on how to approach scaling your organization leveraging the essence (rather than theater) of product operating models, agile practices and frameworks, and business operating systems such as EOS and OKRs.
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