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.
I Need Your Help Navigating Agile Frontiers
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I’ve been exploring the new frontiers of agile/agility over the last couple of months. Thank you for being here for the ride. I enjoy the interactions and feedback, so keep those replies coming! I plan to host a few free talks exploring these frontiers to take the interaction to the next level. If none of these resonate, will you please reply and let me know which topic/frontier you WOULD like me to explore further? Curious to see the results! I'll share what I learn next week... 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.
Reader Jonathan asked for some more color on the OKR swamp... Remember the Fire Swamp from Princess Bride? (If you don't, RUN to watch the movie. And consider this spoiler alert - and snooze this email until you're back) Navigating your OKRs often feels like the Fire Swamp. There are so many OKRs that they are all stuck - like the standing, dark, moist water in the Fire Swamp. The exercise of creating them involves wordsmithing agony that reminds you of a Battle of Wits with a sicilian......
What gets measured gets managed. But setting OKRs isn't enough. The flow and traction of OKRs need to be managed as well - otherwise, you'll find yourself in the OKR swamp.Using an OKR Kanban can help you both see the swamp and improve the flow and traction of OKRs. Here's an example - Here are some of my favorite patterns for managing OKR flow using Kanban: Use One OKR Kanban board. It's okay and preferable to see OKRs from multiple departments/teams/groups on the same board. It reinforces...
Hi there. I thought I'd share what is going on behind the scenes ... January started with a flurry of deep work with clients and I'm still trying to figure out how to weave writing on a consistent schedule into these periods. In the future I might use these opportunities to share some classics/reruns. In addition, I've been focused on developing an email course. It's about how to improve organizational traction and outcomes using familiar agility principles and techniques. I've been working...