For those who choose to leverage the latest technological revolution and adopt ways of working that suit the nature of more of today’s...

In Antipattern 1.2, we saw how a capital “A,” capital “T” Agile Transformation feels to an employee like involuntary, mandatory change...

Focusing on “Agile,” “Lean,” or “DevOps” as the end rather than the means to an end is using old ways of thinking to apply new ways of...

“Our investment funding is tied to detailed upfront business cases and annual project cycles. Its hard to understand what a different...

Given the importance of taking an optimal approach for the type of work, it is important to understand what agile, lean, DevOps, and...

In order to optimize for Better Value Sooner Safer Happier in the context of product development, there needs to be a shift from fixed,...

Focus on the outcomes, on Better Value Sooner Safer Happier, as the goal, not on Agile, Lean, or DevOps as the goal. In his 1962 book...

Given the importance of taking an optimal approach for the type of work, it is important to understand what agile, lean, DevOps, and...

The population of Detroit doubled between 1910 and 1920, it went from half a million to a million. The key driver of the growth was the...

Organizations are complex adaptive systems. There is no one way of working that suits every context. There is no such thing as “best...

About 85% of the matter in the Universe is unseen matter. We can only observe it by its gravitational influence. What is the % of unseen...

In 1938 Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, a curator at the East London museum in South Africa, received a phone call from the local docks. A...

I’ve met with many organizations and leadership teams that want to undertake an “Agile Transformation.” The process usually begins in the...

Approaching Work Based on the Domain of Work As we’ve seen, product development, unique change, is emergent, not deterministic. The work...

This is the second post in a series, sharing a number of observed anti-patterns and corresponding patterns on the topic of business...

“You are special, you are a beautiful and unique snowflake” You are, your team is and so are the complex adaptive systems that you are part of. This is the third article in a series, sharing a number of observed antipatterns and corresponding patterns on the topic of organisational agility. We are entering a new Deployment Period in a 50 year cycle, in the Age of Digital, as well articulated by Carlota Perez in ‘Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital’. Traditional or

From discrete Output to continuous Outcomes Milestones mark miles. They are made of stone. They are hard to move and are no longer valid once moved. They don’t exhibit agility, nor do they need to. They resemble tombstones and are often referred to as ‘dead-lines’, or ‘drop dead’ dates. They don’t convey any expectations on why you want to get to where you’re going, how you might get there, how else you might get there, if you’ll make it there at all (the level of safety en-r

Co-author: Tony Caink Focus is hard enough as an individual, even harder in a team of brilliant minds. Why is it so hard? Based on the...