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“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer - that the designers are handed this box and told ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. is how it works.”
~ Steve Jobs, Apple (2011)
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“ is hope made visible. You can live your life as the result of history and what came before, or you can live your life as the cause of what's to come. You choose.”
~ Brian Collins, Founder of COLLINS 🔥
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Are we thinking or checking ? The dichotomy…
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It’s not . It’s .
Businesses will fight until their last dying breath to stay in a market that never stops shifting. As Alexander Osterwalder, CEO of Strategyzer, simply puts it, “business models are like containers of yogurt in a fridge with an expiration date.”
What can we rely on as indicators of that the companies we work for will thrive throughout the test of time? Or even the next decade? Or the next meeting?
Let’s think about:
- Is it more important to gather on how to build a or that isn’t supported by strong evidence of demand or usability?
- When do Business Requirements Documents (BRD) ?
- When do Maps expire?
- What come with falling in love with your first idea of a solution to a problem experienced by the business?
- Do our of Problem-Solution Fit make us complacent in delaying evidence around Product-Market Fit before scaling to Business Model Market Fit?
- How often is Software Research & Design (R&D) funded to validate new business ideas before building them for the mass public?
- Does a company that began in Software Research & Design (R&D) share the same measure of with a company that began in a PMO?
- What does look like for a company that carries products and services dependent on both Software Research & Design (R&D) and a PMO?
- Does our disdain for the risks that come with a make us dismissive in understanding the organization design of how a company makes money?
- What happens when both good business ideas and bad business ideas get funded in a company?
- What risks do we experience as a business when we and when we , but never to kill a bad business idea?
Does a company become invincible through the of its leaders claiming certainty around the existing products and services that have given financial security up until now, or is it through the leaders who never stopped being , that carry the to navigate the uncertainty that comes with running a business? The dichotomy remains. 🔥
Find out with newest guest Thomas Schaefer and the return of guest speaker Kaelin Burns, as we uncover what happens when we get caught up in the art of product, but lose sight of the science of business.
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“Today’s come from yesterday’s .”
~ Peter Senge, 11 Laws of Systems Thinking,
The Fifth Discipline: the Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990-2006)
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Cancel ? Discuss.
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Is failing fast or , especially without understanding the pattern that led to the to begin with?
We create . We call them . We call them . We measure key performance indicators on reaching these goals. We reach these goals to continuously . We continuously improve to reach our personal . We recruit others to join us in a shared vision. We get there together. We arrive. That’s the plan, right?
Are we more susceptible to enrolling into someone else’s personal vision of the in avoidance of our own of what we really want?
Are we more susceptible to being , or even apathetic, towards a shared vision that’s forced upon us?
Sometimes, we formalize our goals at work. Sometimes, we disregard them in our personal lives. Every day, we wake up to a blank canvas of possibilities and obstacles towards these goals. Every day is a lottery, ‘because cause and effect is not closely related in time and space,’ as Peter Senge explains it in Laws of System Thinking.
Time isn’t as linear as much as we understand it to be, and yet it is our to respond accordingly. It is our impulse to create for yesterday’s . It is our impulse to diagnose , so that we might avoid the hard truth of the patterns behind ‘the structures that hold us prisoner.’
Given the of cognitive load, our mental model alone can’t possibly contain every element of the butterfly effect. But the commitment that comes with seeking the truth means that we discover how we are co-creating our own reality today and what we’re willing to do to the results we want.
So, ask yourself. What have you made this year?
- Is progress more focused on reaching your goals based on the set of conditions you designed for yourself in January or compounding interest on your milestones?
- If you were to do innovation accounting on your goals for the past five years, what would that teach you about your ?
- If an Agile team were to do innovation accounting on the products and services they support, what would that teach them?
- How often is an Agile team allowed the opportunity to understand how the company operates as a , in order to create meaning out of its shared vision?
- If a shared vision for an Agile team means each person sees the same picture of success for their product, how might an entire company of employees share a vision ?
- What happens when the vision of the product, the vision of the portfolio/program, and the vision of the company are three different pictures?
Is learning how we co-create our own a source of limitation or is reality simply a that we are bringing to life each day through our choices?
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If a paper clip represented the you’ve made on your …
What would your look like right now?
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Does your personal have a place in the shared vision of the company?
Where do you ? …
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“It’s a .” Is it though?
Do old really die hard, or are we dying each day with them?
Let’s think about the we tell ourselves in the perpetual struggle to form new habits and the struggle to break bad ones.
“I’ll do better tomorrow. Today is not the day.”
“I’ll do better next month. This month was a lot.”
“I’ll do better next year. This year was just too much.”
Our habits and behaviors are tied to how we identify ourselves each day and it is when we confront our , we begin to see significant in who we want to become. It all starts with our .
So, what about a living of individuals carrying habits and behaviors that represent the identity of a corporation? Let’s dig deeper.
- Is the identity of an Agile team the sum of its team members or an identity that is on them by the company?
- What are the habits and behaviors of an team that is learning together vs. not learning together?
- If old habits die hard for an individual, how hard is it for an Agile team of individuals to form new habits or break old ones?
- How often are the habits and behaviors of an Agile team a representation of its identity or a response to the it lives in?
- What are the habits and behaviors of a company that is vs. ?
- What do the habits and behaviors of a company tell us about their organizational design?
- If no single individual or entity within a company is holding you to a specific change, how likely are you to relapse into old habits of an organizational structure that didn’t get updated?
- What are the habits and behaviors of a company that is vs. a company repeating the same routines hoping for a different ?
- If old habits die hard for an individual, how hard is it for a company of individuals to form new habits and break old ones?
- If a company has simply changed its , its , without changing its structures, structures, or processes, can the habits of a company that’s been thriving on waste truly evolve or be held prisoner of an unchanged system?
If dysfunctional patterns of habits and behaviors are evident alone, are companies willing to confront their identity crisis to welcome positive change, when it’s hard enough to do as an individual?
Find out with the return of guest speaker David A. Brown and newest guest speakers Jennifer Burkle, and Kristina Stroud as we uncover mental models, where our habits come from, and what the possibilities could be. 🔥
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“The key to building lasting is focusing on creating a new identity first. Your current behaviors are simply a reflection of your current . What you do now is a mirror image of the type of person you believe that you are (either consciously or subconsciously).
To change your for good, you need to start believing new things about yourself.”
~ James Clear, Atomic Habits (2018)
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Do old die hard or live on? 🔥
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“You do not rise to the level of your . You fall to the level of your .”
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If your daily were put on a canvas, what might it convey to you? 🔥
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So, is it really to ?
Let’s dig deeper…
- What problems do organizations face to consider adopting Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)?
- What kind of structure supports SAFe?
- What kind of structure supports SAFe?
- How much and of the work does SAFe allow?
- What measure of does SAFe allow, if we were to count the number of transaction costs and switching costs required to complete the work?
- Are we truly increasing customer value, if the lead time in a SAFe portfolio/program is unspeakably long, the measure of adaptiveness is low, while the portfolio/program is inflated with of roles?
- What influences (or diminishes) psychological in a SAFe model?
- What are common behaviors of teams in a SAFe model?
- Is failure defined as a missed deadline, a missed PI objective, or a missed opportunity?
- Is SAFe the problem or the lack of understanding the design of the organization itself?
- Is SAFe the problem or an organization's learning disability of its own model and achieving what’s needed to stay market relevant?
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Living your most safe life?
I see you, corporate .
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But does it ? The suspense…🔥
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Agile Release Train or Train?
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