Doing the right things isn't enough in today's world. Customers don't just expect a product that solves their problem, they also expect it to work well, be available all of the time and get improvements fast. Outdated organisational structures are not capable to cope with such demand. On the other hand changing your organisational structure can have a profound impact on your people and your productivity.
This page can easily be filled up with the buzz words of the day to make it look like we know what we're doing. But that's not going to help you. The truth is, what's needed in your specific context is not something we can know before spending time with you and your teams. Our only hope is that when you realise that, it isn't already too late.
This page can easily be filled up with the buzz words of the day to make it look like we know what we're doing. But that's not going to help you. The truth is, what's needed in your specific context is not something we can know before spending time with you and your teams. Our only hope is that when you realise that, it isn't already too late.
What we might be able to do
- Purpose - we cannot stress enough how important is to have identified a higher purpose that everyone in your organisation can subscribe to. This isn't just a sentence you add to your website. Your founders or senior executives will need to have full buy in into your higher purpose and they need to make it their main job to explain and promote this higher purpose and make sure that everyone understands it. Failing this first step means all following steps might be futile.
- Autonomy - Once you have a higher purpose that your people can subscribe to, it's time to give them freedom to be their best selves at work. When you hire smart people and you expect them to be motivated and productive you need to provide them with sufficient autonomy so they can unleash their talent and their ideas and make miracles happen. Yes, releasing control is hard to do. But there is no way around it. You need to come to terms with allowing sufficient autonomy.
- Mastery - Having established a great higher purpose that your senior people are committed to promoting and discussing with your people and having provided your talented employees with the autonomy they need, you can move to the third part - making it easy for them to master their craft. The smart people you hired don't go to work just for their pay check. They are usually great at their craft and allowing them to continue developing their skills is the best investment you can make, much better than pizza Fridays or free chocolate bars.
Start transforming your software delivery journey today for a more responsive, collaborative, and high-quality development process.
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Training
- Agile/Scrum/Kanban training for Software Delivery leads or Scrum Masters - a full day training for your Delivery Leads or Scrum Masters to help them understand the foundations of Agile, the values and practices of eXtreme Programming(XP) and how to apply Kanban/Scrum principles
- Lean Start-up training for your innovators - a full day training that introduces Lean Start-up principles and goes into the details of how to go about validating new ideas, finding a model that works and building a business using the scientific method.
Improve your delivery process
- I will look into your software delivery process, have conversations with the people involved in your process to understand your goals and create a list of actions to help you set up metrics for the things that matter and take steps to improve your delivery success.
- I can also help you implement some of the actions from the initial evaluation.
- I will provide Kanban coaching to your delivery managers and team members.
Improve your innovation process
- I will study your existing innovation process and have conversations with your team to understand your goals and I will then create a list of actions to help you set up metrics and take steps to improve your chances of success. If you don't have an established innovation process I will provide a list of actions to help you create one.
- I can also help with implementing some of the actions from the initial evaluation.
Move towards infinite mindset
- The ultimate improvement for your organisation is to establish an infinite mindset culture
- I can help you create or improve a vision that focuses on a just cause
- We can then work together to create trusting teams, establish a learning culture, promote infinite thinking and start creating leaders in your organisation
