Strategy Statement – Why it’s important to Agile, DevOps and Digital
Ask yourself this simple question about your company, do you believe top management could sum up the company’s strategy in a sentence or two? And more importantly, even if they could, would the employees at all levels explain it the same way? Research shows us very clearly that very few management teams can honestly answer […]
Why not understanding the difference between change and transformation can doom your Agile, DevOps and Digital efforts
The research available today clearly shows that all too many Agile, DevOps and Digital attempts by organizations worldwide are either failing or flailing. The question begs to ask why this is occurring. The ADAPT Model believes much of this can be traced back to the Agile, DevOps and Digital communities themselves. Unfortunately, few if any […]
Why ADAPT is the future
Great podcast with Sean Davis Chief Transformation Evangelist at Equifax explaining why Agile, DevOps, Digital and Lean practitioners need to move towards a model like ADAPT. Excerpt of the podcast from Agile Thought: I think we’ve gotta be really, really careful about building silos in our own communities. So many times I get into these […]
Do you have a learning culture? Its important for Agile, DevOps and Digital
If you’re an Agile, DevOps or Digital practitioner or an organization thinking about or undertaking one of these transformations you may ask yourself why do I need to do an organizational learning assessment or even care about that. The answer is that it’s the key to succeeding with Agile, DevOps or Digital. The truth is […]
Are you measuring organizational culture as part of your Agile, DevOps and Digital efforts? If not, you should be
A very common occurrence we see in the Agile and DevOps communities is starting either an Agile, DevOps or Digital (or all) implementation inside an organization and either never measuring to see if the desired culture changes are occurring or not measuring in a proper manner. We commonly see in small, medium and some large […]
Got Andon?
Having started my career working in operations for a lean manufacturer and becoming intimately familiar with the concept of Andon, its great to see Andon making its way into software development and other areas, but only if the idea behind it is fully understood. Andon is often treated as lean jargon thrown around yet not […]
Need to consider Organizational Alignment before setting off on Agile, DevOps or Digital?
The answer to this question is a definitive yes but is unfortunately almost never explored by practitioners or companies before undertaking Agile, DevOps or Digital. The reason why Organizational Alignment should be determined before undertaking Agile, DevOps or Digital is actually quite simple, a company has very little chance of truly succeeding or seeing the […]
Underlying Factors for Reskilling, Upskilling and retooling for Agile, DevOps and Digital
Is your company one of the many companies who have been attempting to adopt Agile, DevOps or Digital and have struggled to find external resources to bridge this gap, or had difficulty instilling the required new skills and culture into your current workforce? If you fit into one of these categories, you have probably failed […]
Agile/DevOps/Digital practitioners, have you correlated your teachings with the Business Agility Manifesto? You Should.
All Agile, DevOps and Digital practitioners and organizations undertaking any of these transformations should consider it a requirement to not only read the Business Agility Manifesto and sidebar readings, but to also to correlate how they should mesh together with Agile, DevOps and Digital. Many will ask why they need to understand the perspectives taught […]
Why Scaled Agile Frameworks are like the proverbial expression “putting lipstick on a pig”
Recently I was reading a nice article written about a two-day seminar at George Washington University given by Dr. W. Edwards Deming near the end of his life and was inspired by the article to write an article about a similar subject. In the article the writer who was in the seminar for executives discussed […]