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Weekend Reading – A Corporate Operating System: Part 1 – Purpose
"The pursuit of efficiency was once a laudable goal, but being effective in today’s world is less a question of optimising for a known (and relatively stable) set of variables than responsiveness to a constantly shifting environment. Adaptability, not efficiency, must...
Weekend Reading – Humans are not Resources
Dear all When I wrote about team topologies a few weeks ago, I introduced you to the idea that different purposes may require different team types and setups to create effective and flow-oriented organizations. Teams In writing this, I stipulated that there is a...
Weekend Reading – Focus Means Saying “no” to Stakeholders
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the 100 other good ideas that there are." – Steve Jobs Dear all, This year, I have worked with a range of Product- (both in hard- and...
Weekend Reading – Building Effective Organizations Using Team Topologies
“If the architecture of the system and the architecture of the organisation, are at odds. The architecture of the organisation wins." – Ruth Malan, Software Architecture Consultant Dear all Fundamentally, all organizations are made up of teams. Teams are the...
Weekend Reading – Five Key Factors for Agile Success
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” – Stephen Hawking Dear all, For about ten years now, we have been advising product- and innovation organizations on pragmatic strategies and agile working models. In developing these models with the teams, we quickly...
Weekend Reading – The Laws of Simplicity
“If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments where one suffices.“ Thomas Aquinas, Medieval Philosopher and Saint Dear all, A few...