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Why the Elephant?
The Elephant connects to several aspects of our work and mission. We share how elephants represent our “why”
Practice Makes Culture
Practice Makes Culture
What we each practice as conscious behaviors (and habits) shapes the culture of our relationship with ourselves, with our partners, within our organizations, within our country, across countries and throughout our world. I’ll follow this post with others on culture, Read more…
Steer with Clarity
Understanding and changing your constraints
As I’m teaching today, I was reminded of a way I used to describe system constraints back when I taught a lot of kanban classes and helped design kanban systems. This quick post captures them for reference and to seed Read more…
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How Effectively Does Your Volunteer Board Support Your Org?
I’ve been learning more about strengthening leadership teams by working with not-for-profit boards of directors (including the one I’m on). What have you experienced with regard to volunteer teams? Join the conversation on LinkedIn. When a non-profit board of directors Read more…
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Three patterns for Portfolio Epics: Why, how and when they work well
I spend a lot of time working with executive leadership who are trying to start, or restart their lean portfolio management approaches. A big part of this conversation tends to be “how do we use epics? How SHOULD we use Read more…
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Big Room Planning (BRP)
Details, purpose, attendees and agendas vary rather widely in BRP. That’s because Big Room Planning (BRP) is a name used to describe several types of collaborative, large group working sessions. These sessions often include some sort of mid-range or quarterly planning, and the steering and alignment creation needed for such planning.
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Fireside Chat: Ronica & Bob Galen Discuss the Practices that Build a Great Culture
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the very practical ways that leaders at all levels can build an amazing organizational culture through practice. Last week I had the great fun of discussing some of those ideas in a virtual Read more…
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Applying solution horizons: creating focus to clear up confusion
I recently posted an article describing the evolution of a single platform across the various investment horizons. After posting that, I found myself in conversations with a client around how this view maps to the work that’s being done inside Read more…
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Product Management – Getting Started in a SAFe-ish World
When you’ve been asked to take on an agile product management role as part of a business agility transformation leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework®, you will need information on two topics: great product management and how the product manager role Read more…
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The now, the new, and the never: metrics for stability and successful change
Articulation of success criteria is pervasive in every agile approach, at every level of value creation. In many ways, the core behavior of agility is defining what success looks like for a activity, acting to make that true, and validating Read more…
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Applying solution horizons: story of a new business platform
I see confusion in how the various solution horizons apply in SAFe’s “Guiding investments by horizon” guard rail, so I thought I’d tell a story of how I see it play out in practice using a large scale enterprise platform Read more…