Keywords

Scrum, people, lean, class, business, kaizen, Sutherland, learning, trainers, world, product owner, teach, agile, organisation, coaches, team, training, read, Buddhism.

Introduction

Welcome to Episode 76 of the enterprise excellence podcast. It is such a pleasure to have Mr Avi Schneier on the show with us today. Avi is a leader in all things Agile and Scrum. Avi joined us last week in Episode 75, where he spoke about the link between agile and lean and told many great stories about making Scrum work. If you haven't already, I encourage you to listen to Episode 75 to get the background for this chat. Today we chat about value stream mapping and organisational structure around creating your suite of offerings for customers. 

Two Minute Tip

16:13min

That's a good question. I'll give them two. Tip one. Get professional help, man. When people say to me, oh, you know, we don't need coaches and stuff or consultants. Listen, go take a look at any sports team. Brad, what's your favourite sports team?

Brad

The Queensland rugby league team.

Avi

Great. Okay. Is there a coach on the team? 

Brad

Yeah, yep. Multiple, multiple.

Avi

Multiple? How many coaches do they have?

Brad

There have 4-5 key coaches on different techniques, but they also bring back ex-players as coaches. They call them FOGS, former origin greats. 

Avi

So there's great. Let's just pretend there are five coaches. Okay, how many players are on the team?

Brad

16. 18 in total with subs. 

Avi

So you have 18 people and five coaches. That's a coach for every three people. It's crazy. Yeah. But that's the real deal of professional sports. So these are people who are paid. They call themselves professionals. They are paid exorbitant amounts of money to play a child's game for a certain portion of the year. And yet they have five coaches on that team. Think about that for a second. Now you want to take a multi-billion dollar business with 10s of 1000s of employees, and you want to read a 13-page guide and watch a 20-minute video on YouTube. And you think you know how to do this. Get the hell outta here. Do yourselves a favour get professional help. And that's tip number one. 

Links

Brad is proud to support many Australian businesses. You can find him on LinkedIn here. If you'd like to speak to him about how he can help your business, call him on 0402 448 445 or email [email protected]. Our website is www.bradjeavons.com.

Avi Schneier is available on Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/avi-schneier.

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