Definitely, Maybe Agile

In today's episode of the Definitely Maybe Agile podcast, Peter and Dave talk about Retention. It can be expensive to hire, but building a culture where people focus on great work does wonders for your company’s bottom line!

This week takeaways:

1. Understanding why culture is so important
2. Bring people into the conversation
3. Have the right people in the right fit

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 This week on the Definitely, Maybe Agile podcast with Peter and Dave, we continue our series about how business agility impacts your bottom line. By creating alignment to common goals in the organization, business agility increases efficiency and subsequently, profitability.

This week takeaways:

• The role user centricity plays
• Creating stronger alignment with who you are as an organization, and with your customers.
• Importance of working towards common sets of goals

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Today we're going to talk about increasing revenue. What's the potential impact we can have on the bottom line by focusing on revenue growth. One of the clearest ways in which business agility helps us there is by helping us get high-quality products into the market faster.

This week takeaways:

• Put high-quality products into market faster
• Create rapid feedback loops
• Capture the opportunity quickly 

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 In today's episode of the Definitely Maybe Agile podcast, we're trying out a new, bite-sized, format. Here is the first in our series on Business Agility for your Bottom Line. Let's discuss how you can deliver more, with less, by saying no.

This week takeaways: 

• Reduce wasted effort 
• Automate your processes
• Reduce multitasking

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 Peter and Dave talk about the importance of managing SPOF (Single Point Of Failure) this week. This issue can have a negative effect on an organization if not handled correctly, so stay tuned! 

 This week takeaways: 

• A single point of failure in an organization does not mean that organization has failed. 
• Identify them. 
• Build redundancy or slack into the system 
• Encourage the habit of continuously sharing knowledge 

   References in this episode: 

The Phoenix Project- by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17255186-the-phoenix-project 
 
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This week, Peter and Dave talk about how we can explain complicated topics to inexperienced audiences.

This week's takeaway:

• Use analogy and metaphor to help convey ideas in a way that transcends language.
• Make sure you are understood.
• Make things visible. 

References in this episode:
Barbara Oakley https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36647421-learning-how-to-learn

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This week, Peter and Dave talk about the difference between taking simple approaches to solve problems in complex systems.
 
This week takeaways:

• Stop chasing efficiency and talk more about effectiveness.
• Measure more
• Don't think of the system as a factory.
• Don't jump into a solution too quickly, and experiment more.

 
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Feedback is a difficult topic for leaders to approach, but it's necessary.  This week, Peter and Dave talk about how to provide feedback effectively.

This week takeaways:
·        Recognize the need for feedback. Remember to ask and when you ask, take action on it.
·        Teams succeed together but when they fail, it's the leadership
·        Give leadership in the right manner for the circumstances.

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This week, Peter and Dave talk about the importance of understanding when to bring governance into your process. They also discuss ways you can minimize dependency on others while maximizing flow for success!

This week takeaways:
·        Create balance
·        Minimize dependencies
·        Make flow the focus

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 In this week's episode of the Definitely, Maybe Agile podcast, Dave and Peter discuss the ins and outs of how to handle change management for an organization.

This week takeaways:
• The change must be targeted, figured out who is going to be impacted by the change
• Make sure that the communication is correct. 
• Understand the experience of the users

References in this episode:
Jonathan Smart- Sooner Safer Happier: Patterns and Antipatterns for Organizational Agility- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50343488-sooner-safer-happier?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=JJCoQhGRWT&rank=1

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