Definitely, Maybe Agile

This week we dive into experimentation, what it is, its purpose, and how we often mess it up. How do you design experiments? What makes an experiment good? How might you measure success?

All this and more!

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Peter and Dave discuss the difficulty of taking Agile practices out of IT and into the rest of the organization. We discuss the need for creating a common language and acknowledging the differences between areas. There may even be some hints about how to overcome these adoption barriers.

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Peter and Dave discuss how value is often seen through the lens of the company, focusing value on dollars and cents. There are many types of value especially when products are free to use. Value is very difficult to predict and defined by the customer.

References in this episode:
Saeed Khan's Medium post on value:
https://swkhan.medium.com/a-framework-for-understanding-value-25a8eefcf61c

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Dave and Peter discuss Change Approval (or Advisory) Boards. They are a crucial component to organizational change and managing change with companies. As organizations starts to adopt Agile, responsibility of change shifts into the team level and the Board becomes a facilitator to change.

Resources:

Better Value Sooner Safer Happier - Jon Smart
https://soonersaferhappier.com/

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Peter and Dave on the relationship between agile practices and innovation, what is meant by process innovation vs. product innovation, and what they really think of the HBR article (Stand-up Meetings Inhibit Innovation). 

Resources: 

Stand-up Meetings Inhibit Innovation
https://hbr.org/2021/01/stand-up-meetings-inhibit-innovation

Loonshots by Safi Bahcall
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39863447-loonshots

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How do we approach conversations or engagements with clients, and begin to understand what is happening within an organization? How do we help clients understand where they are now, and what they need to focus on with a holistic view. And most importantly, how do we map and shift a company focus to outcomes?

This Podcast is hosted by Peter Maddison from Xodiac and Dave Sharrock from IncrementOne.

Resources mentioned in the episode:
You can find out more about Flow Engineering on the Xodiac website:
https://xodiac.ca/services/flow-engineering

And at our partner, Visible's, website:
https://thinking.visible.is/post/flow-engineering---a-kickstart-workflow-5ff61f303609424e1f2fba63

Agendashift: Outcome‑oriented change and Continuous  https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Mike-Burrows/dp/1787197263

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