Start Stronger, Get Better, and Do More: A Conversation with James Sutton and Marc Danziger

Start Stronger, Get Better, and Do More: A Conversation with James Sutton and Marc Danziger James Sutton, Marc Danziger, and Jim Trott talk about transformation, systems thinking, the borders that Agile erects that can inhibit scaling, coaching, and why Lean thinking requires you to start with understanding the existing culture. Jim Sutton summarizes this as "Start Stronger, Get Better, and Do More." Start Stronger involves "how to start with much-better value candidates"; Get Better focuses on how to walk into a transformation; and Do More is the Lean principle of Perfection. This comes from their long experience with Lean, systems, and helping organizations and programs both large and small scale and succeed. With Lean thinking and Agile practices. Because the reality is that Agile transitions do not always scale up. As Jim Sutton says, success in a little thing does not mean you will have success just by doing more and more of that little thing. Scale requires more approaches, different kinds of thinking. At first, I wondered if this would seem a little academic. But, as we got into it, it became apparent how helpful this is, especially to someone who is having to coach a transition in an organization. There is a lot to think about. You can use the forums on the Net Objectives Portal to ask questions about the webinar.  Note, you will have to register on the portal to do so. Music used in this podcast: “And So It Begins” and “Easy Lemon” by Kevin MacLeod © Incompetech Inc. Blog Type: Podcast   Transcript Introduction In this show, Jim Sutton, Marc Danziger, and I talk about transformation, systems thinking, the borders that Agile erects that can inhibit scaling, coaching and why Lean thinking requires you to start with understanding the existing culture. View Full Transcript Jim Trott:  It's September 8th, 2016. This show, "Start Stronger, Get Better, and Do More", with Jim Sutton and Marc Danziger. [background music] Jim:  Hello. Welcome to another addition of "Lean‑Agile Straight Talk", our regular podcast series from Net Objectives. I'm your host, Jim Trott. In this show, Jim Sutton, Marc Danziger, and I talk about transformation, systems thinking, the borders that Agile erects that can inhibit scaling, coaching and why Lean thinking requires you to start with understanding the existing culture. Jim Sutton summarizes this as, "Start Stronger, Get Better, and Do More." What he means is Start stronger ‑‑ how to start with much better value candidates. Getting better focuses on how to walk into a transformation. Do more is the Lean principle of perfection. This comes from their long experience with Lean systems thinking and helping organizations and programs, both large and small, scale and succeed with Lean thinking and Agile practices, because the reality is that Agile transitions do not always scale up. As Jim Sutton says, "Success in a little thing does not mean that you will have success just by doing more and more of that little thing. Scale requires more approaches, different kinds of thinking." At first, I wondered if this would seem a little academic, but as we got into it, it became apparent how helpful this is, especially for someone who is having to coach a transition in an organization. There's just a lot to think about. Before we get started, I want to remind you that you can explore more about this topic by jumping over to the resources section of www.netobjectives.com, or go into our new portal, portal.netobjectives.com. At Net Objectives we're committed to discover effective software development methods, so that we can assist organizations in becoming more successful. We combine our experience to continuously extend the capability of what is possible in creating effective software development organizations. We provide these approaches to our clients and the community in general so that we can assist people in achieving their goals and making their organizations more successful. We welcome the chance t