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The Key to Modern Business Success

In rapidly changing environments organisations must be able to adapt quickly to varying market conditions, customer needs, and technological advancements. This is where business agility comes into play – a crucial capability that enables companies to thrive in uncertainty rather than merely survive it.

What limits Business agility

There’s a fundamental tension in organizational change: the desire for agility often conflicts with the comfort of established systems and structures.

Governance Principles

Governance include the fundamental guidelines, principles and practices, that ensure an organization or team operates effectively, ethically, and in alignment with its strategic objectives.

AI Boosts Simple Agility

This blog explores the integration of AI with “Simple Agility”, offering practical insights for organizations seeking to enhance their agile transformation journey through intelligent technologies.

Team Capacity and Focus

Team capacity and focus are interconnected elements that determine a team’s effectiveness and productivity. Capacity represents the total potential work a team can accomplish, considering individual skills, available hours, and organizational constraints. Focus is about strategically directing that potential towards the most important objectives, minimizing distractions and creating a shared sense of purpose.

Maximizing Team Efficiency through Lean, Flow, and Theory of Constraints Metrics

In the context of modern business, delivery teams are constantly seeking ways to improve their performance, reduce waste, and deliver more value.

It’s Not About Being Agile, It’s About Being Effective

Today many people mistakenly believe that simply being “agile” is the secret to success. However, true effectiveness goes far beyond methodological buzzwords or trendy productivity frameworks. This exploration delves into a holistic approach to achieving meaningful results by focusing on fundamental principles that drive genuine productivity and personal growth.

Team encapsulation and orchestration

When discussing team encapsulation and orchestration (terms popularised by Mike Cottmeyer from Leading Agile) in the context of Agile development, these concepts relate to how teams can structure their work and interactions to maximize efficiency and minimize dependencies.

Solving the Efficiency Equation

This is about using an integrated methodological synergetic approach: Lean, Flow, and Theory of Constraints.

The Efficiency Equation

This is about understanding what slows down value delivery work: dependencies, impediments, and constraints in team performance affect efficiency.

Dependencies and delays

In large organizations complexity of value streams and technical architectures make it difficult for simplicity to flourish, time theft comes in the form of dependencies which cause delays and affect efficiency and productivity.

The Path of Continuous Improvement: Lean, Flow, and Theory of Constraints

Imagine an organization as a complex ecosystem, where efficiency, speed, and optimization are the keys to survival and success.

Beyond agile

This approach is about leveraging ideas from methodologies originally developed for manufacturing applied to knowledge work: Lean is about efficiency, Flow is about optimisation, and Theory of Constraints about improvement.

Pursuing objectives

Usually in a business profit maximizing world, chasing (business) objectives is part of a plan: deliver more, faster, and cheaper, … please be more productive!

Bringing agile to the organization

An attempt to a systemic approach for an organization’s successful implementation of agile, leading to new ways of working and a cultural change.