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Where Does Your Work Sit and Wait?
Agile isn't about software, it's about understanding an organization works. Here a court, however we can use this anywhere with a process and a queue of work.
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How organizations absorb shocks and adapt, and how to measure what matters without driving the wrong behaviour.
Tariffs, climate events, budget cuts and GenAI. No organization can predict what comes next. What it can do is build the capacity to absorb a shock and adapt: spare capacity, simplicity, stable teams, and people with more than one skill.
Measurement plays a large part. The wrong measures push people to hit the number instead of doing good work, and they hide real problems until it is too late. These articles look at what makes an organization resilient, how the drive for speed and efficiency makes it fragile, and how to measure what actually matters.
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Mismeasurement Mess - IRCC Leads the Way
Is IRCC's focus on speed creating unfair visa denials? Explore how mis-measurement clogs the system and hurts applicants.
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Will AI Make the Federal Government More Efficient or Just More Busy?
GenAI and PredictiveAI promise greater efficiency, but speeding up workers often makes bottlenecks worse. Focus on these three things instead.
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The Real Cost of AI-Generated Code: It's Not All It's Cracked Up To Be
Looking beyond GenAI promises to understand real-world impact. Why faster coding might be creating bigger problems in the longer term.
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Hidden Complexity Tax: How It Kills Organizational Resilience
Learn how complexity tax undermines resilience through poor structure, slow decisions, and conflicting metrics. Practical strategies to simplify and strengthen your organization.
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Less is More: Creating Resilient Systems Through Simplicity
Understand how simplifying processes leads to more resilient teams. Start to identify unnecessary complexity.
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Is AI Making Your Organization Fragile or More Resilient
Explore if AI helps at the bottleneck, if you have safeguards for errors, and if it increases collaboration. Don't succumb to shiny tools!
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Speed Trap: How the Obsession with Speed is Building Fragile Organizations
A fragile organization that goes faster will be knocked over in the slightest wind.
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Portfolio Management Principles and Practice
Without stable, focused teams, there is no predictability in the system. Portfolio management is the art of keeping those teams fed.
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Specialists Are Overrated
More specialist, just means more bottlenecks
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Reinventing Existing Products – Big Bite vs Small Nibble Rewrites
Big-bang rewrites (even with AI) just create tomorrows legacy code base faster
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Measurement for Scrum – What are Appropriate Measures?
the best measures still won't measure your biggest risks
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Simplicity
In 201x, the global financial markets collapsed. Reason: mortgages were given to people
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Welcome to the High-Performance Teams Game
So begins the opening of the **High-Performance Teams Game**. My goal is to help you see
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Stable Teams Really Do Matter
Why Scrum recommends stable team membership
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Agile Metrics
Metrics have best before dates. Eventually you will stop getting real value from them. Throw them away
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Explore what Scrum is and how to make it work for you in our Scrum Certification training. Hands-on learning will guide you to improve teamwork, deliver quick feedback, and achieve better products and results.
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Focuses on the role of the team and the ScrumMaster. Get the skills and practical experience necessary to improve teamwork, take the exam, and advance your career with a certification that is in high demand today. Often the best fit for anyone new to Scrum.
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Learn on-the-job applications of key Scrum concepts, skills, principles, along with practical solutions that you can apply the next day for difficult, real-life situations.
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