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Almost every discussion I have that starts with “we need to go faster” ends with me asking the team to “define value”, and then do less once and work in smaller batches.

It is at this point that the reality sets in ...1/3
#agile #kanban #prodmgmt
... the reality is that the current system is optimized for:
-saying “yes we’re on it”
-keeping people busy
-brokering resource capacity
-keeping track of all the work in progress
-providing plausible reasons why nothing is shipping

Well...2/3
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This should be easy to unwind, right? It’s math. Do less smaller stuff = go faster. Limit WIP ... discover/remove bottlenecks.

Well no. Because those optimizations run so, so deep. Reputations. Ego. Agendas. Promises to investors ... 3/4

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...and probably hardest of all ... in a pull system that is transparent, there’s no way to avoid having the hard conversations. You either face your issues, or you don’t.

Which highlights the #modernagile principle:

“Make safety a prerequisite” 4/4

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What is the "operating system" for continuous improvement in your org?

By that I mean....interventions aside, who participates, how are opportunities explored/prioritized, rituals?, artifacts?, who "runs" the interventions, etc. ?

Here's what's on my mind.... (1/5)
Consider two orgs:

1) Feedback goes to managers. Managers address. Escalate if required. Managers "own" trying to fix impediments & generally protect teams

2) Team meets quarterly for large-scale retro, prioritizes areas for improvements, forms small work-groups

Well...(2/5)
The reality is that there are "healthy" versions of both organizations. What is important is that they actually take it seriously. They care. There's a not-so-buggy OS on which to run "interventions".

It's like individuals....there are many ways to "be healthy"... (3/5)
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[Thread] This is a super basic hybrid #kanban board. The basic idea is that we prioritize opportunities to tackle, pull the topmost opportunity, and then run experiments to "intervene" and generate an outcome. (1/11) #prodmgmt #kanban
This can scale to multiple teams. Here we have two "opportunities" in progress. (2/11) #prodmgmt #kanban
So why not just give teams their own backlogs? Why do we even need to view this on one board? Well..chances are the teams don't have 100% dedicated team members. To do their job, roles like Ops, Marketing, UX will need an overview (3/11) #prodmgmt #kanban
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Not “rules” by any means...but tendencies

1/10. We underestimate the amount of work we actually have in progress and the impact on flow, quality, value delivered...and overestimate the value of parallelizing work #proddev #kanban #flow
2/10. We underestimate the drag created by dependencies, constraints, hand-offs, reviews, etc. etc. ... and overestimate our ability to navigate them, play Tetris, and thread the needle #proddev #kanban #flow
3/10 We underestimate the impact of “lights on” and “business as usual” type work...and overestimate our ability to tackle these issues without a big hit on flow #proddev #kanban #flow
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1. You might have heard about a new kind of nuclear reactor that promises far greater safety at a much lower cost. How?

— It is much simpler and thus requires “half as many safety-related valves, 83 percent less safety-related pipe and one-third fewer pumps;”
2. — Its components can be manufactured in a factory and assembled on-site at lower cost rather than built from scratch;

— Its cooling and passive safety features rely on “natural forces, like gravity… rather than relying on mechanical pumps powered by electricity.”
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OK so here’s the thing: one goes to DC to register one’s discontent.

The House is is session something like 140 days a year. The Senate is like 160.

In DC, you can have a march of millions and disrupt nothing. Police will smile and wave and clear streets for you.
You go to DC to build a crowd large enough that the news will then have to say “and in the nation’s capitol today two million people marched for X”

Which is a huge number if you’re from a rural area. Most people in this country have that many in their metro.
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1. A thread on #trade and aid.

One of the first tangible benefits of #Brexit I've seen is the emerging reform of @DFID_UK where it is becoming more of an arm of trade policy than a state owned humanitarian NGO. I would like that to go much further and rethink trade.
2. I do not think we should be wasting too much effort on free trade deals largely because they are of questionable value and encourage inefficient value chains. Any work on tariffs should really be reserved for multilateral activity.
3. Instead we need DfID as the spearhead of our trade policy. There is no reason why we cannot pursue humanitarian goals and enhance our trade while we are at it. For a start we can do a lot with medicines and pharmacy products.
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1/ Here’s what I learned about productivity in 2017
2/ Productivity isn’t about mastering time.

It’s about mastering yourself: making decisions, deciding what to work on, working with intention, improving every day, and more.
3/ The waste created by following a bad path typically increases exponentially — not linearly — as we progress down the path.

Best time to make improvements is early.
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