Post

Mike Burrows

@asplake

Aug 19, 2019 • 13 tweets • 10 min read • Read on X

@Right2LeftGuide

In 5 tweets, The gist of Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile
agendashift.com/right-to-left
@Right2LeftGuide #agendashift #lean #agile #digital #leadership

@Right2LeftGuide

@Right2LeftGuide 1/5. Success in digital means integrating delivery, development, and strategy – continuously identifying and addressing impediments to flow, alignment, and anticipation. This is clearly a learning process; a successful digital organisation is a learning organisation

@Right2LeftGuide

@Right2LeftGuide 2/5. In Lean-Agile we celebrate #Lean & #Agile both separately and together. To Lean's "strategic pursuit of flow" (after Modig & Åhlström), we bring from Agile a safe default assumption, that in knowledge work, most failures of flow are rooted in failures of collaboration

@Right2LeftGuide

@Right2LeftGuide 3/5. There's good in frameworks, but blindly rolling out a process framework is more a recipe for pain than a guarantee of success, especially when done at scale. See point 1, and don't get me started on rollouts (actually do: see @agendashift)

@Right2LeftGuide

@Right2LeftGuide @agendashift 4/5. #Agile isn't dead, but it is facing the wrong way. Starting "from the left" with solutions, frameworks, backlogs of work items, etc is a terrible way to explain or experience Agile. Always keep the things "on the "right" – needs met and outcomes realised – ahead of all else

@Right2LeftGuide

@Right2LeftGuide @agendashift 5/5. #Leadership isn't dead either. The need to clearly & strategically identify, articulate, & stand for outcomes will never grow old. Neither will removing organisational impediments, freeing people to pursue purpose, and developing the next generation of (servant-)leaders