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Optimize Your Time with The Balanced Calendar

January 14, 2021 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

What prevents you from getting work done? One of the top answers is too many meetings! Too many interruptions, meetings, and tools overburdens workers and can lead to burn out. In this post, we visit Dominica DeGrandis's advice for creating a balanced calendar to optimize your time. Too Many Meetings A calendar full of meetings leads to little time to complete actual work. We double book, triple book, and even quadruple book our time.  Dominica DeGrandis describes three common types of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Community, DevOps Enterprise Summit, Making Work Visible Tagged With: dominica degrandis, making work visible, Time Optimization

Bonus Interview with Jonathan Smart on Sooner Safer Happier

January 6, 2021 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

Gene: You use the Cynefin model to frame a picture of everything from known knowns to unknown unknowns. What about this model is essential to the necessary mindset shift and business success in the digital age? Jon: I find Cynefin, a sense-making model, to be a great frame of reference for optimizing the approach to the work, to the domain of the work. Cynefin articulates five domains.  Within the Clear domain, there are known-knowns. There is best practice.The relationship between cause and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sooner Safer Happier Tagged With: better value sooner safer happier, Gene Kim, Jonathan Smart, leadership, Sooner Safer Happier

Leading through Better Value Sooner Safer Happier

January 4, 2021 by IT Revolution 1 Comment

Gene Kim Interviews Jonathan Smart, author of Sooner Safer Happier (Part 1) Gene Kim: Why Better Value Sooner Safer Happier? What about those five words is so revolutionary. Jonathan Smart: The world of work has fundamentally changed. We are living through a tipping point in the latest of a succession of technology-led revolutions, which have a socio-economic impact. We’ve gone from the Age of Oil and Mass Production to the Age of Digital. Like going from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age, we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sooner Safer Happier Tagged With: better value sooner safer happier, business leadership, Gene Kim, Jonathan Smart, leadership, Sooner Safer Happier

Happier Employees Equal Better Business Outcomes

December 11, 2020 by Jeffrey Fredrick Leave a Comment

Two Simple Questions for Better Business Outcomes Two questions I ask during 1-on-1s might strike people as a bit unusual, but they directly lead to better business outcomes:  Are you happy? Are you able to do work that you’re proud of? Why? A core reason is that I care about the people I work with, and I want good things for them. I want them to be happy! When I learn there are obstacles to their happiness, we generally have a productive conversation about what can be changed. My conceit is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Agile Conversations, Podcast, The Idealcast Tagged With: agile conversations, better business outcomes, employee satisfaction, Gene Kim, jeffrey fredrick, the idealcast

Choosing a Narrator for Sooner Safer Happier

December 1, 2020 by Jonathan Smart Leave a Comment

“Would you narrate the book, Jon?” said Anna, Editorial Director at IT Revolution. “The intonation, the emphasis, is more natural when the author reads their own words,” Anna explained.  I was in a dilemma. I wanted to read it for that reason, the subconscious passion that comes across when reading out loud the words you’ve written and have viscerally lived. Likewise narrating the words of the co-authors, where we have shared journeys and learnings together. We discussed how long it would take, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sooner Safer Happier Tagged With: audiobook, Jonathan Smart, Sooner Safer Happier

Conway’s Law: Critical for Efficient Team Design in Tech

November 24, 2020 by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais Leave a Comment

This post on Conway's Law is adapted from Chapter 2 of Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow. Conway's Law Conway’s law is critical to understanding the forces at play when organizing teams amidst the long-lasting, unattended impact they can have on our software systems, as the latter have become larger and more interconnected than ever before. But you might wonder if a law from 1968 about software architecture has stood the test of time. We’ve come a long … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Team Topologies Tagged With: manuel pais, matthew skelton, team organization, team topologies

Pattern 1.2: Start with Why; Empower the How

November 19, 2020 by Jonathan Smart Leave a Comment

This post is adapted from Chapter 1 of Sooner Safer Happier by Jonathan Smart, with Zsolt Berend, Myles Ogilvie, and Simon Rohrer. In Antipattern 1.2: Using Old Ways of Thinking to Apply New Ways of Working, we saw how a capital “A,” capital “T” Agile Transformation feels to an employee like involuntary, mandatory change being inflicted upon them, whether they like it or not. The capital “A” denotes how they are going to change and the capital “T” denotes that they have to change. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Sooner Safer Happier Tagged With: Antipatterns and Patterns Series, better value sooner safer happier, business agility, Jonathan Smart, leadership, pattern, Sooner Safer Happier

BVSSH Principles

November 17, 2020 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

In Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility by Jonathan Smart, Zsolt Berend, Myles Ogilvie, and Simon Rohrer, each chapter's essence is distilled into guiding principles, to guide behavior and the millions of decisions that we make every day. For example, “Invite over Inflict” and “One Size Does Not Fit All.” They apply across contexts. Specific practices emerge by applying the principles to a unique context and by using coaching and experimentation, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Sooner Safer Happier Tagged With: better value sooner safer happier, business agility, business leadership, bvssh principles, Jonathan Smart, Sooner Safer Happier

Antipattern 1.2: Using Old Ways of Thinking to Apply New Ways of Working

November 17, 2020 by Jonathan Smart 1 Comment

This post is adapted from Chapter 1 of Sooner Safer Happier by Jonathan Smart, with Zsolt Berend, Myles Ogilvie, and Simon Rohrer. Focusing on “Agile,” “Lean,” or “DevOps” as the end rather than the means to an end is using old ways of thinking to apply new ways of working. A capital “A,” capital “T” Agile Transformation, from the perspective of employees, infers involuntary, mandatory change being done to them, whether they like it or not. The capital “A” denotes how they are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Sooner Safer Happier Tagged With: antipattern, Antipatterns and Patterns Series, better value sooner safer happier, business agility, Jonathan Smart, Sooner Safer Happier

Pattern 1.1: Focus on Outcomes

November 13, 2020 by Jonathan Smart Leave a Comment

In our last post, we looked at Antipattern 1.1: Doing an Agile Transformation. Now we'll look at the corresponding pattern: Focus on Outcomes. Focus on the outcomes, on Better Value Sooner Safer Happier, as the goal, not on Agile, Lean, or DevOps as the goal in order to achieve true business agility. In his 1962 book Diffusion of Innovations, sociologist Everett Rogers described how innovation tended to spread first to a small number of Innovators, then reached Early Adopters, was taken up by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Sooner Safer Happier Tagged With: Antipatterns and Patterns Series, better value sooner safer happier, business agility, focus on outcomes, Jonathan Smart, pattern, Sooner Safer Happier

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