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Surviving and Thriving in the Age of Digital: BVSSH

November 6, 2020 by Jonathan Smart Leave a Comment

This is the last in a series of posts adapted from the book Sooner Safer Happier addressing frameworks and domains of working. For those who choose to leverage the latest technological revolution and adopt ways of working that suit the nature of more of today’s work, the benefits are clear. The State of DevOps Report 2019 shows that elite performers compared to low performers deliver business value through technology 208 times more frequently, are 2,604 times faster to recover from incidents, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Sooner Safer Happier Tagged With: age of digital, better value sooner safer happier, business agility, bvssh, Jonathan Smart, Sooner Safer Happier, WaysofWorkingSeries

Domains of Work and Cynefin: A Primer for the Business Leader

November 5, 2020 by Jonathan Smart 1 Comment

Given the importance of taking an optimal approach for the type of work, it is important to understand what agile, lean, DevOps, and waterfall are and their history. People, historically, have spent very little time thinking about or improving how they do what they do. This is the fourth in a series of posts adapted from the book Sooner Safer Happier addressing these different frameworks. Approaching Work Based on the Domain of Work As we’ve seen, product development, unique change, is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Sooner Safer Happier Tagged With: agile, business agility, cynefin, devops, Jonathan Smart, lean, Sooner Safer Happier, ways of working, WaysofWorkingSeries

Waterfall: A Primer for the Business Leader

November 4, 2020 by Jonathan Smart Leave a Comment

Given the importance of taking an optimal approach for the type of work, it is important to understand what agile, lean, DevOps, and waterfall are and their history. People, historically, have spent very little time thinking about or improving how they do what they do. This is the third in a series of posts adapted from the book Sooner Safer Happier addressing these different frameworks. What is Waterfall Most large, old, traditional organizations either used to take, or still take, a waterfall … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Sooner Safer Happier Tagged With: agile, business agility, devops, Jonathan Smart, lean, Sooner Safer Happier, waterfall, WaysofWorkingSeries

DevOps: A Primer for the Business Leader

November 3, 2020 by Jonathan Smart Leave a Comment

Given the importance of taking an optimal approach for the type of work, it is important to understand what agile, lean, DevOps, and waterfall are and their history. People, historically, have spent very little time thinking about or improving how they do what they do. This is the second in a series of posts adapted from the book Sooner Safer Happier addressing these different frameworks. What Is DevOps? DevOps is a portmanteau that combines Development and Operations. DevOps focuses on breaking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Sooner Safer Happier Tagged With: agile, devops, Jonathan Smart, lean, Sooner Safer Happier, WaysofWorkingSeries

Agile and Lean: A Primer for the Business Leader

November 2, 2020 by Jonathan Smart 3 Comments

Looking for DevOps: A Primer for the Business Leader in our Ways of Working series? Click the link above. In our last post we discussed the ways of working from manufacturing that brought us to where are are today. Given the importance of taking an optimal approach for the type of work, it is important to understand what agile, lean, DevOps, and waterfall are and their history. People, historically, have spent very little time thinking about or improving how they do what they do. This is the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Sooner Safer Happier Tagged With: agile, agile manifesto, Jonathan Smart, lean, Sooner Safer Happier, WaysofWorkingSeries

Ways of Working: How We Got Here

October 28, 2020 by Jonathan Smart 2 Comments

In my previous post A Sense of Urgency, I set the stage for what is at risk today. Now, in order to understand how to change, it is critical that we first understand how we got here. How we came to have the traditional ways of working that are in place in most large organizations today.  Previous Ways of Working Were Optimized for Repetitive Labor One of the leaders of the Efficiency Movement, Frederick Winslow Taylor, did much to improve industrial processes. Working first as a machinist and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sooner Safer Happier Tagged With: business agility, business leadership, Jonathan Smart, Sooner Safer Happier, taylorism, ways of working, WaysofWorkingSeries

A Sense of Urgency: Surviving in the Age of Digital

October 22, 2020 by Jonathan Smart 1 Comment

The world changed on June 26, 2018. It happened quietly. Few people even noticed. But that was the day that, after more than a century, General Electric, the last original member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, was removed from the index. GE was one of just a dozen firms that Charles Dow included in his list in 1896. The company appeared alongside giants such as American Tobacco, American Sugar Refining Company, and Tennessee Coal and Iron, companies that dominated what Carlota Perez, an … [Read more...]

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