What’s Next After Agile? (Survey Results)
Last month, we conducted a survey titled “Agile Is Not Dying; It's Dissolving—What Now?” In this survey, we asked three questions: What is now the main concern or interest of higher management? What happens with budgets that were previously spent on Agile? What is the next big thing worth talking about, after Agile?
Freshening up epharma’s organizational design
Improving the company organization design of epharma by using unFIX - structure with 18 bases, organized one unFIX congress and five domains.
unFIX Visual MS with Product Area Turfs
Visual MS is a Spanish business software development group with 114 employees organizing with different Product Type Turfs and scaling up via bases, leagues, and a crowd.
Exploring the application of unFIX patterns in the structure and dynamics of Visual MS group. Visual MS highlights the importance of psychological safety and the sense of belonging, two fundamental aspects in unFIX, creating a special synergy of the model with the organization.
Checklist for Workshop Organizers
I decided to make a checklist for in-person workshops. Most items on this list are based on my own experiences. The result is a list of 52 checklist items. You may want to use this list to check how many points your workshop organizer earned. 😉
Initiatives versus Objectives
People working with Objectives (for example, with the OKRs framework) seem a bit confused by the concept of Initiatives. Some consultants put Initiatives below Objectives; others put them above. (And most have never heard of Initiatives.)
An Objection to Objectives
Organizations are addicted to goal-setting. Aiming for what’s new must be balanced with protecting what we have.
You Are a Portfolio Manager (Everyone Is)
If you don't manage your portfolios, you only build but never own.
Initiatives: What Scrum and SAFe Ignored
Anything that you continuously or continually make available to stakeholders is an Initiative. An Initiative never spontaneously disappears. It needs frequent monitoring and regular maintenance.
Four Steps to Lean
Everyone wants to make a meaningful impact through their work. Yet, most of our efforts prove to be not beneficial, overly complex, and time-consuming, slowing progress and wasting people’s time. The Four Steps to Lean sequence is an adaptation of Elon Musk’s “Five-Step Algorithm,” the ESSA Framework, and the “Four Steps to Freedom” model.
How we unFIX our SAFe ecosystem to deliver a better user experience in our Artificial Intelligence Division in the Banking Sector
unFIX SAFe ecosystem to deliver a better user experience
Shift From Knowledge to Wisdom
While AI can supply us with boundless knowledge, human wisdom, and morality will delineate the boundaries of AI’s role in our lives.
Lead the Red Queen Race
Artificial Intelligence is not a simplistic solution to our workload woes. It will raise the standards for everyone and necessitates a commitment to learning and adaptability.
Understand User Scenarios
Stop making products; start crafting experiences. These days, it’s about creating cohesive and personalized user journeys. The role of AI in shaping these user experiences will be pivotal.
Distribute or Automate Management
As AI becomes more sophisticated, tasks that were once the domain of middle managers will be easily delegated and automated. The middle management role will continue to change, necessitating continuous learning, adaptability, and a renewed focus on human-centric leadership skills.
Embrace Digital Team Members
Tight-knit, static teams might become looser, with AI copilots taking over specialist jobs in projects and humans roaming more freely across products where they can make meaningful contributions.
Be an Artisan or Communicator
As AI gets better at digital tasks, we should focus on what makes us unique as humans. Emotional connection, creativity, and physical skills are more critical than ever.
Become a Specializing Generalist
The new organizational focus should be on teams filled with M-skilled (cross-functional) people who can connect the dots between multiple disciplines.
Product Backlogs Are Not Backlogs
A product backlog is not a backlog, as it mostly consists of ideas. Only the part where you’ve committed yourself to completing the items should be called a backlog.
We’re reorganizing our team
We are fully equipped for the new year and welcome any ideas for experimentation. If you have fresh ideas to take maximum advantage of the unFIX model and help us grow this brand, reach out, and we will explore the possibilities!
Don't Lose Your Annual Budget; Plan to Kill It.
Yearly budgets are a symptom of an unhealthy organization. Use your budget now by spending it on good medicine. Lead by example. Start the change from where you are. Introduce new ideas in the organization that, someday, will result in the dismantling of the archaic annual budgeting process.