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.)
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.
Hard Agile, Soft Agile, and Not Agile
Labeling every non-pure Agile approach as “waterfall” is not helpful. Big Design Upfront only exists in the first quadrant, which we can indeed label as “Not Agile.”
Ten Lifecycle Stages of a Value Stream
The ten lifecycle stages are fractal: they can apply to entire businesses and individual feature sets.
The next phase: Formation and Validation
How do we turn unFIX into a viable business that helps people make their own methods? How do we help organizations to scale out rather than scale up?