One of my favorite exercises in our Product Owner Program involves asking the students to review a sample feature canvas and compare it to the features they currently prepare for PI Planning. I measure the effectiveness of an exercise by the commitment to action that follows the debrief, and this o...
âDesign for easy repairability, especially in complex systems that must evolve over time.â
Ali Hajou
In this episode, the SPCs Unleashed team tackles the complex dimension of continually evolving live systems, with a particular focus on large, cyber-physical systems. Mark Richards, Ali Ha...
As I'm teaching today*, I was reminded of a way I used to describe system constraints back when I taught a lot of kanban classes and helped design kanban systems. This quick post captures them for reference and to seed a discussion.Â
This post was originally created in 2020, and was recently refres...
If only our executives would commit, we couldâŚ
âTheyâ donât support what weâre trying to doâŚ
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Interesting words. What do you really want from âthemâ? Who is this âthemâ anyway? Is it one leader? Is it a team? Is it really the whole executive team? How do you know they donât support you? What is ...
"Experiment like a scientist, not a mad scientist"
Mark Richards
Have you ever pondered, "How can a lean approach work wonders for massive systems?" Thatâs exactly where we dive into this episode of SPCs Unleashed. Hosted by Swiss SPCTs Stephan and Niko, Dutch SPCT Ali, and Aussie SAFE Fe...
âIt's a wonderful toolbox, but you don't have to stand up a large solution to start using the toolbox.â
Mark Richards
In this engaging episode of SPCs Unleashed, hosts Nikolaos Kaintantzis, Mark Richards, Stephan Neck, and Ali Hajou dive deep into the complexities of enterprise solution ...
âShow up. Keep up. Shut up.â
(Change agentâs creed, borrowed from golf pro caddy creed)
Stephan Neck
Mark Richards, Ali Hajou, and Niko Kaintantzis join Stephan Neck in this ârepriseâ episode with Leading Change from the Lean-Agile Leadership competency.
We start by sharing our passion...
âthe drummer sets the beat and the rhythm that the band shines against⌠a good leader sets the beat, and they create the backdrop against which great performances happen from their people.â
Mark Richards
In this enlightening podcast episode about Leading by Example, Mark, Stephan, and Nik...
"When joining, the all-blacks gave you a book with all jerseys of the team across all times, with blank pages at the end for you to fill in"
Stephan Neck
In this episode of SPCs Unleashed, the hosts Stephan Neck, Niko Kaintantzis, Ali Hajou, and Mark Richards delve into the Lean-Agile Lea...
âIf you donât have great teams, youâll never have great ARTsâ
Mark Richards
Mark Richards, Ali Hajou, and Niko Kaintantzis join Stephan Neck in the second ârepriseâ episode after the initial reprise of SPCâs Unleashed with Lean Thinking People and Agile Teams from the Organizational Agili...
âI think a good SPC has to be a coach, too ⌠You have to use the language of the people who have to become agile because agile isnât the goal. Itâs using the agile things to become faster, to become better, to have better user feedbackâ
Niko Kaintantzis
Stephan Neck and Niko Kaintantzis j...
"You get a mad underspend in Q1; then you spend Q2 and Q3 trying to catch up on the questions about your Q1 underspend. This is variation waste, and causes massive issues in terms of the ability of the system to absorb the work"
Mark Richards
In this episode, we turn our attention to the ...