“While it is not unheard of, most sane people would be embarrassed to take an introductory martial arts class and then develop their own “martial art” from it and teach it to unsuspecting students, exposing them to the danger of miscalculating their effectiveness at defending themselves in a critical situation. Yet agile practitioners do this every day ― some do not even feel any sense of shame for calling themselves “agile coaches” after a year of practical experience.”
Source: Scaling Done Right: How to Achieve Business Agility with Scrum@Scale and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“A slight shift in perspective changes everything.”
Source: Pursuing Timeless Agility: the Path to Lasting Agile Transformation
“Being agile in your company isn’t just a fad; it’s the result of years of research in response to both megatrends that last for years and current trends, which keep their ears to the ground on how things are progressing in real-time. Perhaps the only certainty about the future is that it will be unpredictable, emphasizing the importance of agility.”
Source: Future of Work: From Cubicle to Tribe
“Incremental climate adaptation needs to shift to exponential climate adaptation.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
“Alignment is a force multiplier.”
Source: Scaling Done Right: How to Achieve Business Agility with Scrum@Scale and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“Waste is more than a crime; it's a mistake.”
Source: Scaling Done Right: How to Achieve Business Agility with Scrum@Scale and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“When you decide to take a step to the right, you expect all parts of your body to work in unity to take that step. Actually, you do not even expect it; it is just as natural a feature of
our existence as drawing breath. You would be dumbfounded if not outright terrorized if your left leg suddenly moved in the opposite direction.
While this is an everyday occurrence in the corporate world, with organizations aimlessly ambling about like zombies, the problem of moving in unity becomes even more urgent if we truly aim to achieve business agility. It is only when we can harmonize the decentralized decision making in the teams with the intent of senior leadership that we can achieve real business agility.
Imagine your organization moved like your body: If there is an unexpected noise in your environment, your whole body turns in that direction to assess the situation and address possible threats that might come towards you. How great would it be if your organization did the same?
Flexibly reacting to changes in the environment without friction, discussion,
or delay, just a seamless and natural response — would that not be true agility?”
Source: Scaling Done Right: How to Achieve Business Agility with Scrum@Scale and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.”
Source: Advice for a Young Investigator
“Agile is not your goal—it’s only the best way to achieve your goals.”
Source: The Agile Leader: Leveraging the Power of Influence
“Organizations which design systems ...are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of the organizations.. the larger an organization is, the less flexibility it has and the more pronounced the phenomenon”
Source: The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations