Operations review – agilemanagement.net

from www.agilemanagement.net/index.php/blog/Operations_Review/

key element in building a high trust culture  
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[provides] an organization level opportunity to reflect 
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also invite value chain partners from other parts of IT and from the rest of the business and some senior management
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opportunity to celebrate success
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 when we have poor performance data to show people will discuss it openly
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culture of personal safety where people can courageously speak up without fear of loss of face
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[is this a prerequisite for or effect of ops review? a little bit of both?]

Allan Shalloway quotes in “State of Kanbanland”

Allan Shalloway quotes from David Anderson’s State of Kanbanland address @ LSSC12, ca 22min into it.

limitedwipsociety.ning.com/video/lssc12-state-of-kanbanland-address-david-j-anderson

kanban is a method for talking to management

it’s the whole mindset, it’s the “let’s solve business problems”

now it’s a lot easier to talk to the business and ask “what are you interested in and how can it help you?”

part of crossing the chasm is really “how do we get more organizations involved?”

we can speak the language of business by speaking the language of early business delivery

you can take people where they are, and give them the vehicle to transition … to scale, that’s what you need to do, because [everybody can’t] do exactly the same thing

now we can really engage everybody in an organization, because everybody can see why it’s working and how it’s working

[kanban and lean] is not self-evident, but it’s intuitive once it’s made evident

 

reading tips for summer – re enterprise: hr, projects, budgets, etc

biz novels by Goldratt, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliyahu_M._Goldratt#Business_novels

maybe start with The Goal.  if you don’t mind spoilers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_(novel)

budgeting causes significant problems
Beyond budgeting, www.bbrt.org/, www.bbrt.org/beyond-budgeting/bb-problem.html

“The underlying theory behind project management is obsolete” 2002 paper from Greg Howell & Lauri Koskela
www.leanconstruction.org/pdf/ObsoleteTheory.pdf

(below, go to the linked sources if topic is interesting…)

on performance reviews:
ingvald.posterous.com/yearly-performance-review-is-out-dated
ingvald.posterous.com/get-rid-of-the-performance-review-wsjcom

ingvald.posterous.com/the-purpose-of-a-company-is-not-to-make-money

ingvald.posterous.com/stupid-goals-are-better-than-smart-goals-agil