Tag: Agility
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The Meeting-to-Meeting Pattern
Work moves only between recurring sessions. Actions picked up right before the meeting, clarified during it, stalled until the next slot. Calendar inertia, not flow. Why this matters: Classic Lean waste: delays, over-processing, rework, bloated WIP. Decisions depend on people…
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Adaptation as Rhythm: Rethinking Enterprise Evolution in an AI-Driven World
When Faisal Hoque published Adapt Or Die: Your Business’s Only Options In An Evolving Economy in 2014, he laid out a timeless foundation for enterprise survival: resilience, innovation, agility, adaptability. At the time I was inspired to pen an article…
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The Core Misdiagnosis That Causes Agile Transformations to Fail: Misreading Signals for Agility
In hundreds of organizations I’ve worked with over the past two decades, one pattern repeats itself: well-intentioned efforts to implement agility often fail—not because teams aren’t trying, but because the underlying problem is misdiagnosed. I’ve seen this both as a…
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Beyond Cynefin: How CIRCA Helps Leaders Make Sense of Today’s Complexity
In 2007, David Snowden and Mary Boone published a groundbreaking article in Harvard Business Review titled “A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making.” It introduced the Cynefin framework to a wider audience—offering a way to categorise different types of problems and…
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Executive Reality Check: From Fear to Flow
“From fear to flow: Rethinking the system that governs your speed” In my last post, I wrote about how fear of Agile, especially in a world shaped by AI and accelerating complexity, doesn’t protect the organization. It quietly makes it…
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Executive Reality Check: Fear of Agile Is Quietly Making You Obsolete
“CIRCA isn’t about weathering the storm. It’s about learning to navigate in any weather the future throws at you.” In leadership circles, there’s often an unspoken belief:That resisting Agile, avoiding decentralisation, and clinging to control somehow keeps the business safe.…
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A Decade Later: What I Got Wrong About Agile Hybrids
I found an old post I wrote in February 2015. In the post “Approaches, Lets Try A New Blend“, I’d proposed blending Crystal Clear, XP, Scrum, and DSDM into a “People-Centric Hybrid Approach.” Take the best bits from each. Throw…