This is the last post in my series on using metrics to gauge the success of an enterprise transformation.  As an enterprise transformation consultant, one of the key challenges I face is ensuring the steps I recommend throughout the transformation will help the organization achieve their goal, or the business drivers that inspired the transformation. In part 1 of […]

Frequently I’m asked: There is a seemingly endless set of good ideas that are demanding capacity in our organization, how do we make our demand and capacity visible so that we can create a roadmap that will best balance demand against capacity? This is the key question that most organizations are struggling to answer while […]

Finding your next most important thing is critical and requires clarity. As teams begin thinking about how to address their meetings, the topic of a previous post, its critical that they first identify where the team needs to focus its energy over the next 1-3 months, or the “next most important thing” the team needs to do […]

Why on earth do I need to spend so much of my time in a meeting? This is an absolutely sane question that most of the team members wind up asking at some point in time while I am coaching an organization towards more adaptive management techniques. Regardless of the role, there are other things beyond […]

In a previous post, I asked the question of how can we tell if we are succeeding with an enterprise agile transformation.  In the post I’ll close with the notion of using a balanced scorecard for signaling progress towards the transformation’s core business drivers. A couple of comments were shared after the last post was published […]