In the modern Agile landscape, organisations are constantly striving to balance their focus on outcome-driven results and output-focused execution. The concept of a platform team has gained traction in recent years as businesses seek to…
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Crafting Effective OKRs: Lessons from Poetry and the Importance of Understanding Key Terms
While explaining the fundamentals of poetry may seem straightforward, crafting good poetry requires extensive practice and experimentation. It’s a process of writing numerous poems and constantly refining them to achieve a polished piece. As someone…
Understanding Structural Issues in Your Operations Model with OKRs
When it comes to implementing OKRs, it’s important to understand that they need to be aligned with your organisation’s overall strategy and structure. This can be challenging, especially when cascading the objectives down from leadership…
Aligning Your Ops Model for Customer Value: Output vs. Outcomes
In the world of business, the term ‘Ops Model’ is often used to describe the structure and processes that an organisation uses to deliver value to its customers. There are two main approaches to designing…
What is an Ops Model and How Does it Work?
The Ops Model is a framework that revolves around system thinking in complex environments. It is centred on the groups or nodes within the system and the relationships or networks between them. The primary focus…
Taylorism and the Evolution of Management: The Case of the Spotify Model
When Frederick Taylor published his “Principles of Scientific Management” in 1911, he laid the foundation for the idea of people as an integral part of the production process. Since then, many humanistic views have emerged…
Product Ownership, a special type of Chapter
In enterprise Agile models, product ownership and product management play crucial roles in delivering value to customers and driving the organisation’s success. When we overlay this with the chapter model, we can create a structure…
Alignment between your OKRs and your delivery structure
OKRs, or Objectives and Key Results, have become a popular goal-setting framework in many businesses today. The idea is simple: define clear objectives, set measurable key results, and align the entire organization around them. However,…
Aligning Development and Operational Value Streams in Scaled Agile
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) specifically addresses the separation of development and operational value streams to optimise product development and delivery processes. Development Value Stream: The development value stream focuses on creating, evolving, and deploying…
Can you measure your transformation?
How can you define an appropriate unit of transformation value (UTV) for an operating model transformation? The UTV aims to quantify the overall impact and progress of an operating model transformation by considering multiple dimensions…