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Deploying Strategies as Choices
While I don’t claim to have any expertise in strategy development, I do have ideas and opinions on what a good strategy looks like. One important aspect is that strategy is more about choices and...
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Strategy Deployment and the Four Disciplines of Execution
This is another post comparing my views on Strategy Deployment and other approaches. This time the Four Disciplines of Execution (or 4DX), described in the book of the same name. I’d heard about 4DX...
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Blending Agendashift and the Four Disciplines of Execution
I’ve blogged about my thoughts on Strategy Deployment and Agendashift (as well as how to use Agendashift with the X-Matrix) some time ago, and more recently I wrote about Strategy Deployment and the...
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Option Orientation with Reverse Wardley Mapping
At the start of the year Mike Burrows posted about an idea he called Reverse Wardley, with some background to where it came from. As one of the sources of the idea I thought I should say some more...
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Comparing Strategy Alignment Frameworks
Mattias Skarin has recently posted a comparison of three strategy alignment frameworks – OKRs, Spotify Rhythm and Art of Action Strategy Briefing. I have already posted about these approaches in the...
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Strategy Deployment and SAFe
This is a slightly different variation on my series of posts comparing Strategy Deployment and other approaches. SAFe is definitely not a form of Strategy Deployment, but it does include references to...
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Strategy as Enabling Constraints
In one of my recent presentations, I talk about 3 Cs of “Imposing” Agile; Coherence, Constraints and Curiosity. That idea, along with some of the content made it into a whitepaper I wrote last year. A...
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What is Backbriefing?
Backbriefing A3 I talk about Backbriefing a lot in conference presentations and will have mentioned it in a number of blog posts. In particular I put together a Backbriefing A3. However, I don’t think...
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What is a True North?
True North The True North is the first element of my TASTE model and is in the middle of my X-Matrix template. It is the central piece which holds the other elements together. On the X-Matrix I define...
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Curiosity Theory and the Principle of Optimum Knowledge
When I talk about curiosity I usually talk about experimentation and the need for failure. When teaching experimentation with games such as Eleusis Expeditious, I inevitably end up talking about the...
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Backbriefing and the Curse of Knowledge
Charge of the Light Brigade by Richard Caton Woodville Jr. In a previous post on backbriefing, I described it as “a process with which people can check their understanding of the intent of their work...
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Time Capsules and Transformations
Blue Peter time capsule dug up 33 years early Time capsules can be a metaphor for transformation; a prediction of what we think people should know in the future, based on what we know today. Why time...
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Continuous Strategy is the new Strategy Deployment
Cadiz Wilderness and Valley I’ve been trying to come up with a better name for Strategy Deployment for a long time. One that has stuck with me recently is Continuous Strategy. What’s wrong with...
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OKRs and Kanban – Working Perfectly Together
I have previously posted separately about Strategy Deployment and OKRs and Kanban. This is a guest post by Matt Roberts on OKRs and Kanban that brings the two together. With a degree of confidence, I...
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Strategy Deployment and Idealised Design
This post introduces Idealised Design, as described in the book Idealized Design: How to Dissolve Tomorrow’s Crisis…Today by Russell L. Ackoff, Jason Magidson and Herber J. Addison, and explores how...
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How to Measure the Predictability of Agile
This post follows up a Twitter thread I posted in November exploring ways of measuring the predictability of teams. I also discussed some this these ideas in a Drunk Agile episode. Fortuneteller by...
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Nine Surprising Strategy Deployment Books with Powerful Lessons
In a recent post, I said I would put together a list of recommended books that have influenced my thinking on Strategy Deployment over the years. This post includes that list! Most of them I have...
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How to use Hexis for Powerful Strategy Deployment
Hexi Base Kit This post is a follow-up to the list of 50 Quick Ideas To Improve Your Agile Transformation but from the perspective of Cynefin Company Hexis. I will describe what Hexis are, along with...
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The Best Agile Accounting Approach To CapEx and OpEx
What is the best way of accounting for costs as different types of expenditure with agile development teams? This is a question that comes up every now and again, particularly during more significant...
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Why Strategy Deployment? Here Are Three Great Reasons
Why? I’ve written a lot about the “what” and the “how” of Strategy Deployment, but never really about “why”. That is probably slightly ironic, given the reasons I’m so passionate about it. The “why”...
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