Are you struggling to get to market quickly? Want to get to your customers, your market at ‘Flash’ speed? Start with two questions:
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Pencil drawing of ‘Flash’ above by awesome A
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
If you are in any kind of transformation work, you can not afford to ignore this book. Book is filled with nuggets of genius and his passion for enriching his customers lives. It showcases how focusing too much on growth and taking eyes off the core customers can spell trouble for the business. He also shows us how the business can transformation can be achieved even in the worst economic times.
MUST read for anyone involved in transformation work. Period.
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We talked about Post It notes as my Swiss Knife tool, and I introduced you to the first and THE most important use; that being the Note taking tool.
Today, I want to talk about using it as a Canvas. I have two passions in my life: the Agile Transformation and the Art. The artist within me likes to doodle, and I often come up with some quick illustrations to provide visuals on a topic that I am going to be discussing or presenting. As they say, Picture is worth a thousand words. Here are some of my Agile Doodles.
Visual Note taking with (ever extending) Post It canvas
This was done by a student in one of a workshop on ‘Jump start your Agile teams’, capturing notes about what is Agile and Scrum, all using Post It notes and Visual note taking.
All right, let’s summarize: We discussed three uses of the Post-It notes so far:
Go ahead, start doodling! And, share your many ways you use Post Its in the comments section below.
Are you clear about your Minimum MVP? If not, use this sheet to describe your MVP.
If yes, are you working towards completing and Shipping it?
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Too long we have used the terminologies such as Projects and Phases. It’s time to make the shift! Let’s overhaul our dictionary and start using terminologies such as MVPs and MVIs. Why such a big fuss about terminology itself?
The terminology, the words we use influence our actions. The words that we use to describe things, to ourselves and our partners, affect that way we think. The thoughts affect our actions and eventually, the words have the influence on the Results that we seek. We do not want the handoffs, from one stage gate to other stage gates. Instead, we want to drive our efforts to put something, even a smaller increment of the product, in the hands of our Customers.
Shift the focus from Phases and onto creating Value. Identify the deliverables, no matter how small a product increment, that brings value to a customer. As Maryellen Weimer ( @FacultyFocus ) writes in her article, language has tremendous power to influence our thoughts and actions.
In his list of 7 Habits, Steven Covey recommends starting with an end state of mind! Identify MMP and MVIs and let them drive your development and deliveries.
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