The Foundations of Business Agility
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Argues that true business agility requires structural change not a veneer: adopt the nine domains of business agility with the customer at the centre, move from project to long‑lived product teams, and use experiments (probe‑sense‑respond) and the strangler pattern to migrate systems. Replace vanity metrics like velocity with outcomes, noting Google’s psychological safety finding (teams ~21% above vs ~19% below average, ~40% swing) and studies showing ~68% of product features go unused. Practical tools include progressive contracts, empowered frontline decision rules (e.g. $2,500 guest fix), transparent initiative boards, and minimum viable processes.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 4:14The World today is in a state of VUCA
- 7:30Business Agility is Necessary for Survival
- 10:51State of Business Agility
- 13:20Changed Imperatives
- 20:09Organisations that have embraced Agile have 3 core characteristics
- 22:55Great Teams
- 24:40Create Space for Learning
- 26:16Aligned Autonomy
- 27:30Measuring the Right Things
- 30:24Radical Transparency
- 33:00Act on Feedback
- 39:02Become a Lifelong Learner
- 39:57Become Passionately Dissatisfied
- 41:01Become Customer Fanatical
- 41:52Think like an entrepreneur
- 42:37Transform Yourself
- 43:22VUCA Revisited
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