Agility at Scale: A Meeting of Mindsets
summary
Argues that agility at scale needs a synthesis of digital product and industrial mindsets, not just another scaling framework, and proposes concrete practices: measure lead time, throughput and WIP on a two‑week pulse (example: retailer saw throughput rise when WIP dropped), organize teams as product‑owners who build and run their services, govern with product/tech/practice leadership for alignment, and manage the six autonomy assets — objective, constraints, accountability, capability, resources, authority — as autonomy liquidity using a one‑page survey to find the top constrained impediments.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:45Part 1: A tale of two mindsets
- 2:01Digital product mindset vs. industrial mindset
- 8:42Digital product mindset introduces new habits
- 17:12Industrial habits clash with digital product mindset
- 21:48Agility at scale requires both mindsets
- 28:22Part 2: Autonomy with alignment
- 28:48Alignment
- 32:50Autonomy
- 38:17Autonomy liquidity
- 42:48We need both autonomy and alignment
- 46:18Getting started
- 51:02Outro
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