How to Fix Your Failed Agile Transformation
summary
Argues that success depends on matching practices to product lifecycle stages not imposing one framework company-wide, and maps ten stages from idea through product‑market fit to retirement. Recommends concrete tools: ethnographic research, empathy maps, lean canvas, low‑ and high‑fidelity Minimum Viable Product tests (mobile coffee cart A/B location test, fake landing pages), journey maps, and an innovation funnel with staged funding; cites an attrition rate around 60:1 and warns against scaling or growth‑hacking too early.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Start
- 3:54The Innovators Dilemma
- 4:53Innovators Dilemma
- 12:38Minimum Viable Product
- 14:40Lean Canvas
- 15:04Stage Four Is Called Product Market Fit
- 19:42Business Model Canvas
- 26:29What Is the One Thing That Our Self-Organizing Team Should Optimize in Product Market Fit
- 34:50Lean Persona
- 37:23Journey Mapping
- 37:58What Are the Moments of Truth
- 39:09Starbucks
- 42:14Self-Assessment Exercise of the Innovation Vortex
- 48:41Innovation Communities
- 52:10What as a Leader Can I Do To Help Innovation
- 53:02Real-Life Example on Successfully Working Innovation Center
- 54:40When Do You Know When To Scale Up
- 57:16Do I Actually Fix My Failed Agile Transformation
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