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Separating out work and personnel management

Submitted by skeptic on Fri, 2019-10-18 08:16

I believe the future is to separate work management from personnel ("people") management. This isn't my idea. It has been around forever in various forms. We have tried these ideas in the past. I worked in a matrixed organisation in 1985-7.

Kill the restructure

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2019-09-26 04:05

I'm getting grumpy about the use of structural reorgs to chase ”transformation".
They don't work.
They break existing teams.
They damage morale.
They sow confusion.
And they turn one set of siloes into a different set of siloes.
I wrote recently about the dysfunctions of transformation, and restructuring is one of the worst.

Forget the Fullstack

Submitted by skeptic on Sun, 2019-09-15 02:07

Perfect people don't exist.
Start where you are. Work with who you have. Let the teams do "team Tetris" to self assemble into functional units with all the skills they need.

The wonderful free resources from DevOps Forum are the best. Thankyou Gene Kim!

Bringing Humanity to Work

Submitted by skeptic on Sat, 2019-09-14 08:00

Hear us present on the online conference Shine19 on 30th october at 04:00GMT about
Bringing Humanity to Work
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The dysfunctions of transformation

Submitted by skeptic on Fri, 2019-09-13 09:19

There are classic mistakes being made over and over as large organisations try to "do Agile", "implement Agile", or *shudder* "transform". I'm getting passionate about preventing the harm.

The work Renaissance

Submitted by skeptic on Sat, 2019-08-31 10:05

As everybody is surely aware by now, big things are afoot in how we think about work and management. Agile has spilled out of IT into the enterprise. Complex systems theory is finally shifting how we think. Safety culture is revealing the value in failure. Less widely known (yet), Open culture is flipping the hierarchy.

how much nice is too much?

Submitted by skeptic on Sun, 2019-07-14 09:58

How much nice is too much?

Headroom

Submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2019-05-15 18:03

It's more important to improve work than to do work.

Too many managers think improvement will happen magically in people's spare time.
If an organisation has a time recording system, a fun question is to ask how improvement is recorded. Often there are no codes for it.

If people have no headroom to do improvement then it won't happen. You'll be working the same way next year.

Open space for leadership

Submitted by skeptic on Tue, 2019-05-14 17:53

We*'re on a journey of discovery into a new domain of thought.

After our growth and exploration of Agile into the enterprise context, and our positive experiences there, we are having our minds further expanded after stumbling over the Open Leadership Network. We are currently at the inaugural conference in Boston.

Treat staff like adults and equals

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2019-03-28 06:22

There is a sea change in work, whether within IT or outside. It's a renaissance: a complete shift in how we think about employees and management. The portmanteau is usually "Agile" but it is far far more than that. It is a confluence of many new (and not so new) ideas. At their heart is a restoration of humanity, of human values, a unification of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.

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