So, by the end of June, after a long period of physical inactivity, I found myself with an overweight BMI and an unpleasant feeling of discomfort that was worsening my quality of life, as well as my work capabilities (see for instance the Harvard Business Review article To improve your work performance, get some exercise). …
OKRs are not limited to business-related initiatives. You can utilize them in any context where you aim to drive transformation. In my case, I have chosen to employ OKRs to enhance my health over the next 90 days. OKRs for your personal life Being overweight and completely out of shape, I have made the decision …
Organizations and teams exist with the primary purpose of transforming creativity, skills, resources, and energy into value for stakeholders. We refer to the process of transitioning from potential value to actual value as “Flow”. Essentially, Flow represents the movement of work items through your product/service development and deployment process, which should be maintained as stable …
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.— Mark Twain In these days, Italy, and particularly Emilia Romagna, has been shaken by the worst flood in recent memory. It’s a tragedy, resulting in casualties, thousands of displaced individuals, and billions of euros in damages. While climate change …
On April 11th 2023, Italian Data Protection Authority notified OpenAI of GDPR related issues on ChatGPT services. As a results, ChatGPT access was blocked to the Italian Users. In just a matter of days, Open AI introduced the requested corrective measures meeting the Authority’s expectations, heeding the call of the Italian privacy watchdog and swiftly …
You kicked off a lean-agile transformation but you are struggling to see the results you expected, i.e. a shortened time-to-market. Transformation programs often stall due to a lack of results, emerging roadblocks, and a lack of vision. Common impediments to transformation Four problems are commonly impacting lean-agile transformations in large organizations: The teams-only problem The …
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Steve Jobs: “Apple is an incredibly collaborative environment” “Do You know how many committees, we have in Apple?” “Zero, we have no committees” “We are organized like a start-up, Apple is the biggest start-up on the planet” “We’re great at figuring out how to divide things up into these great teams we have” I am …
Yes, me too. Could not resist it, I gave in to the almighty God of AI, ChatGPT. First I asked about Tameflow I first asked ChatGPT about Tameflow, the high-performance organization management approach. After that, tempted, I asked it about myself. The response was amazing, in both cases, even tough I spotted some problems with …
Tired of messy, unfocused presentations? Within my teams, I often see team members struggle with presentation skills. Good communication and presentation skills are rarely seen in tech-oriented people, and when they are there, they are often the result of individual attitude and craftsmanship, rather than outcomes of a structured system. And things are getting worse …
I used velocity as a metric for planning and forecasting in agile teams for many years, before switching to throughput and cycle time. Should you switch too? What is velocity? Velocity is an efficiency measure widely used within the Scrum practitioner community. It’s not by itself formally part of Scrum, nonetheless, velocity it’s a fairly …
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