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 …
How comes, your lean-agile transformation is stalled? Read More »
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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Darren describes how they started experimenting with new ways of doing things, then adjusting them to make them work. It was about experimenting, starting from theory to practical applications, keeping what was working and trashing what was not. It shows how critical context can be. It also points out we sometimes focus too much on …
The fast pace of change creates unpredictability and makes it harder to accomplish the mission of satisfying stakeholders. And indeed, organizations must deal with established and new competitors, shortening cycle times, the furious pace of innovation, and socio-economical and geo-political profound transformations. In such a deeply changing environment, it’s getting harder and harder to predict …
Agile and sustainability are both ways to cope with a fast-changing VUCA world. I have been speaking about it at Festival dello Sviluppo Sostenibile
