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Selecting the right Guide

Why It's Crucial


  •  Refocus on the Customer: The key to delivering a great user experience starts with the customer. Customers seek products, services, and experiences that add value to their lives. The marketplace is evolving rapidly, and refocusing the value conversation on the end-user helps us to get the feedback we need to stay ahead of the game, engaging, iterating, and innovating, faster.


  • Tailor Fit Your Approach: Your people, context, product, and purpose are unique and diverse, so there is no single framework, methodology, template, stance, or script that is going to translate perfectly for everyone and every delivery landscape. Expert guides bring objectivity, and the ability to coalesce critical insights from contributors at every level of the organization to isolate prospective areas of potential growth, leveraging data-driven insights to help teams form new agreements, and experiment with new ways of working. 


  • Measure, Learn, and Grow: There is no excuse for not measuring the impact of a change management initiative today. If your team has agreed to pursue a change to improve their delivery, and it's not measured, how do you know if it was successful? An expert guide will help you leverage available metrics within your existing systems or help you identify adequate providers to start measuring your impact today.

 

  • Focus on Empirical Evidence: Fact-based decision making based on observed and verified data rather than on assumptions or theories. It is grounded in the idea that knowledge comes from experience and making decisions should be guided by what is actually observed.


  • To Observe, You Need Transparency: Transparency is the necessary foundation for informed decision-making, trust-building, effective risk management, and continuous improvement. It enables an environment where data and facts guide actions, leading to more successful and adaptable business practices. 


Why Lean-Agile Principles as a Foundation to Better Project Management & Product Delivery?


Lean-Agile principles are a blend of Lean manufacturing principles and Agile software development principles. They focus on delivering value to the customer efficiently and effectively by optimizing the flow of value, empowering teams, and continuously improving. These concepts build upon a variety of frameworks and methodologies that have been introduced to advance both project management and product delivery bodies of knowledge over time.


As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few.


Harrington Emerson

Guided By Principles




  1. Focus on Value: The User, Product, & Experience
  2. Visualize, Measure, & Streamline the Flow of Value
  3. Trust, Inspire, & Motivate Your People
  4. Decentralize Decision Making
  5. Take an Economic View
  6. Apply Systems Thinking
  7. Empirical Evidence and Working Systems
  8. Build Incrementally with Fast, Iterative Feedback Cycles
  9. Assume Variability & Preserve Options
  10. Apply Pragmatism

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