Lean, Agile and Flow conferences in 2024With the end of the year fast-approaching I’m thinking about our 2024 Lean, Agile and Flow conferences. Once again we’re running 4…Dec 16, 2023Dec 16, 2023
How to run an Impact Mapping workshopI’ve written previously about what Impact Mapping is and why you might want to use it.Jun 26, 20231Jun 26, 20231
Getting busy users to try your productI work a lot in the public sector, helping teams do transformational delivery — either replacing legacy systems with modern, digital…Jun 19, 2023Jun 19, 2023
What is Impact Mapping?I’m a big fan of Impact Mapping — a technique I use to help teams reach agreed goals and identify options for achieving those goals. I’ve…Oct 17, 20223Oct 17, 20223
Forecasting the length of your BetaI was reading the other day about a government team that had compressed their Beta down in time to 12 weeks. It got me thinking about the…Aug 18, 20222Aug 18, 20222
Boldly going where no one has gone before? — creating a Discovery backlog.I’m often asked to help teams kick off their Discovery projects — to help set them up for their first week or so of work — and I usually…Mar 28, 20224Mar 28, 20224
The Playbook Playbook — or How to create your first PlaybookI’ve been working with a few government teams to help them create Playbooks capturing how they do things in their team, project, programme…Feb 15, 2022Feb 15, 2022
Published inCreate/ChangeHow to be obscureI was thinking today, as consultant’s do, about how to increase the visibility of me and my work — I thought I’d do a quick anti-problem…Dec 6, 2021Dec 6, 2021
Published inCreate/ChangeWhat is an ‘enabling mindset’?What is an ‘enabling mindset’?Oct 14, 20211Oct 14, 20211
Published inCreate/ChangeStop building Potemkin Villages!In an apocryphal story, Grigory Potemkin, lover of Catherine the Great of Russia, is said to have built fake portable villages to impress…Apr 26, 20211Apr 26, 20211
