Many argue that there is a substantial difference between "DevOps" and "Agile". I think it's semantics and here's why.
Culture Change
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We talk about the future of work in the same way that we talk about flying cars - it's coming, it's inevitable and it's ubiquitous but the reality is that it's nothing but a SciFi concept meant to soothe our present anxiety and will remain consigned to a fantasy, unless we are willing to allow ourselves to open our minds and hearts and examine everything to find what really works in how we're working.
Of all the data points it seems that the clearest correlation between team behavior and creating and fostering Psychological Safety is whether or not team members feel they have been heard.
It's the skills that can't be replicated with as much ease before the Turing test workers and their leaders should focus on
There has been a lot of talk on the topic of aligning incentives to the company strategy but what happens when that strategy is nebulous itself? What happens when the overt goals of the organization are stuck in McKinsey slides hell while its real needs, clear to one and all don’t […]
In our practice at PeopleNotTech, we tell organizations that if they want Google, Apple or Amazon-like results they need Google, Apple or Amazon-like work culture. It is that simple. To emulate the velocity and speed of innovation that have created their success, one of the key things that these organizations uphold and eternally strive to better, is psychological safety.
"It is undoubtedly a lack of courage issue or else “Got fired for buying non-IBM” would be on one’s LinkedIn list of crowning achievements"...
In time, the gap between hopeful expectation about their role and the ability to change the world versus the harsh, stifling reality of the corporate environment, sees people either give up and leave or more likely and arguably even worse, give up and stay.
It’s hard to argue with the tangible results of transforming any work function into a practice of some type of Agile process. More things get done and they get done faster. More importantly, new things get done - things that hadn’t yet made their way to unchallenged stale lists now have the space to enter backlogs and a fair chance at being prioritized and that allows any type of knowledge-based team to test and fail and ultimately innovate.
What’s most concerning is that traditional banks are not the only ones inside the bubble anymore but challengers are heading that was as well.
Having the knowledge to frame a problem with considered, literate wording, the need to continuously and incessantly think of the consumers and ways to make their lives better and do so as if you’re just starting out, with the passion of a start-up founder and the courage of a rapid decision maker is what will delay Amazon’s death not its balance sheet.
Bankers ask us all the time why they can’t jump over this people betterment malarky and just go ahead and use our CX workshops to create Money Moments. Many of our conversations go like this: “We at Bank X love the idea of Money Moments instead of Banking Products!” “Thanks, […]