Book Titles

Sooner Safer Happier
Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility

By Jonathan Smart

Year Published: 2022
ISBN-13: 978-1950508419
Categories: Agility, Happiness, Safety

168 Quotes Found

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Sooner Safer Happier:

With companies growing and shrinking faster than ever before, there is a need to be on the right side of change in order to survive and thrive.

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In this new age, every company is an information technology company, whether they know it yet or not.

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To succeed, organizations are recognizing the importance of being proficient in ways of working suited to leveraging the increasingly emergent nature of work and the continuous pace of change.

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…a practice that works in one context won’t necessarily optimize for outcomes in another context.

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…forcing ways of working on people is less likely to be successful than inviting participation with incentivization.

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…it is necessary to optimize for early and often learning in a real environment with real customers or consumers.

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To increase agility, to optimize for outcomes, given history and culture, sometimes the best approach is not Agile at all.

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The majority of agility is about behavior norms, culture, rather than processes or tools. It’s people, process, and tools, in that order.

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The biggest impediment to flow, to better outcomes, might be in behavioral norms, leadership, finance, HR, PMO, real estate, governance committees, and so on.

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Having to support your own product is a strong motivator to maintain high quality and supportability.

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