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:

…in the Age of Digital, where product development is unique, lack of collaboration and shared learnings has a direct negative impact on productivity and organizational outcomes.

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Sooner Safer Happier:

The knowledge delivers its full value to the organization only when it’s shared across silos.

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A focus on output rather than outcome remains common… Outputs are always much easier to define, monitor, and track than outcomes.

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…a focus on outcomes, with regular feedback loops, builds learning into an everyday activity, as people reflect on how to best achieve the outcomes, for unique work in a rapidly changing environment.

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…learning whether we have delivered a valuable thing or not will come not from us; it comes from the customer.

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Nothing is ever certain. We can only talk about risks and probabilities.

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You are never done improving. You don’t reach the top level and then stop.

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Meeting ‘how agile are you’ target metrics does not necessarily correlate to improved outcomes. Usually it produces new labels with the same old behaviors.

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To optimize for learning, organizations must learn when knowledge is tacit versus explicit, and its implications on which practices to apply.

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Teams should have the autonomy to self-manage, self-design, and self-govern within their boundaries.

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