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

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Sooner Safer Happier:

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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Sooner Safer Happier:

Late learning delays the realization of value. It also significantly increases delivery risk, back-loading it to when there is the least time to respond.

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The later the learning, the higher the probably and the higher the cost of being wrong. By the time something is delivered, the world has moved on.

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In the same category as waterfall is water-scrum-fall. While it is a slight improvement on a fully sequential stage-gate process, it is not agile.

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…product development, unique change, is emergent, not deterministic. The work is filled with unknown-unknowns and acting in the space changes the space.

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In an emergent domain, you want variability to learn and then amplify the experiments that optimize for the desired outcomes.

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…there is no one-size-fits-all way of working… It’s about optimizing the way of working based on the type of work and your unique context.

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Software is an agile-created box on a lean conveyor belt.

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…lasting behavior change cannot be forced. It is not a short-term activity; it is continuous.

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…customers are not just buying a point-in-time product, they are buying ongoing innovation and an experience.

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