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:

It the vast majority of cases, a start big, all-in, bet the farm approach is an antipattern. It is not applying an agile mindset to agility.

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Sooner Safer Happier:

Behavioral scientists have shown that cognitive overload is a major theme in the rejection of change. Cognitive reasoning is finite and easily depleted.

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Sooner Safer Happier:

Apply agility to agility. Start with small teams, small slices of value, and small investments. Achieve big through small.

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Concision requires work, as does simplification, descaling the organization and descaling the flow of work end-to-end before scaling up agility.

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A willingness to fail fast and often results in learning sooner. There is no such thing as a failed experiment. There is learning.

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Sooner Safer Happier:

Change in complex adaptive systems is messy… you can’t force the pace of change and you can’t predict it.

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Sooner Safer Happier:

With a set of balanced measures you can see if forward progress is being made and then amplify or dampen the experiments.

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Sooner Safer Happier:

…instead of trying to teach everyone at the same time… [ask] who wants to go first.

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…nail it before you scale it. Enable safe-to-learn experiments that are within your risk appetite.

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Sooner Safer Happier:

The pace of change cannot be predicted or forced; it’s a case of reading the tea leaves and nurturing it, giving it a tailwind…

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