Finding the Flow
summary
Company-level agile work begins in 2019 with eight tribes, ~70 teams and ~300 people; priorities are increased customer value, efficient delivery and improved quality. Teams run quarterly tribe planning, an Innovation and Planning week pilot, and use flow metrics plus a technical agility assessment (levels 1–5) to find bottlenecks. Retrospectives evolve into retro-of-retro and fishbone analysis to drive small, tangible improvements (1% better daily), while cautioning against metric manipulation and marking incomplete work as done.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:52What does finding your flow mean
- 5:51Personal journey and adaptation
- 9:01Agile values and vision
- 12:16Eliminating waste in IT
- 15:04Where to begin with change
- 17:12Innovation and planning week
- 20:39Assessment and team progress
- 22:45Continuous improvement strategies
- 25:37Effective retrospectives
- 28:30Empathy and problem solving
- 30:20Summary and conclusion
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