Agility at Scale: A Meeting of Mindsets
summary
Argument: achieving agility at scale requires synthesizing industrial and digital product mindsets rather than replacing one with the other. Claim: create autonomy with alignment by aligning direction, practice and focus while giving teams six autonomy assets — objective, constraints, accountability, capability, resources, authority — and managing their autonomy liquidity (get, borrow, defer). Concrete moves: automate value streams, shift left testing and compliance, run build it you run it teams, measure lead time/throughput/load, use OKRs, run a constraints survey and apply theory of constraints. Examples: gov uk rebuilt in 8 months with 30 people, big org runtimes like Borg.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:45Part 1: A tale of two mindsets
- 2:34Digital product mindset vs. industrial mindset
- 8:04Digital product mindset introduces new habits
- 16:59Industrial habits clash with digital product mindset
- 21:03Agility at scale requires both mindsets
- 23:53Part 2: Autonomy with alignment
- 24:09Alignment
- 26:01Autonomy
- 30:27Autonomy liquidity
- 33:11We need both autonomy and alignment
- 34:20Getting started
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