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The Agile Manifesto in the Age of Gen AI
Is the Agile Manifesto Ready for an Upgrade? It has been quite a break. Regularly posting on LinkedIn provided me an opportunity to find a theme that would resonate in the rapidly changing world of product development. While my efforts to archive those posts were lackluster, a calculated choice I own, I now have a…
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Focus On The 4 Cores Of Trust – Part 2
The visible cores of trust are what people are drawn to. Like a tree, they represent its trunk, branches, and leaves. They include intent, capabilities, and results. Upward core of trust – Intent Intent involves having a genuine intention to do good and being sincere. Indeed, it is important to have good intentions when engaging…
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Focus On The 4 Cores Of Trust – Part 1
Have you ever wondered what the cores of trust might be? As outlined by Stephen Covey in his book The Speed of Trust, are integrity, intent, capability and results. To illustrate, the cores can be imaged like the oak tree in this photo. Below the surface, unseen, are the roots (integrity) that grow below the…
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How To Turn Trust Into An Asset
How does a company turn trust into an asset? Read a book and find out! Since joining Improving, one of my “go to” books is “The Speed of Trust” by Stephen M.R. Covey. He explores the importance of trust in business and how it can be used to drive organizational performance. In the book, Covey…
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Trust: An Important Element For Success
Trust is an important element for success in business. Clients and customers want businesses to succeed. Businesses provide them with products and services they value. For software developers, agile coaches, scrum masters and executives in the business world, trust is an essential element of success. When trust exists between team members and leaders alike, it…
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3 Ways To Create With ChatGPT
I’ve been working with ChatGPT by OpenAI and figuring out ways to create with it. It’s a good tool that can be used to assist in getting ideas on paper. Over the last few months, I’ve run a series of questions or statement through the interface. I’ve included screenshots below to show what I was…
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Tooling To Overcome Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, And Ambiguous
Every organization needs tooling to overcome VUCA; volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. So, what do you have in your toolbox? This post begins the more in-depth discussion around the Triple Helix of Flow in The Flow System (TFS). Accordingly, the strands are Complexity Thinking, Distributed Leadership, and Team Science. Consequently, Flow is achieved when the…
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Creating Value With The Triple Helix Of Flow
The Triple Helix is Complexity Thinking, Distributed Leadership, and Team Science. Imagine DNA strands and how they bond together to create bones, fluids, organs, tissues, and more in the human body. Similar outcomes happen when combining the components of the Triple Helix. The connection here is intentional. Taken one by one, the strands would not…
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Getting The Flow Of Value Right
The flow of value to customers is of upmost importance. When a business gets that wrong, the consequences are brutal. Everything about product and service development begins and end with the customer. When factors influence outcomes, flow gets disrupted. Throughout 2020, 2021, 2023, and now going into 2023, we’ve seen how organizations can get their…
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Customer 1st: Delighted Customers = Engaged Customers
The customer comes first (Customer 1st). It’s a simple concept, but businesses often forget the sentence above. It comes from trying to put products and services in the market to beat the competition. At times, the market growth focus frustrates the customer. But why? Simply, the business isn’t listening to the customer. People have a…