Mark Richards

Decentralising our P&L enabled greater local ownership of outcomes enabled greater decentralisation in our agile model — great advice on enabling decentralisation from Nordea #safesummit

“It wasn’t our business to come up with a new agile model, it was our business to come up with new financial services” - wise words on Nordea’s selection of SAFe as the base framework for scaling #safesummit

Closing out the Prague #safesummit with a customer story from Nordea

“Corporate wide agility does not belong to IT only - IT must let business take the driver’s seat” - wise words from societe generals on their insights from adding lean portfolio management to their 50+ ARTs at #safesummit

Rebecca follows up with a Business Train with an important mission in Telehealth critical illness at the Prague #safesummit - particularly focused on Gemba to make sure you’re solving the right problem - “they weren’t retrospecting how did my iteration go but how did my care go”

Great tips on forming effective business enabled ARTs from Odile at the Prague #safesummit

Breakout 2 at the Prague #safesummit with Rebecca Davis and Odile Moreau talking about new patterns for business and technology agility

Compelling story from Sandra Bellong of Amadeus about pragmatically balancing lean budgeting, fixed customer commitments and agile capacity planning across 16 portfolios and 70 ARTs

First breakout session of the Prague #safesummit .. looking forward to hearing about “return on experience” lean portfolio management

What better way to dust off my Twitter acct than attending my first EMEA #safesummit in Prague

2 blog posts in 2 weeks! First, "Dealing with unplanned/BAU in SAFe" at bit.ly/BAUSAFe and 2nd, "Practical Finance and cost allocation in SAFe" at bit.ly/2Ew4h9Z

@cstarendal Thanks for the plug Carl :). Twitter rustiness .. I hadn’t actually tweeted it yet!

“Great leaders are great experimenters, but the also know how to manage the downside of risk well with safe-to-fail experiments” @barryoreilly #unlearn

“Ticking off tasks for Big Bang Solutions will not help you relearn .. focus on your high level aspiration or outcome and try to create scaled back steps towards it” .. @barryoreilly in tackling relearning describes the #1 fault in agile story decomposition.

“Daring is not saying ‘I’m willing to risk failure’. Daring is saying ‘I know that I will eventually fail and I’m all in’. @BreneBrown @barryoreilly #unlearn

“The problem with transformation is never a lack of ideas, it’s a lack of a change in behaviour” @barryoreilly #unlearn

“When you think BIG, ask for BIG, and build BIG you become too BIG to fail. The better approach is to think BIG, start small ... and be SAFE to fail” @barryoreilly #unlearn

“Leaders believe they simply need to tell people to think differently, and they will act differently. This is a fallacy ... the way to think differently is to act differently.” @barryoreilly #unlearn

“Understanding involves both learning new knowledge and discarding obsolete and misleading knowledge.” @barryoreilly #unlearn

Slides from my presentation on Escaping the Feature Factory with OKRs last night at the Atlassian User Group are up on Slideshare at bit.ly/2ABuUqT