yah.its.caradiscipline can leave you with tunnel vision
its easy to post ethereal quotes and motivational anecdotes. give me homework.
Craig Cockburn#ship30for30
Wrote for 30 days
Published book (and small excerpts for feedback)
Mark LevisonIt turns out that begging and stick handling are not effective forms of influence. So how do you actually influence? Over the next 30 days (or 6 weeks, because I'm Canadian and we count weekends and holidays out), I'll explore:
1. How Influence works
2. How we undermine ourselves
3. How Effective Agile Managers and Product Owners use influence
Join me on this exploration, either here or on my experimental micro site: https://mlevison.com - now with an RSS feed.
3/3
After talking with a numerous people, about where they're getting stuck, the surprising answer that I get time and time again, they lack Influence.
Many Managers and Product Owners have a surprisingly good idea about what they need to do. Yet, they spend much of their time begging for obstacles to be removed or stick handling stakeholders --it's like trying to nail jelly to a wall, right? Frustrating, right?
2/4
I've been helping people with Scrum for a long, long time. In the early days many teams and organizations I helped achieved knock it out of the park results. Somewhere along the way, I noticed a shift from organizations eager to evolve to the messy middle, and even laggards.
These organizations would still benefit from some flavour of Scrum, Kanban or other Agile flavour. (In fact they need the benefits more than the early adopters).
Stephen MillerSo my advice to anyone starting in this sector is to remember that while the process is important, the ultimate goal is to create positive change.
And if youβve been working in the sector for a while, does this resonate? What mistakes did you make?
It's not always been perfect or consistent, but whenever I find myself questioning the way things are - whether in a project, team, organisation or wider, I keep coming back to that question.
So what's the best piece of advice you've been given in your career?
If you are at all interested in alternatives to a status quo that doesn't work for most, and how to implement them yourself, I can't recommend this book enough.
(And if you've read it, do you agree? What other book would you recommend?)
#ship30for30 #welfarereform #inequality #SocialInnovation #designthinking
So my goal in learning more about this topic, is not to only understanding its causes and effects better, but also its solutions. Because my ultimate goal is to make sure everyone gets a fair chance, no matter where they come from.