From FOMO to JOMO

You start hearing about the next thing—EOS, Agile, Scaling Up, AI. At some point, there’s enough FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) that you feel like you SHOULD do something about it. I’ve had numerous business leaders reach out and ask me to help them “do the thing” (the latest example being AI Transformation). When that’s the …

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Starting with Managers Kanban (also called Product Stream Representative Kanban)

The short version Based on experience helping organizations go agile in the last few years, an emerging attractor for healthier more sustainable results seems to be the “Starting with Managers” pattern. This is a “training wheels” pattern which seeks fastest learning of the managers in the organization what going towards an agile flow feels like …

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