Scenarios, Challenging Assumptions and Belief

Scenarios ask people to challenge their assumptions. Assumptions are a form of belief. Organizations and individuals assign values to uncertainties. The accumulation of these values become the basis for what I call the “myth of the future,” that narrative construct that people carry around with them that forms their belief about what the future will look like, even…

IBM z/OS, IBM AIX, Debian and Ubuntu Score Highest Security Ratings

Eight out of 10 — 82% — of the over 600 respondents to ITIC’s 2014-2015 Global Server Hardware and Server OS Reliability survey say security issues negatively impact overall server, operating system and network reliability. Of that figure a 53% majority of those polled say that security vulnerabilities and hacks have a “moderate,” “significant” or […]

Is it really worth the effort, can I be bothered?

Bothered, am I bothered, can I really be bothered! Gosh I sound like Catherine Tate! Perhaps the new measurement system for measuring Customer Experience should be the bothered index! Do companies really care about our Experiences? UKCSi: Over the last few days, I have been pondering on why we are seeing declines in Customer…

“How deep” rebooted: values-based depth assessment

It’s fair to say that I have a complicated relationship with the Kanban Depth Assessment tool. With some excitement, I tweeted this picture from the 2102 Kanban Leadership retreat: The new “shallow versus deep”? #klrat pic.twitter.com/dLH3Gfj1 — Mike Burrows (@asplake) June … Continue reading →

Pulling change through the system

I’m busy finishing the very last chapter of Kanban from the Inside. It’s about the last step of the STATIK implementation process, namely rollout. I treat rollout as a long-running, open-ended process that is very amenable to visual management. In fact, it … Continue reading →

Lean Risk Management Tool

  I’ve been experimenting with this approach to risk assessment. Twelve simple questions that act as your crystal ball into the future on the mental impact the work you are undertaking may have to you and your team. It may also help you to get some insight into the likely outcome of your endeavor. All of these…

Willingness to Pay

Willingness to pay, the last refuge of a scoundrel?
Dr Johnson said that patriotism was the last refuge of a scoundrel. In business, I think it’s Executives’ implicit willingness to pay.
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