Agility is Inefficient • Klaus Bucka-Lassen & Dirk Bucka-Lassen • GOTO 2022
Interesting report With a clickbait headline from Klaus Bucka-Lassen, an agile coach who began trolling the title of the classic book Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time. But in fact, the author talks about the difference between efficiency and efficiency and shows how many companies focus on operational efficiency. (efficiency)They don’t do exactly what the customer wants. The author shows that Efficiency is about looking inwards, defining and optimizing processes, automate Effectiveness: Looking outwards, observing the market, pivot, innovate
He shows this through examples of companies. Blockbuster and Netflix in the video viewing market Nokia, Microsoft and Apple in the mobile phone market Volkswagen and Tesla in the car market
Next, he describes the smells of organizations that are more about efficiency than effectiveness.
- Budgets & cost cutting (rather than continuous funding)
- Company run by process people (rather than product people) - we need to such process or automate it
- High degree of specialization (I over T-shapedness)
- Utilization Maximization
And at the end of the talk, the second speaker, the brother of the first, comes out and talks about how to deal with all these odors in their organizations.
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