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And as agile methods have become mainstream, organizations around the world are trying to find solutions to making agile scale. This is because, as North indicates, agile is essentially a “team-scale” method of working, and large organizations need a system to coordinate the work of many teams.
Sense and Respond
Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden
A good metric changes the way you behave. This is by far the most important criterion for a metric: what will you do differently based on changes in the metric?
Lean Analytics
Alistair Croll, Benjamin Yoskovitz
It is often said that a strategy is a choice or a decision. The words “choice” and “decision” evoke an image of someone considering a list of alternatives and then selecting one of them. There is, in fact, a formal theory of decisions that specifies exactly how to make a choice by identifying alternative actions, valuing outcomes, and appraising probabilities of events. The problem with this view, and the reason it barely lightens a leader’s burden, is that you are rarely handed a clear set of alternatives. In the case at hand, Hannibal was certainly not briefed by a staff presenting four options arranged on a PowerPoint slide. Rather, he faced a challenge and he designed a novel response.
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
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