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RATS and CATS: maximising value delivery

1. April 2019 By Christopher Young Leave a Comment

I would like to share with you a very simple and quite powerful technique for improving the rate at which work can be released, which was was introduced to me recently. As I often stress, our goal as Agile practitioners should alway be to deliver the maximum value as early as possible for the lowest […]

Filed Under: Agile, Continuous Throughput, DevOps, Principles Tagged With: CATS, RATS

What is “Game without Thrones”

22. November 2017 By Christopher Young Leave a Comment

‘Game without Thrones’  is a playful, intense, hands-on simulation using blocks. Game without Thrones is also the key training game in our eXponential Business Agility (XBAP) practitioner Certification course. It’s a Game without Thrones because of the self-organization rules. We use blocks and figurines to teach you how Agile Organizations work, with no command and control, but […]

Filed Under: Agile Organisation, Business Agility, Continuous Throughput, finaplana AG, Game without Thrones, Leadership as a Service, Principles, Self-managing streams, XBA, XSCALE

What is “Heroes & Villains”

8. November 2017 By Christopher Young Leave a Comment

“Heroes & Villains” is a core Agile practices simulation game using Lego which forms part of our eXponential Agile Performance Practitioner (XAPP) Certification course. The simulation gives participants a hands-on experience of using some of the core Agile patterns taught in the XAPP course, including: Scrumban, a method which combines Kanban, the first and simplest Lean method, with […]

Filed Under: Agile Organisation, Continuous Throughput, eXponential Agile Performance, finaplana AG, Heroes & Villains, Principles, XAP, XSCALE

The Principles of Agile Organisation – Continuous Throughput

12. September 2017 By Christopher Young Leave a Comment

In a previous post we introduced the second core principle of the XSCALE framework for Agile Organisations – Simple design, and described how an Agile Organization achieves eXponential return in the most efficient manner possible, so that our time, effort and money is invested in the product or service features that will deliver the best possible rate of […]

Filed Under: Agile Organisation, Continuous Throughput, finaplana AG, Principles, XSCALE

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Kanban is a strategy for optimizing the flow of stakeholder value through a process that uses a visual, work-in-progress limited, pull based system. The name comes from the … Read more

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