Mark Richards

[Mark Richards @MarkAtScale]

Decentralising our P&L enabled greater local ownership of outcomes enabled greater decentralisation in our agile model — great advice on enabling decentralisation from Nordea #safesummit

[Mark Richards @MarkAtScale]

“It wasn’t our business to come up with a new agile model, it was our business to come up with new financial services” - wise words on Nordea’s selection of SAFe as the base framework for scaling #safesummit

[Mark Richards @MarkAtScale]

Closing out the Prague #safesummit with a customer story from Nordea

[Mark Richards @MarkAtScale]

“Corporate wide agility does not belong to IT only - IT must let business take the driver’s seat” - wise words from societe generals on their insights from adding lean portfolio management to their 50+ ARTs at #safesummit

[Mark Richards @MarkAtScale]

Rebecca follows up with a Business Train with an important mission in Telehealth critical illness at the Prague #safesummit - particularly focused on Gemba to make sure you’re solving the right problem - “they weren’t retrospecting how did my iteration go but how did my care go”

[Mark Richards @MarkAtScale]

Great tips on forming effective business enabled ARTs from Odile at the Prague #safesummit

[Mark Richards @MarkAtScale]

Breakout 2 at the Prague #safesummit with Rebecca Davis and Odile Moreau talking about new patterns for business and technology agility

[Mark Richards @MarkAtScale]

Compelling story from Sandra Bellong of Amadeus about pragmatically balancing lean budgeting, fixed customer commitments and agile capacity planning across 16 portfolios and 70 ARTs

[Mark Richards @MarkAtScale]

First breakout session of the Prague #safesummit .. looking forward to hearing about “return on experience” lean portfolio management

[Mark Richards @MarkAtScale]

What better way to dust off my Twitter acct than attending my first EMEA #safesummit in Prague

[Mark Richards @MarkAtScale]

2 blog posts in 2 weeks! First, "Dealing with unplanned/BAU in SAFe" at https://t.co/mExZaEWOIA and 2nd, "Practical Finance and cost allocation in SAFe" at https://t.co/w3LpYJ4ycc

[Mark Richards @MarkAtScale]

@cstarendal Thanks for the plug Carl :). Twitter rustiness .. I hadn’t actually tweeted it yet!

[Mark Richards @MarkAtScale]

“Great leaders are great experimenters, but the also know how to manage the downside of risk well with safe-to-fail experiments” @barryoreilly #unlearn

[Mark Richards @MarkAtScale]

“Ticking off tasks for Big Bang Solutions will not help you relearn .. focus on your high level aspiration or outcome and try to create scaled back steps towards it” .. @barryoreilly in tackling relearning describes the #1 fault in agile story decomposition.

[Mark Richards @MarkAtScale]

“Daring is not saying ‘I’m willing to risk failure’. Daring is saying ‘I know that I will eventually fail and I’m all in’. @BreneBrown @barryoreilly #unlearn

[Mark Richards @MarkAtScale]

“The problem with transformation is never a lack of ideas, it’s a lack of a change in behaviour” @barryoreilly #unlearn

[Mark Richards @MarkAtScale]

“When you think BIG, ask for BIG, and build BIG you become too BIG to fail. The better approach is to think BIG, start small ... and be SAFE to fail” @barryoreilly #unlearn

[Mark Richards @MarkAtScale]

“Leaders believe they simply need to tell people to think differently, and they will act differently. This is a fallacy ... the way to think differently is to act differently.” @barryoreilly #unlearn

[Mark Richards @MarkAtScale]

“Understanding involves both learning new knowledge and discarding obsolete and misleading knowledge.” @barryoreilly #unlearn

[Mark Richards @MarkAtScale]

Slides from my presentation on Escaping the Feature Factory with OKRs last night at the Atlassian User Group are up on Slideshare at https://t.co/bH3mIDYDYQ