Stephan Huez 🚢

Tweets about Lean-Agile, Leadership, and Change | Leading and coaching teams for 20+ years | The A-Team for Failing Agile Transformations

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Interested in leadership, change, agile?

Over the next 30 days, I'll be writing 30 Atomic Essays.

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I just hopped aboard Ship 30 for 30 from @dickiebush and @Nicolascole77!

Can't wait to learn the fundamentals of digital writing & start publishing every day alongside hundreds of others in the community.

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Do I really have to attend this meeting?

Great question.

I don’t attend all the meetings I’m invited to. And I stand by my words.

➡️ I attend when:

- I am expected to contribute
- I want to get the information first-hand
- I want to observe the dynamics and learn about the c

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💡Change is more like crossing the jungle on foot armed with a machete than travelling by car on well-marked roads.

You know you want to get to someplace, but in most cases, you can only decide a few steps ahead of where you are now.

Because of all the vegetation, you can’t se

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Crafting DALL-E 3 prompts reminds me of how bad low-bandwidth-text-only communication is.🤯

Just look at the visuals to see the weird things that happen. Effective communication is hard and we can learn some lessons.

Asking a tool to do something for you can be a frustrating bu

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"Everything is contextual" is THE ONE thing I learned over the last 25 years. 🤯

That's nice, Steph. But why does it matter?

👉 It matters because we need to be ready to face any circumstance.

At some point, almost every client asks me something along the lines of "In your exp

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The notion that only significant changes require management is flawed.

Every change requires one or more persons to do things differently, independently of its scale.

🤯 If you have children, you know that change is hard. Getting them to keep their rooms tidy can be an exhaust

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How frequently and rapidly can we ship our product? This capability is a competitive advantage.

What are some factors that will influence that capability? Let's see!

Often, we look at how fast the product team can ship. But they are more often than not one link in a chain.

By

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My team does not seem to improve. What can I do?

I’m sharing two problems that you can fix as a leader if improvement is not happening.

Even though continuously improving and adapting is a cornerstone of a healthy way of working, it should be more common.

Seeking to improve i

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@stevengurzenski Thanks for sharing. Would you recommend a reading order?

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@DinPedagogiek When lives are on the line, the stakes are different

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@kevinrod81 True. If it is just a gimmick, that won't make the impact it ought to make

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What if your team works in two-week timeboxes but does not have anything to ship at the end of the timebox? Or they cannot ship it?

As a leader, what can you ask yourself and your team? What can you do to support them in their endeavour? 🤔

The team shall aim at delivering valu

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As a leader, what should be the focus of your teams? Should it be creating value or producing something, whatever that is?

Let's agree that we want the teams to create value. ➡️ Let's see how you can make it happen.

➡️ TLDR; 🔥💯
When a team focuses on features, they focus on o

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@EmmaValahu Never heard of it. I’ll give it a look!

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To get work done at your best, commit to getting into deep work mode and let others know with these 3 tips.

#coaching #productivity #deepwork

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@SousMediaAgency Eating at a restaurant is an experience. You can feel in the experience whether there is harmony behind the scenes.

Your ideas can resonate with many more types of businesses, if not all!