#practice

Culture & Methods Trends Report 2021

The report features 30+ sets of practices being adopted by the software development world.

The ones that piqued our interest in particular:

• Project-to-Product

• AI Teammates

• Dynamic Reteaming

Read the whole report

Strategic Choice Chartering

Even though these six elements of strategic choice chartering are created with a hierarchical organization model in mind, the core practices associated to them might prove useful.

These “elements” might act as guides for how strategic choices are made throughout the organization:

1. Make Only the Choices that You are More Capable of Making than Anyone Else

2. Explain your Choices and the Reasoning Behind Them

3. Explicitly Identify the Next Downstream Choice

4. Assist in Making the Downstream Choice

5. Commit to Revisit Your Choice Based on Downstream Feedback

6. Ask for the Process to be Repeated at the Next Level

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#reflect

Could games inspire your practice?

#study

Multi-stakeholder Jobs to be Done

Sarkar, Ulwick and Kotler share a new approach for understanding the unmet needs of the society.

The traditional Jobs to be Done (JTBD) approach proposes that in order to understand customer needs in a way that makes innovation predictable, companies should stop jumping into the solution space and instead first work to understand on the “jobs” that customers are trying to get done.

Thus, the value creation process is to understand the criteria people use to measure success when getting a job done and to create solutions that help them get the job done faster, more predictably and with higher efficiency or throughput.

But what happens when there are multiple stakeholders?

More importantly, what are the unmet needs of society? And can we use Job to be Done to better understand what those needs are?

#events

Festival of Work

Next week, Bülent is speaking at the international Festival of Work conference, hosted by METRO.digital.

He will share a series of remote practices of effective teams, based on practice, study & research.

The conference is free to attend, register here.

#practical_guides

Sense & Change guides that might be useful:

• Guide to Team Chemistry (paid)

• Guide to Information Overload. Curator’s Edition (paid)

• Guide to Dynamic Stakeholder Mapping (paid)

• Guide to Personal Strategy Sprint (free) + two practical examples

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This newsletter is curated by Raluca and Bülent Duagi, the Sense & Change team.

As Strategy & Organization professionals, we're partnering with visionary Tech companies to help them address their most complex strategic & organizational challenges.

Our professional mission and intended legacy is:

Creating and sharing sustainable knowledge that helps people deal with the complex challenges they (will) face.

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