Management Innovation: Fulfill the Agile Promise of More Innovation
Do your teams struggle to offer more innovation? Teams are rarely the problem. Management structures and processes are the problem. When managers innovate their processes, teams can innovate more. Business agility can thrive.
• When everyone is busy, we’ll get more work out of them! • Optimize for outputs and time • Instead, we need to optimize for deliverables and value • The fallacy of resource efficiency 8
Work, Not the Person • Resource efficiency looks efficient • But, everything takes longer because of the delays between people • Delays increase the more projects everyone has • Multitasking costs • Agile teams need to work in flow efficiency 9
Utilization • Decide why the organization exists: the overarching goal • Reduce organizational WIP & decide what not to do for now • Experiment to reduce/eliminate wait states 10
Engagement • Performance management does not work • Ranking doesn’t work • Comparing people or teams doesn’t work • Competition doesn’t work • Creates pay disparity • Evaluation on subordinate goals 12
Regular one-on-ones to build a trusting relationship • Create goals that support the entire team • Autonomy, mastery, purpose • Create some team-based compensation • Jungle-gym career ladders based on influence, not individual achievement 13
and work towards one overarching goal • Small experiments to optimize learning (learn early) • Collaboration in small-world networks across the organization 15
Pragmatic Manager: • www.jrothman.com/ pragmaticmanager • Please link with me on LinkedIn • Modern Management Made Easy books: • https://www.jrothman.com/mmme 17