Value Factory
The Airplane Game
Learn by Doing
The four states of any process
The Manager Game
Some of the biggest obstacles to Business Agility occur at the various leadership levels, not on the first-line team level where most Agile training programs put all the emphasis. The Manager Game addresses these common shortcomings with a curriculum of core management principles, covering fundamentals of cost control and productivity in software development and operational services.
The four states of any process
Ideal State
- Process is predictable
- Little rework
- Flow metrics and process behavior charts
- Maintain a predictable process
- Maintain a predictable process
Threshold State
- Process is predictable
- Increasing amount of rework
- Must either
- Change process
- Change specification
- QA is only a temporary fix
Brink of Chaos
- Process is not predictable
- Some rework
- All might seem OK, but...
- Assignable causes determine process outcomes
- Quality and rework rate can change in a moment
State of Chaos
- Process is not predictable
- Rework is consuming resources
- All might seem OK, but...
- Assignable causes still dominate
- Random fluctuations due to assignable causes will eventually frustrate efforts at process improvement
- The only way out of chaos is to first eliminate the assignable causes.
Fit for Purpose Platform
- No-refresh Real Board ®
- Replay retrospectives ®
- Team invite and acceptance management
- Play from anywhere
- Remote, live event and mixed-mode sessions
- Level based learning objectives
- Assessment criteria for verifiable outcomes
Bibliography
Management
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by Peter Drucker
Out of the Crisis
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by W. Edwards Deming
Beyond Capability Confusion
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by Donald J. Wheeler
Art Credits
Donald J. Wheeler — "Beyond Capability Confusion Infographic"
Ana Michelle Godeck — "Adaptation of Beyond Capability Confusion Infographic"
Ana Michelle Godeck — "Culture Eats Strategy Infographic"
Gan Khoon Lay — "Agile stick figures"