Insights on leadership, technology, and human-centered strategy, originally shared on LinkedIn and expanded for deeper exploration.
Agile organizational transformation entails change at all levels (and many learning modes): develop leaders into advocates, align products to value streams, start with a single team and five more recommendations… #AgileTransformation, #Leadership, #ContinuousImprovement
recent on my reading list:
• Lead without Blame by Diana Larsen Leadership Agility Advisor & Tricia Broderick - Leadership Advisor ‘cause it’s how I aspire to operate • SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham technique for turning sales convos into something useful for the prospect, recommended by Calvin Hendryx-Parker from Six Feet Up
next up: • Agile Retrospectives v2 Beta by Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, David Horowitz
re-reads: • The Secrets of Consulting (Gerald Weinberg) section on setting a rates. • Imbibe by David Wondrich - because who doesn’t want to read about Jerry Thomas’ blue blazer flaming cocktail from the 1860’s
PJM is adopting a “first-ready, first-served” interconnection process to hasten grid connections, mainly for renewables. It requires developers to provide readiness deposits and site control proofs to weed out speculative projects and reduce backlogs.
This is an attempt to reduce the wait times which averages in years. And arguably contributes to the number of proposed renewable energy projects that are never built.
To meet US decarbonization targets, the solar industry needs 800,000 workers by 2030. Companies like Terabase Energy and Sarcos Robotics are developing autonomous robots to reduce that demand. Their robots use cameras to identify installation spots for solar panels, and a specialized arm to place them. The arm then switches to a mode that lets a human align and secure the panel. I hope there’s also investment in worker retraining. https://lnkd.in/e-_9hD_u
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In Jira, changing an issue summary has no save button - but does require clicking off of it before closing the issue modal or the change is lost. While with issue details, there’s a save button. This is as intuitive as a non-Newtonian fluid. It’s like watching an over-rehearsed improv where the jokes are all third level elaborations of what was originally funny and made sense in context.
A story of well-intentioned harm as experienced through the lens of an invisible disability. #InvisibleDisabilities #EmpathyInAction #Leadership #Inclusion
Does anyone have a suggestion for visualizing progress to a release against a kanban board in jira. I will not be on the project to maintain the reporting so best if it’s a third party reporting app integration . I’m going to evaluate “Great Gadgets”
Haven’t worked in a product role in a while. Loving notion, miro and figma. All three incorporating AI. Not as impressed with jira. It has evolved but I can still feel friction using the tool and the affordance is rough. “How do I…?”
At times, I take pleasure in passive voice. When my mood is captured by doing so.
I am capable of kinder, more ethical action. That is why I’ve sought out people better at it than I am. With their guidance and collaboration I can better help others. It’s the outcome of that help which will determine whether I am a good person #ImposterSyndrome #PersonalGrowth #LeadershipForum #ContinuousImprovement
Stepping back into a product role, I’m feeling the joy of honoring what I consider almost a prime directive, that the rest of the team feel confident in the next step and reassured that product has their back.