Digital Transformation Strategy Canvas

                Digital Transformation Strategy is one of the latest hot topics.  Allow me to introduce my perspective on how to prioritize, implement, and measure Digital Transformation Strategy (DTS). Digital transformation strategy (DTS) is reinventing or inventing your business in a disruptive market. The strategies may include 1) spin up…

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Agility LeaderShift Learning Cards

        People learn by interacting with each other and influenced by a common set of ideas and tools.  The agility LeaderShift learning cards provide a rich set of topics that can be used during a retrospective activity to improve a team’s ability and encourage growth in specific areas. The following are some…

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Elastic Minds Six Thinking Lens – Enhance Your Innovation Journey

Elastic minds realize neuroplasticity in experiences viewed through the thinking lens that include 1) creative, 2) critical, 3) strategic, 4) design, 5) lean, and 6) systems thinking as illustrated Figure 1.  These six forms of thinking are used by innovators to inform and direct businesses destinies toward success. Creative thinking – Brainstorming using divergent thinking…

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Value is a Measurable Outcome

Value is a measurable outcome that you can realize and share.  I have heard people say that value is hard to quantify or qualify.  They even go as far as to avoid using the word.  A ban on Value?  In the U.S. Virgin Islands people have cisterns and the value of water is at a…

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Test First Then Code: Understand what is being asked of you in a User Story

Test-First is a built-in quality practice from eXtreme programming (XP) that emphasized building tests before writing code.  After observing software team practicing agile struggle with completing stories consistently and try to incorporate test driven development (TDD) into the development cycle, I knew something was missing. Allow me to share with you the new paradigm of…

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