Traditional scaling creates the very problems it's meant to solve! @jamesshore.bsky.social James Shore shares why the common wisdom of carefully aligning teams and responsibilities eventually breaks down, and how #FASTAgile offers a fundamentally different approach. youtu.be/2w7of-65Cts

If you’re changing the org chart, don’t design it behind closed doors and introduce it in a top-down manner—that’s a terrible way to foster aligned autonomy as it robs people of their sense of autonomy. Instead, the people affected by the redesign exercise should be involved as much as possible.

It is tempting to do research and management where there are data. It gives the manager a feeling of doing something useful. However, managers need to be careful of falling into a trap of managing the measurable rather than managing the important.

Compassion isn’t just good, it’s good for business, and a 2004 paper argues that compassion at an individual level... can turn into “organisational compassion” when team members collectively notice, feel, and respond to pain experienced by team members.

Unleashing creativity requires that we loosen the controls, accept risk, trust our colleagues, work to clear the path for them, and pay attention to anything that creates fear. ~ Ed Catmul

Dictators come and go, and when they go the dictatorship goes with them. When a true leader departs, the company he leaves behind is healthy, self-governing, vibrant, and intact. ~ Ricardo Semler

Create a culture of hospitality. Which means addressing questions I’ve spent my career asking: How do you make the people who work for you and the people you serve feel seen and valued? How do you give them a sense of belonging? How do you make them feel part of something bigger than themselves?

Ronald Reagan on tariffs youtu.be/hN_CVvzExpM?...

A fun workplace trumps careful hiring when it comes to performance and personal satisfaction.

"In nonviolent action, you’re trying to win by converting people to your cause" (Srdja Popovic and Matthew Miller, Blueprint for Revolution)

The 4 key metrics you've been measuring? They are now 5 📊🗝️ Here's what #DORA changed and what it means for your continuous improvement efforts. cd.foundation/blog/2025/10...

Cursing is rarely a symbol of low class. It's often a mark of high authenticity. Evidence: Swearing predicts higher rates of honesty and integrity. It signals a willingness to prize candor over courtesy. A little profanity can show that you're being real and you do give a damn.

As customers, we can learn how employees are treated by their bosses by noticing how the employees treat us.

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

Who Visited Epstein Island? Find out by watching 'The Onion Investigates: Jeffery Epstein' on The Onion here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Compassion is the self-discipline to imagine and remember that everyone faces hurdles. Edmondson, Amy C.. The Fearless Organization (p. 206)

People are not resources. Language matters. Resources, generally speaking, are fungible. They can be bought and sold.

Why does Open Space work anyhow? How could something so simple do so much? The short answer is that Open Space works because self-organization works. At least that is the conclusion I have reached after some fifteen years’ wondering how this little marvel manages to do what it does. #FASTAgile

If you hold the expectation that your hard work and good efforts are invariably going to be appreciated, acknowledged, and rewarded by your employer in perpetuity, it’s time to get over yourself.

Want to crank up your adaptive / #agile capability? My advice is to ditch #scrum for something else flow-based like kanban or #FASTAgile.

I really dislike being asked "tell me about a time when..." questions in interviews. I think Will Guidara's approach is much more sensible.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

We will attempt to undo the damage of the manager-as-strategist view, and replace it with an approach that encourages you to court success with this formula: • Get the right people. • Make them happy so they don’t want to leave. • Turn them loose. #BetterWaysOfWorking

History repeats and the same happens again with OKRs (a very similar concept to management by objectives) being done in a way so poorly it defeats its original purpose.

Healthy organizations are a mental concept of relationship to which people are drawn by hope, vision, values, and meaning, along with liberty to cooperatively pursue them. Healthy organizations educe behavior. Educed behavior is inherently constructive. #BetterWaysOfWorking

Many firms try to use OKRs as a form of top-down control, ensuring that each subordinate’s OKRs fit with the OKRs of their superior. While this feels like alignment, it all but eliminates any chance of divergence or serendipity.

Even in early #Scrum, the founders are recommending one of the same practices #FASTAgile does - team members should be T-shaped i.e. multi skilled. #Agile #BetterWaysOfWorking

Most new ideas will never pan out. That’s why failure is a fact of life. But it’s a law of #innovation that successes can’t go up unless failures go up, too. And because we can’t have successes without the failures, we need to create organizational cultures that cherish failure.

Can We FIX Agile for Software Engineers? | One Big Question w/ @kevlin.bsky.social & @davefarley77.bsky.social AVAILABLE NOW 📽️ WATCH: youtu.be/5KECB9YJZ0U

You may remember when the Scientific Method was trusted to provide information that helped us. You may remember when there were facts. And how factual evidence was used to make decisions. That way of life vanished with high-speed delivery, universal access, social media, Googling, and algorithms.

Serious truth here (Johnathan Smart)

“It Might Not Work” Is a Terrible Reason Not to Try...

Carter trying to deal with illegal immigrants suggested nothing could be done as long as there was a gap in opportunity & living standards between the USA and Mexico. Rather than spending on barriers, he said, we should spend money helping to build the Mexican economy until the immigration stopped.

Don't think of it as hiring junior developers. Think of it as planting senior developers.

In Donald Trump, we have a frightening Venn diagram consisting of three circles: hedonism; narcissism; and bullying. These overlap to create an impulsive, immature, incompetent person who, when in the position of ultimate power, easily slides into the role of tyrant.

For the most part, leaders just take care of themselves, regardless of what they should do either to adhere to moral strictures or to make their organizations perform better. (Jeffrey Pfeffer, Leadership BS)

Getting the right people and the right chemistry is more important than getting the right idea.

Interesting that the #Scrum guide authors suggest fluid teams! An idea core to #FASTAgile. Also interesting is the "set of shared values" across teams (FAST Collective), to support fluid teaming. Where did the obsession with static teams come from? The Scrum authors suggested fluid in this book.

I had fun writing a blog about the parallels between Fluid Adaptive Scaling Technology (FAST, or #FASTAgile), and Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World (the book by General Stanley McChrystal). medium.com/fluid-scalin...

FAST in-person live class in Paris with trainers Quinton Quartel and Haifa Bacha June 26-27. Paris in Spring!!! The class will be in English and French. www.morisseauconsulting.com/formation-fa...

It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.

This is one of the problems that #FASTAgile is able to solve through fluid teaming. Although a single team can schedule tasks together and optimize its flow internally, it becomes much harder for two teams to schedule tasks together. ~ @jeffgothelf.bsky.social

Blog on how #FASTAgile could be the one method to unite them all - well, all being #Product Discovery and Delivery. #Agile #ModernProductManagement #ProductManagement medium.com/fluid-scalin...

A European tyrant starts trouble in Europe - invading a neighbour. What to do? In an act of concession/appeasement a decision is made to hand over territory. This agreement is made at a negotiating table without the country whose territory is being handed over... www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-...

Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure. ― Russell L. Ackoff

There are two aspects to diversity to consider in your org - demographic and cognitive diversity. Addressing demographic diversity involves removing cognitive bias in hiring. Addressing cognitive diversity involves conscious choice of hiring for different experiences. #BetterWaysOfWorking

"We did FAST - The bus numbers were gone, the dependencies were gone, the cross-learning was there. Adapting to any problem that ever came was there. It was amazing seeing that happen." - Ariel Pérez #FASTAgile #MobProgramming #ModernProductManagement youtu.be/ghzOSV4waIo?...

Annual reviews in a largely collaborative environment always works to the detriment of culture, product, and quality. #BetterWaysOfWorking