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Once I’ve helped organisations develop into extra consequence/product oriented, most of the time, I’ve moved them away from ‘epics’ and ‘person tales’ and in the direction of issues like one-pagers, alternatives, hypotheses, and so forth.
Why?
Just because they’re higher instruments for facilitating consequence pondering and experimentation.
I’ve seen too many locations get caught in a perpetual hamster wheel arguing over what an Epic is? Epics vs Initiatives vs Person Tales? Who owns what? Who prioritises what? The place do they belong? and so forth.
All that vitality and energy wasted to semantics actually. Think about if we put even half that effort into defining our outcomes, experiments, or understanding our customers?
If that is you, learn on since you could be much better off ditching them altogether!
A standard consumer of mine seems to be like this.
They’ve accomplished the entire agile factor, usually they did an ‘agile transformation’ 2–5 years in the past and while they doing nice issues, they’ve an everyday cadence, small groups and are releasing typically, they haven’t seen any vital change in buyer outcomes and enterprise affect.
While agile will preach to examine and adapt and observe build-measure-learn cycles, many organisations are years into their agile transformations and are nonetheless struggling to place that into observe. Any inspection or suggestions loops are unstructured, yielding perception certain, however not the kind of perception that’s actually transferring the dial.
Recognising this they realise they’re caught on this planet of outputs, and must shift their focus in the direction of outcomes — however how?
As many people will attest to, one of many largest problem with such a shift is mindset and cultural change — one thing I’ve spent a few years unpacking and don’t fear I’m not going to make use of these phrases with out supplying you with an actionable technique to change them. In spite of everything that’s the intent of the put up — an actionable information to shifting your organization from outputs to outcomes.
