As a leader, you must guide your organization through the turmoils of the transformation and promote the right behaviors and practices
Ever since Lean UX has appeared on the big picture of SAFe, everyone is curious to know what is Lean UX and how does it fit into SAFe framework ?
Definition of Lean UX (as defined by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden)
I suppose you could say I “grew up” in business as a “conventional” leader. The ideas of leadership I was exposed to during my business education and the early years of my career focused on the skills and aptitudes of the leader as individualist. The leader was supposed to be visionary, wise and insightful. He or she was supposed to set the course, motivate the followers and achieve the goal by leading a disciplined process of execution.
Those who have been around long enough would clearly understand the sparsity of ethical models in leadership. To begin with, there are too many conflicts on- where is the line drawn between a good model and a misguided conviction?
What is the ultimate sign of “poor management”? For some, it can be the disengaged talent, low productivity. For some, it can be staff turnover or the unhappy customers. As for me, it’s the reluctance to invest in leadership development. Straightforwardly, it's a thankless job, one that doesn't reward anyone or anything.
This is my thesis: caring for persons, the more able and the less able serving each other, is the rock upon which a good society is built. Whereas, until recently, caring was largely person to person, now most of it is mediated through institutions – often large, complex, powerful, impersonal; not always competent; sometimes corrupt. If a better society is to be built, one that is more just and more loving, one that provides greater creative opportunity for its people, then the most open course is to raise both the capacity to serve and the very performance as servant of existing major institutions by new regenerative forces operating within them.
Last weekend in London, we held a one-day Introduction to the Temenos Effect. For those not familiar, Temenos is our way of helping people create safe, trusting contexts for dialogue, discover personal identity, make clear choices in context, and discover visions of the future. The video linked below provides a further introduction.
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Individuals asking these questions may be from different backgrounds, currently grappling with different problems and situations and have different span of influence in their respective organizations. However, what is common in all of them is the recognition of the need to explore further to find a solution to their problems. What is implicit in this recognition is the acceptance of the fact that they don’t know everything, cannot rely on serendipity to solve their problems and need to learn new things that can be applied to improve their current situation.
Ever since Scaled Agile Inc. introduced the SAFe Release Train Engineer (SAFe RTE) Certification, I have been getting these queries:
What is the difference between the SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) and the Release Train Engineer course? What does this course offer over and above the SPC course? I am not an SPC. How will this course help me?I am a Program Manager/Product Manager/ Practicing RTE. How will this course help me?)
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