Tag: innovation

July 15, 2021

Overcoming the “Achilles Heel” of Agile

By Sean Kennedy in Bikesheds & Dim Sum Tag agile, customer centeredness, digital-transformation, innovation

I recently noticed a former colleague gain a Disciplined Agile certification. In my congratulatory message I also indicated my interest in learning more. In addition to that conversation, he also pointed me towards a series of meetups and LinkedIn articles led by Ivar Jacobson around “Essence for Agility”. I won’t go into all the aspects of that, but I do want to share some of the thinking that it inspired me to do about how I’ve been been working and why that has been a solution to the Achilles’ Heel of Agile Adoption.

January 4, 2021

3 Necessities for Becoming a Repeatedly Innovative Organization

By Sean Kennedy in Entrepreneurship & The New Business Tag agile, culture, customer centeredness, innovation

The article below was originally published in June 2018 and was based on a previous article from November 2017. Over the course of 2020 I had the opportunity to return to these ideas, refine them, apply them in new situations, and learn a bunch more from my experiences and also the study of others’. I intend to revisit and provide updates and expansions to some of the ideas in this post over the course of 2021 – and beyond: learning is a lifelong activity and learning is at the heart of innovation.