It has been a privilege to virtually meet with so many people from around the world recently. In the past month my co-authors and I have supported six meetups and multiple book club events. From our many discussions its clear the challenges of improving Ways of Working are universal. Using our meetup polling we observe some common antipatterns (more on this below).

Building on the attending of meetups, it's great to see three regional BVSSH Communities (Americas, EMEA and APAC time-zones) now providing an open-to-all opportunity for shared learning, as self-help groups to help you deliver better outcomes. Click on the link above or here to join. Thanks to the volunteer leadership teams for providing the energy and enthusiasm to make them possible.

Shared storytelling helps to inspire and encourage experimentation.  #BVSSH is here to help you on the journey to continuously delivering Better Value Sooner Safer Happier and fostering a more humane world of work. 

• 47% said that colleagues in these organisations are not engaged on the topic of ‘Why Change‘. Only 25% said colleagues are engaged on the ‘Why’ and 28% were neutral
   
• 56% said their organisations are not measuring desired outcomes of new ways of working. Only 23% said their organisation measures these outcomes, and 22% were neutral

• With 70% of companies actively pursuing Digital Transformation at an annual cost of over $2 trillion, Antipatterns remain common and represent a headwind for successful change

• Business Agility Institute - Singapore - 24th February click here
• DevOps Exchange Manchester - 25th February - click here
• DevOps India Summit - 26th February click here
• BAM Australia & New Zealand - 10th March - invite will be posted here
• BVSSH Fundamentals Training (UK&Europe) - 4/5th March click here
• BVSSH Fundamentals Training (Americas) - 11/12 & 27/28 March click here

Biological evolutionary theorists used to separate into two schools: those who believed that evolution proceeded gradually over time, and those who believed that species change suddenly after long periods of calm, triggered by significant geological events. Those two schools have now largely reconciled. Evolutionary change happens both gradually and with occasional step changes.

The same is true in organizations. Change is both gradual, and occasionally punctuated with disruptive changes that may come from new innovation, regulation, or market events.

Product development teams rarely uncover long-forgotten fish; however, they often find themselves dealing with the detritus of legacy enterprise applications and tripping over layers of fossilized but still-living code that’s been left behind

• Lack of Psychological Safety at Boeing
• Bonus Interview with Jon Smart
• Business Agility Pulse check - Q1 2021
• The Book Club - enabling conversation across organisational boundaries
• Slow down in order to "speed up" : Pay continuous attention to Technical Excellence