Today we feature our interview with Vincent Hendersen. We talked about scaling agility up — not the same as scaling agile. Mr. Hendersen and I discussed thinking about agile as a service to align team and portfolio. This is a most thought-provoking interview. The idea of thinking about agile teams as a subscription model shifts the whole agile paradigm.

Vincent’s bio:

Vincent Henderson is an operations and product executive in B2B organizations that use knowledge and technology to create value. He has transformed information supply chains and content-driven businesses across 10 countries, 5 industries, and 3 decades.

Vincent is a business technologist. He enjoys building rational and purposeful teams that focus on concrete, meaningful outcomes.

He had his first Agile workshop about 10 years ago with Tom Cagley and Anthony Mersino. Since that watershed moment of insight, he has implemented and run Agile product development in the 4 different organizations that he has led since.

As a business leader who rolls out Agile as part of his leadership practice, he has developed unique insights around how Agile fits within the broader context of business management.

Contact information:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vhenderson/

https://www.ludditesandexecutives.io/

Re-Read Saturday News 

This week we re-read Chapter 5 of Project to Product  https://amzn.to/2WzvPac (Amazon Affiliate Link). As the previous chapters have highlighted, we can measure the flow items that enter and exit a value stream. There are a number of suitcase words (words that have many ideas packed in them) in that statement, such as value streams and flow items. Chapter 5 of Project to Product connects flow items and metrics to business results. The integrated view is where the real power of the model is found (but only if you bite the bullet and understand the value streams in the organization).

Catch up on previous installments:

Week 1: Foreword and Introduction – https://bit.ly/39gIt0A 

Week 2: Age of Software – https://bit.ly/2XYvqyI 

Week 3: From Project to Product – https://bit.ly/3mhwJBb 

Week 4: Introducing The Flow Framework – https://bit.ly/3lqJTwd

Week 5: Capturing Flow Metrics – https://bit.ly/3GjCffC 

Week 6: Connecting to Business Results – https://bit.ly/3BTROqQ 

Next SPaMCAST 

Next week, another interview takes center stage.  We will speak to Kit Merker, COO of Nobl9 about Service Level Objectives (SLO). Kit provides down-to-earth advice for adopting and using SLOs to benefit teams AND organizations.