"Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things." An insightful, common sense quote by Peter Drucker. But how many organisations do one, neglecting the other? #agile #agility #leadership

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary I've just turned 12

Don't you hate it when you buy top notch kit & it fails. Arrived today my Elgato Key Light Mini. 800 lumen of portable power, to bolster my other Key Lights. Plugged it in to my Anker 2.4a charger, nothing. Apple charger nothing. Several chargers, cables, etc no lights no action

Done. A 2,500-word article on simplifying complexity and complicatedness; with agile and agility thinking, through guidance from the Greek philosopher, Socrates. Just need a succinct title. Any thoughts? #Agile #BusinessAgility #SocraticQuestioning

Apparently, we know that... "What worked in the past will not work in the future" So, why do so many organisations still advocate systems that were established a century ago?

It needs repeating, repeatedly. Agile is a means to an end, not an end in itself. I've just come across another large (German) firm "deploying" #Agile by "implementing" #Scrum to "deliver" #businessagility Will they be extending beyond the basics of agile? Will it work out?

Unearthed a truly excellent article on John Cutler blog, The Beautiful Mess, titled 'We need someone who has done "it" before'. Much resonates. As someone who's sorted out "it" in 1 year, having never done "it" before. I replaced 3 who'd done "it"; but failed during 6 years

Demolished the last of my Jute Session IPA last night. In the haziness, I reminisced of the days of another Yorkshire class act, Mathers Black Beer... SALT

Managing WIP is like playing a game of Jenga... Not only do you need to balance the blocks just right or the whole thing will come crashing down. Try pulling out more than one block... It messes with your head (hand / eye coordination)

When everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority. #priorities #leadership #Management #Agile #CEO #quotes #quoteoftheday

Wierd. I've been running an experiment. One of my Twitter accounts I comment, tweet and support others. Another account I don't do any of that stuff. The first (Neil Walker 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦) has increased by 3 followers. The second (Neil Walker) increased by 30+ Hypothesis failure!

What an interesting conversation I've just had about #designthinking & #scrum Interesting, the people I chatted with were adamant that the two aren't complementary. Whereas I see the one strong in ideation, the other in iterative building. So why not combine both? #agile

Common sense, unfortunately lost on so many. Dave Farley we chatted about this at Aginext Community #london a few years back

Wise words via James Dwan "A process is our shared understanding of the current best way of doing something. Everyone has two jobs. Follow it and find a better way. Then share it." #Lean #ThinkingMinds

A system of work in which everyone is working all of the time is very inefficient. A focus on individual busyness has the opposite effect to that desired, in that lead time rises exponentially as utilization increases #BVSSH

Product development is emergent. Organizations are complex adaptive systems, they are not predictable. There is no knowable straight path from an organisations' current condition to the desired outcome. #BVSSH

Be pragmatic, not dogmatic.

In the 90s I was a Dev lead with Reuters UK, commuted 7 hours day (minimum), 5 days each week from Northern England to London. So old news ‘Super commuting’ is on the rise businessinsider.com/super-commuter… via @businessinsider

Sounds great. Good job Shas is roping me in 😄