empirical

Nov

2019

The Snowball Effect

empirical, empirical management, empiricism, snowball effect

Start with a small win. In 'Sales' they call this first small win the 'icebreaker sale'. Toastmasters call their first speech as 'icebreaker speech'. Want to run a mile? Start with first few steps. Want to lose weight? Lose the first pound. Start running; start eating less; start fasting intermittently; start on a keto diet; start sleeping more, etc. Start somewhere and empirically move forward from there. Allow your agile teams and team of agile teams to aim for and achieve small wins ... the icebreakers... These small wins will accumulate... increase rapidly in size, intensity, or importance... this is…

Sep

2018

By Clarence Galapon

Drive Relentless Improvement via ‘Inspect and Adapt’

empirical, inspect and adapt, problem solvimg, relentless and continuous improvement

Agile is based on empirical process control -- things are verifiable by observation or experimentation; transparency, Inspection and adaptation are the 3 pillars of empiricism. Application: the famous Plan, Do, Check, Adjust/Adapt (PDCA) is a learning cycle...things are inspected and adaptation follows based on what has been learned and observed. This cycle occurs at every level be it team level, program level, or solution level... hence the mantra 'Inspect and Adapt' for relentless and continuous improvement. At the program Level of SAFe, there is a program event called 'Inspect and Adapt (I&A)'. No surprise there. The purpose of which is…