The RACI matrix almost got it right but still harbors too much ambiguity. In your team’s formal planning, govern only what is worth documenting outside email, and nothing else. Govern with just Five Verbs: Draft, Review, Revise, Approve, Distribute.

When the Agile Manifesto was written, money was loose (dot com bubble) and frequent go-live dates were in style. As the intensity of innovation increases, Agile contributes to VUCA and low marginal cost is worth high upfront costs. Economics pressure us to innovate how we innovate.

Manage your team like a factory because you want discipline, predictability, rhythm. Manage like a factory because you care about speed, quality, and waste.

Approximately weekly, every innovation workstream should produce status reports. It demonstrates momentum, transparency, and alignment.

Barriers, Risks, Issues, Questions (BRIQ) - until you know exactly what to do with them, get them on paper somewhere - a kind of parking lot!

Of course not every team member is immediately aligned. Some stakeholders work to undermine the mission, the sense of teamwork, or an individual. Without actually using Aikido in your office, you need tools to neutralize contrarians without injuring them.

The software-oriented methodology Agile produces code at a frequency of every two weeks. That is not the same as achieving low marginal cost and financial agility. Agile Is Not Agile.

Verb Sprawl is a real problem that slows teams down. In planning your team’s work, instead of governing meetings or emails, govern what is worth documenting outside email. Govern with just Five Verbs: Draft, Review, Revise, Approve, Distribute.

Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting your speed? Consider trust, ambiguity, interruptions, fatigue, burnout, bottlenecks, egos, hero mentality, simplicity, complexity, silos, bureaucracy, meeting gridlock, and email overload. Fix your culture. Fix your Speed.

Your organization might not literally be a factory, but you should manage it like one. You care about all the same things: speed, quality, waste, and more! Avoid abandonment and chaos. Pursue movement and rhythm in your methodology and culture.

Use Five Verbs to pace, synchronize, and assign building your project’s Asset Portfolio.

The lifecycle and journey of the human-centered experience.