Agile & The Business Value of Joy

Richard B. SheridanCEO, Co-founder, Chief Storyteller

Menlo Innovations

@menloprez

Joyful?

Destroy the person.

Destroy the team.Destroy the team.

Destroy the culture:

LeadershipPyromania*

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Welcome to Menlo

• Introduction

Menlo Version 3

• Introduction

Menlo Version 3

• Introduction

The tools of our intentional culture.

Storycards

• Write it down

• Get away from management by suggestion

• Writing a card does not “authorize” it.

Clarity and Simplicity

Common sense

• Anthropology

• Study people

• Observe them– In their native environment

• Look for the invisible

• Be the empath!

Serious fun!

Practice, practice

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Conversation

The way we engage stakeholders matters!

Freedom & Structure

The joy of getting things done!

Permission

The joy of learning. Teamwork and collaboration.

Experiments

Trust your people!

Space, Energy, Humility

• High-speed Voice Technology™

• Energy, creativity, imagination, Wow!• Knock down towers of knowledge.

Rigor and discipline

• Automated Unit Testing

• Simple, powerful, ignored.

• Living, breathing documentation.

Overcoming Brook’s Law

You can’t do that! Yes we can!

Build a “Learning Organization”

“In the long run, the only sustainable source of competitive advantage is your organization’s ability to learn faster than your competition.”

- Peter Senge

The Team, the Team …

“Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology.

It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.”

- Patrick Lencioni

Inspiration

                             

Menlo Park, New Jersey 1880-1881  

                               

Questions?Richard B. Sheridan

rsheridan@menloinnovations.comtwitter @Menloprez

734-665-1847

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