November Newsletter
Insights to help you transform ways of working so people love their jobs!
Inside the newsletter this month, a very popular and controversial blog series by Tony about Saving you from Quarterly planning nightmares, tips about re organising, why most change doesn’t work, PLUS! Decision Making tips in our Toolkit.
What’s wrong with big batch planning, and how to undo it.
By Tony Fifoot
Part 1
In the first of this 5 part blog series Tony Fifoot lays out the Issues with Quarterly Planning.
Part 2
Gives you the means to Fix issues with Quarterly planning.
Part 3
We find out how to Avoid these Pitfalls.
Part 4
We uncover The Benefits we can access by fixing it.
Part 5
In the finale of the series are a set of Recommendations for You! To help you in your journey for better planning outcomes.
Why most Change Efforts don’t work
Wondered why all of those good ideas are so hard to get across the line? Turns out we have all kinds of ways to resist change!
Lessons from re-organising a lot
An excellent blog from Jason Yip on 2 things that don’t work and 11 things that seem to work when it comes to re-organising.
Your Workplace is already Distributed
Another article from Atlassian’s research about the reality of the distributed workplace in knowledge work organisations.
ReBoot your TOOLKIT and level up your skills
How you decide things isn’t always easy, this month the toolkit is all about decision making and starts with distributed decisions with Six steps to distributed decision making.
It helps to know if your decisions are “1-way” or “2-way” doors, find out how to use this technique by embracing the 2-way door rule.
Sometimes product decisions seem big and grave, this technique of Consequence Scanning from Emily Webber, comes with a handy toolkit and could be a light way to tackle these difficult decisions.
Before you go about making decisions don’t get distracted by all the fluff! Read What we get wrong about Information when deciding, and focus on the facts!
Community Events!
On Friday 1st December we will be at LASTConference Melborne as sponsors, and Alex is a session leader taking us through a Showcase of the OST Techniques she has been using in the field! Come and say Hi to us on the day!
2 more ways ReBoot Co. can help you
Our services are designed for speed and impact, from co-designing strategy for transforming your operating model, to training and coaching in Agile, Lean and Product Development.
Book a coaching session with our co-founder Alex Stokes, coaching is available for organisations who have a need to transform successfully, book time with Alex here https://calendly.com/alex-rebootco