Allan Kelly - The Only Two Questions You and Your Business Need to Ask

05/09/22 • 36 min

Allan Kelly @allankellynet BSc, MBA is a conference keynote speaker and author of: Succeeding with OKRs in Agile (LeanPub, 2021), The Art of Agile Project Management (Apress, 2019), Xanpan: Team centric agile software development (LeanPub, 2015) and Business Patterns for Software Developers (Wiley, 2012.)
He advises, trains and coaches teams, and leaders, on using agile and OKRs to improve the way work is organised. Allan pays special attention to team structure and "product owners" including product managers and business analysts.
What we discuss with Allan Kelly

Allan's secret weapon against being told by your boss everything has the same priority
The importance of continuous learning and improvement personally and in business
How the only thing you can do wrong in work is to stay fixed
What goal displacement is, why it's bad, and why it is so prevalent in business
How the opposite of agile is static
Allan's much better solution for the traditional organisation chart that involves the solar system
The important difference between employee empowerment and devolved authority and why the latter is much better
And much more...

Links relating to this episode

Allan's LinkedIn post discussing agile vs Static: https://bit.ly/3wxIB7l
Allan's article on the agile vs static viewpoint: https://www.allankelly.net/archives/6432/the-only-thing-you-can-do-wrong-and-the-opposite-of-agile/
All of Allan's books: https://amzn.to/3LVsc2Z
Allan's Website: https://www.allankelly.net/
Allan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allankellynet/
Follow Allan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/allankellynet
Arie De Geus: The Living Company https://amzn.to/3FxnTbB
Andrew Grove: Only the Paranoid Survive: https://amzn.to/3FrW9VF

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05/09/22 • 36 min

Rebel Diaries - Allan Kelly - The Only Two Questions You and Your Business Need to Ask

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Intro teaser

[00:00:29] Allan: And she was like, "but, we're marked down on that. That's a black mark at this organization, my manager will want to know how I got it wrong".

[00:00:36] Allan: We want to keep stripping away these things and saying, "if we go back to the core, are we delivering benefit to our customers? Are we improving?"

[00:00:47] Allan: There's a word in Japan that started at Toyota, which

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