Sooner Safer Happier (BVSSH)

This holiday season, we hope you find moments of peace, joy, and connection with those who matter most. May the warmth and spirit of the season fill your days and renew your energy for the exciting year ahead. Wishing you a happy holiday and a bright 2025! #BVSSH #BetterOutcomes

What is an experiment? How confusing the word ‘experiment’ can be for people new to outcome and hypothesis-based planning! An experiment is: * Work conducted to support an outcome  * Testing a small hypothesis/unknown * With results measured rather than based upon actions having been completed.  * Big enough to contain a number of user stories, small enough to compete quickly * Sometimes referred to in agile tooling as ‘epic’ Ready to align your experiments with impactful outcomes? If you are interested in learning more about Product, Product Discovery, Product Value, Value Measurement and Emergent Thinking, reach out to kate@soonersaferhappier.com #BVSSH #BetterOutcomes #productmanagement #innovation  #continuousimprovement #product #datadriven #productowner

Are you seeking to accelerate the flow of work in your organisation? In organisations where there hasn't been a focus on flow optimisation, it is normal for work to be waiting >90% of the time. Flow mapping is an incredibly useful technique to understand what are the sources of delay; which parts of the process are blocked and when. So often it is the handoff between teams where invisible delays can arise. The previous team feels that they're done and the next team feel like they haven't yet started - so all is well, right? And yet, the work is still waiting. Introduce yourself to flow mapping and start to understand what options you have to accelerate. Access the exercise here: https://lnkd.in/eAfzW4iZ #BVSSH #BetterOutcomes #flow #waysofworking

With over 2 years leading Sooner Safer Happier (BVSSH) in Asia-Pacific, it has been such a humbling experience the past few weeks reflecting back on the year that has passed. 🤝 Grateful to Mark Payne, Anthony Christensen, Zsolt Berend, Jonathan Smart, Myles Ogilvie, and our latest new joiner Ruma Dak (she/her). 💖 Grateful to our Community and Clients. Without the network, we would not be able to learn together and make an impact. This enables us to do what we love doing! Helping leaders and organisations deliver better outcomes and create a more humane world of work. When asked how 'big' we are, people are often surprised to hear that we are a core team of 4 in Asia-Pacific. We have a set of globally tested patterns that we use to tailor to suit the context that we are working within. We have a collective experience that allows us to accelerate delivery of outcomes. We have reference case studies that we can point to. And to amplify our impact, we have 2,164 BVSSH community members, 38 SSH Advocates, 36 EALN'ers, and great Partners. It's more about the scale of impact than the number of people! As someone who comes from the Big4, this is part of challenging the traditional consulting business model. Proud of what we have achieved in 2024. And ready for 2025! #BVSSH #betteroutcomes #community #strategytoexecution

Thank you Martin Foster, the Business Agility Institute and its contributors for the latest Business Agility report. It was an honour to facilitate Martin's presention of the report at the Sooner Safer Happier (BVSSH) meetup. The key insights from the 2024 Business Agility Report, as presented by Martin Foster, are: High-Performing Organizations: * Formal Change Programs: These organizations tend to have formal change programs driven by their leadership (board or C-suite). This indicates that top-down support and a structured approach to change are crucial for success. * Organization-Wide Change: Rather than focusing on isolated departments or teams, high performers implement changes across the entire organization or multiple business units. This suggests that a holistic approach to agility is more effective. * Key Predictive Indicators: Three capabilities stand out as strong predictors of high performance: 1. Dynamic Funding: The ability to shift funding in response to market changes or new opportunities. 2. Diverse Ideas: The ability to gather and integrate ideas from all levels of the organization. 3. Empowered Accountability: Empowering individuals and teams to make decisions while holding them accountable.

CEOs and CTOs often ask: What are my people working on? Are they focused on the right priorities? In this talk, Sam Yeats, CEO of TeamForm, explores how leaders, at all levels, can gain clear visibility into team efforts and ensure alignment with strategic goals. Discover how to move beyond gut instincts and static reports to adopt data-driven approaches for effectively deploying talent. Key topics covered in this talk include: * setting clear priorities * aligning teams with high-impact objectives Join Sam and the Americas community on January 28th at 4pm EST. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/epg52Rzm #BVSSH #BetterOutcomes #leadership #strategytoexecution

"A game is a series of interesting choices" - Sid Meier. Indeed we made many quick decisions during today's Lean Portfolio Game, exploring the "game" of strategic trade-offs to maximize value and minimize waste within a clear set of constraints. A huge thank you to Mark Williams and Kate Mulligan from Sooner Safer Happier (BVSSH) for delivering such an inspiring simulation and fostering insightful discussions with engaged participants in a fantastic location! Grateful that Clemens Inninger and I got this opportunity.

Wow, what a year! This would not have been possible without everyone’s contribution - in participating, sharing and learning. Grateful to the BVSSH community! Q1 💡 Ways of working insights to kick off the year from Business Agility Institute and Sooner Safer Happier (BVSSH) with a hybrid event connecting multiple cities in Asia-Pac. Thank you Martin Foster and TeamForm. 📖 Our first book club session discussing the Fearless Organisation written by Amy Edmondson. 💎 BVSSH session with Jonathan Smart to engage our Perth community who missed out on Agile Australia 2023. 🔉 Panel of practitioners discussing Psychological safety - the #1 determinant of high performing teams. Thank you Peter Brace PhD, Mukta Arya, Dr Kathryn Page, Joel Madden, kieran white. Q2 💎 Enterprise agility story from 7-Eleven with Paul Wallace and Hazel Simpson. A great story of Australia's first example of agile at scale in a retail context. 📖 Our 2nd book club session discussing Project to Product written by Mik Kersten, supported by 10 free digital copies from our friends at Planview. 💡 And an hour with Mik to do an AMA to deep dive into all-things product, value, flow, value streams, metrics and tooling. 💡 Deep dive into OKRs with Jeff Gothelf. Q3 🔎 Deep dive into the Quarterly cadence sharing the why, what and how together with Mark Payne and our partners at TeamForm, Sam Yeats and Eugene Chung. 📖 Our 3rd book club session discussing the Culture Map written by Erin Meyer. 📖 Sooner Safer Happier (BVSSH) book signing in Melbourne to bring together the Agile community in-person with Jonathan Smart. 💡 BVSSH session with Jon where he shared the top 3 patterns from past ways of working that we keep re-learning. 💡 AI & experimentation with Lani Beer. If you aren't experimenting with AI, you should be! Q4 💡 The why, the what and the how of the Zurich Insurance journey to an adaptable organisation with Sarah Wood. 💎 A story of changing Governance to drive better outcomes, faster from Catherine Drury and Simone Taylor from Roche. 💡 Sharing learnings from improving the system of work and optimising delivery with Mark Payne at LAST Conference in Sydney. 🔎 Insights on Flow Engineering from Steve Pereira, with practical tips on optimising flow. 📖 Our final book club session of 2024 discussing ‘Who Does What By How Much?” by Jeff Gothelf and Joshua Seiden and supported by 10 copies of the book for our Book Club members. 🎯 Playing the Lean Portfolio Game at LAST Conference in Melbourne with Anthony Christensen modelling real-world corporate processes and structures in a game play! 💖 Launching the Asia Pacific BVSSH Advocate Community for 2025 with 38 Advocates from 5 countries - Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, India and Malaysia. 🤝 Our year-end hybrid celebration together with Business Agility Institute and Team Topologies joining in-person in Melbourne/Sydney and on Zoom from across regions! #BVSSH #betteroutcomes #learning #community

Making new friends and playing the excellent Sooner Safer Happier (BVSSH) Lean Portfolio Management simulation in spectacular surroundings. Lovely to see Kate Mulligan, Mark Williams and Chris Combe and meet all the other super attendees …and yes Dinah Turner, as usual, I couldn’t stop my hands moving around!

Always great to see some of the SSH Advocates come together! #BVSSH #BetterOutcomes