Hi @genek, I have seen in many organizations a rush towards creating a solution before really trying to understand the problem. What are your recommendations for better understanding the problem and to cure such behavior.

Hi @genek, I have seen in many organizations a rush towards creating a solution before really trying to understand the problem. What are your recommendations for better understanding the problem and to cure such behavior.

<!channel> (this will be pinned to the #ama_unicorn_project channel) Hello book club! I've been mentioning that we have some surprises planned for you this week, and today is the big unveiling. You see, over the past year Parts Unlimited has been busy seeking out consultants who are experts in their fields to help them address major issues within their organization. And it just so happens that four of the calls with those consultants are scheduled for this week. Fortunately for all of us, Parts Unlimited extended the invitation to book club participants to listen in. 1. Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick, the authors of Agile Conversations. Recording: https://youtu.be/NkhS6hGIr9w Slides: https://itrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Parts-Unlimited-Conversational-Transformation.pdf Blog Post: https://itrevolution.com/agile-conversations-at-parts-unlimited/ Jeffrey and Squirrel showed us how changing culture starts with a conversational transformation, how misunderstandings are caused by the Ladder of Inference, and tools for doing your own conversational analysis (The Four Rs) so that you can start improving daily conversations immediately. 2. Dominica DeGrandis, author of Making Work Visible. Recording: https://youtu.be/faKSg7iLigw Slides: https://itrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ITRev-Webinar-Jan-2020.1.pdf Blog Post: https://itrevolution.com/making-work-visible-for-parts-unlimited/ Dominica DeGrandis showed us the most common reasons that people overload their WIP, introduced the 5 time thieves and how to combat them, and gave real tactics and exercises for implementing The Third Ideal: Improvement of Daily Work. 3. Manuel Pais, co-author of Team Topologies. Recording: https://youtu.be/EoL7LcDTVek Manuel Pais shared about the relationship between ideal team sizes and cognitive capacity, treating platform as a product, how to use enabling teams to bridge capability gaps, and the reality of Conway's Law. 4. Dr. Mik Kersten, author of Project to Product. Recording: https://youtu.be/mPPKxOrR_i8 Dr. Mik Kersten shared with us the evolution of The Five Ideals (including the scribbled piece of paper that is their origin), how to apply each of The Five Ideals (and how they need to be applied to Parts Unlimited), and what the actual measurable units of flow in software delivery are.

<!channel> (this will be pinned to the #ama_unicorn_project channel) Hello book club! I've been mentioning that we have some surprises planned for you this week, and today is the big unveiling. You see, over the past year Parts Unlimited has been busy seeking out consultants who are experts in their fields to help them address major issues within their organization. And it just so happens that four of the calls with those consultants are scheduled for this week. Fortunately for all of us, Parts Unlimited extended the invitation to book club participants to listen in. 1. Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick, the authors of Agile Conversations. Recording: https://youtu.be/NkhS6hGIr9w Slides: https://itrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Parts-Unlimited-Conversational-Transformation.pdf Blog Post: https://itrevolution.com/agile-conversations-at-parts-unlimited/ Jeffrey and Squirrel showed us how changing culture starts with a conversational transformation, how misunderstandings are caused by the Ladder of Inference, and tools for doing your own conversational analysis (The Four Rs) so that you can start improving daily conversations immediately. 2. Dominica DeGrandis, author of Making Work Visible. Recording: https://youtu.be/faKSg7iLigw Slides: https://itrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ITRev-Webinar-Jan-2020.1.pdf Blog Post: https://itrevolution.com/making-work-visible-for-parts-unlimited/ Dominica DeGrandis showed us the most common reasons that people overload their WIP, introduced the 5 time thieves and how to combat them, and gave real tactics and exercises for implementing The Third Ideal: Improvement of Daily Work. 3. Manuel Pais, co-author of Team Topologies. Recording: https://youtu.be/EoL7LcDTVek Manuel Pais shared about the relationship between ideal team sizes and cognitive capacity, treating platform as a product, how to use enabling teams to bridge capability gaps, and the reality of Conway's Law. 4. Dr. Mik Kersten, author of Project to Product. Recording: https://youtu.be/mPPKxOrR_i8 Dr. Mik Kersten shared with us the evolution of The Five Ideals (including the scribbled piece of paper that is their origin), how to apply each of The Five Ideals (and how they need to be applied to Parts Unlimited), and what the actual measurable units of flow in software delivery are.