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TWIL – Ep.2

Another episode of This Week I Learn (TWIL).

This is an “aha” moment with Ashish Kumar during Agile Product Ownership class by ICAgile & Agile Visa (Training, Coaching & Consulting)

Product ownership must be focusing on 3 elements:

1. Business: customer, market, competition, etc

2. Organisation: ROI, cost per employee, growth, etc

3. Knowledge/people

I assume points 1 & 2 are already straightforward, aren’t they?. Then why there’s a point 3??

Maximizing the value of the product will lead to the increasing value of the company or organization, agree?. Then, is the product having the ability to doing self-improvement? of course no. Who can do it? the people behind it. The more knowledge they have, the more chance they can win the competition.

People tend to forget that improving people’s knowledge = increasing the asset of the organization. Increasing the asset of the organization can lead to the increasing value of the company and organization.

So, is your team still afraid to doing a re-write? or moving into the latest technology stack?, of course, we shouldn’t forget to calculate the “investment” (need to explore more about this).

TWIL – Ep.1

I’m starting to write This Week I Learn (TWIL) in the spirit of continuous improvement. I hope it helps me remember how far I go and get feedback on my thought; even better, it allows you not to be trapped on similar mistakes.

As a #coach, I just realized we often face the unideal situation. Some of our co-workers left the company, and I need to keep the team engaged and continue to run the business.

This week I learn that just supporting the team in this condition with just literally saying “come on guys,” “what can I help,” etc., sounds/feels useless. We need to change our uniform from a coach to an enabler: “so, what should I do?” “how to make this happen?” etc.

It’s a different spirit.

I know there will be a judgment: “No, as a coach, you have to make your team able to do the task by themself (self-organized).”

Yes, I know it. But I think the most important thing, in the beginning, is to fulfill the team’s needs first. Along the way, then we can start to delegate the task one by one.

Just my thought, do you have any other better idea?