We all saw PB's email. Are we seeing the fruits of Agile with these results? Is Agile to blame for not achieving top quartile performance?
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CHDIP was not a perfect process, but it at least had the correct focus on working toward decision gates. Agile is not fit for purpose for this industry because a focus on a million little sprints quickly loses sight of the final goal in the underbrush of a hundred levels of micro-managers. If we are going to reorg again, let us stripe all those levels of middle management and side group branches off the trunk of the decision tree and get the real doers focused again directly on the key decision gates.
Agile is only part of the problem. It does lead to feeling like the project has been thoroughly reviewed but it's a facade. Senior management go su-kered into dumping CHDIP because Microsoft uses it. The real problem is inept management who has been put in place because of woke nonsense.
About the only good thing about Agile is that virtually all groups that used it found it to be a waste of time - a successor to lean sigma and kaizen - and applied it only to meaningless projects. Agree with @2cnp, Agile is an easy scapegoat, but root cause is ineffective, uninspiring management and lack of clear and compelling corporate strategy. In a lot of ways, strong parallels to the confusion and lack of performance at Disney.
One day I hope someone spills the beans on this agile stuff.
Something so harebrained should be a HBS case study on “consultant-upper-management-boneheaded behavior “
Tell me you’re in the center without telling me. Nobody in the actual business cares about agile. Easy scapegoat but not the actual cause.
PB = clown
@swt, it's too late. The stock buybacks and dividend increases have become a corporate addiction. There's not a soul in management who cares about "world class performance" or career development anymore. Senior management have timed it out, they will retire before the balloon bursts. Think Kodak or IBM. Good luck EB in managing the tailspin of Chevron.
“stop the massive stock buybacks”… can’t do that as it the only thing keeping the compensation up for the top brass. One returns money to investors via buybacks when one has no idea how to grew new money from invested capital. Short-term focus only provides “success” short term.
The massive layoff that was supposed to set us up to win is what caused all this. They let many people go and since then we have been understaffed and under appreciated. It has been chaos since transformation with constant change and a lack of leadership. Morale has dropped major league. Management got us into this mess being greedy and MW using his favorite lever of layoffs. They will probably try layoffs to fix it but that will further destroy things. Need to try something different and maybe stop the massive stock buybacks and dividends.