Larry Cooper on Putting Value First & Cultural Agility

Engineering Culture by InfoQ

• Episode: Larry Cooper on Putting Value First & Cultural Agility
• Website: Engineering Culture by InfoQ
• Feed URL: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:258266127/sounds.rss
• Duration: 00:36:28
• Published: 2017-07-31 02:00

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Larry Cooper about the Agility Series – a collection of books and other resources which explore what agility means in many different dimensions. Why reading to this podcast: - Value management is about doing the right thing, rather than doing lots of stuff, right - The reason for doing something should always trace back to an organisational strategic goal, and if it doesn’t then we’re wasting the organisation’s money - Introducing the ideas of cultural agility - the ability to understand multiple local contexts and work within them to obtain business results - A strategic intent is not a statement of fact, it is a current direction which can changeSustainability and resilience are enhanced through agility - Everything changes – the practices we are using now won’t be the ones we will use in the future, be adaptive to changing everything about how we do work More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ http://bit.ly/2udfFPw You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Want to see extented shownotes? Check the landing page on InfoQ: http://bit.ly/2udfFPw