It's not the same as SAFe.
Jurgen Appelo
Writer, Speaker, Entrepreneur in Agility, Innovation, and Leadership. Creator of the unFIX Model and Management 3.0, Author of the sci-fi novel Glitches of Gods. Slightly anarchistic, autistic, and eccentric.
Some people tell me that several unFIX patterns are not the same as certain practices in other models. The Capability Crew is not precisely the same as the "complicated subsystem team" in Team Topologies. The Steady Team in unFIX is not entirely the same as the "long-lived teams" in Large Scale Scrum. And the Forum in unFIX is not exactly the same as the "guild" in the Spotify Model.
Yes, I know.
If I had wanted something the same, I wouldn't have created something new!
The idea of innovation is to offer a new experience inspired by other sources, repurposing existing ideas, recombining old things with up-to-date designs, and giving credit where it is due. A new product is supposed to be different from what came before.
For example, when George Lucas created Star Wars, he borrowed heavily from Dune and other sci-fi classics.—Hmm, evil galactic empire, sounds familiar?—But he aimed for a new experience that was cohesive, exciting, and fun. He didn't set out to create something that was the same. Because what's the point?
The available evidence says that innovation nowadays relies more and more on the recombination of stuff that already exists. With a tremendous amount of source materials, creating disruptive change through recombination is far more effective than incremental improvement.
"The balance between incremental and recombinant innovation has started to tilt dramatically. Recombination has become the dominant force of change, not just in science, but in industry, technology and beyond." - Rebel Ideas, Matthew Syed
In the next few weeks and months, our team will work to extend the unFIX model to make it bigger, better, more cohesive, exciting, and fun. Our first step is to analyze the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and offer patterns to help organizations solve the framework's most common problems. If you're interested, join the free meetup:
SAFe Unfixed!
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is an extensive collection of good practices that work in some contexts. However, SAFe has problems that deserve our attention: issues with matrix management, implementation roadmaps, lack of cohesion, and much more. Jurgen Appelo is on a journey to get SAFe unfixed. In this session, he shares his thoughts and looks forward to your input.
Thursday, 9 March 2023, 18:00 CET
We will let ourselves be inspired by SAFe and may even borrow some of its good ideas (as SAFe has done itself with dozens of sources). We will take the framework apart (unfix it!) and allow you to be creative and recombine old ideas with new, up-to-date designs. No matter the outcome, one thing is certain:
It's never going to be the same.
Jurgen
Agile transformation consulting practice coach focusing on customer satisfaction in the Chinese market
1yjust a new wheel
Program Manager, Delivery Manager, Project Manager
1yhappy to join!
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Agile 2 Academy; Executive level Agile and DevOps advisor and consultant; Lead author of Agile 2: The Next Iteration of Agile
1y"Recombination has become the dominant force of change, not just in science, but in industry, technology and beyond." - Matthew Syed Well, I am not so sure. I look at biotech, where we are discovering _new_ signaling pathways all the time, leading to breakthroughs. And AI, where there are _new_ approaches that are breakthrough. And engineering, where we are seeing _new_ kinds of long life batteries, new ways to miniaturize (now at the sub-nanometer level), and new ways to design things. And physics, where only last year there were breakthrough discoveries that impact both cosmology and particle physics. So yes, while a lot of what businesses do is recombine ideas, the businesses themselves are often built on new discoveries that are truly novel. E.g., how many companies are now struggling to find out if they can use the recent AI advances?
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Agile 2 Academy; Executive level Agile and DevOps advisor and consultant; Lead author of Agile 2: The Next Iteration of Agile
1yIs there a written explanation of the approach? (please don't share a video link! I hate videos!) I like that Jurgen thinks out of the box.
Product Development & Business Agility Coach | Teaching kittens how to be cats in product development
1yInnovation, a novel twist on existing ideas or things. Thank you for explaining the reasoning behind unFIX, Jurgen.