Team Collaboration

Using Bets, Boards and Missions to Inspire Org-Wide Agility

What is the focus of your work today?

The focus of my work is upleveling teams as it relates to their product development practices. The company that I work at builds a product that is a product intelligence product. So it provides insights to product teams. But what we've noticed is that that's only one part of the big picture when it comes to teams embracing a more sort of impact informed or evidence-informed or data-informed approach. There is a whole host of other things that need to happen for those teams to be able to embrace that mindset. A lot of teams theoretically think oh it would be great to be more data-informed or mean be more outcome focused but they don't really have the full picture in terms of all the tweaks and improvements that they might be able to make that possible. My mission is to help up level teams everywhere, not just customers and not just internally, when it comes to being more outcome and impact focused on their work.

What’s the motivation for this talk?

There is this pattern that I see over and over again where the people working on the frontlines of the organization need to see the impact of their work and understand how it fits into the bigger picture of the organization and the bigger the mission of the company. I call it the maker need: When you're a maker you have this need to connect your work and know that it makes a difference and it's been well thought out.