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Business Agility needs leaders to put people first
As we’ve mentioned in a previous article, business agility can create a culture that increases retention and morale. While business...
Peter Maddison
Aug 3, 20222 min read


Business Agility needs customer interaction
Recently I was talking to one of our customers about how they feel about our services. This reminded me again of Dave and my conversation...
Peter Maddison
Jul 28, 20223 min read


Business agility succeeds when you say "Not now, Maybe later"
Whether individually or for an organization we have a tendency to spread our focus to multiple projects at the same time. The illusion of...
Peter Maddison
Jul 20, 20223 min read


How Business Agility Increases Revenue
The next topic in our series on Business Agility for your bottom line is how the adoption of business agility practices can help increase...
Peter Maddison
May 25, 20223 min read


Where is DevOps Heading? 3 Trends to Watch
Ever since John Allspaw’s “10+ Deploys a Day” and Patrick Debois coining of the term “DevOps” in 2008, DevOps has been transforming...
Peter Maddison
Jun 26, 20214 min read


Value Stream Mapping vs. Value Stream Management: What’s the difference?
“Whenever there is a product for a customer, there is a value stream. -John Shook and Mark Rother, Learning to See” Creating more value...
Peter Maddison
Apr 21, 20216 min read


Is quality holding back your value delivery?
In previous posts, we discussed what you can learn about your team from tracking a minimum of data. We introduced throughput as the most...

Gino Marckx
Mar 31, 20213 min read


Two services for alignment and clarity
We are excited to announce the launch of our newly updated Xodiac website. We have completely changed the layout to clarify the outcomes...
Peter Maddison
Feb 9, 20213 min read


Directing Flow
Introducing organizational change is a tricky business, especially when it involves new technology. Even seemingly innocuous changes to...
Peter Maddison
Jan 5, 20216 min read


Continuous improvement of work and psychological safety
Following on from my blog post covering the first two ideals from the Unicorn Project here, I’d like to continue discussing the next two...
Peter Maddison
Feb 24, 20203 min read


Minimum Viable Bureaucracy
As we introduce technology into our organizations and transform the way they deliver value, bureaucracy is often cited as a common...
Peter Maddison
Feb 3, 20203 min read


Application Modernization and Complexity Debt
Today I want to talk about a common digital transformation topic I get asked about, application modernization. More specifically, how...
Peter Maddison
Jan 27, 20205 min read


Locality, Simplicity and Flow
The Unicorn Project from IT Revolution, brings together a number of interesting ideas. In the coming weeks, we are setting up a series of...
Peter Maddison
Jan 20, 20203 min read
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