Applying Systems Thinking to Agile Systems – Optimising Product Backlogs

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Rob started by explaining that intive is human centric engineering, connecting industry expertise, design and engineering for exciting business impact.  In reality, they are very much focused on design – usability design, experience design and business design.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” bg_color=”#ffffff” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” enable_gradient=”true” color_overlay=”#ffffff” color_overlay_2=”#ffffff” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column enable_animation=”true” animation=”reveal-from-left” column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”top” background_color=”#ffffff” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_color_hover=”#f7f7f7″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_color=”#ffffff” column_border_style=”solid”][divider line_type=”No Line”][image_with_animation image_url=”25244″ alignment=”center” animation=”Fade In” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][divider line_type=”No Line”][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1/1″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Rob said that intive are very proud of their achievements including[/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line”][fancy-ul icon_type=”font_icon” icon=”icon-ok” color=”Accent-Color” alignment=”left”]

  • 16 times higher engagement for Newscorp Mobile Platform
  • 10 million cars on German roads enabled by intive technology,
  • 40% more users for Gewinnarena app
  • 6 UX design awards
  • +5 FinTech Unicorns hyper-growth journey powered by intive engineering

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How do they work at intive?

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They concluded that with an idealised stable system, a “perfect” team and perfect knowledge Scrum and Kanban systems can be shown to be marginally stable at best and are likely unstable.  The next steps for intive will be to analyse real Agile teams to see if their systems are stable and determine if there are additional costs to stability / instability.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”top” bg_color=”#ffffff” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” top_padding=”2%” enable_gradient=”true” color_overlay=”#ffffff” color_overlay_2=”#ffffff” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color=”#ffffff” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1/1″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]

This blog post was written by Trish Ferguson, Steering Committee Member of the Dublin Lean Network.

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