Getting some agility in your workplace. A flow chart. May 24, 2007
As I mentioned in
my
recent rant our industry is plagued with bad practices even though so many
of us know better. A HUGE portion of this problem is that to really start, and
continue, working the way we know we should requires buy-in from our managers
and coworkers. And it’s not just a conceptual buy in that we need. People need
to really get the religion. But, you and I both know that we can’t
realistically expect the rest of the company to change
everything at once. So this flow chart
addresses what I think are the three biggest changes we can make that will
dramatically improve our companies. Find your biggest pain point and work
on that. Once you’ve got that working really well in your group and you’re
confident that people are going to stick with it you can choose the next biggest
pain point and address that one, remembering what things worked best to get your
employees to buy into the last change.
Your feedback on this one is incredibly
valuable to me on this one. Even if it’s just one sentence saying what you do or
don’t agree with. It’s really important to me for two reasons. 1) It’ll play a
big part in my book. 2) Many of my current coworkers are frustrated and / or
depressed about our current state of affairs and I’d like to try and put the
advice in this chart into practice. Yes, there are some areas that could use
more detail, but I’d really like to hear from you about what pieces you feel
would be most helpful to expand upon.
I’m afraid that this chart may just be too high level. Each of the major pain
points could easily get their own graph for implementing solutions at a similar
level of complexity and I think I will make those too… just not tonight.
As always you can click on the image for a full sized version and / or
download
the Dia file too.
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