Amplio Community of Practice
What is the Amplio Community of Practice?
It is our belief that almost all of the challenges teams and organizations have with creating value for their stakeholders is due to a combination of:
- a lack of awareness of principles and practices that would significantly improve their workflows and eliminate a lot of wasted effort
- holding onto antiquated product management practices
- mostly ignoring how people listen, learn, and react to new ideas
All of this has led to a general learned helplessness about what is possible.
The intention of the Amplio Community of Practice is to create awareness of what is possible.
It’s a collection of articles and recordings that people can use to learn how to overcome many of the challenges they face.
It is now known what to do to have effective value streams. Unfortunately, no public workshop includes all of this as it’s too much information to put in a framework. However, the ACoP is organizing the materials being built in the Amplio Consultant Educators program in an accessible manner.
These materials are being added on a weekly basis both collected from the latest Amplio Consultant Educators Learning Journeys and from the Amplio Living Ecosystem initiative which meets most Wednesdays.
What’s currently in the Amplio Community of Practice
This is mostly a self-study community. Questions can be asked on the ACE LinkedIn group.
Sessions of the Amplio Meetup Group provide oportunities for Q&A as well.
An outline of the Amplio Curriculum is here. Recordings on most of these sessions are available on all of the Amplio Consultant Educator Learning Journeys.
There is more information available on the Success Engineering Resources page. Check out future and past presentations as well as the Success Engineering YouTube
Each week participants will get an email providing useful insights and new information available in the learning journey.
About the ACoP, A Note From Al Shalloway
I’ve been in what’s now called “Agile” for well over 2 decades.
It was exciting at the start – the promise of high-quality products, empowered teams, effective working conditions, and solving the problems facing most corporations. Unfortunately, 2+ decades after the Manifesto for Agile Software Development we seem to be closer to waterfall than what our vision was.
I believe that we have lost our way by taking a path of certifications in frameworks instead of looking at what is truly going on. Since 2006 I have been analyzing what works and what doesn’t. What I have found in the success over this time that is mostly missing in the current Agile space is an understanding of first principles. Instead, most rely on empiricism only.
Kant suggests that “experience without theory is blind.”
Deming points out that knowledge is acquired as one makes a rational prediction based on theory, then revises the theory based on comparison of prediction with observation. Knowledge is reflected in the theory. Without theory, there is nothing to revise, i.e., there can be no new knowledge and no learning.
The current state of affairs has more to do with churning out and acquiring certifications. While not bad in themselves, but not what should be being focused on.
To counter this, I have created the Amplio Community of Practice to provide a grounding in how we should be moving forward.