
Amplio@Teams: The Path to Effective Lean-Agile Teams is a workbook that supports Success Engineering’s Amplio Lean-Agile Teams Masterclass workshop designed for the business professional.
“Amplio” means “improve” in Latin. At Success Engineering, we believe that people need to continuously learn how to improve their methods of adding value to their customers. Success Engineering is creating ‘amplios’ for teams, small scale, large scale, and SAFe. All of these are pragmatic approaches validated with real-world experience. Amplio@Teams: The Path to Effective Lean-Agile Teams is our first offering.
This book and the associated appendices are used in this workshop. Each chapter has the step it is associated with at the end of the title. Being able to apply a method requires five things:
- A deep understanding of what’s needed (this book)
- An understanding of how to convey it to people (the appendices)
- An understanding of how people learn (the appendices)
- Tools to help support the above
- The right character (you have to supply this).
Table of Contents
- Why we need a 21st Century Agile at Teams Approach
- What is Amplio@Teams?
- Systems Thinking and Complexity
- Attend to Value Streams
- First Principles and Mindsets/Values
- Guidance
- The Value Stream Impedance Scorecard
- How Amplio@Teams’ Capabilities Is Organized
- Understand Your Problems Before Looking for Solutions
- The Amplio Team Approach, Challenges, and Related Practices Graphically
- Timeboxing or Flow
- Minimum Business Increments Note: This points to a chapter on MBIs by the PMI. I will rewrite this shortly.
- Capabilities for Value Stream Management
- Capabilities for Requirements and Artifacts
- Capabilities for Quality of the Product
Appendices
Note: The numbers after these topics refer to the session in which they are read for the Amplio Lean-Agile Teams Master Class.
A. Practices and Patterns
B. Supplemental Articles