Design thinking is an approach that helps organizations solve complex problems and innovate by focusing on understanding people’s needs and creating practical solutions. Imagine it as a toolkit that encourages creativity, empathy, and collaboration.

Here’s how it works:

1. Deep Understanding: Design thinking begins by truly understanding your customers or users. It’s like stepping into their shoes to see the world from their perspective. What do they struggle with? What are their desires and aspirations?
2. Defining the Problem: Once you grasp their needs, you define the problem you want to solve. Think of it as framing the challenge in a way that guides your solution-seeking efforts.
3. Ideation and Creativity: Now comes the fun part! You brainstorm ideas—lots of them. Imagine you’re in a room filled with colorful post-it notes, scribbling down wild concepts. No judgment here; it’s all about exploring possibilities.
4. Prototyping and Testing: Pick the most promising ideas and create simple prototypes. These could be sketches, mock-ups, or even role-playing scenarios. Test them out with real users to see what works and what needs tweaking.
5. Iteration: Design thinking is like a loop. You keep refining your ideas based on feedback. It’s okay if things don’t work perfectly at first; just learn, adjust, and try again.

Lean Startup is an approach that emphasizes learning and collaboration with customers and stakeholders to explore problem spaces and product development. When connected with Scrum, it provides a blueprint for managing risk and delivering value. Rather than launching a business with all features at once, Lean Startup encourages startups to deliver a minimum viable product (MVP) to prove the business’s worth. It aligns with the principles of complex adaptive systems, emphasizing continuous innovation without burnout.

Agile is a new way of working with a different mindset. Before Agile, we ran projects with the Waterfall method. The Waterfall project's success rate (defined by on-time and on-budget delivery) hovers around 22% - 27% when the Standish Group surveys project managers worldwide.

With the Agile way of working, the success rate doubles. On top of that, Agile teams are usually very innovative and frequently deliver products that customers love. They are also speedy to respond to business requests, advocate breaking down departmental silos, and have lower overall management overhead.

The Agile way of working has become the de facto product development method in modern organizations. From its humble beginning in IT, it is now widely used in almost every industry. With the help of Agile, companies can use the "Software development mindset" to develop cars, airplanes, agriculture machinery, capital projects, financial products, and marketing collaterals.

Scrum@Scale is a lightweight framework for quick decision-making and enterprise-level work alignment. Dr. Jeff Sutherland invented Scrum@Scale in 1983 - 1993, together with Scrum, as the default solution for scaling from a single Hyper-productive Scrum team to a Hyper-productive business unit and enterprise.

With Scrum@Scale, an enterprise can simplify its work structure, reduce bureaucracy, enhance decision latency, and create impactful products. One crucial factor for success with Scrum@Scale is the ability to create Hyper-productive Scrum teams - the True Scrum teams, as a scalable reference model before scaling. Scaling a poor Scrum implementation merely magnifies its deficiencies.

Scrum@Scale reuses many of Scrum's features and concepts. They also share similar design philosophies. Hence, Scrum@Scale is easy to learn, low-cost to implement, and effective immediately. The first guide to Scrum@Scale was published in 2019, and since then, it has gained a substantial reputation and become the fastest-growing Business Agility framework in the world.

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The Toyota Production System (TPS) is a product system based on the philosophy of eliminating all waste in pursuit of the most efficient methods. TPS was established based on many years of continuous improvements to quickly and efficiently deliver the vehicles ordered by customers in the shortest possible timeframe.

TPS was established based on two concepts: "jidoka" (which can be loosely translated as "automation with a human touch"), as when a problem occurs, the equipment stops immediately, preventing defective products from being produced; and the "Just-in-Time" concept, in which each process only produces what is needed for the next process in a continuous flow.

TPS and its approach to cost reduction are the wellsprings of competitive strength and unique advantages for Toyota.

Scrum is the revolutionary approach to project management and team building that is transforming how businesses operate. It is a lightweight framework for boosting productivity and delivering products that delight customers. It is an outcome-driven work management system for developing, producing, and sustaining products that win in a competitive market.

With Scrum, we prioritize work by obtaining customer feedback and developing features incrementally with iterative work cycles. Scrum Teams are hyper-productive, transparent, and flexible to business changes. You will find that many of them will become the most cost-efficient team in a company.

Scrum practitioners also form the bedrock of the Agile movement since its inception in 2021. Today, over 70% of worldwide Agile practitioners choose Scrum as their primary Agile framework. It is a team-level framework and is often complimented by Scrum@Scale to scale up to the corporate level.

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Agile is a new way of working with a different mindset.

Before Agile, we ran projects with the Waterfall method. The Waterfall project's success rate (defined by on-time and on-budget delivery) hovers around 22% - 27% when the Standish Group surveys project managers worldwide.

With the Agile way of working, the success rate doubles. On top of that, Agile teams are usually very innovative and frequently deliver products that customers love. They are also speedy to respond to business requests, advocate breaking down departmental silos, and have lower overall management overhead.

The Agile way of working has become the de facto product development method in modern organizations. From its humble beginning in IT, it is now widely used in almost every industry. With the help of Agile, companies can use the "Software development mindset" to develop cars, airplanes, agriculture machinery, capital projects, financial products, and marketing collaterals.

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"The way we work is wrong: This is the solution."

This is the first line Dr. Jeff Sutherland, the author, wrote. The book navigates through many case studies of world-leading organizations, including Google, Amazon, and the FBI leverage Scrum to slash costs and working hours while simultaneously delivering staggering productivity increases of as much as 400 - 800%!

In this book, Dr. Jeff Sutherland clarifies that the crucial factor that makes this possible is that Scrum is based on how people work rather than how they think they work. Taking an incremental approach, Scrum reduces team sizes and breaks down projects into short-term goals, allowing constant assessment of progress and an Agile, adaptive approach to problem-solving. Hence, the improvements in speed and quality of work can be seen almost immediately.

This is the first time Dr. Jeff Sutherland has explained how Scrum can be universally applied. He emphasizes that this is information no organization can afford to be without.

It is an impressive, easy-to-read book written in a non-technical tone suitable for all audiences.

Scrum@Scale is a lightweight framework for quick decision-making and enterprise-level work alignment. Dr. Jeff Sutherland invented Scrum@Scale in 1983 - 1993, together with Scrum, as the default solution for scaling from a single Hyper-productive Scrum team to a Hyper-productive business unit and enterprise.

With Scrum@Scale, an enterprise can simplify its work structure, reduce bureaucracy, enhance decision latency, and create impactful products. One crucial factor for success with Scrum@Scale is the ability to create Hyper-productive Scrum teams - the True Scrum teams, as a scalable reference model before scaling. Scaling a poor Scrum implementation merely magnifies its deficiencies.

Scrum@Scale reuses many of Scrum's features and concepts. They also share similar design philosophies. Hence, Scrum@Scale is easy to learn, low-cost to implement, and effective immediately.

The first guide to Scrum@Scale was published in 2019, and since then, it has gained a substantial reputation and become the fastest-growing Business Agility framework in the world.

Learn more >