Metrics
Derek Huether
Most Important Metric for an Enterprise

As an executive, you will be faced with the choice to do the pivot (if you can) or persevere (if you have no other choice). This will lead to a series of “bets”. You lead with a hypothesis that the things you change will allow you to operate at pre-event levels. But, how long will it actually take for you to validate your hypothesis and have a bet pay off with pre-event levels? If you run out of time to figure it out or run out of bets you can place, then you either lose your standing in the market or worse risk going out of business.

Derek Huether
How to identify dependencies with Tableau and ...

Regardless of the organization or institution, there will always be dependencies. The larger the organization, the greater chance of the existence of dependencies.
This template is available for download from Tableau Public

Video
Derek Huether
Value Stream Management

In the following interview (both video and audio), Dave Prior and I explore why Value Stream Management is so important, how it works, the connection to Value Stream Mapping, and how you can get started with it.

Derek Huether
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are metrics that are used to evaluate the performance of an organization or individual. They are used to measure progress towards achieving specific goals or objectives and to determine whether an organization or individual is meeting their targets.

Enterprise Insights, Jira Align, Metrics, Tableau
Derek Huether
How Atlassian Jira Align Supports Flow Metrics

I keep getting asked, does Jira Align support Flow Metrics, as defined in the Flow Framework and SAFe? The short answer is yes. If you believe these metrics will help unlock the potential of your teams, use this community post to see working examples of Tableau reports I have created using Jira Align and Enterprise Insights.

How Atlassian Jira Align Supports Flow Metrics

Fiction

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Judgement Day

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DeadlineLast night (April 19, 2011) at precisely 8.11pm, Skynet, the giant computer network that controls most of the U.S. weapons, became self aware. Tomorrow it begins its assault on humanity. Tomorrow is to be Judgement Day. Hmmmm.  I'm a big Terminator fan but I've heard this story before.  If memory serves me right, I shouldn't be preparing for the day the machines are set to rise and take over the Earth.  I should be preparing for disappointment.

Space 1999

Remember way back when nuclear waste from Earth was stored on the Moon's far side and it was to explode in a catastrophic accident on September 13, 1999?  It was to knock the Moon out of orbit and send it and the 311 inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha hurtling uncontrollably into space.  It didn't happen!

Millennium Bug

Remember all of those crazy people who were stockpiling gold, food, and water leading up to December 31, 1999?  Sure, I still have a container of TVP somewhere in the basement.  It's now there in the event of a zombie apocalypse.  Butt CNN Money reported that we spent over $500 Billion on Y2K.  Again, nothing really happened!

2001: A Space Odyssey

Some technologies portrayed as common which have not materialized include commonplace civilian space travel, space stations with hotels, moon colonization, suspended animation of humans, and strong artificial intelligence like HAL.  We're getting there, but it hasn't happened.  Arther C. Clarke went on to write three sequel novels: 2010: Odyssey Two, 2061: Odyssey Three, and 3001: The Final Odyssey. Two out of four have come to pass and we missed the mark.

So, what is my science fiction rambling all about?

Why do we keep making predictions?  Aren't we setting ourselves up for a fall over and over again?  Sure, I'm all about setting goals.  We did get a man on the moon by 1970, as President Kennedy pledged.  But fact or fiction, I just don't see 99% of these predictions as coming true.  Just as I have less and less faith in predicting the completion date and scope of a project before it begins, I'm not going to buy into Judgement Day either.  I'm just trying to manage this cone of uncertainty. Let's just review what happened yesterday, let's see what we're doing today, and then we'll see what we can get done tomorrow.

 

HT: Wikipedia

Drawing from Pictofigo