Lean Canvas - Leanstack.com - Ash Maurya

• Lean Canvas is a planning method to get to the heart of your "idea". 
• It is a single-page business plan
• An elaborate business plan with financial forecast and a detailed product road map, many times, may be too early because a lot of this information may be simply unknown during the early stages. 
• Forcing an elaborate plan as a pre-condition to funding silently kills a lots of ideas out of sheer inertia because a lot of things never get started / or the world has changed.
• Lean Canvas is an adaptation of Business Model Canvas.
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DevSecOps Technology Stack

Code Refactoring

• System entropy (disorder) / decay can be decreased by frequent code refactoring.
• Start a Refactoring Backlog of all the things that need clean up. 
• User retrospectives to discuss refactoring. 

How Scrum Benefits -- Mike Cohn

• Higher productivity and lower costs
• Improved employee engagement and job satisfaction
• Faster time to market
• Higher quality
• Improved stakeholder satisfaction
• What we have been doing no longer works

5 Trademarks of Agile Organizations - McKinsey

• Old paradigm - Organizations as Machine Model aided by principles of scientific management (Taylor).
• New paradigm - Organizations as living organisms

Disruptive trends challenging old paradigm

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1. Rapidly changing environment

2. Constant introduction of disruptive technology

3. Accelerating digitization and democratization of information

4. New war for talent (acquire, retain, and nurture best talent).