Hyper-Productive Knowledge Work Performance

This unique reference shows how to lead knowledge workers, manage knowledge work and build a hyper-productive knowledge work organization, by taming and managing the four flows of organizational performance (psychology, information, work and finance) to produce spectacular operational and financial throughput results.

Inspired by his experience and knowledge gained at Borland International, where a hyper-productive level of performance was achieved resulting in the most productive software project ever documented, author Steve Tendon devised TameFlow. TameFlow is an approach that can be superimposed on any preexisting process, method, and practice to enable performance improvement by several orders of magnitude and a state of hyper-productivity. It is adaptable to nearly every industry, and can be applied to any knowledge work domain or organization that generates business value through knowledge.

TameFlow blends and merges different ideas from a variety of schools of thought. It is founded in pattern theory and organizational performance patterns which are used to analyze and decompose processes, methodologies, and management practices into constituent parts to observe productivity patterns, and then they are recombined in new configurations to enable hyper-productive levels of performance.

In this volume of The TameFlow Hyper-Productivity Series, the TameFlow approach is explained within the context of knowledge work performed in a software development organization. Mr. Tendon teams up with author Wolfram Müller, a thought-leader and expert in Critical Chain and Advanced Agile Project Management to illustrate its application to Scrum, the most widely used Agile software project management framework, and to Kanban, a method used for knowledge work with an emphasis on just-in-time delivery and change management.



Key Features:

--Comprehensively explains how a knowledge work organization can deliver superior performance

--Describes what needs to be taken into consideration from a managerial and organizational perspective in order to build or transform an existing business into a hyper-productive organization to achieve a spectacular increase in financial throughput

--Illustrates how to maximize the rate at which the organization turns its products or services into positive cash flow (financial flow) and throughput

--Presents how to master operational flow or the rate at which goods and services are delivered to the marketplace

--Provides unique ways of combining Scrum, Kanban, and the Theory of Constraints to overcome the pitfalls in typical Scrum and/or Kanban implementations

--Supplies a way to manage knowledge-work in the context of the Theory of Constraints

--Teaches how to arrive at psychological flow, where individuals or groups achieve higher levels of performance reaching a “state of flow”

--Shows how to shape the information flow between individuals and groups and build the organizations collective intelligence, setting the foundation for the organization’s culture, values, and principles

--Discusses the creation of hyper-performing organizations through the noble patterns of Unity of Purpose and Community of Trust

--Reveals a number of practical methods, models, and tools to manage contemporary knowledge work, with a clear focus on how to bring knowledge work organizations to a state of superior performance