Hey folks, I've been running into this mental model challenge more and more recently. Thinking about how to explain how we got here, and how we've struggled for so long with agility and really getting value from technology and innovation. So I drew it out to share with y'all.
It seems to me that everything up to very recently has either been driven by, or in response to project orientation. Even DevOps has been confused by being positioned on this mindset foundation, and I think it's a huge reason that organizations fail in their efforts (beyond the basics).
Even with flow-focused approaches like Kanban, if they're used on a project-oriented foundation, they're going to fail over the long term. Often times, even in the best cases, Kanban is only used in a narrow, software development context, ignoring the larger value stream.
I think this is a huge factor in why we struggle and why we fail with these approaches. What do you think? What am I missing?
Maybe it would help to add product orientation as a middle lane ?
This is a good clarification, I do consider product orientation as a flow orientation but I could definitely make that explicit!