In my last IF Blog article, I gave you a blueprint for my “new life” and introduced my ROADMAP.
Reading this ROADMAP as a bystander really gives me pause. Doesn’t this sort of structured planning look like the exact opposite of my usual maxim to be an “ALO-man“? After all, an ALO person acts in an “agile, lean and open“ way. Somehow it seems like too much planning does not really fit the bill, does it?
However, the ROADMAP is only part of my personal STORY. A story is made up of tales – like in story telling. These stories are supposed to describe a concept of ideas and make it real and tangible. We know this procedure from the modern “requirement engineering”.
A good story will give you clarity and courage. Success needs a good basis (education, experience and knowledge), the courage to get under way and delight when you act.
AGILE
Well, I will start my agenda structured yet in an agile. Once in a while, it will be a little chaotic, because sometimes chaos is just necessary as a creative escalation of agility.
I rather like this concept, because this is how I am and basically I cannot be different. In the life of an entrepreneur, one week might sometimes be an eternity. So much is happening all of a sudden. And immediately, the entire world will look totally different. Your old dreams are just dreams and plans crumble like ruins. And then a new sun will rise on the horizon.
LEAN
A ROADMAP with minutely defined goals will not always fit well into the concept of lean. If you want to complete milestones by all accounts, you will easily lose all your flexibility and try to force matters. And this is when you will create constructs which make matter extremely complicated. Which is often the first reason for your failure.
Thus, you often get “BureauCrazy” – without noticing it yourself. This is a horror scenario in my book. It would be nice if every person, every team and every institution had a guardian angel protecting them from “bureaucracy”. Of course, this is especially true for entrepreneurs, founding teams and enterprises,
TRANSPARENT
So what remains is open. I believe that absolute transparency will always be useful. This is how all parties concerned will use their brains and be prepared to take responsibility. Quasi by itself, an early warning system will develop, giving early indications if something goes wrong.
COMPOSING
Perhaps the job of the “compose manager” describes best the task of building, designing, composing, modifying and structuring, of making things happen … and of giving it a name based on stories and roadmaps. Even if this is another one of those “buzz words”. In that case, what I would be from now on is an “agile, lean and open compose manager”.
RMD
(Translated by EG)
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