In this comprehensive exploration of Data Mesh transformation, we delve into the critical concept of Data Mesh Readiness. Before immersing yourself in the journey, there’s a pivotal question that demands an answer: Is your organization truly prepared for Data Mesh? Guided by the expertise of an inception facilitator, this article unfolds a pragmatic approach. The Data Mesh Readiness Assessment, dissected into key aspects, becomes a compass guiding your evaluation. From understanding your organization’s complexities to identifying strategic domains, this piece offers actionable insights. Embracing the Lean principles, the article introduces the DUTI Lean Transformation Path: Domain, Use Case, Thin Slice, and Increment. Through a strategic domain-by-domain approach, your organization can elegantly navigate the marathon of innovation and transformation, ensuring a successful Data Mesh implementation.
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Strategy and Planning
Storytelling with OKRs
This article promotes the use of storytelling to define group objectives and key results (OKRs). The “Storytelling with OKRs” activity is a collaborative method that encourages open discussions and reflection, fostering alignment and transparency among team members. This approach involves understanding the current context, setting objectives, identifying progress indicators, and defining key results. Ultimately, it helps teams work together toward achieving shared goals.
Parking lot, a facilitator tool to keep a focused conversation
The Parking lot helps to track any items, ideas and issues that are raised during an activity, but may not be useful to discuss at that specific time in the workshop. It is an essential toolkit for the facilitator as it provides a polite way to say "yes, I heard you....
[Q&A] Mural Lean Inception webinar
A few days ago, the Mural team invited me for an amazing webinar about the Mural Lean Inception template. >> Watch the whole Lean Inception Mural webinar video >> Take a look at the realtime Mural board created during the webinar. Below are the...
How to define a MVP?
“Build, Measure and Learn” as Steve Blank says: is much more elaborate than putting software into production to see if it works. The Lean Startup movement is very promising, but for many teams it ends up translating into an important question: ”Yeah, but what to build...
Remote Lean Inception on Mural
Lean inception is the effective combination of Design Thinking and Lean StartUp to decide the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). It is a collaborative workshop that will help a group of people — typically an agile team, a squad, or a product team — understand, align and...
Remote Lean Inception
It may seem difficult to perform a remote Lean Inception, but it is totally possible and is just as important as the face-to-face. Follow the tips on this page to prepare yourself in the best possible way!
Lean Inception, constructive conflict towards defining the MVP
In my Lean Inception book and many presentations, I talk that the MVP is in the intersection of these three main perspectives: the business interest, the users needs and the technical feasibility. The MVP is in the intersection of these three main perspectives: the...



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