I'm curious why you aren't using story points to do your sprint planning. I thought that the point of measuring story point velocity was partly to determine how much we can take on (or commit to) in a sprint. Do you only use story points for longer-term planning (e.g. release planning)?
Many organizations have become adept at identifying what they need from software development projects, based on a keen understanding of their business goals. Even so, they’re often surprised to find out that the end results don’t achieve the transformative impact they were expecting. Their mistake? Overlooking the importance of Conway’s Law.
T-shaped skills are used for describing specific attributes in desirable workers. The concept of T-shaped skills had been first described in1991 by David Guest, but it was Tim Brown, the CEO of the design firm IDEO who popularized it. It is used for expressing the type of people that one wants in the organization.
Close philosophies, collaborative logic, iterative approaches, the establishment of multidisciplinary teams and a constant concern to place the user at the heart of the design process: on many points, Design Thinking and Agility share similarities.
Business today operates at the speed of light.
Agility is the ability to move swiftly, efficiently and effectively without losing momentum toward the end goal. An agile business model requires employees to feel skilled and empowered to make decisions quickly and easily without the bottleneck of higher approval.