GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech Better Value Sooner Safer Happier • Simon Rohrer & Eduardo da Silva
Jun 27, 2025
Simon Rohrer, Co-author of "Better Value Sooner Safer Happier" and Senior Director at Saxo Bank, joins Eduardo da Silva, an Independent Consultant, to delve into transformative organizational practices. They discuss the shift from output-driven to outcome-focused thinking, emphasizing stakeholder satisfaction and continuous improvement. The conversation highlights the importance of technical excellence, decentralized decision-making, and balancing smaller incremental changes with larger innovations for effective transformation.
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Transformation Journey and Realizations
- The authors began with a team imposing agile transformation, facing resistance and realizing agile practices alone don't work well universally.
- They shifted focus to outcomes: better value, sooner delivery, safer practices, and happier stakeholders.
Focus on Outcomes and Balance
- Optimizing for outcomes like value, quality, flow, safety, and happiness drives organizational success rather than just outputs or processes.
- Value must be defined contextually, and balancing these factors supports continuous improvement.
Learn from Patterns and Context
- Use patterns and anti-patterns as situational guides instead of rigid best practices.
- Experiment with small changes, sense the impact, and respond based on context-specific learning.
