What do you do when effort and results are too slow, too expensive?
When bureaucracy, big design up-front, or just plain uncertainty is preventing vigorous action to get results, one thing teams can learn to do is to get scrappy.
Dan Ward's book, "F.I.R.E. How Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant Methods Ignite Innovation" can help.
Below is our partial summary.
FAST means...
Small objectives
Short timelines
Quality work
INEXPENSIVE means...
Small budget
Solve problems with intellectual capital, not financial (or temporal) capital
RESTRAINED means...
Self control
Tight budgets
Short schedules
Short meetings
Short documents
ELEGANT means...
Pleasingly ingenious and simple
Low complexity
Clear goals
Mature, proven technologies
Limit 1 miracle per effort
Which of these could you use today to get scrappy and get results sooner?