#144 - Better Value Sooner Safer Happier - Jonathan Smart & Simon Rohrer

<p><em>“The goal is not Agile. The goal is not DevOps. The goal is not Cloud. The goal is value, time to value, safety, happiness, and quality.&quot;</em></p> <p>Jonathan Smart and Simon Rohrer are the co-authors of “Sooner Safer Happier”. In this episode, Jon and Simon shared how we can deliver better outcomes in a more humane way of working, by delivering better value sooner, safer, and happier. They shared several principles, patterns, and anti-patterns described in the book, such as focusing on outcomes, the leadership as team number one, intelligent flow, creating alignment, and having the ability to unlearn and relearn.  </p> <p>Listen out for:</p> <ul> <li>Career Journey - [00:03:41]</li> <li>The Age of Digital - [00:06:29]</li> <li>Patterns &amp; Anti-Patterns - [00:11:15]</li> <li>Better Value Sooner Safer Happier (BVSSH) - [00:13:18]</li> <li>Focus on Outcomes - [00:17:06]</li> <li>Empower the How - [00:19:28]</li> <li>Role of Leadership - [00:23:30]</li> <li>Leadership Team is Team #1 - [00:26:41]</li> <li>Intelligent Flow - [00:31:28]</li> <li>Stop Starting, Start Finishing - [00:34:43]</li> <li>Building Alignment - [00:36:48]</li> <li>Limited Velocity to Unlearn and Relearn - [00:40:10]</li> <li>4 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:43:41]</li> </ul> <p>_____</p> <p><em>Jonathan Smart’s Bio</em><br>Jonathan Smart is co-founder and CEO of Sooner Safer Happier, a thought leader and a coach. He has been an agile and lean practitioner since the early 1990s and the lead author of the award winning and bestselling ‘Sooner Safer Happier: Patterns and Antipatterns for Business Agility’. He is also the founder of the Enterprise Agility Leaders Network, a member of the Programming Committee for the DevOps Enterprise Summit, a member of the Business Agility Institute Advisory Council, a guest speaker at London Business School, and speaks at numerous conferences a year.</p> <p><br></p> <p><em>Simon Rohrer’s Bio</em><br>Simon Rohrer has been a hands on practitioner across both software engineering and