What's your thoughts on Evidence-Based Management ?

Sergio

Your feedback is spot on and you also said a Golden Sentence:

“The importance of making people not feel you are the KPI Police” because if they felt so, you might end up gathering inaccurate information.

From your experience, How do you think one could ensure to maintain a team spirit while gathering evidence and data ?

RK

That´s the one millon (or more) question...jejejeje. That´s not new. Is the "problem" or "the key" that discinplines like quality try to address from years ago. I will write what works for me. I always try to demostrate to the people that works with me that "you will be more rich with this than without this" where reach is not a synonim of more money only. But on the top of that what I do is to demostrate that I believe on that. Just in case I do not believe on that I demostrate that we can not be happy with everything we do but some things must to be made. In the case of evidence management, mainly if you use it to help in agile environments implementation, that is easy to do because it easy to demostrate that evidence management help to follow one of the pillars of agile: work smarter, not harder.

Some interesting reading from 2015 when the Liberal government took power...

https://jmurray.liberal.ca/news-nouvelles/...decisionmaking/

Evidence-based management would be a lot easier if more of our data was structured. (Open Data initiatives are a step in the right direction.)

For example, when I ask the Finance department for an expense report, I usually get a text file of a "printed report" with multi-lined data elements and variable spacing. Do I have the data? Yes. Can I use it for decisions? Not without a lot of work.

Stephane

I agree and that’s why it is best to establish data protocols from the outset of the project, programs or portfolios. This is of utmost important.

RK

I completely agree. One of the major mistakes I've seen in digital transformation efforts is one team off in their isolated silo developing some information management system without giving any thought to how others would use that information.

Interfaces are where systems become more than the sum of the parts, so when people give no thought to the interfaces until the individual pieces are far along, either they have to go do a bunch of rework, or the systems do a very poor job of sharing data without some additional expensive conversion process.

I completely agree. One of the major mistakes I've seen in digital transformation efforts is one team off in their isolated silo developing some information management system without giving any thought to how others would use that information.

Interfaces are where systems become more than the sum of the parts, so when people give no thought to the interfaces until the individual pieces are far along, either they have to go do a bunch of rework, or the systems do a very poor job of sharing data without some additional expensive conversion process.

Two words - Systems thinking. :)