Supporting the Lean Agile Community
Organisational Culture and Values have been an important topic throughout the last several years. While at some organisations it is getting more and more recognition, at many organisations it is still met with scepticism and a lot of jokes about. It is considered “soft” and not “very practical”. Since the 24th of February, Ukraine and …
It is not what you do, it’s what you get by doing it Change is hard, especially meaningful, lasting change. We make it even harder with our default predict and plan mindset and a pre-determined menu of methodologies, practices, and tools. What would happen if we were to agree what we would like to have …
I typically do some flight route simulations with my customers to better understand their intended way of collaboration and interactions. Derived from these flight route simulations I have developed a way to prototype the coordination boards of teams within 15 min. In this talk I will share my insights.
Having found what I thought was my calling as an Agile Coach, I took the tough decision to move sideways into Product Management in search of something I once shunned: the Power to make the important decisions. Now “in the room” as the VP Product for accuRx, a hyper growth healthtech scale up, I share …
Today it’s common for company leaders to express a desire to be more agile, and many embark on expensive change journeys, to make their teams more agile. After years on this journey fraught with “resistance” and lots of change, and yet seldom able to show results that are meaningful to customers or the business Part …
A workflow is a process in which work flows through until it is completed – at least that’s what the name suggests. Based on my experience working with and talking to teams, workflows don’t always facilitate flow. Instead, they are often built to function as ways to keep everyone at 100% capacity and/or act as …
What is the fundamental change Agile brings? Working in small incremental iterations and taking the user feedback for further iterations. Is that how Agile coaching is done? Most often than not, No, right? What is the fundamental thing about “coaching”? It is led by the coachee, and the coachee wants to be coached. Is that how Agile …
One to ones have the power to transform – the performance of individuals, teams, and the wider collective. This talk covers a one-to-one structure rooted in coaching practices, and how it turned a dysfunctional group into one of high performance with high levels of trust, psychological safety, and Improved agility.
In a world full of challenges, crises and increasing uncertainty it becomes crucial to understand the backgrounds and to know how to thrive as an individual as well as a society. Based on my experience I like to inspire everybody for lifelong learning. This means to be aware of thechanging conditions in all areas of …
Especially in times or crisis, Agile is viewed as a magic pill to sort it all out. Is it? Organisations’ circumstances and needs vary, and so their aims can range from ‘keeping the lights on’ to ‘innovating to stay on top of the game’. Along this continuum, different approaches can be of benefit. Also, the …
Let’s explore the unintended consequences of expecting teams to be agile when we haven’t cultivated the right environment. Instead of buying “agility in a box,” what can we do to foster the growth of authentic, sustainable organizational agility? Part of the answer might be in improving executive agility. Glacial evolution at the executive level often …
Victoria will share with you what’s so great about an internal tech conference, how to create a successful one, and some things that she and others have specifically learned over the past year of online conferences that she thinks will have a useful bearing for some time to come.
What does it mean for an agile team to be predictable? How could you tell how predictable an agile team is or whether they are becoming more or less predictable? Is improving predictability even desirable for an agile team? This talk will explore these questions and more and introduce some different ways of answering them. …
If you are employed or know someone who is, you’ve probably been through an organizational or digital transformation — maybe more than one. Sometimes it feels like all we do is transform, but are these transformations a thing or just another buzzword? Greg will start from a more philosophical perspective and then explore what transformation …
As many teams and organizations experimented with Work From Home over the last 2 years, so did our use of office communications translate to an abundance of Online meetings. An average knowledge worker spends at least 40% of their working hours on video meetings. This synchronous collaboration of endless Zoom and Teams meetings can lead …
Dan and Prateek will be hosting a special Live Drunk Agile show where they will discuss everything from agile, metrics, human behaviour and drink whisky at #LALDN22. What could possibly go wrong?
The pandemic created the most dramatic change in the history of work. As we move from remote work to distributed work there are now unmatched opportunities for innovation, collaboration and connection. However, we are often frozen by not embracing an agile mindset to the opportunity. Let’s discuss how an agile mindset can help us to …
Are revealing facts and generating insights enough to succeed? We will explore how change agents can help their organisations navigate complexity and how science can help support their efforts.
In this talk I am going to demonstrate the “Brain-friendly training and learning method” and its main principles. I am going to then draw parallels between this methodology and the agile way of working. Lastly, I am going to point out why we should use this training method when we implement agile framework at our …
I’ve been on a coaching journey for the last few years and it’s had significant impact on my personal and professional life. This talk describes how I’ve gone from a Tester that “tells” to a Quality Coach that “amplifies”.