Psychological Safety and Remote Work
Over the last four years, the world has experienced an unprecedented shift to remote and hybrid work environments. This poses questions for those interested in high-performing teams, because physical distance from our teammates has created challenges to fostering and increasing psychological safety. With collaboration from Amy Edmondson and Mark Mortensen, this talk presents original research …
The Future of Agility Panel
This panel conversation will explore the Future of Agility. Moderated by Stuart Young and with Chris McDermott, Gitte Klitgaard, Henriette Wienges & Pawel Brodzinski as panelists.
The Stories We Tell: understanding and creating organisational pasts, presents and futures
Stories and narratives are essential to sensemaking about the pasts, the presents, and the futures of organisations. Drawing on Boje’s model of the dynamics of narrative and story sensemaking, I show how we can talk about time and space in organisations, the role of scale, and the incorporation of diverse and opposing perspectives in how …
From Blurry to Brilliant: How Simplifying Your Product Vision & Organisation Can Lead To Radical Results
Ever feel like your product vision needs a pair of glasses? Join Ben for a lively session where we’ll turn the blurry mess of traditional Product Visions into something clear, actionable and focused. Think of it as laser eye surgery for your product strategy!Hold up, though, it’s not just a case of re-writing a canvas. …
Creative Constraints
You, (yes, you, reading this right now), are endlessly creative.Especially when you’re in a tight spot. Do you frequently feel that you don’t have enough people / money / time? That you’ve no idea how to do that one thing you need to do? Perhaps you think that coming up with creative solutions to problems …
Is Agile ancient history? We certainly think so.
The Agile Manifesto was published in 2001, and while many organisations are still trying to embrace Agile, many more are renouncing it altogether as ‘just another fad’ whose time is up. Join us as we extend the perspective of how agility has influenced people since at least the time of the Spartans, the Athenians and …
May the odds be ever in your favour
We can’t be certain about the future! In this talk we’ll explore ways in which you can stack the odds in your favour when delivering work and prevent falling victim to the illusion of certainty. We’ll dive into techniques and metrics we can use to manage expectations and make decisions at the earliest possible opportunity.
Boredom – A Secret Sauce to Creativity
Organisations are obsessed with churning out new products and growing monetary value, which results in burnt-out people. I am on a mission to convince organisations to give their people the time to get bored. Through that boredom comes creativity, innovation, and adept problem-solving. Let’s move away from rushing and introduce one hour of boredom. This …
Networked collaborator – top 5 behaviors to master for the decentralised age
With the rate of change accelerating in our external world, our organisations can only keep up, if we are willing to let go of centralized management control as a default and look into distributed, transparent governance alternatives. In order to accelerate our innovation capabilities as a business unit / organisation, we need to be able …
Flight Level 2: Agility Beyond Teams
Come see how it is really done with Jose and JP’s PMO-tastic simulation using Okoloa Flowlab’s Cross-team Simulation. Participant in Progress Limit of 24.
The Power of Empathy in Agile Delivery
What’s at the heart of successful delivery? It is not just the iterative processes or the focus on deliverables but a foundational element that binds all aspects of Agile delivery – empathy. This presentation will explore the transformative power of empathy in Agile delivery, demonstrating its far-reaching benefits. Empathy, often underutilised and misunderstood, is the …
Data: the good, the bad, and the just plain unforecastable.
By now, it’s clear to most of us that leveraging data is crucial for making smarter decisions swiftly and effortlessly. It’s becoming increasingly common for folks to look back at their historical data to determine when projects, releases, or other ventures will likely reach completion. Yet, when the moment comes to jump into our shiny …
Lies, damned lies and customers: Becoming AntiFragile in product management
Defining and delivering value is the focus of our teams, though what if we’ve been thinking about this in the wrong way? What if our sources of insight are wrong and we’re creating fragile teams and structures? This talk will help you to reframe how you understand and look for customer value.
The missing perspective
Whether it is the execution of an ambitious strategy, the adoption of new approaches to developing products or services, or the creation of a new business function, organisational stability is no longer feasible and organisational change is becoming a continuous challenge. And yet, in the majority of cases, such attempts routinely fall far behind the …
Beyond burnout: unlocking the secrets to sustainable happiness
For every three people who feel they are flourishing or getting by in life, there are two who are languishing or struggling. It is very likely that we all know at least one person that is affected or that we are one of the two ourselves. People today face a range of issues affecting their …
Connecting to Create: How Strong Work Relationships Ignite Creative Genius
Synopsis: the importance of psychological safety in nurturing environments where people are at their creative best has been gaining prominence in organisational literature for decades. A worker in today’s knowledge economy requires a mix of social and technical expertise to thrive and a person’s emotional intelligence is the primary enabling skill that contributes to the …
Agile Sustainability, Evolving Our Practice
As Agile practitioners product & organisation sustainability is our responsibility. In this session we will delve from the business case for Sustainability (& debunking top excuses) right into the responsibility in shaping efficient, modular and natural-capital aware products and systems. Not just by the mantra of “less is more” (simplifying & optimizing), we’ll explore the …
What’s my value?
As individuals, we strive to ensure that our teams are always delivering value, but how do we know if we’re delivering value in our own roles? Join Joanna as she talks through different ways of tracking and communicating your value to stakeholders to give you the edge on contract negotiations, performance reviews and just proof …
Establish rapidly thriving collaboration with Flight Levels®(In a time when frameworks and transformations are becoming too slow)
The increasing number of topics and their complexity that companies need to coordinate pose significant challenges. Pure technology and/or innovation advantages no longer make the difference here. Rather, what decides is who can build collaboration for implementing relevant topics or new opportunities within the company, and how quickly they can do so. When we look …