Supporting the Lean Agile Community
Do you ever feel stuck with your Agile coaching style? Expand your coaching range, and amplify effectiveness by sprinkling some playfulness into your Agile Coaching Growth Wheel. Already using cards, games or Lego in your coaching? This mini-workshop will offer you playful coaching tools that require no packing! Drawing inspiration from Co-Active coaching and Liberating …
Agility is usually connected to flexible and innovative organisations and environments. But that doesn’t mean it is not applicable, and much needed, in traditinal and heavily regulated organisations. The only question is: how do we introduce and apply Agile in such anenvironment? Book driven approach will fail us the moment we try to plan first …
In the fast-paced world of product development, the pressure to deliver the perfect product on the first try can be overwhelming. However, what if we approached product development as a series of incremental steps rather than a single monumental leap? Drawing inspiration from the popular game Wordle, this talk delves into the concept of iterative …
As a leader your team’s environment and experience is in your hands. Thinking beyond free snacks and ping pong tables, how do you make sure those deeper team needs are not overlooked? Under looming deadlines and stress, common mistakes can be death to motivation. Join Rebecca on a journey through her experience of different environments …
When you order a recipe box and check what’s included – there are always these magical ingredients listed on the recipe that are not in the box such as a knob of butter, a splash of milk, a tablespoon of olive oil to name a few. When we choose a framework we have something to …
Many managers struggle in their role within a newly beginning agile transformation.Agile Leadership is not a role.It is an activity and a stance, something everyone in an organisation can engage in. Are you a Senior Manager, a Product Owner, a Scrum Master, a team member… – who is wondering how to solve leadership issues that …
The chasm between the ‘Why’—the intrinsic business or customer value—and the ‘What’—the tangible Product Backlog items or deliverables—represents a critical gap in product development. Bridging this divide requires a robust strategy, and the Vision to Value Mapping emerges as a compelling solution. This innovative approach fosters a seamless connection between business objectives, their impacts, stakeholders, …
Gitte has been working with tech teams, leaders and managers for more than a decade, and in this session, she will share a bit of what is needed to be a great leader and advice about how to do this. She will talk about her strongest opinions on dos and don’ts for leaders, and how …
Our purposeful reflection in our echo chambers is not enough, we reflect, we emerge, we play our part, and it’s not enough. We need to scale, we need to mobilise ourselves in mass and with that facilitate the masses. We have a duty of care as facilitators, accelerators, guides of purposeful change. In this session, …
Explore with us the application of Agile methodologies inestablished automotive giants and investigate how Agile frameworksare tailored to accommodate the diverse production processes andinnovation cycles of these two categories of automotiveenterprises. So how to handle the VUCA extreme in automotive?Through case studies and industry insights, we will talk about thestrategies, hurdles and outcome of Agile …
Predicting Teams at Risk: Team Dashboarding @ Scale – From Excel to MVP When there’s only so much coaching and mentoring support to go round, where do you focus your efforts? And given the variety of challenges, what kind of support is best suited? How can you help teams spot risks, highlight their wins and …
We’ve been helping our clients to build their digital products for 20 years already. So what have we learned throughout all that time? If you expect to hear, “We got it all wrong,” then yes, we got it all wrong, indeed. There. I said it. And it’s not for lack of knowledge. Lean Startup was …
In navigating the journey of business agility, effective training isn’t just beneficial—it’s essential. It equips employees with the vital skills required for the anticipated agile environment. However, the success of the journey towards Agility relies on the quality of training provided. When thoughtfully prepared and rooted in neuroscience, training doesn’t just inform—it transforms, acting as …
Join me for this interactive session, ‘Fostering Happiness in Agile Teams,’ where we dive into the neurochemistry of (un)happiness through insights and research on happiness chemicals. Discover practical strategies to unleash endorphins, dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin in your team, enhancing collaboration, satisfaction, and performance. This will be an interactive session on how these chemical drivers …
The agile market in the UK is really tough right now. Agile coaches and agile functions are being downsized or entirely made redundant. When companies face financial struggles, they may act impulsively, leading them to remove roles that are often perceived as “advisory only”. But what if there’s a more intentional way to show how …
In this talk, Sheetal explores the essential elements of effective leadership in today’s fast-paced business world. Agility in organisations is not only important but essential to surviving today’s dynamic business environments. Starting with team unity, she discusses the ways in which you can foster collaboration and communication among team members. Highlighting how united teams are …
The Agile Manifesto is over 20 years old now, and the roots of Agile have been around for even longer than that. In fact, if you read social media, you might think that Agile needs revitalising – if it’s not already dead. However, the need for Agile is as great as ever as organisations struggle …
Gaining clarity is a challenge that we all face! In this session Marcus from WorkVisible Studios will walk you through a few simple visual tools that can help you see through the fog, understand what’s going on and communicate it effectively.
This talk is all about why estimating matters and how to manage it, especially in the B2B context. Think of it as a reality check on why we bother estimating when we can’t predict the future. From a practitioner’s standpoint, we’ll break down how estimation isn’t about fortune-telling but about smart planning, setting expectations, and …
In a world of uncertainty isn’t it time you embraced the power of not knowing? During this interactive session, I will disclose my insights about practising vulnerability and how being your authentic self can foster enhanced collaboration paving the way to successful outcomes. By introducing a selection of models and concepts, this session will help …