Supporting the Lean Agile Community
Have you ever wondered how much value you add as an Agile Coach or Scrum Master? Would your organisation get more value from a different approach? Does following other Organisations and Scaling Frameworks lead to long-term success? During this session, I will explain how I helped IAG Loyalty explore what agile meant for them, leading …
Whilst we will be trying to knit together the key messages of the two days, the crux of the talk will be the relationship between process improvement, people development and diversity and inclusion – and how a simple framework of intersectionality and psychological safety drives innovation, collaborative high performing teams and integrated, enterprise working. Blending …
The Russian barbarian invasion known as “full scale War (with missile attacks, warplanes overhead, lines of tanks and armed people on the streets of your city … )” is not something you can be prepared for in advance as an Agile Product Development Group … But you have to After the shock of the first …
Why is organizational change often like pushing a string? Why do we not experience the outcomes we desire? In this session, we’ll consider ideas from the Greiner model, SCARF, Kanban Culture Mantra, Cynefin and, of course, Machiavelli to understand the context in which change happens. Join us and discover a handful of principles, enablers and …
In her talk Henriette will take the audience on a journey of her latest experience as an Agile Coach. Through sharing her travel diary, Henriette will discuss the challenges she faced while navigating the bumpy road to agility in a scaled and very dynamic and complex context. The session will highlight the various obstacles encountered …
As improvement from the Toyota Improvement Kata, the Agile Kata supports everyday application of an agile approach at agile transformations themselves. It promotes and enables a lean-agile change management that is easy to learn and fun to continue – as a team, as an organization, as an enterprise or an individual.
Agile emphasises the importance of “Individuals and Interactions” and frequent communication. Scrum Events are more effective when everyone contributes, and teams are more productive when they have psychological safety. This talk focuses on what might prevent people from communicating in teams, from nerves to neurodiversity, and how to help everyone contribute their thoughts. Avipaul also …
In addition to his work with commercial enterprises, Kubair also holds the position of Chief Product Owner at Peace Through Prosperity. This innovative lab has been engaged in a 10+ year experiment in cross pollinating Agile values, principles, and practices from the enterprise to society, to affect societal/planetary transformation. During his interactive talk, Kubair will …
Do you feel like your company strategy lives only in PowerPoint presentations? In this talk, I will show how you can align your long-term company vision and goals with daily operational work using a Flight Level 3 system. I will also show how you can map your current strategy tools to SOFI – Flight Level’s …
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 #LALDN23. What could possibly go wrong?
Humans tell stories for many reason. Knowing how to use different types of storytelling for different purposes will help you to communicate effectively and to build communities.
Are you tired of having the same conversations, delivering “late” and being put under pressure for decisions you didn’t even make? In this session, I’ll walk through how we managed to flip the script in a highly regulated, risk-averse, financial institution by introducing probabilistic forecasting and flow metrics as well as ditching wasteful estimations. I’ll …
It has been said that it is impossible to be certain of anything except death and taxes; I disagree. I would say it is impossible to be certain of anything except change: death is but a change in a long process, and taxes change all the time. Change is ubiquitous, the universe is constructed of …
Over the years, we—so-called Agile and Lean experts—often focus on fancier and more complex stuff. However, while flight levels or maturity models of this world may be interesting to some, they are also niche. What teams in numbers need are still the basics. Here comes the problem. We’ve been there, done that, and it’s not …
How well is your organisation responding to rapid change and uncertainty? In responding to change, as a leader, how are you engaging individuals across your organisation? How are you enabling organisational learning in order to enable organisation competitiveness? These are crucial questions that will be discussed in this talk. We’ll discuss the principles for nurturing …
Have you ever found a perfect recipe and decided to cook without checking the ingredients and reading the instructions? I did! If you want to learn how to cook – I am afraid this session is not for you. But if you are curious about how to learn, build confidence and embrace a truly fascinating …
According to the 2021 Business Agility Report, it takes 6 to 18 months to initiate Agility journeys, and significant benefits become apparent after two years. This story follows a 2-year journey from the perspective of Geoffrey Zassenhaus, VP of Global Business Services at a large Pharma, and Kubair Shirazee, an Agile coach facilitating the implementation …
Your mindset is a crucial factor in determining your success in life. To truly achieve extraordinary results, it’s essential to unleash your mindset and push beyond your limits in a real and pragmatic way. In this talk, we will explore various topics such as the Mindset Redesign Framework (MRF), Bloom’s taxonomy, low vs high order …