Supporting the Lean Agile Community
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …