Supporting the Lean Agile Community
John Gottman identified 4 behaviours he deemed to be not just unhealthy, but actually toxic when present in teams. Without psychological safety and trust between team members, there will never be the kind of healthy conflict you need to ensure smart decisions are made. This workshop will help you recognise toxic communication habits that emerge …
Create your own Agile Kata – initial creation of an Agile Kata for your individual context, be it for your team, your organization, yourself… In this workshop we explore how to draft an Agile Kata and get an idea of how to continue to work with it, as this is just the very beginning…
Change Mapping (previously known as Maturity Mapping) is an approach that visualises how work is done in your teams and organisation to uncover the changes you need to make and enable you to focus your improvement efforts where they will make the biggest impact. Given its basis in Social Practice Theory, Change mapping is widely …
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 …
Tired of the same old retrospective format? Struggling to turn insights into actions? Having difficulties creating a safe, inclusive environment where people participate equally? Join me for an interactive exploration of my top tips, strategies, and hacks for continuous improvement. In this unique and engaging slideless session, you’ll participate in a “choose your own adventure” …
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 …
Working with the big Consultancies may not always big the right choice and why an Agile coach is the Agilist you only need when transforming your ways of working to Agile.
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 …
Scrum is “purposefully incomplete,” as quoted from the Scrum Guide. Scrum is a simple and lightweight framework and many Scrum Teams adopt other practices to make it work for them. In this talk, Professional Scrum Trainer Lavaneesh Gautam will discuss how you can complement Scrum by adding your own context and additional processes, techniques 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 …
Agile started as a way to emancipate and let the creativity and agency of everyone involved in new endeavours shine. As time passed, things changed: codified knowledge and wisdom, formalized processes and frameworks dominate the space. How can you bring life and liveliness, play and playfulness in your endeavours? How can you instil humanity, bring …
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.
The Iron Triangle of Project Management is a well-known concept, consisting of three fundamental variables; scope, cost and time. At least one of these variables must be flexible, assuming we want quality to be non-negotiable. Agile teams primarily use a prioritised backlog to vary the scope over time. However, there is another variable at our …
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 …
What does it take to create a team environment that inspires ambition and creativity? How do we create a culture of generosity? How can internal technical conferences help move the needle towards a culture where people want to help each other out, and so actively want to enable each other? Like many people, I bought …
Human beings tend to crave predictability. Change agents, coaches and consultants are no exception! We go in with our hopes high, aiming for outcomes that we know will be good for the business and proven processes that worked elsewhere… and that’s when we discover how hard it is, what contexts will prevent us, who will …