The Agile20Reflect Festival Archive

Free Global 24/7 Agile Festival February 2021

You’re Not Doing Agile!

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Increasingly, many organisations are looking to move towards a more “agile” way of working, but often Agile Coaches/Scrum Masters and Delivery Managers land in an organisation claiming to “be agile” while still behaving in a more siloed, waterfall manner.

As part of the AgileReflect20 Festival, Automation Logic’s specialists will discuss the importance of truly adhering to “Agile” principles and give you some guidance and examples of how to spot when you’re not truly “doing Agile”.

*This session is for you if you’re looking to improve your agile ways of working, or are thinking about undergoing an Agile Transformation*

Embracing the Resistance to Change

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Agile transformations fail for many reasons. Surprisingly, the failure often has nothing to do with agile itself. We’ve all heard “resistance to change” and “lack of senior leadership buy-in” being cited as reasons for failure, so what’s your plan to deal with this? Agile itself doesn’t have the right answers needed to overcome these failure points. We must look elsewhere.

In this talk, we will explore why these common transformation failure points might arise, how to identify them, and how we can use change and behavioural models to overcome them. This talk is intended for anyone that plays a part in an agile transformation with a focus on those that help shape how the transformation takes place.

Speaker:
Nabil Zawadi is an independent agile coach and delivery consultant that supports organisations to succeed by helping them achieve their outcomes through ways of working that are tailored to their context and needs. He helps leaders and teams build the right culture that enables them to build amazing products.

Nabil has spent 10 years working in industries such as publishing, technology, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and government. His passion for agile has led him to support the community by organising events, talks, and workshops to help create a more informed community of agilists.

Charge Up a Learning Team

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If there is one thing teams have learned from the current crisis, it is that change is inevitable. The only way to stay happy and productive is adapting organically to a changing environment. This is what Team Learning is all about.
Team Learning unleashes the creative and constructive forces in a team. In this event you will experience how. We use small break-out groups to host multiple, highly interactive workshops. In these workshops, you will engage in practical exercises to find answers to the questions:
• Why should management and teams care about Team-Learning?
• How do I create an energized environment that fosters Team-Learning?
• What tools help my team(s) to start and continue in their Team-Learning journey?

ASK ME ANYTHING about Invitation-Based Change™ and the 8 Patterns of Open Business Agility™

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We are planning to show you new and better approaches to the job of org-level change and answer all your questions on how INVITATIONS are superior to business-as-usual forcing, mandating and delegation. We’re gonna show you how to improve your part of the wider puzzle with these tools, AND THEN how to influence the entire organization in a profoundly positive way.

Commitments: To participate successfully in this event, it is advised that you watch this 2-minute video ahead of attendance:

Nuance Corp Executive with 900 People Worldwide Explains the Power and Advantages of Leading with Open Patterns and Open Space Technology: EXECUTIVES AND OPEN SPACE LEADERSHIP:

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The Agile industry is odd. Isn’t it? The most prominent voices really don’t warn against forcing it. This amounts to the approval of forcing.

Forcing reduces engagement & engagement is essential. Forcing doesn’t actually WORK.
Forcing has become an issue, as more & more of it has occurred in the largest orgs who spend the most on Agile services.

So: that is the “why” of the Open patterns.

Now the reality is that Leadership Invitation is the *primary* Open pattern; all the others patterns listed provide support.

And it isn’t “all or nothing.” We advocate for mixing in *some* invitations with those delegations. Why?

Because the best talent, that can & will champion the change….they will *vacate* if they do not have enough autonomy. And that’s a DISASTER.

So, summing up:
1. The influencers in the Agile industry are OK with “Push.” And the results are in: “Push” does not actually work (but it does sell a lot of consulting & training.)
2. The invited approach has a much higher rate of success
3. The invited approach isn’t simple & requires the following support:

Clarity of Authorization
Interaction Protocols
Empirical Approach
Whole-Group Process
Common Knowledge
Boundary Management
Explicit Agreement

See you there !

Charge Up a Learning Organization

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Charge Up a Learning Organization Agile20Reflect Festival

If there is one thing organizations have learned from the current crisis, it is that only the ones that adapt quickly survive and even grow. This is what Learning Organizations are all about, being engaged to adapt organically to a changing environment. Peter Senge (author and management thinker) wrote about this concept in his book “The Fifth Discipline”. The link of his ideas with Agile is clear because the Learning Organization is the last big addition to SAFe (the Scaled Agile Framework).
To become a Learning Organization, start acting as one and celebrate your successes. In this event you will experience how. In small break-out groups, we host multiple, highly interactive workshops. In these workshops, you will engage in practical exercises to find answers to the questions:
• Why should we care about becoming a Learning Organization?
• How do I create a Learning Organization?
• What tools help management team(s) to pave the road towards a Learning Organization?

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