Shift from communicating a vision through telling to a more collaborative approach to create a deeper commitment in everyone supporting the desired outcome.
When organizations move to Agile, setting & measuring performance goals takes on a new form and often causes confusion among leadership on how or even if performance will still be measured. More importantly, when developing a transformation strategy, it's important for leaders to understand how engaging their teams to create "the right" goals can greatly accelerate growth, learning & results for everyone.
Are you a leader who has embarked on a Agile Transformation? Do you find yourself looking into the abyss and having second thoughts about the whole thing? Or, are you confident that you are on the right track, but are getting “signals” from your teams that they are not on board?
This session will provide you with a model, including patterns and anti-patterns, to help you recognize and navigate these and many other challenges that executives face on an Agile Transformation journey.
Self-selection is a facilitated process that allows people to exercise autonomy by choosing what they want to work on and who they want to work with. In this workshop participants learn to prepare for a self-selection and experience it in action. “What could possibly go wrong?” debrief rounds out the game. The workshop draws inspiration from “Creating Great Teams” by S. Mamoli and D. Mole as well as Dana's experience of facilitating the self-selection at HBC Digital.
When is the best time to run a self-selection? How to prevent team members from sliding in to the Critter State? How to convince your leadership team to give self-selection a try? How to make a decision about participants? Should you include consultants or employees only?
We will discuss some of the factors that make preparation successful, including clear communication, transparency and early engagement with Product Owners and Scrum Masters of the future teams.
Inspired by “Training from the Back of the Room” framework, the workshop has a variety of hands-on activities, discussions and games to enhance participant’s engagement and provide valuable takeaways.
Here is a link to my slides on slideshare https://www.slideshare.net/danapylayeva/self-selection
In an increasingly agile world, do we still need middle managers? Clearly we do, but middle management and HR departments must adapt or never meet the promise of highly motivated and productive teams. Some of the changes required may be considered quite radical when compared to traditional HR practices. But without these changes you will have difficulty attracting and retaining the talent you need.
In this session, Mark Lines provides an overview of trends we see in organizational design, career paths, the new role of middle management, and some progressive ideas regarding compensation and performance management.
Could changing one simple thing be the secret to transforming your business, giving you the ability to deliver the highest possible customer value in the shortest amount of time?
Inspired by Steve Denning and Rich Sheridan (Joy Inc.), who consider themselves organizational story tellers and Daniel Vacanti's book, "Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability", I will tell the story of how, what I thought was a simple weekend project, turned into a learning opportunity about Lean Agile principles. Join me and listen to the entertaining story of how I unleashed the promise of agile by removing constraints, achieving flow and establishing sustainable throughput of value.
In this fun and engaging workshop, you will learn:
I will share my personal journey of discovery, riddled with challenges and constraints, and provide participants an opportunity to explore their constraints and what bottlenecks are impeding their ability to deliver the highest customer value in the shortest amount of time.
How does Agile fit into your company’s strategic plan?
Often, companies attempt Agile without understanding the impact Agile will have to the three components that are core to the operation of their companies:
(1) Strategy
(2) Operating Model
(3) Execution
When this happens, there are breakdowns in the operation which are evidenced by failed "agile" projects, failed implementations, and frequently "agile fatigue”. Moreover, executives are not aligned with the VALUE of Agile that enables companies to become marketplace leaders and dominate their competition.
In this session, you’ll learn (a) how Agile Operating Models work; (b) what do breakdowns look like; (c) how to relentlessly tackle the breakdowns using Agile.
You’ll walk away with a new language so that you can articulate Agile as it relates to Operational Strategy. Moreover, you’ll have tools on how to blend Agile into your operating model so that Executives want to get more from your Agile transformation or even better... build better products that your customers will love and at a workplace your teams will enjoy.
