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Description
Large organisations are so inherently complex that many agile transformations struggle, rather than living up to their promise. The result is a often confusion. Agile practices are frequently misunderstood, improperly imposed, or the right practices are applied in the wrong context. Governance structures and tools clash with agile and vice versa. Debates arise about the essence and limitations of agile, with some touting flow and value streams as the new agile. One can even sense a desire to reintroduce some of the old (waterfall) project management concepts, restricting agile to the team level.
The purpose of this workshop is to show the way out of this mess. Inspired by Marcus Aurelius' quote, "The impediment to action advances action," the workshop invites to take a fresh look at organisational agility. It calls for a profound overhaul, pivoting from large scale agile transformations to more nuanced and context-specific complexity-informed strategies. Organisations create value and every organisation does so in its own unique way with its own unique challenges. Creating a sustained focus on value is complex because of the conflicting forces created by discovery, creation and delivery
Is your agile transformation experiencing setbacks or failing to deliver on its promises? Join this training designed to help organisations pivot to a post-agile, value focused organisation. Through simulations and practical exercises, you will learn how to navigate complex value creation networks and integrate different perspectives. Instead of ad hoc miscellany, it teaches how to build a coherent network of interdependent practices and how to focus improvement to serve the bigger picture. More than flow in value streams, participants learn to create freedom to flow in complex value creation networks.
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What you will learn
Throughout the training, we will follow the journey of an agile squad, being part of a larger organization, that is well into its agile transformation. Using simulations, we will go through the squad's experiences and extract powerful lesons from it. Participants will work on their own cases during the training.
- Learn to navigate the complexities and paradoxes within large organisations and address common obstacles and challenges faced during agile transformations
- Be realistic about the applicability of current methods
- Identify the challenges to create flow in a value creation network
- Develop organisational liquidity to match uncertain demand with constrained supply
Trainers
The trainers in this session are Patrick Stayaert and Arlette Vercammen from Okaloa. Patrick is widely regarded in the Kanban community for pioneering Upstream and Customer Kanban and together with Arlette have brought many teams around the world new understanding through their Okaloa Flowlab simulations.
Who should attend
- Agile Coaches and Practitioners
- Project and Program Managers
- Organisational Leaders involved in transformation initiatives
- Anyone experiencing challenges or setbacks in their agile transformation journey
Requirements / Pre-requisites
Although there are no pre-requisite courses, it's highly recommended that registrants must have attended either the Onboard or Embark with Team Flow training. Team Flow is included in Kanban System Design (Virtual) classes.
Attendees will be required to bring their own laptop for the session
