Schedule

(This session is part of the LAG20 Fringe)

Hi 🙂 Its me.. Mat Hayes.

Are you up for a bit of a Mindful Meditation to start the day? … don’t worry.. it’s not going to involve you being sat at your desk.. in fact… quite the opposite!

Did you know originally the most common form of Meditation was walking meditation..?

So… given that, you are welcome to join me on a 30 minute mindful meditation walk. Get yourself out the house… and just walk with me while I guide you through.

(And no.. you don’t need to close your eyes!)

Just put some headphones on… and listen.. you’ll might just be surprised what might happen!

• Format: Mindful Walk
• Video Tool: Zoom Meeting
• Other Tools: n/a

Organisations increasingly turn to Kanban to improve their Lean Agile practices, but few people know the inside story of how and why Kanban was created. The Secret History of Kanban pulls back the curtain and gives you a first-hand account of how Kanban went from being a colossal failure to a startling success. Learn how a team turned theory into practice, what it means for the future of Agile, and how you can apply those lessons in your own organisation. We’ll finish by transitioning from history to the future and what we, as a community, might do to not repeat the errors of the past.

I’ve been a strong proponent of self-organisation and autonomy on all levels of an organisation. As the argument goes, it improves an organisation’s outcomes and creates a more humane workplace at the same time. However, during the pandemic, we see people relying more on centralised power of governments and willing to give up their individual autonomy. Similar dynamics can be noticed in the business world.

Does the role of self-organisation and autonomy change in times of crisis? Are these the tools that work great only in one specific context, which is business as usual? Is the analogy of people electing different leaders for peace and wartime relevant in this context?

We’ll answer these questions and explore the role of self-organisation and autonomy in organisations facing high unpredictability. Interestingly enough, it will also help us understand how and when self-organisation works when the business actually is as usual. 

• Format: Talk with Q&A
• Video Tool: Zoom Webinar
• Other Tools: n/a

Flight Levels has emerged as one of the hottest trends in the Business Agility realm. Unlike other popular Agile scaling frameworks, Fight Levels is not a framework but rather a thinking model that helps your organisation discover your own framework. This talks will unfold the story of real Flight Levels implementation beyond IT area from the Far East where we have uncovered Five Types of Flight Levels Coordination and Four Stages of Visualisation.

• Format: Talk with Q&A
• Video Tool: Zoom Webinar
• Other Tools: Mentimeter

Kulawat & Kamon are a Flight Levels Guides

(This session is part of the LAG20 Fringe)

Session Capacity: 25 Participants. First-come-first-served

Have you bean filled with a latte of uncertain-tea on what empowerment really is? Then come to the Red Tangerine World Café at Lean Agile Global!

Glaudia Califano and David Spinks from Red Tangerine will be facilitating a World Café where guests explore the different perspectives on true empowerment

The World Café Menu

• – We create a hospitable space
• – You explore questions that matter
• – Everyone’s contributions are encouraged
• – A range of diverse perspectives are explored
• – Thoughts and ideas converge
• – Insights and discoveries are collectively shared

Come to the café with a big appetite for discovery! Disclaimer: while we take great care in preparing the questions, some of the discussions may contain nuts!

• Format: World Cafe
• Video Tool: Zoom Meeting
• Other Tools: n/a

Move better. Feel better. Live better.

Take a break from your seat and recharge with an energising Pilates session with Trish. Let’s get your body moving, blood circulating and brain ready for the rest of the day.

Pilates is great for people of all ages and abilities and an ideal form of exercise as we get older and work through our injuries.

As a business owner with a corporate background, Trish understands only too well the impact modern life can have on our bodies and wellbeing. Passionate about holistic health and wellbeing, Trish has been teaching Pilates for over 10 years. She runs a Pilates studio in Hampshire (UK), teaches classes via Zoom, has an online membership and is an ambassador for an online health and wellbeing brand.

You do not need any prior Pilates experience. Just find enough floor space so you can stand, kneel and lie down. If you have a mat great, if not then grab a towel or two. You may want one to lie on and another to fold up to support your head. Trish will guide you as appropriate.

PLEASE NOTE: Logging onto this ZOOM session with the Pilates Foundry means that you agree to the following statement.

I understand and I am willingly participating in this online Pilates session which includes physical activity. I agree that I am fit and well and will notify Trish at the start of the session if there is anything concerning my fitness to participate. I agree that I will follow all instructions given by Trish, including abstaining if I am told an exercise is not suitable for me. I also agree not to record the lesson in any form.

A few set up tips

• – find somewhere where you won’t be interrupted or distracted
• – have your camera pointed towards you so that I can give you corrections and modifications as needed
• – have a mat/towel to work within and place it horizontal to the camera
• – make sure you’ve got enough space around you to stretch out
• – light yourself from the front or overhead and close curtains/blinds if a window is your source of light
• – it may be necessary to adjust your camera and device when we move from standing to floor based
• – if you are using a tablet then turn it vertical for standing and horizontal when on the floor
• – please set your screen saver to over 30 minutes or ‘never’ for the duration of the class

• Format: Pilates
• Video Tool: Zoom Webinar
• Other Tools: n/a

The current global epidemic pushed/stressed people and organisations to behave and work differently immediately, with no time to resist change and no choice but to experiment.

While working with many organisations before and during the crisis, we noticed a correlation between organisational resilience and agility, in the cultural aspect of the word.

During the talk we will explore this theme and try to answer the following questions:

• – Are Agile organisations more resilient in crisis times?
• – How does the Agile approach and the Scrum values assist us?
• – How self-organising teams could leverage their working from home?
• – What managerial skills required?
• – What are the tools & practices that support remote work?

Michal Epstein, PST and Agile coach, and Limor Halfon, Management 3.0 trainer and organisational consultant, both Ajimeh partners, will discuss this topic in an interactive and enriching way.

• Format: Interactive Talk
• Video Tool: Zoom Meeting
• Other Tools: Mural

“Agree to pursue improvement through evolutionary change”. It’s unanimous: Kaizen rules!. Continuous improvement. Evolutionary approach. If that is a consensus why do we see so many (safe?) revolutions? Why is the “Spotify Model squadification” revolution happening on so many companies? Why are the C-level executives deciding to revolutionise instead of just baby step, one after another, through the continuous improvement? If you are working on a revolutionary environment or if you feel that some kind of revolution is about to happen on your company join this session to understand how are we preserving natural evolution in several real-life contexts (from traditional financial institutions to startups) even in the midst of this revolutionary wave. It’s time to rethink the evolutionary approach together, in practice.

• Format: Talk with Q&A
• Video Tool: Zoom Webinar
• Other Tools: Mentimeter

Lula is a Flight Levels Guide

(This session is part of the LAG20 Fringe)

We’re working at the exciting intersection of strategy, organisation development, and (Lean-Agile) delivery – helping each other grow in scope and capability, raising our game individually and collectively. Agendashift has diverse sources, influences, and inspirations.

In this session, you will have the opportunity to ask questions and explore idea with our of the leading figures in our community.

• Format: Q&A / Lean Coffee
• Video Tool: Zoom Meeting
• Other Tools: n/a

Everyone talks of experimentation now. – mostly because they have to do so professionally.But how many are actually doing it?

In this highly interactive and anecdote rich brain download, Mike will share how he does experiments and most importantly, the attitudinal and mindset shift that have transformed how he approaches experimentation – specifically in building startups.

Come to this talk if you want to hear about developing a healthy attitude to failure, managing costs on things that are fundamental based on a guess, painting a picture for your team that they can follow even when the substance is wooly as clouds.

Might contain some profanity.

Carmen & Jochen will show what they have done to date with a 20,000 people organisation to become a real agile organisation and how they implemented the company Strategy and Business Agility.

• Format: Interactive Webinar
• Video Tool: Zoom Webinar
• Other Tools: n/a

(This is a 60-minute session part of the LAG20 Fringe)

Could an organisation that knows little or nothing about Agile, start working in an Agile way purely based on intuition and instinct? And if the answer is yes, what would the conditions need to be for that to happen? Even in the pre-COVID world Dana has wondered about this, and then as the pandemic progressed she started to notice individuals and organisations embracing Agile ways of working all around her – many with no idea they were doing it. It was all a little bit nuts. In this session, Dana will share some of her favourite intuitive Agile stories from the time of COVID and will explore with your help, what these organisations (and other organisations you’ve noticed working in Agile ways in the current landscape) have in common.

• Format: Interactive Workshop
• Video Tool: Zoom Meeting
• Other Tools: n/a

Liberate Your Voice to Liberate Your Life. – Sound Healing & Meditation Sessions.

Your voice is a reflection of every emotion or experience you have ever had. Those experiences create restrictions in your subconscious brain and body’s cell memory, as well as communication challenges in your personal and professional lives.

Judith combines her experience as a voice vibration sound healer, qualified coach and classically trained professional actor to transform lives and businesses by liberating voices. She is also an international public speaker, best-selling author, and member of the Association of Transformational Leaders of Europe.

In her fringe event sessions Judith will be taking you through brain/body/breath/vibration connection and how you can use your voice both to find an easy way in to meditation (and all the usual benefits of meditation) and to free the subconscious restrictions, energy, and emotions that are holding you back, keeping you stuck, or limiting your reach.

Whole Voice. Whole Life. Whole You.

Find out more: www.yourwholevoice.com

Today it’s common for company leaders to express a desire to be more agile, and many embark on expensive change journeys, to make their teams more agile.

After years on this journey fraught with “resistance” and lots of change, and yet seldom able to show results that are meaningful to customers or the business

Part of the problem is the core assumption that the problems, and therefore solutions exist at the team level.

Cliff’s experience is that to delight customers, collaboration is required between teams and departments. This focusing on the parts (individuals and teams) rarely improves the whole, in ways customers will appreciate or pay for.

In this talk we explore this through three lenses.

• – Sapiens – How creating a healthy environment unlocked our potential.
• – Science – How to Improve our understanding of what works and what doesn’t
• – Systems – How building effective interaction between teams produces more effective results

• Format: Talk with Q&A
• Video Tool: Zoom Meeting
• Other Tools: n/a

Cliff is a Flight Levels Guide

If a vast majority of your customers are vocal about rejecting a new feature, was it unsuccessful? If a majority of your customers want a new version of the product, should you build it? How many successful features have you shipped in the past year? How can we be sure that we are getting the right answers to these questions? We all lie, or at-least don’t tell the full story in our everyday lives, especially when no one is looking. We also fall prey to “Social Desirability Bias”, where people adapt their answers, because they want to look more desirable to others, than they really are. What does that say about the usual way we get feedback? Surveys, user interviews, estimates? Come find out how Limiting WIP, working in small batches, optimising for feedback and some decent data analysis can help us separate truth from lies.

• Format: Talk with Q&A
• Video Tool: Zoom Meeting
• Other Tools: n/a

(This session is part of the LAG20 Fringe)

2020 will forever be known as the year of COVID-19 and how everything over a few short months changed. For many organisations their ability to respond to this crisis will define their future. COVID-19 is a very painful reminder that organisations and people need to be agile. Agile not only in terms of how they work, but also what the products and services they deliver. Scrum has some history in redefining how people work. Its success over the last 25 years has led to Scrum Master and Product Owner being job titles on recruitment websites or linkedIn career profiles. Sprints, Daily Scrums and Retrospectives are now part of the normal ‘what did you do at work today’ conversations. But most organisations and career paths are still based on an industrial, pre-agile outlook with promotion and value connected to managing people and scarcity of knowledge. Bonuses are paid to individuals and reviews are determined by ‘work’ managers. What will the future look like? Does this crisis drive a fundamental change to how people work and what they work upon?

In this session Dave West, CEO of Scrum.org describes the long-term impact COVID-19 in the context of agility and how work may change. The talk is based on how some companies have built organisational and career models to support agility.

• Format: Webinar with Q&A
• Video Tool: Zoom Webinar
• Other Tools: n/a

“The righter we do the wrong thing, the wronger we become” (Ackoff); “Improvement is no substitute for strategy” (Mike Burrows in Right to Left). Strategy is absolutely essential to success, and yet it is considered by many to be outside of Agile’s scope. How do we fix this? We look at “cleanish”, outside-in strategy – an approach to strategy that is strong on engagement and participation, gets to the issues, and produces outcomes-based outputs that are coherent by construction.

• Format: Interactive talk with breakouts.
• Video Tool: Zoom Meeting
• Other Tools: n/a

2020 has challenged us in ways we could have never imagined. And what may be in store for the coming year? Will we have a new normal? Are we back to normal? Are we certain we know what “normal” means? This talk will address three key perspectives to help us explore what may be next for us and our lean organisations.

• Format: Interactive Webinar with Q&A
• Video Tool: Zoom Webinar
• Other Tools: Mentimeter

(This session is part of the LAG20 Fringe)

Kanban is fast becoming the modern way to manage an organisation’s delivery of customer value. In today’s always-on environment, you need a clear set of practices that don’t get in the way of your ability to continuously deliver but that provides enough structure to keep everyone aligned and focused.

In this Q&A session with Daniel Vacanti, we will be able to explore what is Professional Kanban.

• Format: Q&A
• Video Tool: Zoom Meeting
• Other Tools: n/a

Everyone is now aware of the issue of human-caused climate change, and virtually every government in the world has signed an international agreement to bring it to a stop. But with global warming already over 1.1°C, and concentrations of greenhouse gases still building up in the atmosphere, we are on track to miss the targets of the Paris Agreement and leave them far behind. Without rapid and deep cuts in emissions, global warming will pass 1.5°C and 2°C within decades and reach 3°C, 4°C or even 5°C global warming within a timescale the same as between now and the start of World War II.

However, all is not yet lost. There is still time to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change, if urgent, rapid action is taken. This includes both reducing greenhouse gas emissions to stop the rise in temperatures, and also putting in place adaptation measures to live with changes that are now unavoidable.

But despite widespread agreement on this, progress is still slow. The recent worldwide economic shutdowns illustrated that emissions reductions can occur, but in this case they came hand-in-hand with negative impacts on people as well as benefits. And these emissions cuts were not enough to substantially slow the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, illustrating that system-wide change is also needed. Meanwhile, the public debate gaining a greater sense of urgency, much of it well-founded but also some going beyond scientific evidence – both doomism and denial now feature heavily in the conversation.

This talk will summarise the current state-of-the-art in scientific evidence and understanding for this crucial global issue, and offer some perspectives on the complex public discussion around it.

• Format: Webinar with Q&A
• Video Tool: Zoom Webinar
• Other Tools: n/a