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About Mike Burrows:

Talks:

• Between spaces, scopes, and scales: What the scaling frameworks don't tell you
• In times of change, what scales better than process?
• Right to Left: Implementing Agile Strategies That Deliver Real Business Outcomes

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• Leading in a Transforming Organisation (in-person training)
• Leading with Outcomes (online, self-paced training)
• Leading with Outcomes: Authorised Facilitator and Trainer Programmes

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Talk: Between spaces, scopes, and scales: What the scaling frameworks don't tell you

In a viable, deliberately adaptive organisation, how do the relationships between different organisational scales work? Or the same question, but for the networked organisation? And what does that mean for me?

Drawn from the Agendashift Academy’s two-part module Adaptive Organisation: Business agility at every scale, this new talk integrates systems, complexity, and flow thinking (models such as the Viable System Model, the Cynefin framework, and Flight Levels) and shows how that with or without branded frameworks, many scale-related challenges reflect deep organisational imbalances that we can learn to recognise and address.

The latest video recorded at the Kanban New Zealand online meetup:

Download a PDF of the slides:

• Latest version (2024-04-18) (dropbox.com)

Links

• Leading in a Transforming Organisation (eventbrite.co.uk)
• Adaptive Organisation (I): Business agility at every scale (Agendashift Academy)
• Adaptive Organisation (II): Between spaces, scopes, and scales (Agendashift Academy)
• Everywhere all at once: Introducing the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation (white paper)
• Your organisation in 5 networks (blog.agendashift.com)
• Leaders as keepers of context (blog.agendashift.com)
• Changeban, the Lean Startup-inspired Kanban simulation game (agendashift.com)
• Outside-in Strategy Review (OI-SR) template (agendashift.com)

References:

• Brain of the Firm,
  Stafford Beer (John Wiley & Sons, 1972, 2nd ed 1981, reprinted 1995)
• The Heart of Enterprise,
  Stafford Beer (John Wiley & Sons, 1972, 2nd ed 1981, reprinted 1995)
• The Fractal Organization: Creating Sustainable Organizations with the Viable System Model,
  Patrick Hoverstadt (John Wiley & Sons, 2008)
• Rethinking Agile: Why Agile Teams Have Nothing To Do With Business Agility,
  Klaus Leopold (LEANability PRESS, 2018)
• Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow,
  Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais (IT Revolution Press, 2019)
• Demand-Side Sales 101: Stop Selling and Help Your Customers Make Progress,
  Bob Moesa & Greg Engle (Lioncrest Publishing, 2020)
• Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of Our World,
  Dave Snowden et al (Cognitive Edge Pte Ltd, 2020)

See also Recommended reading (Agendashift 2nd edition).

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Talk: In times of change, what scales better than process?

Why do we try to scale process, when so many other things scale so much more easily? Starting with some of the underlying business drivers for transformation, we approach the challenges of change from a radically different perspective. Not to reject the process frameworks or to try to fix them, but to change our relationship with them.

Video recorded November 7th 2022 at SEACOM 2022 Part 2:

Download the PDF of the slides (dropbox.com)

Sources relevant to this talk:

• The Timeless Way of Building,
  Christopher Alexander (OUP USA, 1980)
• Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation (2nd edition 2021)
• Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile (2019, audiobook 2020)
• Our mission: Wholehearted
• Agendashift as framework
• The IdOO pattern: Ideal, Obstacles, Outcomes

The wholehearted organisation features in these two Leading with Outcomes modules:

• Leading with Outcomes: Foundation
• Adaptive Organisation: Business agility at every scale

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Talk: Right to Left: Implementing Agile Strategies That Deliver Real Business Outcomes

In this presentation, we will explore the "Right to Left" approach to agile strategy deployment and how it can help organizations achieve real business outcomes. By the end of this presentation, attendees will have a clear understanding of the key principles and practices of this approach and how they can apply them in their own organisations.

Video recorded at an online meeting, PMI Central Arkansas Chapter, Thursday May 11:

Download the PDF of the slides (dropbox.com)

Sources relevant to this talk:

• Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile (2019, audiobook 2020)
• Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation (2nd edition 2021)
• Definitions of done and really done
• The generative patterns:
  • Right-to-Left Strategy Deployment
  • Meaning, Measure, Method
  • The IdOO (“I do”) pattern: Ideal, Obstacles, Outcomes

All three patterns make their presence felt in all four modules of Leading with Outcomes:

1. Leading with Outcomes: Foundation
2. Inside-out Strategy: On the same page, with purpose
3. Adaptive Organisation: Business agility at every scale
4. Outside-in Strategy: Positioned for success

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Leading with Outcomes modules, Facilitator and Trainer programmes

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Assessment tools, other related resources

• Agendashift Assessments, three global surveys:
• Agendashift Delivery Assessment, mini edition
• Outside-in Strategy Readiness Assessment, mini edition
• New! Deliberately Adaptive Organisation, mini edition
• Outside-in Strategy Review (OI-SR) template

More: Resources

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Events

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More: Events calendar | Monthly webinars (eventbrite.com)