Videos, notes, and links for keynote presentations

• Introducing the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation
• Between spaces, scopes, and scales: What the scaling frameworks don't tell you (this page)
• How to “create the conditions”: Engage, Invite, Celebrate
• In times of change, what scales better than process?
• To ‘Done’ and Beyond: Coordinating, Organising, Strategising, and Trust Building with Kanban
• Right to Left: Implementing Agile Strategies That Deliver Real Business Outcomes
• Agile Strategy Meetup: Meet Mike Burrows on Strategy

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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:

• April 2024 version (dropbox.com)
• Project to Product Summit version to appear here shortly

Read the book

Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation was published in April 2025. “The Space Between” is the title of Chapter 4.

Wholehearted-related training

Save 15% with coupon code KEYNOTE15! Applies to all the trainings described above - cohort-based and self-paced.

Links

• Where's the complexity in 'Wholehearted'? (linkedin.com)
• Verbing the nouns of business agility (blog.agendashift.com)
• Engage, Invite, Celebrate: Leading “wholeheartedly” for innovation (blog.agendashift.com)
• Your organisation in 5 networks (blog.agendashift.com)
• Leaders as keepers of context (blog.agendashift.com)
• What Lies Beneath (blog.agendashift.com)
• Everywhere all at once: Introducing the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation (white paper)
• Subscribe - for news Wholehearted, Agendashift, and Leading with Outcomes

References:

• Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation (Agendashift Press, 2025)
• Brain of the Firm,
  Stafford Beer (John Wiley & Sons, 1972)
• The Heart of Enterprise,
  Stafford Beer (John Wiley & Sons, 1979)
• 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)