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

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

References:

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)

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- (II): Between spaces, scopes, and scales
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- (II): A platform for performance

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Agendashift™ is brought to you by Agendashift Ltd (formerly Positive Incline Ltd), UK-based specialists in leadership, engagement, strategy, and change. Founder Mike Burrows came to prominence in the Lean-Agile community as the originator of Kanban’s values model, out of which came his first book, Kanban from the Inside (2014). His more recent books Agendashift (2nd edition 2021) and Right to Left (2019) bring a resolutely needs-based and outcome-oriented perspective to change, transformation, and the Lean-Agile landscape as a whole, contributing meanwhile a number of popular tools, games, and other resources. He works as a consultant, facilitator, and trainer, and as a keynote speaker at events public and private around the world.