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
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 (this page)
Right to Left: Implementing Agile Strategies That Deliver Real Business Outcomes
Agile Strategy Meetup: Meet Mike Burrows on Strategy

To ‘Done’ and Beyond: Coordinating, Organising, Strategising, and Trust Building with Kanban

When a standup meeting takes place at the Kanban board and it's working really well, what is really happening? More than just team members keeping each other informed, that's for sure! Beginning with the basics of Kanban as a highly effective coordination system, we'll look deeply into what it all means for the team and the wider organisation.

Video to follow.

Download a PDF of the slides:

To ‘Done’ and Beyond: Coordinating, Organising, Strategising, and Trust Building with Kanban, updated March 6th 2025 (dropbox.com)

And of the conference workshop What Lies Beneath:

What Lies Beneath, March 6th 2025 (dropbox.com)

Read the book

Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation was published in April 2025. This talk was inspired by the beginning of Chapter 2.

Wholehearted-related training

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Leading with Outcomes: Foundation
Inside-out Strategy
- (I): On the same page, with purpose
- (II): Fit for maximum impact
Adaptive Organisation
- (I): Business agility at every scale
- (II): Between spaces, scopes, and scales
Outside-in Strategy
- (I): Positioned for success
- (II): A platform for performance

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References:

Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation (2025)
Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile, Mike Burrows (2019)
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)

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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.