Videos, notes, and links for keynote presentations
- Introducing the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation
- How organisations scale: 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
- Right to Left: Implementing Agile Strategies That Deliver Real Business Outcomes
- Agile Strategy Meetup: Meet Mike Burrows on Strategy
- Thinking organisationally about process (this page)
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Thinking organisationally about process
Aka Engaging critically with values, a title that owes much to the excellent Engaging critically with models by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Mathias Verraes, and where that values are the system of nine originated in Mike’s classic blog post Introducing Kanban through its values and developed in his 2014 book, Kanban from the Inside. Following a line of further development via Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile (2019, audibook 2020) and Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation (2025), this talk explores how a process-centric approach can be expanded into a more organisational way of thinking.
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Related articles
- Introducing Kanban through its values (blog.agendashift.com)
- Verbing the nouns of business agility (blog.agendashift.com)
- Engage, Invite, Celebrate: Leading “wholeheartedly” for innovation (blog.agendashift.com)
- Everywhere all at once: Introducing the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation (white paper)
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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.
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