Resources

The books

The five books by Agendashift founder Mike Burrows:

• Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation (2025)
• Organizing Conversations: Preparing Groups to Take on Adaptive Challenges (2024)
• 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)
• Kanban from the Inside (2014)

Adapted from those, these open source (Creative Commons) materials – each with their own pages for easy reference:

• Agendashift Leading With Outcomes: Cheat Sheet
• Agendashift True North
• Done
• Obstacles Fast and Slow
• 15-minute FOTO
• Changeban

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Media

Video and audio recordings:

More: Media | Webinars | Keynotes | Events

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Training and workshops

Leading with Outcomes training from the Agendashift Academy – available publicly and privately in interactive and self-paced formats:

• Leading with Outcomes: Foundation
• Inside-out Strategy: On the same page, with purpose
• Adaptive Organisation: Business agility at every scale
• Outside-in Strategy: Positioned for success
• Leading with Outcomes: Authorised Facilitator and Trainer Programmes

The following workshops are available privately at short notice, and the last one publicly also from time to time:

• Leading with Outcomes Assessment Debrief Workshop
• Leading with Outcomes Discovery Workshop
• Adaptive Organisation Workshop
• Outside-in Strategy Review Workshop
• Leading in a Transforming Organisation

Please visit the Academy's Leading in a Transforming Organisation page for information about the Academy's trainer and faciliator programmes. For upcoming public training, check our Events calendar. For private training or workshops, contact us.

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Agendashift assessments

As described in chapter 2, Exploration, our uniquely inclusive, non-prescriptive, framework-agnostic assessment tool

For a taste, try one of our global surveys, each featuing a mini (12 to 18 prompt) assessment template:

• Global Survey: Agendashift Delivery Assessment, mini edition
• Global survey: Outside-in Strategy Readiness Assessment, mini edition
• New! Global survey: Deliberately Adaptive Organisation, mini edition

Join our free 14-day trial to administer your own mini assessments or Upgrade your account to access to the full range of templates and related workshop and training materials.

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Celebration-5W

Described at the opening of Agendashift and referenced in chapter 5 of Right to Left, the Celebration-5W exercise is the context-setting exercise used at the start of most of our workshops.

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15-minute FOTO

Described in chapters 1 and 2 of Agendashift and chapter 5 of Right to Left, our Clean Language game 15‑minute FOTO is a vital and memorable component of every Agendashift workshop.

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Obstacles Fast and Slow

Referred to as Good Obstacle, Bad Obstacle in the Agendashift 2nd edition (2021) and renamed to Obstacles Fast and Slow for Organizing Conversations (2024) and the Agendashift Academy’s Leading with Outcomes, it’s a thought-provoking and discourse-changing exercise in framing.

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Plan on a Page

Described in chapter 1 of Agendashift as a simple template for organising the outcomes generated by 15-minute FOTO during Discovery.

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Outside-in Service Delivery Review (OI-SDR)
aka the Strategy Performance and Alignment Review (SPAR)

The Outside-in Service Delivery Review as introduced in the 2018 1st edition of Agendashift, described in chapter 5 of the Right to Left and futher developed in the Agendashift 2nd edition. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

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Outside-in Strategy Review (OI-SR) template

This tool features in our outside-in strategy training and workshops and is described in Right to Left, chapter 5. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

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Featureban, our Creative Commons-licensed simulation game

As used by trainers and coaches in Lean, Agile and Kanban-related events the world over, Featureban is a simple, fun, and highly customisable kanban simulation game. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

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Changeban, our Lean Startup-inspired Featureban derivative

It's Featureban, but with a Lean Startup flavour. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

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The Agendashift Experiment A3 template

As referenced in Agendashift, chapter 4, Elaboration, a Lean Startup and Cynefin-inspired A3 template. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

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Related

• About Agendashift
  • Our mission: Wholehearted
  • Agendashift Assessments and Free 14-day trial
  • Events calendar – training and other events
  • Subscribe
• Leading with Outcomes from the Agendashift Academy:
  • Leading with Outcomes: Foundation
  • Inside-out Strategy: On the same page, with purpose
  • Adaptive Organisation: Business agility at every scale
  • Outside-in Strategy: Positioned for success
  • Leading with Outcomes: Authorised Facilitator and Trainer Programmes
• The books:
  • Organizing Conversations: Preparing Groups to Take on Adaptive Challenges (May 2024)
  • Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation (2nd edition 2021)
  • Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile (2019)
• Agendashift as framework
  • Generative patterns
  • Core activities
  • Models, sources, and inspirations
• Resources
• The Agendashift blog (blog.agendashift.com)
  • Monthly roundups
  • Classic posts
• Agendashift communities on Slack and LinkedIn