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About Mike Burrows:
Mike works at the intersection of Lean-Agile, strategy, and organisation development in the pursuit of the ‘wholehearted’ organisation. He is the author of 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), and the classic Kanban from the Inside (2014). He is recognised for his pioneering work in Lean, Agile, and Kanban and in recent years his advocacy for participatory and outcome-oriented approaches to change, transformation, and strategy. Prior to his consulting career, Mike was global development manager and Executive Director at a top tier investment bank, CTO for an energy risk management startup, and later served as interim delivery manager for two UK government digital ‘exemplar’ services.
Webinars in our monthly series (eventbrite.com) usually focus on one of the following questions, the “questions that drive us”:
- What if we put agreement on outcomes before solutions?
- How do we keep bringing outcomes to the foreground?
- Where – and where else – could we be developing and pursuing strategy?
More on these questions at Agendashift as framework.
In the interests of free discussion, we only record sessions that have featured guests.
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Where to start? Where next?
June 6th 2023
How do we keep bringing outcomes to the foreground?
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Related
- The recently-updated longer talk: Right to Left: Implementing Agile Strategies That Deliver Real Business Outcomes
- The Agendashift home page now begins very much as today's session did
News
- June 20-22, London SW1, UK – 1, 2, and 3-day tickets available, each day certified,
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Leading with Outcomes: Foundation and Adaptive Organisation (I) and (II)- (June 20th) Leading with Outcomes: Foundation
- (June 21st) Adaptive Organisation (I): Business agility at every scale
- (June 22nd) Adaptive Organisation (II): Between spaces, scopes, and scales
- Related to days 2 and 3 of the above, a new white paper: Everywhere all at once: Introducing the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation
- More events, including in-person events in Nottingham, Melbourne, and Bengaluru as well as online here
For the self-paced Leading with Outcomes modules, information about the Trainer and Facilitator programmes, assessment tools, and other resources, click here.
May 15th 2023
With special guest Klaus Leopold: Between and across scales
Related to the question “Where – and where else – could we be developing and pursuing strategy?” and to discuss issues of scale and strategy, we're joined this month by Klaus Leopold, creator of Flight Levels and author of Rethinking Agile.
Dr. Klaus Leopold is a computer scientist and, as a management consultant, has been helping companies worldwide to act agile in the market for more than ten years. Klaus developed the Flight Levels model because he repeatedly observed a phenomenon in agile transformations: Teams are "agilized," but these local optimizations do not result in an agile business. In his book "Rethinking Agility," he shows the reasons for this fallacy and how to avoid it. In his early years in the Agile community, Klaus worked intensively with Kanban and wrote two books on the subject “Practical Kanban” and as co-author of "Kanban Change “Leadership. Today, he uses the Flight Levels model to provide a non-prescriptive thinking framework for organizations to find their individual path to greater business agility. He shares his thoughts, experiences, and insights on the blog www.leanability.com and under @klausleopold on Twitter and LinkedIn.
What first prompted our discussion is my reference to Flight Levels in Adaptive Organisation: Business agility at every scale and my talk Between spaces, scopes, and scales: What the scaling frameworks don't tell you.
Download a PDF of the slides (unused) (dropbox.com)
Request our white paper, Everywhere all at once: Introducing the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation
References:
- Rethinking Agile: Why Agile Teams Have Nothing To Do With Business Agility,
Klaus Leopold (LEANability PRESS, 2018) - Flight Levels Academy (flightlevels.io)
- Adaptive Organisation: Business agility at every scale (academy.agendashift.com)
- Between and across scales: What the scaling frameworks don't tell you
News
- Adaptive Organisation (II) is complete – and with it, Leading with Outcomes too
- A new pathway to Leading with Outcomes Facilitator
- Beginning May 16th, UK mornings, Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F):
- June 16th, online, in German: Flight levels day – 20% off with coupon code
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- June 20-22, London SW1, UK – 1, 2, and 3-day tickets available, each day certified,
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Leading with Outcomes: Foundation and Adaptive Organisation (I) and (II)- (June 20th) Leading with Outcomes: Foundation
- (June 21st) Adaptive Organisation (I): Business agility at every scale
- (June 22nd) Adaptive Organisation (II): Between spaces, scopes, and scales
April 4th 2023
How do we keep bringing outcomes to the foreground?
We glossed over what we covered in January's session of the same title and looked into a snippet of my Between spaces, scopes, and scales talk (see Notes and links for keynote presentations) that in turn borrows from Adaptive Organisation: Business agility at every scale. It sets us up nicely for Klaus Leopold's appearance next month (see above) while still being just about relevant to this month's question 🙂
Download the PDF of the slides (dropbox.com)
News
- The final module of Leading with outcomes, Adaptive Organisation: Business agility at every scale is almost there. Part (I) has been out for a couple of weeks now and the first certificates have been awarded. Part (II) opened a few days ago with the release of chapter 4, from which today's talk is drawn. The remaining two chapters should be released over April.
- For that newly-released chapter, I've overhauled the Adaptive Organisation assessment. A mini edition of that is available for you to try, the third of three public surveys mentioned at the first link below. It's also available via the free trial, the second link below:
March 8th 2023
Stephen Dowling and Deepak Ganga on unlearning, interviewed by Mike Burrows
For this session, we're joined from Melbourne, Australia by Stephen Dowling and Deepak Ganga. We'll be looking into the role that unlearning plays in the transforming organisation.
Links from Stephen:
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Assessment tools, other related resources
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- Agendashift Delivery Assessment, mini edition
- Outside-in Strategy Readiness Assessment, mini edition
- New! Deliberately Adaptive Organisation, mini edition
- Outside-in Strategy Review (OI-SR) template
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Events
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June
20-22 June, London, UK – 1-day, 2-day, and 3-day tickets available, each day certified
Mike Burrows
27 June, online meetup, 18:00 BST, 19:00 CEST, 1.00pm EDT
Mike Burrows
July
06 July, 18:30 BST, Nottingham, England
Mike Burrows
11 July, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CET, 10am ET
Mike Burrows
September
12-20 September, online training, Tuesday & Wednesday afternoons (UK time)
Mike Burrows
October
4-6 October, Melbourne, Australia – 1-day, 2-day, and 3-day tickets available, each day certified
Mike Burrows
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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, audiobook 2020) 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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