Klaus Leopold author of “rethinking Agile” describes Flight Levels as a “thinking model” that can help you discover and highlight where in an organization you need to focus on to achieve your desired objectives. Flight Levels is not an organisational model or a maturity model. It is essentially a tool to help you think and …
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What shall I work on next? If you facilitate Daily Scrums (or whatever you call your daily meeting), this is never a straightforward question and it can be difficult helping guide teams to the right answer. As a team member, it is never as simple as picking the lowest hanging fruit or the most important …
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Abstract Flight Levels enable us to achieve business agility. José Casal presents how using Enterprise Kanban and Klaus Leopold’s Flight Levels help us to foster business agility with appropriate organisational changes. During this interactive introductory session, participants have the opportunity to interact regularly with the contents of the session and explore the core components of …
8-hour training days may be the norm for in-person training, but should we consider this format for Live Virtual Training? Back in April 2020, I published a post called “When Everything is Suddenly Virtual”. In it I looked at what scientists and expert practitioners were saying and concluded that Shorter Trumps Longer (Bowman, 2011) when …
The questions have come up many times: “What are the differences between the ‘Training from the BACK of the Room’ Virtual Edition (TBR-VE) Class and the in-person TBR Practitioner Class? Are the classes interchangeable? Does one class replace the other?” Here are 4 major differences between the TBR-VE Class and the in-person TBR Practitioner Class: …
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It looks like it was yesterday when Vic and I signed up the papers to form Actineo. It is now 5 years of hard work, personal and business growth and lots and lots of great stories and learning to share with others. Over the past 5 years we have had the privilege of meeting thousands …
After months facilitating, producing and attending live virtual events, I have observed a recurring range of mistakes we often do as meeting hosts that can have an impact on the effectiveness and success of the event. One of the areas that frequently catches us is how to set up and deliver an effective use of …
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Thank you to everyone who took a moment to share their feedback and experiences of LAG20. This was our first ever live virtual online conference and it was important for us to create an engaging and interactive online experience. We believe in adopting a culture of continuous improvement & learning, with this in mind we …
When you think of being agile, what comes to mind? I doubt Flow Efficiency is the first thing you think of. My guess is it might have something to do with value delivery, methodologies, frameworks, events, or roles. These are all things that we sometimes hear people say when we ask them what “good” looks …
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“Platform skills” is the term most often used for face-to-face presentations: the presenter’s voice tone, body movement, facial expressions, movement, and energy. Let’s translate all of that to the virtual world with “staging.” What is Staging? “Staging” in the virtual world is defined as everything that is live-streamed by the virtual class presenter/trainer/host. Staging includes …
