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 …
Tiffany Shlain discusses the skills we need to thrive in today’s world.
Abstract Ever wondered why sometimes you feel like you are getting a lot of work done, but still your customers and stakeholders aren’t happy? Why is it that, even if your team is awesomely agile, people still complain about how long it takes to get their stuff done? It feels like no matter how hard …
Visualising Waitflow – how efficient is your end-to-end flow? Read More »
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 …
Flow Efficiency: The Hidden Truth of Agile Teams Read More »
Niklas Modig uses the example of a child needing medical help to illustrate the difference between flow efficiency and resource efficiency. It serves as an excellent emotional hook to highlight this key idea of why flow efficiency is so important for business agility. Read more
Abstract Agile is cool, agile is trendy! Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, MorE or LeSS… Teams are trained so that the company finally becomes agile in the market. However, most of the time NOTHING positive happens! How is that even possible? In this workshop we will explore the question: What does it take for an organisation to …
Professor Sumantra Ghoshal talks about culture at the World Economic Forum – what he refers to as “The Smell of the Place”. He talks about what management can do to create and sustain the culture they want rather than allowing undesirable norms to grow.
In football, the team that wins is the one that gets the ball in the other team’s goal most times. Not the one that runs the most. What matters most is what is happening to the ball. So, we need to watch the ball, not the player. Business is no different. In Knowledge Work what …
Business Efficiency? Watch the Ball, not the Player Read More »
When working with a flow-based Kanban system there are a few statements that I would suggest most teams should bear in mind. One of my Kanban class attendees labelled these as “Jose’s Rules for Flow” Whilst I wouldn’t go so far as to say these are hard and fast rules, they are some suggestions for …
Practice! Practice! Practice! We know that the only way to really master new knowledge is by practising it for a substantial period of time. This is the most crucial statement in the Agile Manifesto: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. But, “doing” is not everything. …
