Brewing Agile

To be successful in your Agile transformation it is important to know where your organisation is and what might be a next step forward. In our book "Scrum Patterns” we collected Scrum Patterns from all over the world and wrote them down for you to use to improve your organisation.

In this talk I will share the story of the Scrum Patterns, and how you can use them to build your team, build your product organisation and scale your Scrum.

For over a decade of software product agile, we have been inspecting and adapting the way we work. We have come to appreciate software development as a process where we turn ideas into code where true ownership of progress lies within the developers working in devops style. Users see no change unless a developer implements a change. While we center the developers, every developer welcomes help in understanding what is the right thing to build and how we together could learn about it more effectively.

In this talk, we look at a case example of what Modern Agile looks like with F-Secure Corporate Windows security endpoint development. Building on practices of internal open source valuing contributions towards changing the code, we grow people to work within a wider role of a developer. We focus on pull on scheduling and information, run dual track of discovery and delivery, organize work around submitting to identified bottlenecks, grow people and take things further on developer-centric ways of working having no scrum masters or product owners.

Customer-focused team directly in touch with their customers performs better without a proxy. Join me to learn how the decision power shared for everyone in the team transformed the ability to deliver, and how collaboration is organized when users are counted in the millions and the contributors to the product in hundreds.

The right people talking to the right people at the right time about the right things. Flight Levels is a tool for making that happen, and implementing them can facilitate information flow to improve product delivery, but also to improve communication and collaboration through the hierarchy. Learn how Flight Levels can engage all levels of your organisation in a coordinated way to achieve organizational objectives.

Experience the shift in leadership that is required for Agile teams

Did you ever try to install the latest version of Office365 to a computer that runs on Windows XP?

Most people will know that this is a heroic quest that will probably lead to some disappointment.

However, many organizations are trying to accomplish something similar with their Agile and Scrum implementation: they adopt a set of models, frameworks and practices on an operating system that is not ready for it.

Most of the organizations do not even get half of the potential of the Agile teams, because they never considered that an update of their leadership model\operating system was a precondition to make those teams successful.

In this session I will be using a number of interactive exercises and thought-provoking statements to deal with the following topics:

How to update the operating system for the Agile Leader and what could be missing in the old one?

What are the paradigm shifts we need to make as Leaders in order to make Agile succeed?

What are the first steps that we can make as Leaders to make sure that we can create the most fertile soil for Agile teams to grow?

What Organizational\Human Design Systems we are using to design a Learning Path for the Agile Leader?

How do these Systems link to the context of an Agile team?

How you can start using these ideas as a Leader in the Agile transformation?

These exercises will trigger you to think more from the perspective from a more traditional leader who struggles with adopting the new Agile mindset.