Many organizational ideas from the lean movement have found their way into the post agile landscape – at least in name. In this talk, we show some ways how to look at the original ideas to improve organizational fitness.
A cheat-sheet for all kinds of modern leaders – In times when self-organization and autonomy are highly valued, this presentation examines what actually makes these ideas work.
Organizational development at team level – the change from resource utilization to a largely self-managing team with a clear direction is possible.
There is much talk about top down versus bottom up approaches – but what if there was another quite viable and really important starting point? The Middle. This talk looks into that claim from a practitioner's point of view.
An almost 10 fold speed-up in time to market: how changing the ways people talk about their work can change the organization if given the right circumstances – and how to create those circumstances.
Sometimes great approaches to organizational change hide behind inconspicuous methods. The Kanban Method – with a capital K – is often reduced to “stickies on a wall” or “Flow optimization”. Here we take a deeper look at why David J. Anderson once wrote that the main reason for adopting Kanban is change management.
What we really talk about, when we talk about Jira (and similar tools) – the impact of tool usage on organizational structures, communication channels, personal relationships, (dis-)engagement from the bigger picture of work and even community. And some approaches on how to keep all of this in balance.
When there is change, emotions sometimes run high and some discussions get hostile very quickly. The gentle martial art Aikido offers an approach on how to handle such attacks – this talk translates some of the physical approaches from the Aikido philosophy to everyday verbal approaches for handling conflict harmoniously.
