AGILE AUSTRALIA 2022

In this blog post, we summarise Alex Stoke’s Linkedin posts attending & MC’ing at Agile Australia- if you didn’t attend, hopefully this gives you a good summary of what you missed, see you next time!

MAKING EVERYONE SMARTER

In one of my favourite jobs more than a decade ago I was complaining to my boss at the time that the task to Transform to Agile ways of working was impossible. There were just too many people working in “the wrong” way, and

GATHERING ADVOCATES

When I first came across Agile Software Development in the late 90s I was working as a developer in the UK, and my path came via a methodology called DSDM that we used on one of our client’s gigs. DSDM was represented by ​​Arie van Bennekum in Snowbird in 2001 when the original authors of the Manifesto for Agile Software development gathered.

CREATING AWARENESS FOR NECESSARY CHANGE

When I experienced my first Transformation “in the wild” I felt cast adrift in a big sea of impossibility. It was my first time out of a consultancy and inside a business as a perm employee. I was responsible for technology delivery in an Insurance Company. How would I go about communicating the need for better, more adaptable ways of working when Transformation wasn’t part of my official role?

“The Red Hulk was angry. Kaizen had failed, fallen flat. Why?”

Relatively new into an organisation I ran a workshop to introduce the concept of Kaizen, the Japanese management technique for improvement, and start an improvement working group. Not only did the session feel like it had fallen flat but there was no interest in further work around improving. I was stumped

“If you know who your customer is then you can find out what they need and what they think about the value you’re providing to them”

Sounds like a straightforward question and an easy one to answer but is it actually?

So many businesses and the people within them believe they’re delivering the right service and value but are they doing it with an ever so slightly wrong understanding of the actual customer?

A ReBoot Co. Blog series that helps you & your teams discover a better way of working

WHY DO WE NEED TRANSFORMING?

“When the dust settles I would love to buy you a coffee and you can teach me why I shouldn't deeply loathe the whole concept of Transformation”

A ReBoot Co. Blog series that helps you & your teams discover a better way of working

MANAGING & MEASURING YOUR TRANSFORMATION SUCCESS!

"Being the most Agile" is not a good metric to measure your Agile Transformation with, and can distract you from your companies core purpose. You'll invest time in measuring Agile maturity and amounts of Agile training completed, rather than increasing the generation of value.