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John Coleman
agility strategist at Orderly Disruption Limited
London, United Kingdom
John Coleman, Leadershum Top 50 Agile and Top 200 Biggest Voices in Leadership, is the founder of Orderly Disruption.
He is also a Thinkers360 top 10 agility thought leader, Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer, co-author of Kanban Guide and Prokanban.org Professional Kanban Trainer, LeSS Friendly Scrum Trainer, founder and host of Xagility™ and Agility Island podcasts.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/johncolemanxagility
Available For: Advising, Authoring, Consulting, Influencing, Speaking Travels From: London, UK Speaking Topics: executive agility, measurement, growth of sustainable authentic organizational agility, scaling, de-scaling, Lean UX, Kanban, Scrum, Nexus, LeSS
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John Coleman
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With 15+ years experience, John Coleman is a Thinkers360 top 2 agility thought leader, Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer and former course steward, co-author of Kanban Guide and Prokanban.org Professional Kanban Trainer, LeSS Friendly Scrum Trainer, founder and host of Xagility™ and Agility Island podcasts.
John has been named Top 50 Agile Leaders of 2022 and Top 200 Power List by Leadershum.
Scrum
I am a scrum.org trainer and have worked as a scrum master in a range of industries such as banking, oil, IT and tobacco.
I’m fed up with organizational dysfunctionality
X Agility
December 16, 2022
Some say Agile doesn’t work. I say it’s dysfunctional organizations that don’t work.
For example, the best ideas in the world are unlikely to save the UK’s National Health Service because the organization is so dysfunctional. Perhaps you can think of another example more local to you. Sadly, that’s likely not hard to do. Large, dysfunctional organizations abound.
What is Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)?
Import from medium.com
October 08, 2022
What is LeSS?LeSS is a de-scaling framework. Also referred to sometimes as a scaling framework.AimsimplificationDesigned forproduct developmentQueueing TheoryOne of the principles in LeSS is queuing theory. Kanban comes from a similar place in that you try to stop starting and start finishing.The m
Talking about Sizing and Forecasting in Scrum
Infoq
August 04, 2022
Key Takeaways
Avoid story points, counting non-valuable product backlog items, counting unDone work as Done, use of averages
Consider historical reference items but beware of accidental complication
Try probabilistic forecasting based on counting valuable product backlog items to Done
Try #NoEstimates and “rolling wave forecasts” of valuable product backlog items to Done
For complex work, promote managing expectations about uncertainty over managing expectations about dates
Can Scrum be used outside software development?
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August 02, 2022
Can agile be used outside software development? Absolutely. There’s something very important though. In terms of credibility of you as a leader or as a coach or practitioner working with people in non-software, there is a brand that goes along with a lot of agile folks that they’re working softw
Who is responsible for a scrum team’s performance?
Import from medium.com
July 04, 2022
Who’s responsible for a scrum team’s performance?There was a big change in the 2020 scrum guide. The scrum master is now on the hook for the effectiveness of the scrum team. So the buck stops with the scrum master. And the reason that this was introduced, I believe, was to stop situations where
What is Cycle Time in Kanban?
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July 04, 2022
What is cycle time?I’m not going to redefine the dictionary. There’s lots of documentation in manufacturing, for example, about what cycle time is. In the Kanban guide, we have a specific meaning for this. The Kanban guide is aimed at knowledge work when people are using their brain to get some
I’m not going to redefine the dictionary. There’s lots of documentation in manufacturing, for example, about what cycle time is. In the Kanban guide, we have a specific meaning for this. The Kanban guide is aimed at knowledge work when people are using their brain to get some work done, when we’re not creating widgets, for example, when each work item that comes in is a different type of a problem that involves different skills and so on.
Cycle time is where we’re measuring how long a work item takes to get from one part of our workflow to another part of our workflow.
The definition of workflow will have a started point and a finish point. You can have more than one started point and more than one finish point. For example, if you’re doing software, you could have a cycle time for development and testing. You could also have a cycle time for refinement, right sizing, through development, through testing, through goal life . Or you could have another one that goes even further that gets feedback from the customers.
So you could have any number of cycle times. A cycle time will have a starting point and a finish point and is about how long does it take? How long does the work item take to get from one point to the other. A lot of people ask me should we measure work time or work days, for example, or elapsed time?
It’s about elapsed time. There are a number of reasons for this. For example, if teams did actually work weekends, we hope they’re not working weekends, and you had some weeks where there was much more throughput and more work items were delivered that would be captured by doing it over a calendar of days, we would see how much work was done in calendar days. If you focus on work time, we have different public holidays and different parts of the world. Our cycle time for this, well we won’t include Diwali for example, or we won’t include Eid or we won’t include Christmas, or we won’t include summer holidays.
Oh, Daniela is gone on holidays. Oh, Alessandra’s gone on holidays. . And before you know, it, you’ve got eroding standards in terms of what cycle time means. And it’s just more simple to stick to calendar days. And it’s even more deep than that though, because if I start something today and I finish it today Cycle time is one.
It’s not zero. We round it up by one. So it’s the difference between the finish date and the start date if I’m using days. And I add one that runs it up to the cycle time, cycle time is how long does it take for a work item to get from a started point to a finished point over time, you will notice a pattern of how long different work items take.
And from that you can maybe plot cycle times on a cycle time, scatter plot. You can see over time different durations for how long work takes. And you can lift a ruler up that page and see where maybe 70% of the cycle times are done, or maybe even 85% of the cycle times are done. And from that, you can create a service level expectation.
You can say based on our history, 85% of items are done in 12 days or less. So our service level expectation is 12 days or less. It’s not a guarantee it’s based on an item that comes into our system that has been right sized. No elephants or mammoths coming to the system as long as the items are right sized.
We can get them done in 12 days or less. And once you have an SLE, you can improve your right sizing. Cause you can say instead of saying, is this an elephant or a mammoth? You can say does this feel like one of these items you can do in 12 days or less? Because if not, we need to break it down.
We need to make it smaller. So cycle time is how long does it take an item to get from a starter point to a finish point, you can have a number of starter points and a number of finish points you can even have a cycle time for an individual column on your workflow. That’s my nudge on cycle time.
Who is responsible for a scrum team's performance?
Medium
July 04, 2022
Who’s responsible for a scrum team’s performance?
There was a big change in the 2020 scrum guide. The scrum master is now on the hook for the effectiveness of the scrum team. So the buck stops with the scrum master. And the reason that this was introduced, I believe, was to stop situations where scrum masters were asking lots of Socratic questions and doing lots of observation, which is a really good thing to do. But they were just watching this and bad behavior was happening on their watch. Unhealthy conflict was happening on their watch. The team’s performance was going down on their watch. And so it was felt that it was a good move to have somebody on the hook for the effectiveness of the team.
Now it gets a bit tricky because the developers need to be self-managing. The scrum team is self-managing. And really the interventions from a scrum master should be in the case where it feels like the team is descending into chaos, bad things are happening and the scrum master needs to step in to make sure that bad things don’t happen.
We’re all ultimately responsible for our own performance. The developers, are responsible for delivering a high-quality increment, the product owner for maximizing the value that goes through the scrum team, the scrum master needs to be coaching, mentoring, teaching, advising, observing, helping people in all sorts of different stances, helping the product owner, helping the developers, but also helping the organization so that the scrum team can be effective.
And that means sometimes that the scrum master needs to go beyond the team, work with other teams that we depend on. Maybe work with other functions, maybe help to declutter, some processes workflows and so on. Even de-clutter the product, cause sometimes there’s too many features in the product, keeping the product order, some hints that maybe the product, the service needs to be simplified so that we get more engagement from our customers and end-users.
Ultimately short answer is the scrum master. Thank you.
Who writes the acceptance criteria?
Import from medium.com
June 29, 2022
Who writes acceptance criteria?. Should you even have acceptance criteria? It’s a loaded question, because it’s assuming that we’re using user stories. And in user stories typically you might say in order to deliver a particular type of value, some particular persona wants or needs something i
Setting Expectations in Scrum and Monte Carlo Probabilistic Forecasting
Import from medium.com
June 27, 2022
When we don’t know what we don’t know, it’s kind of silly to come up with a Gantt chart saying, we’ll all be done by Christmas, but this is exactly what people do. They predict what they’re going to do in future sprints, if they’re using scrum and in future months if they’re using Kan
Why you might need an island of agility?
Infoq
June 07, 2022
Organizational agility is highly dependent on how well the environment is cultivated for agility to grow and sustained.
Pathways to organizational agility are numerous, some evolutionary, some revolutionary.
Forming a culture bubble of agility is an evolutionary approach.
Following an isolation pattern is a temporary approach.
Creating an island of agility is a revolutionary and positively disruptive approach.
Start slowly. Expand carefully. Improve carefully.
So, what is organizational agility? 2022 UPDATE
John Coleman agility chef
February 11, 2022
I learn all the time, and 2021 taught me a lot. Based on those lessons, I’d like to share an update on what organizational agility means to me in 2022. I hope you find it useful for what it does and does not mean for you.
How to use Evidence-Based Management and Scrum (Part 1): Bridging EBM goals with the Scrum Guide
John Coleman
September 10, 2021
Scrum.org developed its Evidence-Based Management (EBM) practices placing a strong emphasis on goals and experimentation. EBM's key value areas are also important, but the critical focus is on goals and how to use them to achieve further organizational gain.
This part I of a three-part series will focus on goals. We’ll examine how the goals set out in the EBM guide correspond to the Scrum Guide and some tools and formats for setting workable goals. Part II will focus on experimentation, and Part III will focus on measurement.
Tobias Mayer on Agility
John Coleman
July 16, 2021
There are loads of blog posts, articles and podcasts about agile - what it should be, what it should do, how it should look? The problem is that a lot of what’s out there is hypothetical and not based on field experience.
Tobias Mayer, author of The People's Scrum, and the upcoming audiobook, The State of Work joins this Xagility episode. Using funny anecdotes as well as real-life experiences, John and Tobias bring you a raw yet inspiring account of agile in motion, a consolidation of a decade of experience right to your ears.
Haydn Shaughnessy - Digital Transformation hero
LinkedIn
June 02, 2021
Sadly, Haydn Shaughnessy passed away on 28th May after a short illness. My sincerest condolences go to Haydn’s family, relatives & friends.
I shall miss my conversations with Haydn. I met him in 2000 in a startup incubator scheme after which my startup failed dismally. Both of us reinvented into a similar but different space since then. Haydn was always the smarter one. He was incredibly well-read; he wrote on the Irish Times, Forbes, and HBR, and most recently he regularly hit number one or top-10 on several Thinkers 360 lists.
Why organizations need to widen the scope of agile, and how to start?
Medium
May 11, 2021
Join us for an insightful, knowledgeable, and humorous adventure as this group discusses the reasons for and benefits of organizations widening the scope of agile.
lDiscussing “Agendashift” with Mike Burrows
Medium
May 11, 2021
Lean, Agile, and Kanban pioneer Mike Burrows joins John in this episode to chat about his book AgendaShift, which explores ways to engage every employee, at every level, in the process of change.
So what is organizational agility?
Medium.com
April 12, 2021
Have you ever noticed people keep talking about things, but they’ve not aligned with what their words mean? I have seen agility measured as the number of “agile teams” and the “number of training attendees” more often than I like to admit.
Maybe we can talk about what organizational agility is not — in a word — bs. For example, re-labeling, predictability for uncertainty, or old-fashioned micro-management and fear. Why? Because psychological safety enables cognitive diversity, which enables better handling of complexity.
So, what is value, really?
John Coleman
April 11, 2021
If people optimize value or maximize value, it would be nice to understand what value is.
The dictionary definition is open to interpretation. I’d like us to be a little clearer for agility.
Let’s talk about what value is not:
- inputs such as budget, people allocation/assignment
- things to do that contribute to the creation of value also known as “activities”, e.g., sub-tasks to valuable work items, technical stuff that does not directly delivers value
- Outputs aka “stuff”, e.g., a “done” work item that is un-released in a Kanban context or a “done” increment that is un-released in a Scrum context
Ask John about Kanban as per https://kanbanguides.org
YouTube
February 22, 2021
Ask John about Kanban. John Coleman is co-author of Kanban Guide. He is also the author of Kanplexity, with heavy attribution to the creator of Cynefin.
2020 Scrum Guide — addition of commitments to each artifact
Medium
November 18, 2020
The words “commit” and “commitment” feature prominently in the 2020 Scrum Guide, and it’s not just about the artifacts.
“The Scrum Team commits to achieving its goals and to supporting each other… when the Scrum Team and the people they work with embody these values, the empirical Scrum pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaptation come to life building trust.”
The Scrum Values contribute to people trusting and supporting each other. Let’s trust people, give trust, respect, and not expect people to need to earn it. And let’s continually improve together.
Don’t be an apprentice in the negative sense of the word
Import from medium.com
November 12, 2019
Non-team commitmentsAs an executive leader, do you can still make commitments on behalf of your teams? Do you play the cynical game of accepting a plan you’ve insisted on because now somebody else is on the hook for delivery? Even if you shifted the blame, will your chickens come home to roost at
Can't use Scrum? Using Scrum not as it was intended so not seeing the benefits? Can use Kanban but struggling a little with complex work? Here's a new Kanban for Complexity (Kanplexity) Guide for Teams and Servants. Curious to get your comments. Thank you.
Introducing Kanban for Complexity (Kanplexity)
Import from medium.com
March 29, 2019
BackgroundSome teams of knowledge workers (En.wikipedia.org, 2019) work primarily on complex problems. Scrum operates in the complex problem domain, so it can be a natural choice.Picture this contextSingle team Scrum is in use by many teams of different initiativesHaving genuinely tried, some team
How do Nexus and LeSS differ?
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November 05, 2018
This article discusses the growth of agility for customer-facing products with 3+ teams, probably tens of teams with Nexus and/or LeSS.Background:In this article, I compare and contrast the more advanced maturity patterns of Scaled Professional Scrum, Nexus with Scrum Studio all in one corner, and
The original Lean “versus” Agile for knowledge work — or is it “and”?
Import from medium.com
October 09, 2018
The original Lean “versus” Agile for knowledge work — or is it “and”?I wrote recently about why you think your organization wants agility. I also wrote about comparing the Kanbans (including Toyota Kanban), Kanbaning your Scrum, and I started a series on comparing the patterns (or non
Broad and Deep agility (BaDA)
Import from medium.com
September 24, 2018
Is your organization faking agility?Is there any appetite for growing sustainable agility?Bad news (good news maybe:)), I walk when I understand the client wants to stick with WaterScrumFall, Dark Scrum, Zombie Scrum, or other fake agility.I am ok with people not wanting agility and wanting to go
Spot the difference — The original Kanban, The Lean Kanban method, Professional Scrum with Kanban
Import from medium.com
September 23, 2018
Professional Scrum with Kanban came out in February 2018, and it can be found at https://www.scrum.org/resources/kanban-guide-scrum-teams. The Lean Kanban method is described in the Essential Kanban Condensed Guide, that’s at https://leankanban.com/. The original Toyota Kanban has been around for
Retrospectives with system modelling
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September 23, 2018
In the Certified LeSS Practitioner classes by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde, system modelling is introduced.I refer to system modelling in the sense of causal loop diagrams and stock & flow diagrams. I am a fan of both Dan Woodlock and Gene Bellinger. See sample videos below.https://medium.com/med
Mirror mirror on the wall….
Import from medium.com
September 23, 2018
John Coleman does an opinion piece on scaling patterns and noneConsider this blog post as background for future posts. It has a lot of detail, and you might need to carve out some time, grab a cup of coffee and get comfortable before reading this.I can’t say I’m any better than anyone else in
Why do you think your organization is growing agility?
Import from medium.com
September 23, 2018
We thought ofWhy do you think your organization is growing agility? Is the direction of travel primarily to….We thought of 28 potential reasons, and we’re curious how your organization would star-rate them. See https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/whygrowagility?
Agile Cincinnati 2017 conference
linkedin
October 09, 2017
I enjoyed sitting around Fountain Square, the day before Bengals beat Buffalo Bills in American football. I skipped that game as Tropical Storm Nate sent heavy rain our way. Besides, it gave me time to go over my first one-off Ted-style talks – very few words, symbolic pictures, everything in 3s, facts mixed with some stories, being myself, staying in my lane, being relaxed.
Look familiar? #advanced
linkedin
October 09, 2017
Greetings from my trip from London to Cincinnati, where I'll talk about scaling/descaling, growing good sustainable agility and so on. If you're around the Cincinnati area, you'd be crazy to miss the conference. There are some rockstar keynotes. There are some great speakers, Ellen Gottesdiener is likely to steal my thunder as Ellen is on stage at the same time as me in another room. Ellen rocked at the LeSS conference :). There are still a few tickets left for Agile Cincinnati.
Scrum Master role, Large Scale Scrum or not
linkedin
September 17, 2017
I like Timothy Korson's LeSS case study for pseudo-named "Cash In Comfort". There are all sorts of takeaways from it, which are listed in the case study itself. In that case study, two sentences struck me in particular ...
Can London beat Amsterdam?
linkedin
September 12, 2017
One year has passed since the inaugural Amsterdam LeSS conference. Read Robert Briese’s blog “My personal review of the first ever Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Conference in Amsterdam, 2016”
#less2017 - LeSS conference article and video
linkedin
August 11, 2017
Bas Vodde told his Certified LeSS Trainer class in Santa Clara in March this year, that Ellen Gottesdiener, at my table, inspired Craig Larman and Bas Vodde's approach to product backlog management/refinement. Here, Ellen talks about the LeSS conference in London on 13-14 Sep 2017. In there you'll also see a short video featuring Dinesh Sharma and Ben Maynard, courtesy of Sullivan & Stanley, one of the conference sponsors. In addition, Ellen will be delivering a pre-conference training, Vision to Value: Backlog Refinement Practitioner – registration is now open!
#less2017 #advanced - Did you know you can do a Scrum test and a LeSS test at Less.works?
linkedin
August 01, 2017
Did you know you can do a Scrum test and a LeSS test at https://Less.works ? It so obvious you could miss it. See https://less.works/less/test/index.html
Pivot: Real Cut Through Stories by Experts at the Frontline of Agility and Transformation
Writing Matters Publishing (UK); 1 edition (20 Jun. 2018)
June 20, 2018
Pivot is an inspiring and informative collection of cut through stories from 17 experts at the frontline of agility and organizational transformation.
Edited by Matt Bradley and Adrian Stalham from the Agility Gigs Community, and business author, Andrew Priestley, it features contributions from Adrian Stalham, Jacqueline Shakespeare, Scott Potter, Brett Ansley, Wayne Palmer, Matt Bradley, Bhavesh Vaghela, Angie Main, Karan Jain, Andrew Kidd, David Smith, Ahmed Syed, John Coleman, Mike Nuttall, Bruce Thompson, Jessica Gilbert, and John Boyes.
What is executive agility, why is it needed, and how to get there?
You Tube
October 24, 2022
What is executive agility, why is it needed, and how to get there?
John Coleman will walk through the Xagility executive agility framework to offer potential answers to these questions.
Sometimes, you’ve got leadership buy-in for embracing Agile but work within a legacy-driven environment. Integrating the old and the new takes time, effort and conscious design.
We help you create Agile islands that empower you to tap into the benefits of business agility frameworks and Agile product development whilst your organization works through its Agile transformation organically.
X-agility Executive Agility
Website
August 01, 2022
Executive Agility designed for the 21st Century.
Agile leaders thrive in times of uncertainty and volatility because they have the frameworks, mindset and supporting culture of business agility that empowers them to adapt, respond and innovate when it matters most.
We specialise in Executive Agility, Kanban and Scaling Agile for organizations.
Sometimes, you’ve got leadership buy-in for embracing Agile but work within a legacy-driven environment. Integrating the old and the new takes time, effort and conscious design.
We help you create Agile islands that empower you to tap into the benefits of business agility frameworks and Agile product development whilst your organization works through its Agile transformation organically.
Services:
XAgility Training
XAgility Coaching
XAgility Consulting
A platform for those wanting to start their agile, scrum and kanban journey, intentionally designed to help with learning the basics. From the 5 scrum values to industry job application tips, you'll find it all here.
Tags: Agile, Change Management, Digital Disruption
1 Influencer Award
Top 50 Agile Leaders of 2022
LeadersHum.com
October 13, 2022
Agile leadership is essential if an organization strives to remove roadblocks by helping them learn, change and succeed.
LeadersHum is a free community that enables global leaders, thinkers, and coaches to voice their opinion through blogs, videos, ebooks, etc and they have named John Coleman in their Top 50 Agile Leaders of 2022. See the blog in the link below.
Hit Delete - unlocking executive agility one deletion at a time
LinkedIn - Lithe Transformation™ – Agile Consultancy
January 11, 2022
Let's explore the unintended consequences of expecting teams to be agile when we haven't cultivated the right environment. Instead of buying "agility in a box," what can we do to foster the growth of authentic, sustainable organizational agility? Part of the answer might be in improving executive agility. Glacial evolution at the executive level often results in people giving up hope on the dream of organizational agility, even those initially enthusiastic about it. There are agility frameworks tailored for teams, teams of teams, managers, leaders, finance, and people operations. This talk will focus on executives in tech and non-tech environments and the people supporting them. Let's look at how deleting specific executive behaviors could avoid the feeling that agility is just about teams. Perhaps we can attain executive agility by deleting unhelpful behaviors one at a time. We don't have a proven recipe, but maybe we can strive to have fewer "agile-gone-wrong stories" by better understanding the urgency required for these deletions?
In this discussion, we'll explore:
The observable executive behaviors that might indicate what to address first.
Actionable steps towards deleting the above behaviors.
Being aware of side effects from starting elsewhere.
Real-life examples about the impact deleting certain behaviors had on organizational agility.
Where you can begin to affect change.
Indi Young on why you shouldn't look at a problem through the aperture of a solution
Youtube
March 15, 2022
In this video version of the Xagility podcast, the incredible Indi Young joins me to talk about why you shouldn't look at a problem through the aperture of a solution and the effect this can have on overall performance. Packed with metaphors and anecdotes, this episode is the perfect mix of fun stories and incredible wisdom.
ProKanban Trainer, John Coleman on: Why do you think Kanban is integral to the future of agile?
Youtube
February 09, 2022
Join John Coleman, founder of Orderly Disruption, Thinkers360 top 10 agility thought leader, Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer, co-author of Kanban Guide and Prokanban.org Professional Kanban Trainer, LeSS Friendly Scrum Trainer, founder and host of Xagility and Daily Flow podcasts, for a quick look into a PKTs opinion on the thought-provoking question “Why do you think Kanban is integral to the future of agile?”
Continue to the YouTube Playlist “Question Series: Why do you think Kanban is integral to the future of agile?” To listen to more of our PKTs addressing this difficult question.
An interview with Jared Spool
Youtube
December 29, 2021
Jared M. Spool is a Maker of Awesomeness at Center Centre – UIE. Center Centre is the school he started with Leslie Jensen-Inman to create industry-ready User Experience Designers. UIE is Center Centre’s professional development arm, dedicated to understanding what it takes for organizations to produce competitively great products and services.
In the 43 years he’s been in the tech field, he’s worked with hundreds of organizations, written two books, published hundreds of articles and podcasts, and tours the world speaking to audiences everywhere. When he can, he does his laundry in Andover, Massachusetts.
Xagility podcast - Pia-Maria Thorén of Agile People
Anchor.fm
March 18, 2021
John Coleman interviews leading executives and top folks from agility. The inconvenient truth is that agility can't be bought in a box. Take the hard choices and make a difference. Try Agile, Lean/Agile for the c-suite.
Many companies have succeeded in creating agile teams. However, only a few have achieved the desired outcome of becoming an organization that acts agile on the market and possesses a value-driven culture.
How to transform agile promises into reality?
How to improve collaboration across teams but also across the whole organization?
How to facilitate complex cooperation with multiple teams that depend on each other?
How to enable continuous management alignment with high-level corporate objectives?
How to scale successful agile implementation in large organizations?
During Flight Levels Day, all of these questions will be answered by managers and coaches who have used Flight Levels to run a successful and lasting agile transformation. Discover their success stories and learn from their failures. You are welcome to share one of your experiences, good or bad, during the conference.
The conference is aimed at managers of all levels, product managers, agile coaches, and anyone who wants to bring business agility to their organization.
Many companies have succeeded in creating agile teams. However, only a few have achieved the desired outcome of becoming an organization that acts agile on the market and possesses a value-driven culture.
How to transform agile promises into reality?
How to improve collaboration across teams but also across the whole organization?
How to facilitate complex cooperation with multiple teams that depend on each other?
How to enable continuous management alignment with high-level corporate objectives?
How to scale successful agile implementation in large organizations?
During Flight Levels Day, all of these questions will be answered by managers and coaches who have used Flight Levels to run a successful and lasting agile transformation. Discover their success stories and learn from their failures. You are welcome to share one of your experiences, good or bad, during the conference.
The conference is aimed at managers of all levels, product managers, agile coaches, and anyone who wants to bring business agility to their organization.
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE:
Learn from Flight Levels Practitioners during six 30-minute presentations
Share your “aha” moments with others in an open Q&A and summary session with speakers
Meet Flight Levels Guides and Flight Levels Coaches in two live discussion panels with experts
Review everything that you have learned in a combined summary session with all speakers
Matt Young on his career UserVoice product management, scrum and the importance of customer opinions
Youtube
January 19, 2023
Matt Young, CEO of UserVoice and speaker within the product management circle joins John Coleman on the Xagility Podcast to discuss Scrum, Product management and listening to the customers opinions on products.
About Matt:
Matt is a SaaS, product management, and software engineering leader passionate about sustainable, high-performing teams. Challenging what it means to deliver a great SaaS product.
Connect with Matt on:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattcyoung/
John Carter on BOSE Noise-Canceling Headphones, the BOSE Culture, invention marketing and agile
Youtube
January 17, 2023
How did John start his career at Bose? How was the noise-canceling headphones invention born? How do you market innovations? John Carter brings his immense knowledge and experience to this episode of the Xagility podcast.
John Carter has been a widely respected adviser to technology firms over his career. John is the author of "Innovate Products Faster: Graphical Tools for Accelerating Product Development." As Founder and Principal of TCGen Inc., he has advised some of the most revered technology firms in the world:
He specializes in the value-creating aspects of product development – from the strategy and innovation processes through product definition, execution and launch. He has helped companies cut time to market, rapidly scales their product program, and improve innovation with customer-led insights, leading to greater profitability, reduced costs, and improved customer satisfaction.
John currently serves on the Board of Directors of Cirrus Logic (CRUS), a leading supplier of mixed-signal semiconductors. He is involved with company strategy and sits on the Compensation and Audit Committees.
He was the founder of Cambridge-based Product Development Consulting, Inc. (PDC), a consultancy advising Fortune 500 companies in the areas of research, development, and marketing. During his time there, he worked with Apple to create the Apple New Product Process (ANPP), which is used in all product divisions. He has been an invited speaker at MIT and Stanford University and a member of the faculty at Case Western’s Executive program.
Before starting PDC, John was the Chief Engineer of BOSE Corporation. John is the inventor of the Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones and shares the original patent with Dr. Amar Bose. He was one of the initial contributors to BOSE’s entry into the automotive OEM business. He led the product and business development of BOSE’s patented noise reduction technology for the military market. He earned his MS in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BS in engineering from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA.
John Carter's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcartertc...
Balancing UX with shipping fast in scrum? A deeper look into each box of the Lean UX canvas
Orderly Disruption
December 04, 2022
Is there such thing as balancing UX with shipping fast in scrum? Is there even such thing as shipping fast in scrum? How can we know what is value when we don't know the end-user?
Klaus Leopold on the value of Flight Levels and his book Rethinking Agile
You Tube
November 07, 2022
In this week's X Agility podcast, John Coleman speaks to Klaus Leopold about the concept of #flightlevels and his book, Rethinking Agile.
Visit https://www.x-agility.com for more about X Agility, Executive Agility, Agile Leadership and navigating complexity in the product development space.
What is Product Management? Matt Young, CEO of UserVoice tells all.
Anchor.fm
October 20, 2022
Matt Young is the CEO of User Voice and considered to be one of the most progressive, Agile executives in the industry.
In this week's X Agility podcast, we feature an excerpt from John Coleman and Matt Young about the challenges of product management and product ownership.
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X Agility Podcast: Joe Justice
X Agility Podcast
August 25, 2022
Joe Justice - founder of WIKISPEED - brings his extensive expertise and humour on this episode of the Xagility podcast!
Joe Justice is author of Scrum Master, published in 7 languages. Joe has worked with Bill Gates, the leadership team at Amazon, and operated the Agile program at Tesla for Elon Musk.
Constraints, work capability, throughput and flow
Anchor.fm
June 15, 2022
Do you know what your team or team of teams capability to take on work is? How can throughput help? Using real-world examples, this episode aims to outline work capability and throughput.
Joe Justice on his career, Tesla, Space X and agility
Anchor.fm
May 31, 2022
Joe Justice, founder of WIKISPEED, brings his extensive expertise and humour on this episode of the Xagility podcast!
Joe Justice is author of Scrum Master, published in 7 languages. Joe has worked with Bill Gates, the leadership team at Amazon, and operated the Agile program at Tesla for Elon Musk. Joe founded WIKISPEED which became an example of automotive design and production speed in a fun, egalitarian culture. Joe enjoys collaborating as a board member, writing, teaching, and running companies to make a good future arrive faster.
What the developers do in the last week of the sprint?
Anchor.fm
April 29, 2022
Do you think work should be handed off once it meets the definition of done? On this episode, I talk about how developers should collaborate with the 'testers' and the important role that plays overall. Tune in, you might find some useful tips.
Can scrum and agility be scaled and what’s the best way to do it?
Anchor.fm
April 27, 2022
In this episode, I talk you through some of the different ways and frameworks you can use to scale scrum and agile. The first rule is of course not scale but if you must, here are some ways to do so:
3:27 LeSS - what is it and how does it work?
6:29 Disciplined agile - what is it and how does it work?
7:21 Scrum at scale - what is it and how does it work?
8:21 SAFe - what is it and how does it work?
9:55 Nexus - what is it and how does it work?
11:43 Spotify ING - what is it and how does it work?
12:29 Flight Levels - what is it and how does it work?
Gene Gendel on his LeSS career, LeSS case studies and whether we can measure adaptiveness
Anchor.fm
April 26, 2022
The one and only Gene Gendel joins us on this episode of the Xagility podcast. Amongst other important topics, the speaker discusses important nuances such as the geographical restraint to agile adoption, whether LeSS is a framework and the importance of getting executives onboard with LeSS adoptions.
0:00 On the beginning of large scale scrum (LeSS) and his journey into LeSS
9:19 The fallacy big corporations have on the need to scale
12:57 LeSS Case Studies steps and the rigorous process
17:30 Is there such thing as a level of readiness organizations must consider when adopting LeSS?
20:13 Getting executives onboard with the product mindset
Bruce McCarthy on his career, product vs project management and, getting roadpmaps right
Anchor.fm
April 14, 2022
This week, the Xagility podcast has the pleasure of welcoming the amazing Bruce McCarthy.
Bruce has authored Product Manager versus Project Manager and co-authored Product Roadmaps Reloaded: how to set direction while embracing uncertainty along with C Todd Lombardo, Evan Ryan, and Michael Connors.
In this episode, Bruce and John discuss the definition of product, product vs project management, probabilistic forecasting, and the importance of using roadmaps right.
Jim Benson on Personal Kanban, The Collaboration Equation and the system of Humane Management
Anchor.fm
March 29, 2022
Jim Benson joins John Coleman on this week's episode to discuss a lifetime of experience, Jim's Book 'The Collaboration Equation', the system of humane management, leadership & tangibles as well as advice on how to tackle the common stakeholder question 'when will it be done?', what goes on in the obeya rooms and why the most beautiful boards look like a huge mess.
Time stamps:
1:10 - Jim’s story & the beginning of Modus Cooperandi
4:25 - Coping strategies for large scale projects with lots of dependencies
6:49 - Jim’s book ‘The Collaboration Equation’
8:22 - Personal Kanban: a deeper look
13:25 - The system of humane management
24:09 - Leadership & tangibles
27:05 - ‘When will it be done?’
31:57 - Obeya Rooms
44:34 - ‘The most beautiful board looks like a fricking mess’
Indi Young on why you shouldn't look at a problem through the aperture of a solution
Anchor.fm
March 15, 2022
the incredible Indi Young joins me to talk about why you shouldn't look at a problem through the aperture of a solution and the effect this can have on overall performance. Packed with metaphors and anecdotes, this episode is the perfect mix of fun stories and incredible wisdom.
Daily Flow: Sizing & Forecasting
Anchor.fm
March 14, 2022
Popular patterns for sizing including "exact" time/cost, relative, right-sizing, and #noestimates. Popular patterns for forecasting include Gantt charts(ugh!), burnup/down charts(hmmm), and probabilistic forecasting(oooo). An emerging trend is with right-sizing and probabilistic forecasting. It's not all sunshine and honey, context matters, and it's dangerous to over-simplify. Let's laser focus on the upsides and downsides of each of these options.
Time Stamps:
0:00 Approaches & Their Upsides
9:00 Downsides of Approaches
19:02 Approaches for Forecasting
An interview with Jared Spool
John Coleman
December 16, 2021
Jared M. Spool is a Maker of Awesomeness at Center Centre – UIE. Center Centre is the school he started with Leslie Jensen-Inman to create industry-ready User Experience Designers. UIE is Center Centre’s professional development arm, dedicated to understanding what it takes for organizations to produce competitively great products and services. In the 43 years he’s been in the tech field, he’s worked with hundreds of organizations, written two books, published hundreds of articles and podcasts, and tours the world speaking to audiences everywhere. When he can, he does his laundry in Andover, Massachusetts.
Klaus Leopold on the value of Flight Levels and his book Rethinking Agile: Why Agile Teams Have Nothing To Do With Business Agility
John Coleman
October 18, 2021
The Xagility podcast has the immense pleasure of having the amazing Klaus Leopold on this week's episode. Tune in to hear Klaus talk about the beginning of his career, the start of Flight Levels and some fantastic case studies.
Reviewing Cynefin - weaving sense making into the fabric of our world with Dave Snowden
John Coleman
October 05, 2021
This week, the Xagility podcast has the pleasure of hosting Dave Snowden to discuss his latest book, Cynefin weaving sense-making into the fabric of our world publication in 2020.
Sit back, relax and enjoy.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLAyXnUx_TU
Check out Dave's book here: https://www.cognitive-edge.com/cynefinbook/
John Coleman of Orderly Disruption meets Pia-Maria Thoren of Agile People
Xagility Podcast™
July 20, 2021
Xagility is a podcast series for the curious c-suite.
In this Xagility podcast episode, John Coleman of Orderly Disruption meets Pia-Maria Thorén of Agile People to review the book "Agile People".
John and Pia-Maria discuss metaphorical gardening, invitation over imposition, motivation, inspiration, agile leadership, agile management, and a beautiful poem by Dr. Leandro Herrero.
The theory of Scrum team effectiveness and evidence supporting it with Christiaan Verwijs and Dr Daniel Russo
Sustainable Xagility™
July 12, 2021
Have you ever wondered what makes Scrum teams effective? Perhaps you have found some theories online but do any of them have any scientific evidence? We bet not.
This episode brings you 5 years worth of research by the extremely knowledgeable Christiaan Verwijs and Dr Daniel Russo. Throughout the last half decade, these two have embarked on a journey to shed more light on what it is exactly that makes scrum teams effective whilst also debunking some of the common myths and thought patterns.
Having a scientifically backed answer not only adds to the field of scrum but also brings certainty - guidelines for effectiveness.
Robert Kinnerfelt chats with John Coleman about Holacracy and Sociocracy (Teaser)
Sustainable Xagility™
June 30, 2021
Ever wondered what the terms "Holacracy" and "Sociocracy" mean in the context of agile? How do we define and implement them? What is their effect?
Well wonder no more, Robert Kinnerfelt joins this week's Xagility episode to provide you all the answers. Alongside the host, John Coleman, both speakers dive in the ins and outs of Holacracy and Sociocracy and how they impact organisations.
Put your headphones on, the show is about to begin.
Walking through Empowered with Marty Cagan
Sustainable Xagility™
June 23, 2021
This week, Xagility has the immense pleasure of hosting the incredible Marty Cagan to discuss his fantastic book: "Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products".
Marty Cagan is the author of Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love, and Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products. He has performed and managed virtually all of the roles in a modern software product organization, including product management, software development, product marketing, user experience design, software testing, engineering management, and executive management. He is the founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group, where he helps others create successful products through his writing, speaking, advising, and coaching. Marty has served as an executive responsible for defining and building products for some of the most successful companies in the world, including Hewlett-Packard, Netscape Communications, and eBay.
Packed with anecdotes, humor as well as pure wisdom, this episode is guaranteed to inspire you (pun intended) as the speakers dive deep into the core themes underlying Marty's book and discuss how to create tech products customers love!
So what are you waiting for? Tune in and get inspired!
Developing intrapeneurs with Denise Pereira Carvalho
Sustainable Xagility™
June 09, 2021
Is innovation about questioning or answering? Do you innovate with or only for your customers? Where exactly do you think innovation gets stopped within the corporation? How do we develop intrapeneurs?
These questions are often overlooked or indeed never raised the consequence of which is stifled innovation. But yet they are so paramount to the overall wellbeing of an organisation.
How do you nurture innovation and develop intrapeneurs?
Developing intrapeneurs with Denise Pereira Carvalho (Taster/Exec Summary)
Sustainable Xagility™
June 08, 2021
Is innovation about questioning or answering? Do you innovate with or only for your customers? Where exactly do you think innovation gets stopped within the corporation? How do we develop intrapeneurs?
These questions are often overlooked or indeed never raised. But yet they are paramount to the overall wellbeing of an organisation.
Mike Burrows on the 2nd Edition of Agendashift
Sustainable Xagility™
June 01, 2021
Mike Burrows joins John Coleman to talk about the second edition of the widely successful AgendaShift and its subsequent conference.
This episode is infused with real-life anecdotes as well as experience and humour. Mike takes the listeners on an enriched account of his book writing journey, his inspiration and his passion.
Tobias Mayer on agility
Sustainable Xagility™
May 11, 2021
Taking a seat at the Xagility table this week is Tobias Mayer.
Tobias takes the listeners on a thorough account of agility as he recalls the world of agile through his own lenses and of course, experiences. Packed with anecdotes as well as perspective, this episode is guaranteed to give you a brand new impression of agile.
Tobias Mayer is a certified Scrum educator (Scrum Alliance CST), an advisor, guide and mentor to those interested in humane and purposeful work places.
Discussing "AgendaShift" with Mike Burrows
Sustainable Xagility™
May 04, 2021
Mike Burrows, author of the uber successful "Agenda Shift" joins John Coleman on this week's episode of the Xagility podcast.
Mike and John discuss the underlying rationale of "Agenda Shift" as well as recalling Mike's book writing process.
The discussion then shifts to the contributions "Agenda Shift" has made to the world of Agile and the success it has received since its publishing. This discussion exists against the background of what the agile world looked like before the arrival of "Agenda Shift" as both hosts highlight the significant changes and improvements this book has achieved in the bigger holistic framework of agile.
Hold on to your socks, this one is guaranteed to knock them off!
Discussing "Agendashift " with Mike Burrows
John Coleman
May 04, 2021
Lean, Agile, and Kanban pioneer Mike Burrows joins John in this episode to chat about his book AgendaShift, which explores ways to engage every employee, at every level, in the process of change.
John frames the discussion by revealing that upon reading Mike’s book, his immediate reaction was, “This is brilliant; I have to know more!” What inspired the birth of such a spectacular book? How do we fit these concepts into the larger agile framework and what does it look like in practice?
Get your snacks ready and turn off your screens as we get answers to the above questions in this captivating exchange.
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Why organisations need to widen the scope of agile and where/how to start?
Sustainable Xagility™
April 27, 2021
Ever thought about the benefits ensuing from organisations widening the scope of agile? Where and how would this process happen?
Joined by the knowledgeable and passionate Carolyn Mumby, David Nixon and Kyle Richardson take the listeners on a deep, insightful and anecdotal journey highlighting both the need of organisations adapting such agile perspectives as well as the deeper underlying rationales.
The discussion then focuses on, hypothetically, where and how such widening process would happen.
Grab your headphones and get ready to be challenged!
Sustainable Xagility - the agile manifesto, value and organizational agility with Robert Annis
Sustainable Xagility™
April 20, 2021
Robert Annis, Business & Organization Psychology Consultant and John Coleman chat about Agile, value, and organizational agility. Then they discuss the killer question...Is Agile dead? Well, is it?
Pia Maria Thoren and John Coleman discuss agility & its importance
Xagility™
March 18, 2021
Pia Maria Thoren joins John Coleman as his guest in the first episode of the Xagility podcast.
Pia starts the episode by recalling her journey in agile and explains what fuelled the drive to write her first book: Agile People. John and Pia then embark on a deep, multifaceted, and simultaneously humorous discussion about agility.
Pia and John opine on what they think enables the optimum functioning of agility and what motivates employees. They discuss the importance of the 'garden' metaphor in agility and talk about fostering the right environment to allow employees to achieve their full potential.
Grab some snacks or your running shoes, and tune in here!
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Daily Flow - where does Scrum Master end and agile leader begin?
Anchor.fm
December 31, 1969
This episode talks about the scrum master vs agile coach, the conversations you might have as a leader/scrum master/agility coach, what John expects a scrum master or agility coach to do, leader responsibilities as well as some things to consider stopping.
John Coleman profile on LeadersHum
LeadersHum.com
October 13, 2022
An agility chef at Orderly Disruption, the creator of Xagility and Kanplexity, and co-author of Kanban Guide. Co-creates a sustainable environment for agility. John specializes in executive agility to unlock organizational agility. Practices agility in tech and non-tech, and wrote Kanplexity for domains beyond software. A Prokanban.org Professional Kanban trainer (PKT), Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), LeSS Friendly Scrum Trainer (LSFT) who practices most of the time. Also into product management, Cynefin, Flight Levels, LeSS, Nexus, and UX.
Hit Delete: unlocking executive behavior to unlock organizational agility
Let’s explore the unintended consequences of expecting teams to be agile when we haven’t cultivated the right environment. Instead of buying “agility in a box,” what can we do to foster the growth of authentic, sustainable organizational agility? Part of the answer might be in improving executive agility. Glacial evolution at the executive level often results in people giving up hope on the dream of organizational agility, even those initially enthusiastic about it. There are agility frameworks tailored for teams, teams of teams, managers, leaders, finance, and people operations.This talk focuses on executives in tech and non-tech environments and the people supporting them. We look at how deleting specific executive behaviors could avoid the feeling that agility is just about teams. Perhaps we can attain executive agility by deleting unhelpful behaviors one at a time. We don’t have a proven recipe, but maybe we can strive to have fewer “agile-gone-wrong stories” by better understanding the urgency required for these deletions.In this discussion, we explore:
The observable executive behaviors that might indicate what to address first.
Actionable steps towards deleting the above behaviors.
Being aware of the side effects of starting elsewhere.
Real-life examples of the impact deleting certain behaviors had on organizational agility.
Where you can begin to affect change.
John Coleman: Hit Delete - unlocking executive agility one deletion at a time
Youtube
March 01, 2022
#AgileWithUkraine #10 John Coleman: Hit Delete - unlocking executive #agility one deletion at a time
John Coleman is a top 10 thought leader for agility at Thinkers 360, a scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer, a prokanban.org Professional Kanban Trainer, a LeSS Friendly Scrum Trainer, a podcaster (Xagility for curious executives, Daily Flow for agility practitioners), a practitioner, and prolific blogger.
About talk:
Let's explore the unintended consequences of expecting teams to be agile when we haven't cultivated the right environment. Instead of buying "agility in a box," what can we do to foster the growth of authentic, sustainable organizational agility? Part of the answer might be in improving executive agility. Glacial evolution at the executive level often results in people giving up hope on the dream of organizational agility, even those initially enthusiastic about it. There are agility frameworks tailored for teams, teams of teams, managers, leaders, finance, and people operations. This talk will focus on executives in tech and non-tech environments and the people supporting them. Let's look at how deleting specific executive behaviors could avoid the feeling that agility is just about teams. Perhaps we can attain executive agility by deleting unhelpful behaviors one at a time. We don't have a proven recipe, but maybe we can strive to have fewer "agile-gone-wrong stories" by better understanding the urgency required for these deletions? In this discussion, we'll explore: The observable executive behaviors that might indicate what to address first. Actionable steps towards deleting the above behaviors. Being aware of side effects from starting elsewhere. Real-life examples about the impact deleting certain behaviors had on organizational agility. Where you can begin to affect change.
ProKanban.org Applying Professional Kanban
John Coleman
May 07, 2022
Kanban is fast becoming the modern way to manage an organization’s delivery of customer value. In today’s always-on environment, you need a clear set of practices that don’t get in the way of your ability to continuously deliver but that provides enough structure to keep everyone aligned and focused. This 2 day course will give you an in-depth introduction to improving your team’s effectiveness by applying Kanban flow principles.
In this class, you will learn the basic principles of flow and how to use them to make your team process more efficient, predictable, and effective.
With an emphasis on the practical application of concepts, this course includes many hands-on exercises that will lead you through the steps of setting up and operating a Kanban system for continuous value delivery and improvement.
Professional Scrum with Kanban
John Coleman
April 25, 2022
Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK) is an interactive, activity-based training course that teaches experienced Scrum Masters and other Scrum practitioners how to improve the way they work by applying Kanban practices in the context of Professional Scrum. Through theory, case studies and hands-on exercises, students will learn how Kanban practices can help Scrum Teams achieve better outcomes by improving the flow of work. Organizations using DevOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) will find adding flow to their application of Scrum to be a natural complement.
The course also includes a free attempt at the globally recognized Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK I) certification exam.
Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS)
John Coleman
March 28, 2022
Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS) with Nexus is a 4-day course that is designed as an experiential workshop where students learn how to scale Scrum using the Nexus Framework. Throughout, you are introduced to the artifacts and events within the framework, the new Nexus Integration Team role, along with more than 50 associated practices. The course also includes a free attempt at the globally recognized Scaled Professional Scrum certification exam.
Professional Scrum with User Experience (PSU)
John Coleman
March 14, 2022
Professional Scrum with User Experience (PSU) is a hands-on, activity based course where students experience how Scrum and User Experience (UX) align and integrate to create cross-functional teams that connect more closely with end users and customers, ultimately delivering more value and improving outcomes. By working together in a dual-track agile process, members of the Scrum Team can work more effectively to balance discovery work and delivery work.
The course also includes a free attempt at the globally recognized Professional Scrum with User Experience I certification assessment (PSU I).
Professional Agile Leadership - Essentials (PAL-E)
John Coleman
February 19, 2022
The Professional Agile Leadership Essentials (PAL-E) is a 2-day hands-on workshop that uses a combination of instruction and hands-on exercises to help managers and other leaders who work directly with agile teams understand how to best support, guide, and coach their teams to improve their agile capabilities.
The workshop provides a foundation for the role that leaders play in creating the conditions for a successful agile transformation. Leaders and managers are critical enablers in helping their organizations be successful, yet the role of leaders and managers in an agile organization can be quite different from what they are used to.
This workshop uses a combination of instruction and team-based exercises to help participants learn how to form and support agile teams to achieve better results, and how to lead the cultural and behavioural changes that organizations must make to reap the benefits of an agile product delivery approach.
#kanplexity is an alternative approach to #productdevelopment and #projectmanagement developed by John Coleman - X Agility - with the purpose of helping #executive and #leadership teams increase #organizationalagility and competitive advantage.
The model uses #kanban as an #agileframework but isn't based exclusively on kanban, as many organizations do use it as a standalone approach.
#kanplexity combines the best of #projectmanagement, #agile #productdevelopment practices, and #kanban to help teams navigate complexity and focus on building the most valuable products, in the most valuable way, at the most valuable time for both customers and the organization.
In this short video, John Coleman explains the difference between #kanplexity and simply adopting #kanban as an #agileframework for your #productdevelopment.
What outcomes could executives expect after 90 days of the X Agility engagement model?
Youtube
February 08, 2023
#agile #scrum #leadership
One of the more frustrating elements of #agile for #leadership and #executive teams is the truth that teams simply cannot know the unknowable upfront, nor can they declare with certainty when a solution will be created and how much that will cost.
That's the problem with complexity. It is filled with volatility, uncertainty, and ambiguity.
That said, there are proven ways to navigate complexity effectively and ensure that teams work on the most valuable solutions or solve the most compelling problems.
So, if you do engage with X Agility and opt for the #agile coaching or consulting service to help you figure out how to move forward effectively, what could you reasonably expect after 90 days of the engagement model?
In this short video, John Coleman explains how the X Agility engagement model works and what you could expect within 30, 60, and 90 days of starting.
How will the PSU course help leadership teams innovate?
Youtube
February 07, 2023
#agile #scrum #leadership
Transitioning from a traditional #projectmanagement and #management approach to #agile can be incredibly tough for #leadership and #executive teams.
Going from a rigid, step-by-step model for building solutions to a lightweight #agileframework based on values and principles can be daunting because the familiar and trusted guardrails aren't present. Nobody is telling you what to do, how to do it, and when to do it because the solution has never been created before, nor has the problem ever been solved before.
In short, we don't know what we don't know and need to discover the best way forward through experimentation, frequent inspection, and adaptation.
Empirical Process Control.
So, how do you decide which products are worth building and which are best discarded? How do you know whether your teams are working on the most valuable solution or solving the most compelling problems in a way that leads to increased market share, revenue, and opportunities for the organization to thrive?
In this short video, John Coleman explains how the PSU (Professional Scrum with User Experience) course from scrum.org can help #leadership and #executive teams innovate and navigate complexity effectively.
How have leadership requirements evolved because of complexity?
Youtube
February 06, 2023
#agile #scrum #projectmanagement
For decades, traditional #projectmanagement and #management practices successfully delivered products and services that the world loved. From the Model T Ford to the stunning bridges we use to cross rivers and valleys.
Given it's past success, why would something like #agile have been developed, and why would organizations transition from a tried and tested methodology to harness the power of this new approach?
In a word, complexity.
If you've never built a solution or solved a problem before, and you can't know all the variables that will impact your ability to create the solution, traditional #projectmanagement, and #micromanagement simply won't do the trick. It isn't designed for complexity and uncertainty.
As the world has become more complex, the need for new approaches to #productdevelopment and #innovation has arisen, but with that has come to the need for #leadership and #executive teams to evolve too.
In this short video, John Coleman explains how leadership requirements have evolved because of complexity and why it's critical that #agileleadership is present.
#kanplexity is an alternative approach to #projectmanagement and #productdevelopment, developed by John Coleman, to help organizations increase their #agile capabilities and become more effective in delivering products and services that truly delight customers.
It can be tempting to think that a new style of working, at the team level, combined with an #agileframework like #kanban means that #leadership teams and #executives don't need to be involved, but it isn't that simple.
In this short video, John Coleman explains why #executiveagility and #agileleadership is important in the #kanplexity model and how it helps teams become more effective, collaborative, and creative.
How does Kanplexity help leaders navigate complexity?
Youtube
February 02, 2023
#agile #scrum #projectmanagement
Many organizations have succeeded with traditional #projectmanagement and #management approaches, especially in simple and complicated environments, but are now exploring alternative approaches to help them deal with increasing degrees of complexity and uncertainty.
#kanplexity was developed by John Coleman as an alternative approach to #projectmanagement and #productdevelopment that allowed #leadership teams and #projectmanagers to navigate complexity and improve the flow of work throughout the organization.
It also helps grow #agile capabilities and empowers the organization to become increasingly adaptive and responsive to customer needs and competitor disruption.
In this short video, John Coleman explains how #kanplexity helps #leadership teams navigate complexity effectively.
Is there a place for project managers in Kanplexity?
Youtube
February 01, 2023
#kanplexity #projectmanagement #productdevelopment
#kanplexity is an alternative approach to #projectmanagement and #productdevelopment, developed by
John Coleman, to help teams become more #agile and align their efforts with the customer and organizational objectives.
In the #agile and #scrum world, #projectmanagers are often given a hard time by the community and told that there is no place for them in the new world of #productdevelopment.
It seems ridiculous because #projectmanagers have such great skills, deep experience in delivering great work, and transferable competencies and capabilities that would be invaluable in #productdevelopment.
In this short video, John Coleman explains why #kanplexity definitely has a place for #projectmanagers and what subtle changes they would need to make to succeed with the model.
Can agile and waterfall project management co exist?
Youtube
January 31, 2023
#softwareengineers #agilemanifesto #agile
In 2001, a group of brilliant #softwareengineers came together to define the #agilemanifesto and create a new style of work that focused on values and principles rather than predetermined steps to help them navigate complexity and build products that delight customers.
It has proven incredibly successful, and as more organizations embrace the opportunity of #agile to help them navigate complexity, the number of organizations who attempt to adopt #agile for their #productdevelopment in tandem with #projectmanagement for their #projects has increased.
It's a difficult environment to navigate and often creates tension between traditional #projectmanagers and #agileleadership teams. In this short video, John Coleman explores whether #agile and co-exist with traditional #projectmanagement in the same organization.
What is Agile Leadership and why is it important?
Youtube
January 30, 2023
#projectmanagement #leadership #projectmanager
In a traditional #projectmanagement environment, we often deal with a series of predetermined steps. We know exactly what needs to be done, who needs to do the work, and within what cost and time constraints need to happen.
Management of the environment works great. Although #leadership is important, teams can typically get by with a strong # project manager supported by senior managers who authorize resources and make ad-hoc decisions.
In a complex environment, where we don't know the answer up front and must discover and learn to continuously improve and develop a solution, #agileleadership becomes incredibly important.
In this short video, John Coleman explains what #agileleadership is and why it is incredibly important for #agile teams and teams of teams.
#kanplexity is an alternative approach to #projectmanagement and #productdevelopment, developed by John Coleman, combining the best #agile, traditional #projectmanagement, and #kanban.
It's designed to help teams focus on delivering the most valuable work to customers in alignment with organizational capabilities and objectives.
One of our most frequently asked questions is whether #kanplexity can work at scale? Can this approach integrate teams of #agileteams or does it, like #scrum, only work with a standalone team?
In this short video, John Coleman explains how #kanplexity works at scale and why it's a great way to build products and solve complex problems.
What are the 3 primary challenges of project management that Kanplexity solves?
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January 26, 2023
#projectmanagement #agile #productdevelopment
Over the past 20 years, a debate has ranged between the #projectmanagement and #agile communities about which approach works best in #productdevelopment and complex environments.
The #agile purists would have you believe that #agile is the answer to every problem, whilst the #projectmanagement purists would have you believe that a few tweaks to the PMI program or PRINCE framework will help you navigate complexity.
John Coleman has worked in both camps for decades and developed a model known as #kanplexity to help traditional #projectmanagement teams navigate complexity and grow their #agile capabilities.
In this short video, he explains how #kanplexity solves the three primary challenges of #projectmanagement and empowers teams to build products and services that truly delight customers.
Why is a direction of travel preferable to a fixed strategy?
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January 25, 2023
#agile #leadership #executive
In simple or complicated environments, we have the luxury of determining a fixed strategy to navigate the future because we understand the environment, know all of the variables, and have a fair degree of confidence that best practices will lead to desired outcomes and objectives.
If you are building a road, this is the best way to build it, these are the best people to build it, and the following three factors will determine how successful we are in the future of our roadbuilding mission.
In complex environments, we don't know the answers upfront, nor have we ever solved the problems that lay before us, so we can't set a fixed strategy because it may well prove useless a few short months after we start.
So, how do #agile #leadership teams determine the best way forward in the face of extreme uncertainty and complexity? How do they set goals and objectives and create a vision for the future that inspires others?
In this short video, John Coleman explains why a 'direction of travel' is preferable to a fixed strategy for #executive and #leadership teams.
What is the primary responsibility of a leader and why is that so important?
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January 24, 2023
#projectmanagement #traditional #management
In traditional organizations, #projectmanagement has thrived in simple or complicated applications such as civil engineering. In other words, when we know the answer upfront, and we know how best to build that bridge and who is best suited to build the bridge, #projectmanagement is a great tool.
In complex environments, where we don't know the answer upfront, nor are we even sure that we can solve the problem, #traditional #projectmanagement falls over. A new style of work is required to navigate complexity and uncertainty.
It's true of leadership too. In the good old days, we simply had to manage things well rather than discover and innovate, so traditional #management styles worked a treat. What happens when you need to shift from efficient to effective? What happens when you need to shift from execution to innovation?
In this short video, John Coleman explains the primary responsibility of a leader in a complex environment and why that is so important in the 21st Century.
#kanplexity is an alternative approach to #projectmanagement and #productdevelopment, developed by John Coleman, to help organizations navigate increasing complexity in the 21st century.
In short, the old style of #projectmanagement simply falls over when confronted with complexity and disruption.
So, why has John looked to #kanban as a framework to help #projectmanagers and #leadership teams navigate complexity? Why not simply stick with traditional #projectmanagement tools and software?
In this short video, John Coleman explains how #kanplexity helps teams navigate complexity and why #kanban plays such an integral role in the model.
How is agile training different from project management training?
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January 20, 2023
#projectmanagement #agile #agileframeworks
When you've worked your whole career in a traditional #projectmanagement environment and tend to think about projects rather than products and initiatives, it can be incredibly difficult to navigate complexity.
Where #projectmanagement prescribes specific steps and has heaps of checks and balances in place to provide the illusion of control and security, #agile instead focuses on values and principles, supported by lightweight #agileframeworks to guide #leadership teams through complexity.
What does that mean in reality? How does #agile translate into a better approach to #productdevelopment in complex environments?
In this short video, John Coleman walks us through the difference between #agile training and #projectmanagement training.
What is the first step for an agile leader when confronted with disruption?
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January 19, 2023
#leadership #projectmanagement #agileframework
You're a member of the #leadership team, and you're either working with traditional #projectmanagement frameworks or an #agileframework to build products, solve problems, and navigate complex marketplaces.
What do you do when you're confronted with disruption? What is the first thing you should do when it's clear that the threat is present to your customers, your organization, and the markets you serve?
In this short video, John Coleman talks about how #agileleadership teams can respond to initial disruption and what steps they can take to navigate out of quicksand and back onto solid ground.
How has agile evolved, in your opinion, since 2001?
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January 18, 2023
#scrum #agile #empiricism
#scrum and #agile are built on empirical process control, also known as #empiricism, which consists of 3 primary pillars.
Transparency. Inspection. Adaptation.
We do our work and thinking visible, frequently inspect what we have done, and use the data and evidence to inform what we do next. Adapt.
The goal? Continuous improvement and learning.
So, how has #agile evolved since its formal inception in 2001? How has the philosophy and industry evolved, based on everything that has been learned in the past 21 years, and where will it lead next?
In this short video, John Coleman provides some insights into how #agile has evolved and where he imagines it will go next.
#agile #leadership #agileleadership #certifiedagileleadership #professionalagileleadership #scrum #scrumorg #xagility #executiveagility #xagility #execagility #executiveagile #kanplexity
What are 3 great reasons for an executive to trust an agile coach?
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January 17, 2023
#projectmanagement #agile #productdevelopment
Over many decades, many organizations have become successful by following traditional #projectmanagement approaches that have been refined over time. #projectmanagement works great in a simple or complicated environment but tends to fall over in complex environments, which is why so many organizations have begun to explore the opportunity of #agile.
Making a shift from a #projectmanagement mindset to a culture of innovation and #productdevelopment can be incredibly difficult. As such, many #leadership teams and executives turn to an #agilecoach or #agileconsultant for help.
So, what should you look for in an #agilecoach, and why should you and your #leadership team trust them? In this short video, John Coleman explains why executives can trust an #agilecoach and what they should be looking to extract from the partnership.
If you are looking for an agile consultant to help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to organizational agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page at https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
Why is a strong product ownership stance important for agile leaders?
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January 16, 2023
#scrum #productowner #scrumteam
In #scrum, the #productowner acts like the CEO of the product. Essentially, they help shape and articulate a strong vision for the product that inspires the #scrumteam to dig deeper, work smarter, and think more creatively about the solutions they build.
It's an accountability rather than a job title, and it's an incredibly valuable stance for #agileleadership teams to have when making the shift from #projectmanagement to #productdevelopment.
In this short video, John Coleman talks about the value of a strong product ownership stance and why it is incredibly important for #agile leaders.
About John Coleman
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #organizationalagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
https://linktr.ee/johncolemanxagility - social and podcast links
https://linkpop.com/orderlydisruption - order training from right here
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
If you are looking for an agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to organizational agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
Product owner coping strategies
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December 12, 2022
Are you a product owner?
Here are some tried and tested product owner coping strategies!
1. Become a developer - 1:33
2. 'Speak now or forever hold your silence' meeting - 2:19
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Successful organizations have evolved over years, sometimes decades, into the efficient and profitable companies they are. The behaviors, practices, and systems that facilitated that success are deeply entrenched and it can be very hard for those organizations to pivot or change.
So, for the organizations that do embrace #agility and embark on an #agiletransformation, what does change look like and who owns that change?
Is this something that happens to the organization or something which is cultivated and nurtured from within?
In this short video, John Coleman talks about the value of change and addresses the topic of 'who owns the change' in the organization.
#agile #leadership #agileleadership #certifiedagileleadership #professionalagileleadership #scrum #scrum.org #xagility #executiveagility #xagility #execagility #executiveagile #kanplexity
How much of a risk do traditional managers face if they don't embrace agility?
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November 28, 2022
Every element of change offers an opportunity and delivers a potential threat. If we do this, we may gain X but we might lose Y.
It is equally important to consider the risk of not doing something to fully understand whether you have exposure, and what that exposure might cost in the long-term.
Since the creation of the #agilemanifesto in 2001, a lot of companies have adopted a 'wait and see' approach. They have witnessed #agile grow in popularity and deliver outstanding results, and they have also witnessed the failed #agiletransformation of several large organizations.
In a simple or complicated environment there is no urgency to adopt #agile because traditional #projectmanagement works just fine, and executive and leadership teams straddle the fine line between efficiency and effectiveness.
In a complex environment, a great deal changes and organizations are open to disruption from multiple avenues. So, how much of a risk do traditional managers face if they don't embrace #agility? What are the consequences of doing things the way we have always done them around here?
In this short video, John Coleman talks about risk and potential repercussions for traditional managers and organizations.
Are agile executives born or do they need training and coaching?
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November 25, 2022
There is an interesting TED Talk from Sir Ken Robinson where he talks about the percentage of creative genius identified in young kids, before they attend school, and how that rapidly diminishes as people move through the education system.
School environments tend to reward the same things that traditional managers and organizations reward. Obedience. Diligence. Compliance.
So, in a world of great complexity where we now value creativity, collaboration, and innovation, how many #executives and #leaders possess the innate creative genius, agility, and collaborative skills necessary to cultivate and nurture effective #agile teams?
Are these people born or can they get there through #coaching, #training, and #mentoring? In this short video, John Coleman speaks about his experience with #executiveagility and what he has observed.
How much of an impact can an agile executive have on the team environment?
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November 24, 2022
You will often hear #agile practitioners and #agilecoaches talk about the need for #leadership and #executive teams to actively champion #agile rather than simply support the idea of it.
Yes, adopting #agile and working with small teams can have a significant impact on the quality of #productdevelopment as well as increase the velocity of delivery, but there are things that are beyond the influence and control of the team and they do need help from powerful executives.
So, how much of an impact can a great #agileleadership team or #agile executive have on the team environment? How much does it really matter whether executives embrace #agile or not?
In this short video, John Coleman speaks about the significance of #executiveagility and how it can impact the team environment.
#agile #leadership #agileleadership #certifiedagileleadership #professionalagileleadership #scrum #scrum.org #xagility #executiveagility #xagility #execagility #executiveagile #kanplexity
What attracted you to executive agility and why do you think such a great need for it exists?
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November 23, 2022
n the world of #agile and #productdevelopment, there are a great deal of #agileframeworks, tools, models, and so forth that are designed to help individuals and teams increase #agility.
There are also a significant number of thought leaders, courses, and articles that help guide #agile practitioners through the process of #productdevelopment and #productmanagement, but there aren't many resources for #agileleadership teams and an aspiring #agileleader.
In this short video, John Coleman talks about the thing that first attracted him to the #executiveagility space, and why he feels that #executiveagility is one of the most valuable skills an organization can cultivate and nurture.
#agile #leadership #agileleadership #certifiedagileleadership #professionalagileleadership #scrum #scrum.org #xagility #executiveagility #xagility #execagility #executiveagile #kanplexity
What is the most significant thing you have seen executive agility achieve?
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November 22, 2022
Large, multi-national organizations have achieved a great deal over the past 50 to 100 years because they are great at management and execution. The culture, mindset, and practices of a traditional organization are deeply embedded in the people who work there and it can be incredibly difficult to shift behavior and mindset to achieve increased #agility.
In the 21st century, there is a great deal more complexity and the need for continuous innovation that delights customers and creates competitive advantage has increased significantly.
So, what is a great example of #executiveagility in action?
In this short video, John Coleman speaks about one of the more impressive things he has witnessed with regard to #executiveagility.
How does Kanplexity integrate into a traditional project management environment?
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November 19, 2022
ohn Coleman is the architect of the Kanplexity framework, an alternative approach to #projectmanagement and #productdevelopment.
Many organizations still see the value of working with #traditional #projectmanagement yet encounter increasing degrees of complexity, which makes it difficult to navigate and deliver great outcomes if you're stuck with an outdated model or approach.
Kanplexity aims to help these #projectmanagers and organizations tap into empirical process control, agile methodologies and frameworks, whilst empowering them to adapt how they currently work to achieve better outcomes.
In this short video, John Coleman explains how #kanplexity integrates into a traditional #projectmanagement environment and how that will help #projectmanagers navigate increasing complexity.
#agile #leadership #agileleadership #certifiedagileleadership #professionalagileleadership #scrum #scrumorg #xagility #executiveagility #xagility #execagility #executiveagile #kanplexity
What would be a great example of an executive coaching outcome?
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November 18, 2022
In traditional #coaching as well as the world of #agile, it can be hard to define exactly what a great coach will help you achieve because each engagement is unique and each application differs.
That said, almost all #coaching engagements start with a charter where your #agilecoach will ask you about the specific outcomes, goals and objectives you are trying to achieve and how they can help you do that.
In this short video, John Coleman explains what a great example of an #executiveagility coaching outcome would be and how that benefits the organization.
How is executive agility coaching going to empower executives and agile leaders?
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November 17, 2022
In the world of #agile, there are two schools of thought.
The first believe that you can package agility in an off-the-shelf product and simply roll that out, whilst the second believe that you need to cultivate and nurture authentic #agility and create that capability as you evolve.
John Coleman firmly believes that you can't buy agility in a box and that you are best served cultivating, nurturing and growing #agile capability in the unique context of your organization.
So, how do you achieve that? A blend of training, coaching and consulting is usually the best prescription for that.
In this short video, John Coleman explains how #agility #coaching empowers #executive and #agileleadership teams to make great decisions, grow #agility, and create a responsive and adaptive organization.
#agile #leadership #agileleadership #certifiedagileleadership #professionalagileleadership #scrum #scrumorg #xagility #executiveagility #xagility #execagility #executiveagile #kanplexity
How is an X Agility executive coaching engagement different from a consulting engagement?
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November 16, 2022
In the world of #agile, there are a number of different stances that are designed to help you design, configure and implement your #agileframework or #agile adoption.
So, what is the difference between hiring #agile coaches versus #agile consultants? What are the primary differences in outcomes that you receive and which style of engagement best serves you at the beginning?
In this short video, John Coleman explains the difference between an X Agility consulting engagement and an X Agility consulting engagement.
About John Coleman
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #organizationalagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
https://linktr.ee/johncolemanxagility - social and podcast links
https://linkpop.com/orderlydisruption - order training from right here
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
If you are looking for an agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to organizational agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
What is kanplexity and what inspired you to create this framework?
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November 15, 2022
Kanplexity is an alternative approach to product development & project management created by John Coleman.
It provides a framework for navigating complexity using Kanban and Cynefin.
In this short video, John Coleman explains what Kanplexity is, what inspired him to create the framework, and how you can apply kanbplexity in traditional #projectmanagement environments as well as #agile environments.
Agility Island: Product Management Series: Different Types of Product Owners
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November 07, 2022
What are the different categories of product owner?
This episode goes outlines all the different types of product owners as well as the characteristics/pros and cons of each by considering them against the definition of a product and how you may deliver value.
Join me as I also bust a common myth: product management being taught at product ownership classes.
In this episode I drew on my information I gained from my interviews with:
Indi Young - https://anchor.fm/xagility/episodes/I...
John Carter, chief engineer of BOSE noise cancelling headphones - full interview available here: https://anchor.fm/xagility/episodes/J...
What are the top 3 barriers to achieving agility in organizations and why?
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November 07, 2022
As traditional organizations encounter greater degrees of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, they begin to explore the opportunity of #agile as a form of #productdevelopment and #businessagility that empowers them to respond and adapt to market conditions, competitor activity and changing customer demand.
From the outside looking in, an #agileframework such as #scrum or #largescalescrum can appear relatively simple and straightforward because it is a lightweight framework designed to provide a scaffolding for teams to work from without being strangled by heaps of red tape.
Each organization is unique and their context and application is equally unique, which sometimes leads to problems when adopting an 'off-the-shelf' agile solution.
In this short video, John Coleman explores the top 3 barriers to adopting #agile in organizations and provides some insights into why #agility can be tough to achieve.
Is executive agility something you can cocreate with agility specialists and leadership teams?
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November 04, 2022
As organizations explore the opportunity of #agile and how it will impact their #productdevelopment capability, it can be tempting to look at off-the-shelf #agile solutions that resemble #agility in a box.
According to many #agile experts, you simply cannot buy agility in a box and expect the #agileframework to work efficiently and effectively. It needs to be a process that is authentic to your organization and relevant to your context.
So, how do you adopt #agile and integrate an #agileframework into your team environments to cultivate and nurture #businessagility?
John Coleman is a fan of cocreation and believes that #executives, #leadership teams and #agilechefs can work together to identify opportunities for #agility and grow #agile capabilities within the organization. In this short video, John explains why and how.
What is your favourite example or case study of executive agility in action, and why?
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November 03, 2022
When you work with #agile and #businessagility experts, you inevitably witness great companies attempting and achieving great things.
We often focus on the organization or the #productdevelopment teams that have delivered such phenomenal results, but what about the #executives and #leadership teams that played such a critical role in creating the kind of environments where #agile and an #agileframework can thrive?
In this short video, John Coleman talks about his two favourite examples of #executiveagility in action, and outlines why these two #executives made such an impact on him.
What keeps traditional managers awake at night and how does Agile solve those problems?
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November 02, 2022
If you're an #executive or a member of a #leadership team in a traditional #management and #projectmanagement environment, it can be nearly impossible to remain calm and focused when you encounter complexity, uncertainty and volatility.
Traditional #projectmanagement simply doesn't work in complex environments because you can't guess all the variables upfront nor can you know how long something will take to complete, how much that will cost, and whether you have allocated the correct people and resources to the project.
#agile is an Empirical Process Control methodology that is built on the pillars of transparency, inspection and adaptation. We learn through doing and we use the data and evidence to inform what we attempt next and what our next hypothesis will be.
In this short video, John Coleman explains why traditional #managers are incredibly stressed in complex environments and how #agile has proven to be a game changer for #productdevelopment in complex environments.
Why & how is Agile a more effective way to create, test & develop products than project management?
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November 01, 2022
In traditional #projectmanagement, a #projectmanager works with sponsors and stakeholders to identify what needs doing, what resources and people need to be allocated to the #project, and within which time and cost constraints the project needs to be delivered.
That works great in simple and complicated environments where we have delivered the project on multiple occassions and we have a proven team of experts who know exactly how to deliver the project efficiently.
In complex environments, we often don't know the answer upfront nor do we know all the variables that will impact the process. We've never solved that problem before and we've never built that solution before, so there can be no way of knowing how long it will take, how much it will cost, and what will be needed to ensure successful delivery.
This is where #agile comes into it's own. Lightweight #agileframeworks that help teams of experts build valuable products and features despite volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environments.
In this short video, John Coleman, explains why Agile is more effective in helping teams create, test and develop products than a traditional project management approach.
What does great Agile Leadership look and feel like?
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October 31, 2022
When you have grown up in a traditional #management and #projectmanagement environment, you know that diligence, obedience and compliance are the most respected and rewarded traits.
You know that deferring to managers who are more senior to you is the best way to protect your job and you know that executing against a predetermined plan, to the best of your ability and without rocking the boat, is a sure fire way to get recognized, rewarded and promoted.
When you step into an #agile environment you're expected to contribute your knowledge, skills and insights. You are expected to speak the truth to power, even if your voice shakes. You are expected to help your #executives and #leadership teams discover great answers to compelling problems.
How do you make that shift? How do you transition from a traditional hierarchy filled with heaps of danger to a flatter structure that embraces creativity, collaboration and perseverance?
In this short video, John Coleman explains what great #agileleadership looks and feels like to give you a sense of the kind of environment you should be creating and nurturing in an #agile environment.
How would you define traits and characteristics of an agile leadership style?
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October 28, 2022
In traditional #management and #projectmanagement, organizations focused intensely on developing a plan, and then executing against that plan with maximum efficiency and productivity.
The assumption was that the upfront guesswork would pay off because #executives, #leaders and #managers were smarter than competitors and the people who were actively doing the work.
In a simple environment, this can work well. In a complicated environment, such as building bridges and roads, traditional #projectmanagement still does a great job and the experts at the top do, in fact, know the best way to build that bridge and the most cost-effective way to deliver that bridge.
Diligence. Obedience. Compliance.
These are the traits that thrive in a traditional #management and #projectmanagement environment. But what do we need in complex environments where we need to discover the answer and the best way to build a product or feature?
In this short video, John Coleman speaks about the kinds of traits and characteristics that are needed of #agile leaders and executives if they are to thrive in complex and #agile environments of the future.
How do executives and leadership teams transform into students of Agile?
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October 27, 2022
#agile is built on the foundation of Empirical Process Control. A concept of continuous improvement and evolution through the pillars of transparency, inspection and adaptation.
In complex environments, we simply can't know what we don't know. We have never solved the problem before and we have never built the product or solution before.
We don't know how long it will take, how much it will cost, how many people need to be involved, and whether it will resonate with customers and markets in a way that is profitable and sustainable.
The old way of guessing a 5 year project upfront and betting the farm that the millions of dollars and man hours we invest will pay off in a big way just isn't cutting it in complex environments and we need a better way of building products and solving problems.
Enter #agile. A culture and mindset built on values and principles rather than rigid rules and compliance processes. A style of working and creating that has empowered some of the most progressive organizations on Earth to thrive despite complexity and uncertainty.
In this short video, John Coleman explains how #executiveagility and #agileleadership empower organizations to thrive despite volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous markets and environments.
About John Coleman
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
https://linktr.ee/johncolemanxagility - social and podcast links
What roles do executives and agile leaders play in championing Agility?
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October 26, 2022
In 2001, a group of brilliant and experienced software engineers came together to create the #agilemanifesto. Their concept empowered them to move away from the rigid constraints and extreme documentation of traditional #projectmanagement and into the realm of #businessagility
In other words, creating products and services that truly delighted customers in a fraction of the time it took to navigate the traditional #management and #projectmanagement environments.
The success of this style of working has led to competitive advantage for organizations and intense disruption in markets that were previously considered 'safe' for the market leaders.
In this short video, John Coleman explains what roles #executives and #agileleadership play in helping organizations adopt and champion #agile.
About John Coleman and X Agility
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
https://linktr.ee/johncolemanxagility - social and podcast links
https://linkpop.com/orderlydisruption - order training from right here
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
If you are looking for an expert agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to business agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
Why is leadership important when adopting or scaling Agile?
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October 25, 2022
You will often hear an #agilecoach or #scrummaster say that it isn't enough for leaders to buy into #agile or support an #agiletransformation, they actively need to champion that adoption or #agileframework implementation.
At X Agility, we believe that #executives and #leadership teams need to be empowering teams to solve complex problems and build products and features that delight customers.
We believe that #executiveagility involves #executives and #leadership teams actively working with teams to resolve organizational impediments, help teams solve problems that are outside of their control and influence, and empowering teams to become autonomous and self-managing.
In this short video, John Coleman talks about why leadership is so important when an organization adopt or scale #agile.
About John Coleman and X Agility
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
https://linktr.ee/johncolemanxagility - social and podcast links
https://linkpop.com/orderlydisruption - order training from right here
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
If you are looking for an expert agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to business agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
The difference between opinions and evidence in Agile environments
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October 13, 2022
In a traditional #projectmanagement environment, a #projectmanager attempts to determine, upfront, what the entire scope of the #project will be and within what cost and time constraints the project must be completed.
On one hand, they are drawing on their own experience and best guess estimates and on the other hand, they are trying to meet the deadlines and constraints provided to them by executives, leadership teams, and project directors.
Tough gig.
In #productdevelopment environments that embrace #agile and an #agileframework to support #businessagility, we know that we can't know that which is unknowable.
The problem has never been solved before and the product has never been created before. How could we know? How could we know all the variables upfront and how could we know how long it will take, and at what cost, to deliver the product or solve the problem?
Empirical process control is the answer.
We learn through doing and as we discover, we gather data and evidence that allows us to develop a hypothesis and design an experiment that either proves or disproves our hypothesis.
So, what value does an opinion have in this environment? How does that compare with evidence? Which of these matter and why?
In this short video, John Coleman talks about the difference between opinions and evidence in product development environments and how you should be thinking about approaching each problem or opportunity.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
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The tension of adopting agile in a traditional management organization
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October 12, 2022
You're an #executive or member of the #leadership team in a big, successful organization that has dominated the market over the past 50 years. It's a great place to be.
But as we transition into the 21st century era of complexity, it's becoming harder and harder to maintain that competitive edge and your organization are at risk of disruption if you don't explore new styles of working and better ways of creating and delivering value for your customers.
Enter #businessagility. A #productdevelopment approach designed to help your organization rapidly adapt and respond to volatility, complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity in your markets.
It isn't always a seamless transition from the old to the new. We also aren't aiming to transform the entire organization, #agile is a great answer but it isn't the answer to everything. You still need to be great at execution and you still need to manage the simple and complicated areas of your business.
So, how do you navigate the internal conflicts that arise when integrating #agile with traditional #management and #projectmanagement? In this short video, John Coleman walks us through the tension of adopting #agile in a traditional #management organization.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
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The context of X Agility and adopting agile behaviors in your organization
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October 11, 2022
What does X Agility mean? What does executive agility imply? How will executives and #leadership teams benefit from adopting authentic #agile and deleting behaviors that block #agility?
In this short video, John Coleman explains why X Agility has a strong role to play in helping organizations achieve authentic #businessagility and how adopting #agile values and principles, from a leadership perspective, will help your organization identify and nurture your own values and principles that support #agility
As we transition from #projectmanagement to #productdevelopment, we find that the environments we serve are a great deal more complex, volatile, uncertain and ambiguous than they have ever been. The old ways of working simply stumble and fall over in these conditions and we need to adopt new ways of discovering, nurturing, creating and delivering value.
Enjoy!
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
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If you are looking for an expert agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to business agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
Agile frameworks and awareness around these approaches to Agile
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October 10, 2022
If you are an #executive or a member of a #leadership team in a legacy-driven organization built in the 20th century, it can be incredibly hard to discern which #agileframework is a great fit for you and how best to approach the adoption of #agile for your #productdevelopment.
There are numerous thought leaders out there, each evangelizing why their approach is best, and there are numerous books, #agileframeworks, and experts talking about their preferred framework or approach.
How do you make sense of all the clutter? How do you discern the wood from the trees in the #agile forest?
In this short video, John Coleman talks about the things that you need to be aware of when considering an #agileframework or specific approach to adopting #agile. John also stresses the importance of finding an authentic approach to #agility that empowers your organization to make the changes it needs to make, in an authentic way, that serves your customers, your teams, and your stakeholders.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
If you are looking for an expert agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to business agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
What is Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)?
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October 07, 2022
In this episode, I take you through what Large Scale Scrum precisely consists of, including a breakdown of the sprint retrospectives, product backlog refinement, and the daily scrum. What are the advantages of scaling?
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In a traditional waterfall-style #projectmanagement environment, people are often told what to do, how to do it, and within what time and financial parameters they need to complete the project.
It is a very command and control oriented environment where things like diligence, obedience and compliance are valued above all else.
The assumption is that the leader in the organization knows best and the workers are simply there to execute as and when they are required to do so.
That works relatively well in a simple environment where the best practice is well known as are all other variables. It also works relatively well in a complicated environment where professionals and engineers understand the domain, know the majority of variables that they will be presented with, and are able to follow a formula from A to Z.
In a complex environment, things become trickier.
Because we have never built the product before or solved the problem before, we can't know what we don't know. We need to collaborate, create and experiment in order to find the right answer.
Whilst executive and leadership teams do have a great deal of power and authority, it is generally accepted that it is wise to push decision-making down to the level where the experts live and allow the people who best know how to solve the problem to solve the problem.
So, what do you do if you're an executive or member of the #leadership team and you don't have a great team to help you? What do you do if you're finding that managers within your organization are behaving in the old control and command style of working and behaving in ways that contradict or violate Agile principles and values?
In this short video, John Coleman explores the importance of having a great team and knowing, as an #agileleader, who is on your team and why they are there.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
If you are looking for an expert agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to business agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
Technical knowledge for Agile leaders and executives
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September 26, 2022
One of the hallmarks of an #agile environment is the idea that managers and #leadership teams should push decision-making down to the experts who are best able to make a great decision.
Sure, things like product vision, financial threats and opportunities, and the business strategy are often the domain of #leaders and #executives but what do you do when you're facing technical risks or accumulating technical debt in the environment?
Do you, as the executive or leader, need to have strong technical skills to succeed in an #agile environment? Do you need to grow your technical skills and capability to successfully lead an #agile organization?
In this short video, John Coleman explores the concept of technical knowledge and how #leadership and #executiveagility teams can benefit from learning their technical teams.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
If you are looking for an expert agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to business agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
6 month rallying cry for Agile teams
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September 23, 2022
In a complicated environment such as civil engineering, engineers know how to build roads and bridges and they know roughly how long that will take and how much that will cost.
In these kinds of environments, waterfall-style #projectmanagement does a great job. People know the formula and it is simply a matter of getting the job done before moving onto the next #project and repeating the process.
There isn't much of a need for people to be inspired. Sure, they can enjoy what they do, maybe even love what they do, but it isn't a requirement to get the bridge built or the road paved.
In complex environments, you are often creating a product or feature that has never been created before. Solving problems that have never been solved before. Inventing and innovating with the purpose of delighting customers and achieving competitive advantage in volatile markets.
In this space, you do need inspiration and motivation to flow throughout your team environments, and the organization at large. You do need people to be deeply committed to the vision and purpose of the product or organization, and you want them to persevere through the creative process, especially when things get tough.
In this short video, John Coleman talks about the importance of a rallying cry and how #agileleadership teams can inspire #productdevelopment teams over semesters to tap into their creative potential.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
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When traditional organizations make the decision to transition to #agile #productdevelopment in favor of traditional #projectmanagement and #management, it can be difficult to get started and successfully adopt #agile across multiple departments and business functions.
In many cases, an organization will run a pilot with an #agileframework such as #scrum or #less, and grow agility within a silo before attempting to connect that team with a team of teams.
This often leads to siloed #agility where a specific department of business function will run, sometimes up to 5 years, without growing #agility across multiple functions and departments which can lead to problems and be very difficult to undo.
In this short video, John Coleman speaks about the dangers of adopting #agile in a silo and how value streams are generated across multiple functions and departments rather than a single silo.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
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In #agile #productdevelopment environments, it is incredibly important for the team to have a strong product vision that inspires them to seek the best answers to the most compelling problems and to create products and features that truly delight customers and end-users.
Unlike traditional #projectmanagement, it isn't enough to simply assign tasks and deadlines for delivery. That works in complicated environments where people more or less know what needs doing, how to do it, and how long it will take to do it.
Because you are working in complex environments and creating a product or feature that has never been created before or solving a problem that has never been solved before, the team need to understand why this is important and how it will delight customers or help them get critical jobs done.
There is no formula. The team need to be creative, collaborative and inspired to deliver great work.
So, how do you do that as a leader? How do you create an environment where others are inspired? How do you create an environment where you are inspired and motivated?
In this short video, John Coleman walks us through the importance of inspiration, for Agile Leaders, and how they can go about cultivating and nurturing inspiration in their daily lives.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
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What do Agile leaders prioritize?
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September 20, 2022
In traditional #projectmanagement environments, #leadership teams work with #projectmanagers and #projectdirectors to determine what needs doing at the very beginning of the #project.
They attempt to determine what needs doing, who needs to be assigned the work, when they need to be assigned that work, what the dependencies are and within which financial and timeline constraints the work needs to be delivered.
#agile #productdevelopment environments work completely differently because we can't know what we can't know upfront, and the team need to learn and discover what the best solution is through experimentation and frequent inspection and adaptation.
So, what do #agile leadership teams and executives prioritize? In this short video, John Coleman walks us through the considerations for #agileleadership teams and what they should prioritize.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
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In #productdevelopment and #marketing, we have a great understanding about the value of timing. If there isn't an ecosystem to support the new technology or product, it often fails regardless of how great a product or feature it may be.
Email would be useless if everyone didn't have a computer, software and access to the internet. It's the same for #agile frameworks and the practice of adopting #agile within your organization.
Timing matters a great deal.
In this short video, John Coleman walks us through the importance of timing and how it impacts the successful adoption of #businessagility and #agile frameworks.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
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The #agilemanifesto was created in 2001 by a group of talented, skilled and experienced software engineers with the intention of shifting from process management to product development.
The concept lay in creating products, features and opportunities that truly delight customers rather than following a rigid, predetermined framework of rules and requirements.
Some of the top companies in the world such as spotify and netflix bear testimony to what can be achieved when organizations transform from 20th century style management to 21st century style #businessagility.
So, how does that happen? How do companies transform how they work and create environments that are receptive to #agile frameworks, values and principles?
Truth is, it requires a partnership. In this short video, John Coleman talks about the value of partnership when considering an #agile adoption, and the benefits a partnership brings in the context of a success #agiletransformation.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
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Inauthentic frameworks, authentic people
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September 06, 2022
The #agile movement began in 2001 when a group of highly talented, skilled and experienced developers took time out to define a new way of working that empowered them to write great software and delight customers.
It was a massive shift from the traditional waterfall-style of #projectmanagement and focused on values and principles within a lightweight framework rather than a rigid, process-driven style of working.
As more companies witnessed the benefit of #agility, the began to investigate #agileframeworks to identify which one best worked within their context and within their constraints.
For the #agile purists, a number of these frameworks are labelled ineffective at best and downright fraudulent at worst. So, how do you we reconcile great, authentic agile practitioners working within frameworks that the agile industry consider the poorest form of business #agility available?
In this short video, John Coleman addresses the issue of inauthentic #agile frameworks being supported and implemented by authentic #agilecoaches and practitioners.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
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Agility Island: Advice I would give my younger self
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August 31, 2022
The last 18 years working in a range of different industries (ranging from tech to oil, tobacco, etc) have taught me a lot.
Today I share some of the advice I would give the version of myself who was just starting out. Whether you are an experienced scrum master or just starting your career, there's something for everyone in this episode.
From the Kübler-Ross Change Curve to the Tuckman Model, the devastating impact closing down a project can have on a team, what drives our behavior, Executive Agility, the importance of understanding the business and technical domain when working outside software, imposing your views on other people's beliefs and lip service.
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In traditional #projectmanagement environments, a #projectmanger will attempt to scope a project upfront based on what they and others consider important, critical or valuable.
In complicated environments where you know all the variables upfront and are very clear about what is being built, how it will be built, and within which timeframes it will be delivered, that is ok.
It's a bridge. It serves X purpose. It looks like this and works like that.
In complex environments, you don't know what you don't know. You have a myriad of variables that impact the value creation process, from changing customer needs through to disruption in market places.
You don't know the answer upfront, you need to discover the most valuable way forward and you need to experiment to create an empirical trail of data and evidence that can inform the decisions you make and the actions you take.
In this short video, John Coleman speaks about the value of experimentation and why it is both necessary and valuable in complex environments.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
If you are looking for an expert agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to business agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
In traditional #projectmanagement environments, there are a few approaches you can take that are deeply prescriptive and designed to ensure command and control exists at every step of value creation.
It works well in complicated environments, such as civil engineering, where the team who build bridges know how to do that incredibly well and simply require a formula and process to develop the infrastructure.
In complex working environments, we are often solving a problem that has never been solved before and we are creating products, features and services that have never existed before so we can't know what we don't know.
There are also a myriad of unknown variables that come from potential customers, markets, legislative environments, etc. that can trip us up as we move ahead in the product development process.
So, how do we achieve an optimal environment for growing and nurturing high-performing, creative and collaborative teams?
#agile frameworks such as scrum have proven incredibly popular in complex environments such as software engineering. #scaling frameworks such as #less have also been battle tested in some of the most demanding applications around and proven themselves reliable, useful scaffolding for teams to adopt when dealing with complexity.
In this short video, John Coleman speaks about scaling frameworks and approaches that may be useful to you when considering how you want to evolve in creating high-performance teams.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
If you are looking for an expert agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to business agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
For many organizations, the focus of adopting #scrum or #agile frameworks is to become #agile without really considering what that means.
#agile is a great answer but it isn't the answer to every question.
If you are, instead, aiming to solve a specific business problem or address the quality of value that you are creating for your customers, #agile becomes a great way to discover how you can improve in those areas.
It becomes a great way to grow and nurture high-performance teams that create products and services that truly delight customers.
So, what is a high-value team? What does that look like? Why do #agile frameworks such as #scrum and #less aim to create high-performing, creative and collaborative teams that are deeply invested in continuous improvement?
Because teams are capable of creating a great deal more value than a collection of individuals working on a task. Teams are able to deliver exponentially more value than a short-lived group of people trying to solve a problem.
In this short video, John Coleman explores the concept of short-lived teams and provides some insight into how high-performing teams outperform outsourced work to short-lived teams.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
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Can agile be used outside software development?
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July 30, 2022
Scrum can be used by all fields, including those outside of software development.
#scrum #agility #kanban
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00:28 using agility in non-software
01:31 using the right strategy
02:10 kanban for complexity (kanplexity)
02:40 agility improving in non-software
03:36 using kanban professionally
04:27 needing rules
So, when will scrum die? Is scrum already dying? Inauthentic agility and scrum is putting authentic scrum in danger.
#scrum #agility #kanban
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00:25 the concept of done
00:43 authentic agility
01:38 being a scrum master
02: authentic scrum
03:09 Kanplexity
04:19 product owners
05:09 scrum is dying
How do you connect with teams in an authentic, meaningful and valuable way? How do you genuinely help your teams overcome significant challenges and frustration without disrupting their dynamic or environment?
You walk the Gemba.
In this short video, John Coleman talks us through leadership behaviour that inspires teams and helps organizations achieve increased business agility.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
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Leader vs Scrum Master, what is the difference between a Scrum Master and an Agile Coach?
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July 19, 2022
What is the difference? By analyzing what should a scrum master be doing and what would a leader do, we can understand that there is not much difference. Why do I think leaders make good scrum masters?
What is efficiency tunnel vision?
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July 06, 2022
Efficiency is doing the thing right, whilst Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Ideally, you want to be doing both but sometimes, in the rush to squeeze as much productivity out of the team as we can, we lose sight of how much of an impact we have on our customers, our product stakeholders and our partners.
Is efficiency the best measure of success for your team? Is efficiency the most important objective for your organization?
Many would say yes. In this short video, John Coleman speaks about Efficiency Tunnel Vision and the impact is has on teams and organizations.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
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#scrum was a sensational concept based on it's value proposition of delivering twice the work in half the time. A lightweight framework that empowered teams to work in complex environments creating products nobody had ever seen and solving problems nobody had ever solved.
A few years later, the #agilemanifesto made a massive impact on the software and #productdevelopment community with it's progressive #agile values and principles which helped #developers navigate complex environments with increased creativity and collaboration.
As these frameworks and concepts proved themselves, it was inevitable that organizations would want to scale that success and align more teams to consistently produce great work that delights customers.
Scaling #scrum or #agile is incredibly difficult to do and many organizations saw their #agiletransformation fail in the rush to scale.
So, does that mean you can't scale #scrum or #agile?
No, not at all.
#less or #largescalescrum is a proven framework and has been battle tested in some of the toughest applications on Earth.
It is simply that you need to consider a great deal of things before you can successfully scale and this short video provides some insight from John Coleman into why that is, what you should be considering, and what your options are when it comes to scaling.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
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OKRs: Objectives and Key Results
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July 04, 2022
OKRs were designed and developed at Intel as a way for the team to focus on measuring progress against objectives and key results.
This concept was made popular by John Doerr in his book, 'Measure what matters', and many large organizations have since adopted this framework as a way to measure their efforts and how they align to the most important business objectives and key results for the organization or department.
There is some tension in the #agile world with the employment of the OKRs framework and John Coleman walks us through why that is, how OKRs can be a useful framework, and how it can be dangerous in the wrong hands.
If you are interested in the OKRs framework or simply interested in how OKRs could help your team grow #businessagility within your organization, this is a great video for you to watch.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
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Did you know that there are 17 United Nation, sustainable development goals. Did you know that when you're measuring value, you can consider societal value as part of that. And that could include consideration for those 17 United Nation sustainable development goals. Now those 17 United Nation sustainable development goals, they do compete against each other.
So there is an element of balance there, but if you decide to go after maybe a couple of them, for example, reducing carbon footprint or passing on plastic, that's something that could be considered when you're ordering the backlogs or when the product owners that you've empowered to, order backlogs for you.
They can consider societal value when they're ordering the backlog. And I would urge you to go for authentic sustainability as opposed to. Greenwashing is just a waste of energy. Really. We could be delivering more value to customers and greenwashing is just a real cynical approach to pretending to be sustainable.
Instead of being inauthentic with our sustainability, let's aim to really reduce the plastic let's aim to really reduce the carbon footprint, not just in the product or service that's produced, but in how that's actually produced as well so sustainability is central to what we're doing. There are really no recipes to improving sustainability, just like there really are no recipes to improving organizational agility.
But what you can do is you can make sure that sustainability is something that is central to how you are ruthless about value by being ruthless about value. You can be ruthless about how much we're going to reduce carbon footprint, how much we're going to reduce plastic, and so on. Also what you can do is you can consider what power is being consumed.
What level of travel is involved when people are producing your products and services? Are we getting components on the other side of the planet when they could have been sourced more locally and so on? So it's quite a broad area and there's lots of things you can do There are no silver bullets for this.
If you want to improve sustainability, consider it in terms of how you prioritize value, how you order your backlogs in scrum kanban, how you do your experiments and consider can we achieve more competitiveness in the market by providing a more sustainable product or service without increasing cost. Take your sustainable product, if in doing so, it's going to cost them more. So there's going to be some level of R and D to try and figure this out, but that would be my nudge on sustainability.
Social Media: Who is responsible for a scrum team's performance?
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July 02, 2022
WHO does take responsibility for the performance of a scrum team? It's up to you to show your true capability within a team. In this video, I will discuss the role of the scrum master in the scrum teams of today.
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Agility Island - Sustainability
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July 01, 2022
Sustainability should be central to value. Instead of inauthentic greenwashing lets aim to be authentic with our sustainability and truly reduce our impact on the environment. If you truly want to improve your sustainability, consider it in terms of how you prioritize value.
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As an #executive or member of a #leadership team, your focus is often on others. Individuals within a team, teams, and a myriad of other people connected to your organization both directly and indirectly.
#agile values and principles place a great emphasis on people and interactions over processes and tools, yet #leaders often neglect their own needs, health and wellness in service of others.
We love that this is how committed you are to creating and nurturing people within your organization but we would also point out that flight attendants always advise you to first put on your own facemask - in the event of an emergency - before attempting to help others.
If you dig deep during the course of the day and find that you are scratching the bottom of the well, it may be time for you to focus on your own health, wellness and needs.
In this short video, John Coleman walks us through the importance of looking after yourself and provides some insights into what can go wrong when you neglect to do so.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
If you are looking for an expert agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to business agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
Kanban Guides - What is Cycle Time?
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June 30, 2022
What is cycle time and how should we confront the calendar? How long does it take for a work item to move from start to finish? In this video I will discuss the answers to these questions.
#scrum #kanban #agility
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In #productdevelopment and #softwareengineering environments, there is generally a lot of jargon. Condense that into the world of #agile and #leadership and there are even more code words and jargon to make your way through.
In this short video, John Coleman explains what Delta Stress is and why it is important for you to understand.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
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Social Media - Who writes the acceptance criteria?
Youtube
June 29, 2022
Well, who does write it? It's probably not who you think. In this video, I will discuss who does.
#agility #leadership
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John's least favourite agile approach
Youtube
June 28, 2022
#agile has come a long way since it's inception in 2001. There are many, many paths to #agility and there are many, many people in the #agile industry evangelizing why their way is the best methodology.
So, how do you know which #agileframework works best for you? How do you even know whether an #agileframework is even the answer?
In this short video, John Coleman walks us through his least favorite approach to #agile and explains why it is such a poor idea.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
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In his work with multi-national organizations and large business enterprises around the world, John Coleman has advocated for the creation of #agile islands to help the organization transition to a 21st Century style of work.
Many successful organizations are simply too big to transform overnight and there are also elements of the organization that don't need to change because their core focus is management and execution rather than #innovation and #productdevelopment.
#agiletransformation is not a linear process of 'we work this way today' and 'tomorrow we work that way', it is instead a process of change that requires the old ways of working to work alongside the new, pioneering departments and divisions who are growing their #agile capabilities and #businessagility.
So, what is the difference between an #agileisland and a traditional #silo? How is an archipelago of agile islands interacting with the mainland any different to a series of departments, within an organization, operating independently and autonomously?
In this short video, John Coleman explains the difference.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
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If you are looking for an expert agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to business agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
What is the Xagility podcast about?
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June 24, 2022
John Coleman is the designer and creator of the X Agility concept for #executive and #leadership teams. In essence, empowering executives and #leaders to cultivate, nurture and grow organizational #agility in an #authentic and sustainable way.
There are a lot of thought leaders and industry experts in the #agile world, but there is very little in the way of actionable, pragmatic and sensible insight for #executive and #leadership teams.
Much of the knowledge and recommendations base is aimed at #agilepractioners and #scrumteams working at the coalface.
The X Agility Podcast is aimed directly at executives and leaders with the aim of providing valuable insights, showcasing great examples of #agility, and helping executives make sense of the knowledge that exists in this sphere of #agile and #businessagility.
In this short video, John Coleman walks us through his thinking behind the X Agility podcast and how it serves executive and leadership teams.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
If you are looking for an expert agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to business agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
Agility Island: What is a product goal?
Youtube
June 24, 2022
The 2020 version of the Scrum guide introduced the notion of ''product goal' but big visions can sometimes be hard for scrum teams to wrap their heads around which can in turn affect empiricism.
What is a product goal and how can we go about having one without affecting empiricism?
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Would executives get value from the scrum org PALE course?
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June 23, 2022
As an #executive or #leader, you have an organization to run and seldom have time to invest outside of your role and responsibilities. Would it make sense to take time out of the office to invest in a 2-day scrum.org PAL-E course?
Would you get value from the workshop and how would it empower you to lead organizational #agility in collaboration with your #leadership teams?
In this short video, John Coleman walks you through the value you would derive from a Professional Agile Leadership Essentials course and how that will help you make informed decisions about achieving greater #agility for the organization.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
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When does organizational agility become more urgent?
Youtube
June 22, 2022
In the diffusion of innovation model, Everett Rogers divides people into phases in his theory that seeks to explain how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread.
The innovators form 2,5%, early adopters form 13.5%, early majority are 34%, late majority are 34%, and the laggards form 16%. The model is widely accepted as being an accurate representation of how technology or new methodologies are adopted and gives us an idea of why the innovators and early adopters tend to have competitive advantage over their competitors.
So, when does organizational #agility become more urgent? When is an organization forced to act outside of its comfort zone and adopt a new way of working or a new technology in order to survive or thrive?
In this short video, John Coleman walks us through the factors that influence the need for organizational #agility and how that creates urgency for the organization to evolve.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
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Heidi Helfand on Dynamic Reteaming, the evolution of teams, eco cycle mapping and the bus factor
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June 21, 2022
John Coleman, host of the X Agility Podcast, interviews Heidi Helfand in this fascinating insight into Dynamic Reteaming, the evolution of teams, eco cycle mapping and the bus factor.
Heidi Helfand is a software engineering leader with 20+ years of experience helping fast-growing companies double and triple in size.
Her book, Dynamic Reteaming, details people-focused patterns and tactics to help companies thrive through hypergrowth.
Heidi is currently VP of Engineering Growth at Kin, an insurance tech company that offers affordable coverage to homeowners in catastrophe-prone regions. Heidi is based in Southern California. CPCC, ICF PCC.
Connect with Heidi on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidihelf...
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and #productdevelopment teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
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What to measure in the agile world?
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June 21, 2022
Traditional #projectmanagement is incredibly focused on measurement, metrics and performance management. A #projectmanager invests a great deal of time in driving performance and ensuring that individuals and teams are completing tasks as they are assigned within the deadlines imposed.
In the #agile world, critics often say that the focus lies too much on people and environments whilst performance measurement and metrics take a back seat.
This simply isn't true. #scrum and #agility are built on the foundation of #empiricism - the concept of regular inspection and adaption and learning based on evidence - and as such, we have to measure and document what we are learning, producing and shipping.
In this short video, John Coleman talks about what #executive and #leadership teams should be measuring in the #agile world. John provides valuable insights into how these measurements and metrics can help #leaders measure the effectiveness of their teams.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
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A #leader is often forged in the crucible of helping organizations, teams and individuals become more successful. Over the past 150 years, the focus has predominantly been on #management rather than #leadership and so there are still many managers out there who are command and control focused.
It is what they learned on the job from those who came before them and it is what they teach and reward to those who come after them. Over the past 25 years, there has been a greater focus on #leadership, however, many people haven't had the benefit of formal or professional #leadership training and so many companies aren't as strong in the leadership category as they would like to be.
So, what makes a good #leader? What makes someone stand out as a great example of the kind of person who makes an impact on both individuals and teams, and helps the organization become better?
In this short video, John Coleman walks us through his thoughts on what makes a good leader and how that is different to traditional managers.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
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On today's episode I take you through the some of the techniques from Esther Derby and Diana Larsen's book on Retrospectives such as setting the stage as well as I explain why I think improvements should happen on the spot and the importance of doing so on team performance.
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Complexity Executive Agility
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June 03, 2022
In a traditional waterfall-style #projectmanagement environment, people are forced to estimate upfront. They define a #project scope, decide on who needs to do the work, and estimate a budget and deadline for the delivery of the project.
In a complicated environment, like civil engineering, this is relatively straightforward to do. A thousand bridges have been built before and we know how to build them well, how much they cost to build, and we know who we can rely on to get the job done with the timeframe we need it delivered.
Complexity, however, is a very different proposition.
Complexity happens when you simply don't or can't know the answer upfront. The problem you are trying to solve has never been solved before. The product or feature you are trying to create has never been created before. And there are so many unknown variables that may impact the #productdevelopment process it is impossible to take them all into account and plan for them.
In a nutshell, you simply can't know that which you don't know.
In this short video, John Coleman walks us through how complexity is a game changer in #productdevelopment and how executives can start to make different decisions and demonstrate different behaviors to allow the team to create with freedom.
Supporting behaviors and authentic engagement with the #developers to help identify and solve problems before they slow the team down, and reframing how we think about deadlines and delivery in a complex environment.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
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How good is the Scrum.org PSM II course for leadership?
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June 02, 2022
If you are an executive or #leader within your organization and are looking to explore potential courses and workshops to help you better understand #agile, #agileleadership and how #scrumtraining all work together, then you've come to the right place.
The scrum.org Professional Scrum Master II course (#psm) is one of the most popular courses in the world for an aspiring and experienced #scrummaster. It is internationally recognised and #certified scrum master training that builds on the foundation learning provided in the PSM course and instils a greater understanding of #agile and #scrum in practice.
How valuable is that for #leadership teams and aspiring #agileleadership teams? In this short video, John Coleman walks us through the PSM II course and how it serves current and aspiring #agileleaders.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater #agility and want to explore #agiletraining options, visit https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
If you value #coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced #agile and #executivecoaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
If you are looking for an expert #agile consultant that can help your #leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to #businessagility and take the most effective course of action in your #agiletransformation, visit our consulting page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
How good is scrum org PSU class for leadership?
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May 30, 2022
Many people have never had #management training before ascending to a management position. Even less people have formal #leadership training.
So, how do you know what a great #leadership course is and how well it will suit the environment you are working in. If you are privileged to work in an #agile or #scrum environment, you will also be looking for #agileleadership training that is certified and respected.
Does the scrum.org PSU course fit the bill? Is it a great course for aspiring #agileleaders and #leadershipteams?
In this short video, John Coleman walks us through his perspective on the PSU course and how well it shapes up as a #leadership course.
For more information on John Coleman and executive #agility, visit https://www.x-agility.com
If you are looking for #leadership and #agileleadership training, visit our Executive Agility Leadership training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
If you would benefit from executive #agilecoaching and want to investigate how a #coaching roadmap to #agility can help your team, visit our Executive Agility leadership coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
If you are looking to partner with an #agileconsultant who has walked the path to #agility many times before, visit our Executive Agility Consulting page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
What are the main qualities of a leader?
Youtube
May 27, 2022
#leadership is something we aspire to, something which we need to invest a great deal of time and effort into mastering. It isn't something we are born with, it is something we nurture and develop.
If we are fortunate, we have #coaches and #mentors along the way that can help us identify #leadership and #agileleadership opportunities, and develop a strategy for exploiting those opportunities and growing our capabilities.
For most people, we simply learn through trial and error. Many people don't receive formal #management training, let alone #leadership training, and have to figure things out the hard way.
In this short video, John Coleman takes some time out to walk us through the main qualities of a #leader.
John is passionate about helping to grow the next generation of #agile leaders and has created a YouTube channel and website (https://www.x-agility.com) to help guide aspiring leaders and executives find their feet and excel in their role.
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As more companies begin to explore the opportunities offered by #agile and #scrum, it can be easy to get caught up in the mechanics of the processes and #agileframework.
Yes, #agile and #scrum offer a great new way of working and has proven incredibly effective in the world of #productdevelopment, but is it really just a case of choosing to work in a different way than traditional #projectmanagement dictates?
In this short video, John Coleman explores the concept of authentic #agility. In #agile environments such as #spotify and #netflix, it isn't simply a matter of working according to a different process that empowers the company to innovate and create progressive products that delight customers.
It is a complete shift in organizational culture and corporate mindset that allows them to innovate, evolve and consistently achieve competitive advantage in their markets.
Innovation, collaboration and creativity are embedded in their organisational DNA and it empowers them to pioneer new ground in their industry and truly delight their customers.
Authentic agility.
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If you are exploring opportunities to transform your organization and have identified #agile training and #agileleadership training as a valuable next step, visit https://www.x-agility.com/executive-a...
If you need an experienced executive coach to help guide you and your team through the complexity of transformation, visit https://www.x-agility.com/executive-a...
If you need an experienced consultant that can help guide you through the frameworks available to you and help your #executive and #leadership teams work through a proven roadmap to #agility, visit https://www.x-agility.com/executive-a...
Can you buy agility in a box?
Youtube
May 24, 2022
Although the #agilemanifesto was written in 2001, #agile and #scrum are still in the early adopter phase for many companies. Many companies are now starting to explore #agileframeworks as a way to improve competitive advantage and lead in the #productdevelopmetn space.
There are a number of #agileframeworks available, depending on the size and application of the organisation, and there are a number of paths to achieving #businessagility.
So, how do you decide? How do you know who is selling snake oil and who is providing a reliable #agile solution that will empower your company to work in more productive, collaborative and creative ways?
In this short video, John Coleman walks us through the concept of buying 'agile in a box'. A concept where you buy an off-the-shelf #agile solution that empowers the company to transition overnight.
You guessed right. Buying #agile in a box isn't a great idea and you are better served working with an expert to discover what #agileframework best works for your application and what behaviours and patterns need attention to help you business achieve #businessagility.
For more on John Coleman and XAgility, visit https://www.xagility.com or connect with John on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncolem...
If you are an #executive looking for training in #agileframeworks and #agileleadership, visit https://www.xagility.com/executive-ag...
If your #executive and #leadership teams are exploring #coaching and #agilecoaching options, visit https://www.xagility.com/executive-ag...
If you are exploring #scrum, #kanban, #LeSS or any other #agileframework and would like a professional consulting service to guide you through the options and opportunities, visit https://www.xagility.com/executive-ag...
Introduction to executive agility.
Youtube
May 24, 2022
John Coleman is an #agility chef. He also happens to be a trainer for #scrum, #LeSS, #largescalescrum, and #kanban.
In this short video, John walks us through how he helps #executives and #leadership teams to integrate #agile and #scrum frameworks into their organisations.
John works with the purpose of helping organisations achieve #businessagility rather than simply working through the mechanical process of adopting a particular #agileframework.
John's latest book, and keynote talk, is 'hit delete' - an original and creative perspective on how organisations can eliminate behaviours and patterns to achieve business agility rather than adding elements. View the video on https://youtu.be/VO7LjCXRBrA
If you are interested in helping your organisation achieve business agility and want to explore how John can help your executive team and leadership teams achieve 'executive agility', visit https://www.xagility.com.
If you have identified executive and agile leadership training as valuable for your organisation's evolution, visit https://www.xagility.com/executive-ag...
If you have identified #agilecoaching or #executivecoaching as valuable in your organisation's evolution to #agile, visit https://www.xagility.com/executive-ag...
Sometimes, you need a great consultant who has walked the path and has a clear roadmap to business agility. If you are looking for that consultant, visit https://www.xagility.com/executive-ag...
Connect with John Coleman on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncolem...
Gene Gendel on his LeSS career, LeSS.works case studies and whether we can measure adaptiveness
John Coleman - agility chef, agility glue
April 26, 2022
The one and only Gene Gendel joins us on this video episode of the Xagility podcast. Amongst other important topics, the speaker discusses important nuances such as the geographical restraint to agile adoption, whether LeSS is a framework and the importance of getting executives onboard with LeSS adoptions.
An interview with Jared Spool
John Coleman - agility chef, agility glue
December 29, 2021
Jared M. Spool is a Maker of Awesomeness at Center Centre – UIE. Center Centre is the school he started with Leslie Jensen-Inman to create industry-ready User Experience Designers. UIE is Center Centre’s professional development arm, dedicated to understanding what it takes for organizations to produce competitively great products and services. In the 43 years he’s been in the tech field, he’s worked with hundreds of organizations, written two books, published hundreds of articles and podcasts, and tours the world speaking to audiences everywhere. When he can, he does his laundry in Andover, Massachusetts.
Pia Maria Thoren (Agile People) & John Coleman discuss agility
John Coleman agility chef
March 30, 2021
Pia Maria Thoren, author of Agile People together with John Coleman take the listeners on a nostalgic yet inspiring adventure as they first discuss Pia's bookwriting and career journey before progressing to its deeper underlying rationale.
The episode dicusses the importance of the 'garden' metaphor in agility and talks about fostering the right environment to allow employees to achieve their full potential. It does so against the backdrop of the 'house' analogy, which is concluded is not adequate.
How do we rollout successful agile transformations when the world is working from home?
John Coleman agility chef
March 10, 2021
Carolyn Mumby and John Coleman chat about growing authentic agility and continual changeability for the organization's direction of travel, while people are working from home, through no choice of their own.
Carolyn is happiest when using her T shape profile to translate strategic opportunities into HR objectives and key results. Carolyn has extensive domain experience in designing innovative HR Tech systems and am currently the project lead on an Innovate UK backed initiative to measure and improve Agility levels among distributed teams working in online collaborative environments.
Carolyn is also a non-practising barrister specialising in employment law and HR. Over a period of 20 years, Carolyn learned to take a holistic view of legal rules, business strategy, human nature and common sense to provide commercially sound advice for hundreds of clients.
Taking a similar approach to digital HR transformation Carolyn believes there is, now more than ever, a compelling reason to inspire staff to leverage technology while they themselves add more value than machines, even in light of the rapid pace of change. John Hagel’s Scalable Learning model has captivated Carolyn for a while and informs her forward direction in terms of addressing many organisational constraints such as Employee Engagement and Wellbeing.
Ask John about Kanban as per https://kanbanguides.org
John Coleman agility chef
February 22, 2021
Ask John about Kanban. John Coleman is co-author of Kanban Guide. He is also the author of Kanplexity, with heavy attribution to the creator of Cynefin.
Ask John about Nexus as per https://www.scrum.org/resources/nexus-guide
John Coleman agility chef
February 15, 2021
On the Scrum.org website "Nexus builds upon Scrum’s foundation, and its parts will be familiar to those who have used Scrum. It minimally extends the Scrum framework only where absolutely necessary to enable multiple teams to work from a single Product Backlog to build an Integrated Increment that meets a goal.
A Nexus is a group of approximately three to nine Scrum Teams that work together to deliver a single product; it is a connection between people and things. Nexus seeks to preserve and enhance Scrum’s foundational bottom-up intelligence and empiricism while enabling a group of Scrum Teams to deliver more value than can be achieved by a single team. It does this by helping these teams to reduce the complexity created by cross-team dependencies that they encounter as they collaborate to deliver an integrated, valuable, useful product Increment at least once every Sprint."
LeSS measures, more outcomes - Ben Maynard
John Coleman agility chef
January 29, 2021
Since 2009 Ben has been passionate about organizational culture and design that enables the creation of value both for an organization’s customers and its’s people. Ben always wants to know "are we building the right Product" and "are we building it in the right way".
In recent years he has experimented with ways to balance an organization's desire for control, collaboration, and innovation through educating, coaching, and leading organizational transformations to get more with Large Scale Scrum (LeSS).
The catalyst to all of this has been his obsessional focus on the growth of people at all levels of an organization so that they can be effective and successful in achieving the organizations and their own personal goals.
Flawed Mental Models by Daniel Doiron, co-author of the book "Tameflow"
John Coleman agility chef
January 28, 2021
Daniel Doiron, co-author of 'Tame your Work Flow', returns to discuss what he believes are flawed mental models.
Popular delusions and the madness of crowds -- how flawed mental models & cognitive biases impact our decision making processas knowledge workers. How some things are self-evident but not obvious...
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A chat with Karl Scotland about X-Matrix and Agile strategy
John Coleman agility chef
January 27, 2021
Karl Scotland helps businesses become Learning Organisations.
Over the last 20 years Karl has been an advocate of Lean and Agile approaches to achieve this, working with companies including the BBC, Yahoo!, EMC Consulting, Rally Software, Cisco, SDL, Legal & General and Alegis. During this time, Karl has been a pioneer of using Kanban Systems and Strategy Deployment for product development, a founding member of both the Lean Systems Society and Limited WIP Society, as well as being active in the community and a regular conference speaker. As a result Karl was awarded the honorary Brickell Key Community Contribution Award at the 2013 Lean Kanban North America conference. Karl is a key contributor to Agendashift.
Transformation Sprint - Haydn Shaughnessy
John Coleman agility chef
December 02, 2020
John Coleman charts with author Haydn Shaughnessy on his new book Transformation Sprint. See https://thetransformationsprint.com/
The Transformation Sprint is a time-boxed approach to digital transformation and business change.
It replaces the big transformation program with a manageable learning process that builds collaboration around your key challenges.
With a Transformation Sprint, you can build all the skills you need to help you succeed at change but best of all you can achieve some of the most important program design objectives in just four weeks.
To date, most transformations have used old project and program techniques to design and manage change. In Transformation Sprint, the authors have created a method that embraces agile techniques and draws them into the heart of the transformation design process.
Based on decades of experience and analysis of change at major organisations, the method itself is transformative.
Agility chefs review the 2020 Scrum Guide (2020)
John Coleman agility chef
November 24, 2020
John Coleman is an agility chef. He happens to be a Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer, LeSS Friendly Scrum Trainer, and Professional Kanban trainer at Orderly Disruption. John and fellow agility chefs will review the 2020 Scrum Guide in this live stream session. If you'd like to join the panel on camera, email john@orderlydisruption.com.
How does the X Agility coaching engagement model work?
Youtube
November 20, 2020
In the world #agile, #coaching engagements can seem somewhat nebulous.
Sure, the #agilecoach is there to help you discover the best answers your organizations are capable of achieving, but do they have any accountability and do they work according to a framework that delivers outcomes?
In this short video, John Coleman walks us through the X Agility coaching engagement model and explains why it has become so popular with #agileleadership teams and in developing #executiveagility throughout the organization.
A chat with Scott Seivwright about Agile20Reflect Festival
John Coleman agility chef
November 16, 2020
About Scott Seivright:
Scott is an Agile Coach based in Scotland. He has many years of supporting and growing agile with large client organizations and has extensive experience of delivering Agile Ways of working in difficult situations.
Scott is down to earth and is open and will work with you with candour and respect.
Scott believes in delivering early value and alternates roles between Agile Coach and hands-on delivering valuable stuff. What is valuable? Stuff that keeps your customers loving you and coming back for more.
Worked at the C-suite level on transformations
Lead national technological Initiatives
Scrum mastered digital delivery teams on Apps development Android and ios
Worked with Major UK Companies on their Transformations
Coached, people, teams, Tribes and whole organisations on agile/change/ and transformation
Scott helps co-organize meet-ups for Heart of Agile and The future of Work in Scotland and is passionate about applying Human techniques to improve the way that teams work. Where ever those teams are teams in the Board Room, Teams in the Middle of companies or at the sharp end. He is always collaborating with new people on new ideas and new ways to help people collaborate, deliver, reflect and improve on doing their work better.
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About Agile20Reflect as per https://www.agile20reflect.org/home....
Agile20Reflect festival is the first Global Community lead Agile Festival! And as we learn how to do this we want to explain why it's not a conference so here goes..
"At our Free Agile Festival you can host, or do anything that you want at any time in February 2021. Co-badge it with us and we will advertise your event or activity on our central programme and we will keep a copy of your event or research for people that are unable to attend to make use of free in the future."
Its a simple idea, come be creative and share your passion! In our world community party!!!
Our watch words are
Curiosity, Collaboration, Community, Humanity, Dialogue and Fun!
At this difficult world time when so many of our industry are not working and many are effected by the financial and health crisis we want to celebrate and come together across the world. So for the 20 years anniversary of Agile will are having global meet-up type events where anyone can do anything around the world. We aim to have 1000 speakers reflecting on agile, at meet-ups around the world. 20 years is a significant milestone and a great reflection point. So we are looking for us all to put back into the community and build bridges. ...
A chat with John Seddon about Failure Demand
John Coleman agility chef
November 10, 2020
Since 1987, John Seddon developed both systems thinking and intervention theory, combining the two to create the Vanguard Method. Uniquely, this method’s sole purpose is to transform organisations by changing management thinking and helping this translate into a better system and improved performance.
John Seddon is author of several books, the most recent of which is "Beyond Command and Control". John created the Vanguard Method - see https://vanguard-method.net/the-vanguard-method-and-systems-thinking/. The sweet spot for the Vanguard Method is service delivery, finding the treasure within the building and within the current services, breathing life back into customer-centric service delivery, while other methods focus on "finding the next curve", the next big thing. John was on the show a few months ago.
In this episode, we will talk about Failure Demand, "demand caused by a failure to do something or do something right for the customer” (Seddon 2003)
A chat with Tim Abbott
John Coleman agility chef
November 05, 2020
Timothy Abbott an Enterprise and Startup Coach that is an accredited coach and trainer in various aspects of Business Agility (Foundational Principles, HR, Facilitation, Coaching, Scaling Fundamentals, and more). Timothy passionately enjoys helping organizations unlock the potential of their people, products, and processes. Essentially, Timothy's core talent is in helping Senior Leaders and their teams get unstuck so they can deliver better customer-centric products and services to their customers in ways that enhance organizational adaptiveness, learning, collaboration, and skillfulness.
A chat with Mark Noneman about Scrum.org's Evidence based Management
John Coleman agility chef
October 27, 2020
In addition to being a Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org, Mark Noneman is an Enterprise Agilist at SMN Consulting and a Managing Partner at The Madison Henry Group. SMN Consulting and Madison Henry are global professional services firms dedicated to helping clients realize the benefits of Agile development and pursue organizational agility.
What is Evidence-Based Management?
Evidence-Based Management is a framework organizations can use to help them measure, manage, and increase the value they derive from their product delivery. EBM focuses on improving outcomes, reducing risks, and optimizing investments. It is developed and sustained by Ken Schwaber and Scrum.org.
Talking To Your Boss About Lean UX
John Coleman agility chef
September 16, 2020
Lean UX is a way of doing UX work in Agile Environments that meets the challenges of modern software development. It allows teams to use continuous, iterative rollouts to remain competitive in the market. Despite the promise of the method, designers and digital professionals who want to use Lean UX practices face roadblocks when they don’t have buy-in from the organizations in which they work.
What do these roadblocks to Lean UX look like? Structural resistance to change, fear that lean practices are a fad, and a lack of access to customers, to start. In this talk, Josh Seiden will share tips on how to persuade your organization to move to a leaner approach.
Daniel Doiron talks about Throughput Accounting
John Coleman agility chef
September 01, 2020
Daniel Doiron's introduces us to Throughput Accounting, helping organizations to be profitable now and in the future using cash as the measurement over accounting tricks...
An interview with Ellen Gottesdiener
John Coleman agility chef
August 27, 2020
Ellen Gottesdiener is a Product Coach and CEO of EBG Consulting focused on helping product and development communities create valuable outcomes through product agility. Ellen co-wrote Discover to Deliver, and wrote Requirements By Collaboration.
An interview with Troy Magennis
John Coleman agility chef
August 13, 2020
There are few people in agility as skilled as Troy Magennis with forecasting, metrics or managing dependencies.
Troy Magennis is a seasoned IT professional and executive, having helped deliver valuable software to customers at scale since 1994. In 2011 he founded Focused Objective, which has become the leader and trusted brand for Agile metrics and probabilistic forecasting. He regularly keynotes at Agile conferences eager to share his passion for using data in better ways to improve business outcomes. Previous clients include Walmart, Microsoft, Skype, Sabre Airline Solutions, Siemens Healthcare.
Troy currently consults and trains organizations wanting to improve decision making for IT through Agile and Lean thinking and tools, applying Scrum and Lean techniques appropriately and where they are going to make this most significant benefit through quantitative rigor.
Troy Magennis is often referred to by John Coleman as the most generous man on the internet. https://www.focusedobjective.com has a great "free tools & stuff" menu, tools that John uses regularly. Troy wrote a wonderful book on probabilistic forecasting.
Exceptional management and management by exception. Management with TameFLow in the 20s.
John Coleman agility chef
August 10, 2020
Daniel Doiron's description of "Exceptional management and management by exception. Management with TameFlow in the 20s" is as follows......
Top management attention is the biggest 'invisible' constraint in today's corporate world.
Human's are very bad at integrating data, are subject to group think, tricked by anchoring and are emotional by nature.
Only one thing can help: metrics and science.
How can we apply this to management? And specifically to knowledge work where there are no answers to speak of in the agile world.
No one has the answers. That is unless you attend this meetup!
There is this extract from the book I recently wrote with Steve Tendon, 'Tame Your Work Flow', that I must immediately share with you all. The penmanship is Steve's and I don't recall anything deeper having ever been written in modern management.
''What most approaches fail at is not the planning itself, but in how the execution is managed.
In the TameFlow approach we are not thinking about the execution of the plan but more specifically about the execution of the work (work that was presumably planned) with the use of leading indicators and management by exception.''
Daniel Doiron, co-author of "Tame your work flow" : Flow Efficiency - The first step to improvement
John Coleman agility chef
August 03, 2020
Good Flow Efficiency is the first step to getting lasting improvements. Yet, no one gets it done right. This is surprising given that it is at the core of Kanban and Lean and that it is made of two basic and easy to understand components : Wait time and Touch time!
This meetup will reveal the thought leadership of the TameFlow approach from Steve Tendon and will be quite an eye-opener on how to build a Flow Efficiency Kanban board. We will address the following topics:
Focus on Wait time or Touch time first?
Treat WIP as a liability or an asset? (Lean and agile decision filters will be discussed)
Buffers on traditional Kanban boards
Column WIP limits as an impediment to Flow Efficiency
People and Flow
Complex Work Flow and invisible queues
Converting your traditional Kanban board to a TameFlow Flow Efficiency Kanban board
An interview with Dave Snowden
John Coleman agility chef
June 16, 2020
In this interview, John will ask about the science behind Cynefin, why Dave is critical of systems thinking, spiral dynamics, and Myers-Briggs. SAFe might come up in conversation. But mostly John is curious about the suggested changes to Cynefin, how official they are, and how Cynefin can be useful in practice. And John is curious if emergent/exaptive practice needs to be on a rhythm (like sprints).
An interview with Srikanth Ramanujam
John Coleman agility chef
June 15, 2020
Srikanth Ramanujam is such an active contributor on the agility chefs live stream, John thought why not bring Srikanth on the show as it seems obvious Srikanth has a lot to say. Not only that, John likes the clarity of thinking Srikanth demonstrates.
A chat with Steve Tendon on Tameflow (Kanban + ToC + Throughput Accounting)
John Coleman agility chef
May 22, 2020
An interview with Steve Tendon on Tameflow (Kanban + Theory of Constraints + Throughput Accounting) as per https://tameflow.com/
Steve recently published "Tame your Work Flow: How Dr. Goldratt of “The Goal” would apply the Theory of Constraints to rethink knowledge-work management (TameFlow)". It has lots of testimonials.
Cynefin for executives
John Coleman agility chef
May 14, 2020
Surely our organizations have been managing just fine with complexity without agility? Could Cynefin's findings on complexity be the reason we need agility and the reason we should not hang about?
agility - this episode is for people who shouldn't have started here but did.
John Coleman agility chef
May 13, 2020
Ok, so you're an executive/change-agent in a function and there is a strongly communicated need for the organization to be more adaptive to market needs. But agility is being rolled out function by function. Most people understand that agility is about scaling trust and designing the organization towards the customer. It's not about agile project management for a siloed organization. If you ask for directions in Ireland, you might be told "well, I wouldn't start here":). And in England, you might be told: "well we are where we are". This episode is for people who shouldn't have started here but did.
What is "LeSS Friendly Scrum"? Why does it matter?
John Coleman agility chef
May 07, 2020
In order to avoid the unraveling of John Coleman's work in organizations where John has influence, it's important that coaches and training organizations don't assume Scrum is a commodity. It also avoids common pitfalls with Scrum adoption. For training organizations and coaches, what does John Coleman mean by training and coaching needs to be "LeSS Friendly"? There is a longer more wholesome explanation on John Coleman's YouTube Channel, Periscope Channel, and Facebook page (agility chefs, orderly disruption). This is an attempt at a shorter explanation.
An interview with John Seddon (creator of the Vanguard Method)
John Coleman agility chef
May 02, 2020
John Coleman here -- I’ve been following John Seddon, he’s a "marmite character"… I’m in the ‘like’ camp…
John Seddon wrote many books including the latest book Beyond Command & Control available on Amazon in physical or audible formats. I suggest audible even though I read the physical book, as John Seddon himself narrates the book. In the book, John Seddon is quite harsh about Agile, and Scrum in particular.
Outcomes over Output by Joshua Seiden, co-author of Lean UX
John Coleman agility chef
April 29, 2020
Combined event London Lean Product Delivery and London Lean UX
7 pm Warm-up act - the executive's role in discovery by John Coleman
7:30 pm Main act - Sense and Respond - Products and Services in the Age of Complexity, by Joshua Seiden
Sense & Respond
A talk that draws on themes from Joshua's book, Sense & Respond. Your organization is—like it or not—in the software business. This talk shares five key principles you’ll need to embrace to thrive in this new world. Older version of this talk recorded at TDC, Trondheim, Norway, 2018 - see https://vimeo.com/296634086
Explicit Risk Management - when you see a fork in the road, take it!
John Coleman agility chef
April 24, 2020
Explicit Risk Management - when you see a fork in the road, take it!
Agile/Lean/Kanban and the likes have yet to embrace Explicit Risk Management. Why? Probably because it requires a plan in order to track variations form the plan.
When your precepts 1) Agile - No upfront planning 2) Lean - Planning is waste and 3) Kanban - We are all for it but have no solutions.
Tameflow has the solution. Since 2011, when traditional Kanban let go of the Theory of Constraints from Dr Goldratt, TameFlow took the fork in the road and embraced TOC, Throughput Accounting, Pattern Theory, IFM (Incremental Funding method) and much more.
Today, #tameflow is the only modern management science of the 20s that has an answer to Explicit Risk Management in the Agile/Lean/Kanban sphere
Talking about Kanban for Complexity aka Kanplexity
John Coleman agility chef
April 17, 2020
Looks remarkably like Scrum but it isn't, not a Scrum Master or Product Owner to be seen... and avoids the five dysfunctions of a team (Lencioni) but it has no values or principles, it must be totally corrupt :)
In a perfect #agile world, #leadership teams are able to identify problems early and tackle them both effectively and efficiently. Doing so helps the team increase their velocity and consistently deliver high-value products and services that delight customers.
That said, often we are in a transition phase from the old style of working to a new style of working and in the process, we aren't able to move the needle on impediments as quickly as we would like.
So, what happens then? What happens when an impediment or obstacle isn't resolved? How do the team move through that quicksand and continue to deliver value?
In this short video, John Coleman walks us through the problem of long lived impediments and how they impact teams. Solving impediments sooner rather than later is one of the great ways to ensure that your team are creative, powerful and effective.
John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #businessagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.
If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili....
If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
If you are looking for an expert agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to business agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agili...
Lean UX at scale at UCL
University College London
January 10, 2022
--over 200 undergraduates, some on Zoom, some in the room, in a hybrid 4-day event
--visit from Dave Snowden
--co-hosted with Ben Maynard and some wonderful teaching assistants
Launch event - Kanplexity - an expansion pack for Kanban
You Tube
October 03, 2022
Here is a snippet...
"Background
Organizational agility suits our present-day world because of the prevalence of complex work. On the way to achieving agility, we face many hazards. Given a plethora of choices, we can experience analysis paralysis. If we lack trust when working in a complex environment, we can end up experiencing unhealthy confl
I’m fed up with organizational dysfunctionality
What is Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)?
Talking about Sizing and Forecasting in Scrum
Can Scrum be used outside software development?
Who is responsible for a scrum team’s performance?
What is Cycle Time in Kanban?
What is Cycle Time?
Who is responsible for a scrum team's performance?
Who writes the acceptance criteria?
Setting Expectations in Scrum and Monte Carlo Probabilistic Forecasting
Why you might need an island of agility?
So, what is organizational agility? 2022 UPDATE
How can Scrum with Kanban help people solve complex problems?
How to use Evidence-Based Management and Scrum (Part 1): Bridging EBM goals with the Scrum Guide
Tobias Mayer on Agility
Haydn Shaughnessy - Digital Transformation hero
Pia Maria Thoren and John Coleman discuss agility & its importance
Why organizations need to widen the scope of agile, and how to start?
lDiscussing “Agendashift” with Mike Burrows
So what is organizational agility?
So, what is value, really?
2020 Scrum Guide — addition of commitments to each artifact
Don’t be an apprentice in the negative sense of the word
Kanban - the Flow Strategy and Kanban for Complexity (Kanplexity)
KantScrum Kanplexity
Introducing Kanban for Complexity (Kanplexity)
How do Nexus and LeSS differ?
The original Lean “versus” Agile for knowledge work — or is it “and”?
Broad and Deep agility (BaDA)
Spot the difference — The original Kanban, The Lean Kanban method, Professional Scrum with Kanban
Retrospectives with system modelling
Mirror mirror on the wall….
Why do you think your organization is growing agility?
Agile Cincinnati 2017 conference
Look familiar? #advanced
Scrum Master role, Large Scale Scrum or not
Can London beat Amsterdam?
#less2017 - LeSS conference article and video
Do you believe this chart?
#less2017 #advanced - Did you know you can do a Scrum test and a LeSS test at Less.works?
Pivot: Real Cut Through Stories by Experts at the Frontline of Agility and Transformation
Kanplexity
X-agility Executive Agility
Basic/ally Agile
Orderly Disruption
Top 50 Agile Leaders of 2022
Journey to an Agile Island
Why you might need an agility island?
Hit Delete - unlocking executive agility one deletion at a time
Xagility podcast - Pia-Maria Thorén of Agile People
Flight Levels Day
Panel of experts
Flight Levels Conference - Experts Panel
Balancing UX with shipping fast in scrum? A deeper look into each box of the Lean UX canvas
X Agility Podcast: Joe Justice
Constraints, work capability, throughput and flow
Joe Justice on his career, Tesla, Space X and agility
What the developers do in the last week of the sprint?
Can scrum and agility be scaled and what’s the best way to do it?
Gene Gendel on his LeSS career, LeSS case studies and whether we can measure adaptiveness
Value and Kanban: isn't Kanban just about outputs?
Bruce McCarthy on his career, product vs project management and, getting roadpmaps right
Jim Benson on Personal Kanban, The Collaboration Equation and the system of Humane Management
Daily Flow - dealing with complexity in a Kanban footprint
Daily Flow: a story about story points and an alternative, throughput
Indi Young on why you shouldn't look at a problem through the aperture of a solution
An interview with Jared Spool
Klaus Leopold on the value of Flight Levels and his book Rethinking Agile: Why Agile Teams Have Nothing To Do With Business Agility
Reviewing Cynefin - weaving sense making into the fabric of our world with Dave Snowden
John Coleman of Orderly Disruption meets Pia-Maria Thoren of Agile People
The theory of Scrum team effectiveness and evidence supporting it with Christiaan Verwijs and Dr Daniel Russo
Robert Kinnerfelt chats with John Coleman about Holacracy and Sociocracy (Teaser)
Walking through Empowered with Marty Cagan
Developing intrapeneurs with Denise Pereira Carvalho
Developing intrapeneurs with Denise Pereira Carvalho (Taster/Exec Summary)
Mike Burrows on the 2nd Edition of Agendashift
Tobias Mayer on agility
Discussing "AgendaShift" with Mike Burrows
Discussing "Agendashift " with Mike Burrows
Why organisations need to widen the scope of agile and where/how to start?
Sustainable Xagility - the agile manifesto, value and organizational agility with Robert Annis
Pia Maria Thoren and John Coleman discuss agility & its importance
Daily Flow - where does Scrum Master end and agile leader begin?
University of Westminster PSM classes
Teaching at University College London (4 day User Experience workshop)
John Coleman profile on LeadersHum
Hit Delete
Author of Kanplexity
ProKanban.org Applying Professional Kanban
Professional Scrum with Kanban
Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS)
Professional Scrum with User Experience (PSU)
Professional Agile Leadership - Essentials (PAL-E)
Agility and Sustainability
What are the main qualities of a leader?
Who writes user stories in agile?
What is technical debt?
Teaching Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master I for University of Westminster
