The structure of an agile organisation - a business agility primer
Traditional business models are failing to keep up with the needs of the modern economy. While business has never been predictable, technological and cultural change is occurring at faster rates than ever before. In this climate, modern enterprises live or die on their ability to adapt – which is where Business Agility comes in. Business Agility provides a context for organisations to embrace change; changing how to think, changing how to work and changing how to interact.
Whether you've heard of Holocracy or Teal Organisations; it seems that lean and agile business models are gaining interest across different business sectors. This is relevant to you whether you are a software developer or a CEO.
This presentation will provide engaging and enlightening stories of Agile beyond IT; from lean startups to large enterprises. These will be reinforced with practical approaches for the design and leadership of teams, divisions and businesses across 4 key domains;
- The Structure of an Agile Organisation - Efficient, transparent and collaborative techniques to manage cross-functional, self-organising and potentially self-managing teams.
- You, the Agile Manager - What makes a good agile manager and how do their responsibilities change?
- Integrated Customer Engagement - Collaboration and communication techniques to build trust and deliver Customer needs efficiently, with minimal waste, and to everyone's satisfaction.
- Work, the Agile Way - Managing all types of business functions, from software, HR, finance to legal, by using Just-In-Time planning and incremental or continuous delivery processes.
Outline/Structure of the Talk
[5 minutes] - Introduction and A call to action (video)
[15 minutes] - The structure of an agile organisation
[10 minutes] - You, the agile leader
[5 minutes] - Integrated customer engagement
[5 minutes] - Work, the agile way
[5 minutes] - Q/A
Learning Outcome
Regardless of your role, the goals of this presentation are to;
- make you think about your role as a leader
- learn how to structure an agile organisation around outcomes
- introduce new possibilities and ways of doing business
- understand how to tailor Agile to different business functions (HR, ICT, Sales, Finance, Media, Legal, Production & Operations)
Target Audience
anyone
Links
I have a long history of presentations.
- November 2016 - Agile NZ - #noprojects
- November 2016 - Agile Brazil - #noprojects
- October 2016 - Global Scrum Gathering Munich - #noprojects
- October 2016 - Agile Business Conference (UK) - Business Agility Primer (keynote) / #noprojects
- October 2016 - Agile Business Conference (Russia) - Business Agility Primer
- July 2016 - Agile Jakarta - Introduction to Agile
- May 2016 - PMI Global Congress (Spain) - How Much Does it Cost?
- April 2016 - AgileEE (Ukraine) - #noprojects / #noprojects workshop / Presentation Karaoke
- April 2016 - Agile Management Congress (Czech Republic) - #noprojects / #noprojects workshop
- March 2016 - AgileIndia - #noprojects / The Soft Skills in Software
- November 2015, DBS Conference (Singapore) - #noprojects / Selling Agile Across the Organisation
- October 2015, DevOpsDays (Singapore) - #noprojects
- March 2015, AgileIndia - How Much Will This Cost (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btz-D84UXw4) / Selling Agile Across the Organisation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOmXZWJdGGo) / Introduction to Lean and Kanban
- July 2014, Agile 2014 (America) - Breaking down the barriers (http://agile2014.sched.org/speaker/eleybourn)
- June 2014, Agile Australia - Agile Engineering / Agile Business Workshop (https://a.confui.com/-5KvM42MA)
- May 2014, International Testing Conference - Agile Testing
- Mar 2014, Australasian Software Engineering Conf - Autopsy of a failed project
- Feb 2014, Agile India - From Lean Startup to Agile Enterprise / Let’s Kill an Agile Project (http://present.agileindia.org/user/evan-leybourn)
- Nov 2013, Future Enterprises Summit - The Rise of the Connected Enterprise
- Nov 2013, Australian BI/DW Conference - Agile Business Intelligence
- Sep 2013, Lean, Agile and Systems Thinking (Australia) - Agile Business Management / Let’s Kill an Agile Project
- Sep 2013, PMOz (Australia) - Agile Business Management / Let’s Kill an Agile Project
- Jul 2013, Intel APAC Agile Conference (Malaysia) - Agile Keynote
- Jun 2013, Agile Australia (Australia) - Let’s Kill an Agile Project
- Jun 2013, XP 2013 (Vienna) - Agile Business Management
- Aug 2012, Agile DC (America) - Agile in the Australian Public Service
- Apr 2012, PMI Colombo (Sri Lanka) - Agile in the Australian Public Service
- Feb 2012, Agile India (India) - Autopsy of a failed project / Agile In the Australian Public Service (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb_xmosGzaI)
- Nov 2011, Open Source Developers Conference (Australia) - Free as in Kittens (CTO of Open Source)
- Nov 2011, Malaysian CIO Conference - Agile Business Management
- Jul 2011, Malaysian Open Source Conference (Malaysia) - Open Source Business Intelligence
- Jun 2011, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing 2011 (Singapore) - Open Source Business Intelligence
- May 2011, BI Executive Forum (Canberra) - BI in the APS
- Sep 2010, OSSPAC (Australia) - Open Source Business Intelligence
- Nov 2008, Open Source Developers Conference (Australia) - Advanced SQL / OSS Licensing
- Jun 2008, Software Process Engineering Conference (Singapore) - OSS Toolchain
- May 2008, CeBIT - Open Source Business Intelligence
- Nov 2007, Open Source Developers Conference (Australia) - SQL Tips & Tricks
- Dec 2006, Open Source Developers Conference (Australia) - Data Warehousing HOWTO
- Dec 2005, Open Source Developers Conference (Australia) - Commercial Open Source Software
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