Uncovering your organizational culture

Culture is often stated as the top obstacle to transforming into an agile organisation.  This misunderstood obstacle can limit teams in reaching their full potential or even expel any hopes for meaningful change. During this session, we’ll explore ways to uncover the dominant culture of your organization, identify the contrasts with an agile culture and how to empower every individual to lead change initiatives.

 
 

Outline/Structure of the Talk

  1. Why talk about organizational culture?
  2. Knowing what you want
  3. Identifying what you have
  4. Taking action

Learning Outcome

Leaving Agile Tour with a fresh pair of glasses that allows us to see and understand the forces that influence every decision and behaviors in your organization, and realize that we all have to power to affect change. 

Target Audience

Scrum Master, Management, CxO,

Video


schedule Submitted 7 years ago

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  • Mike Lowery
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    Mike Lowery - Coaching flow - Moving past resistance

    Mike Lowery
    Mike Lowery
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    Talk
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    Mike Edwards - Leading for Change

    Mike Edwards
    Mike Edwards
    Agile Coach
    Leanintuit
    schedule 7 years ago
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    45 Mins
    Talk
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    Drawing from my upcoming book of the same title, I will help you start thinking of leadership in a different light. We will start by looking at how you lead yourself, then expand into leading those around you. Finally we will examine what it means to lead a system so you, the people and the system will never stop improving.

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  • Mike Edwards
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    Mike Edwards - Value: From 'meh' to 'wow'!

    Mike Edwards
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    Talk
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    As a customer how do you define “value”? What does it take for a business to shift Value from "Meh" and create “Wow” experiences?

    Why does the software industry struggle to deliver valuable results? Every team I work with talks about delivering valuable features. When I question how they define value I might get text book answers about ROI, sales, efficiencies or other quantifiable measures. Although they are important measures, I don’t believe “Wow” comes from anything you can quantify. If that’s true then how do we get from Value to Wow without going broke?

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  • Jean-René Rousseau
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    Avec l'adoption de plus en plus massive des approches Agile on semble chercher de plus en plus à se comparer. "Moi je fais telle et telle pratique donc je suis plus Agile que toi"?  Aussi, on rencontre plein de gens qui mentionne utiliser l'agilité, mais en questionnant on réalise souvent que es gens en font une utilisation plutôt limitée voir même incomprise. Sans oublier les organisations qui investissent massivement dans leur transition Agile et qui espère bien, à raison, pouvoir en mesurer l'avancement. Alors comment mesurer l'Agilité?  Doit-on séparer la vraie agilité de la fausse?  Cette comparaison est-elle utile ? Et au final que cherche-t-on vraiment à accomplir? 

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  • Isabelle Therrien
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    Isabelle Therrien - Les communautés de pratique pour favoriser l'apprentissage

    Isabelle Therrien
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  • Jesus Mendez
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    Jesus Mendez - Chronicles about curiosity

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  • Amanda Holtstrom
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