Organizational Agility: It's Not a Sprint, It's a Marathon
Your organization has "gone Agile." Now what? Whether you are at the beginning or in the middle of transforming your organization, sustainability should be a top priority. You may have some teams working in an agile way, but are they contributing maximum value to the organization? Are benefits translating to an organizational level? Are those benefits sustainable?
This workshop explores the foundation that needs to be established for organizational agility to be sustained over time. You will interact in exercises as small groups discussing the information presented and their own experiences. Groups will identify team-level and organizational-level actions to address some of the complexities of achieving and sustaining organizational agility. As part of the exercises, groups will capture their ideas and share with the larger audience.
We will cover the following:
• What does sustainability really mean
• Why sustainable teams are the key to achieving organizational agility
• How to enable and mature teams to maximize value to the organization
• Things to consider to enable and sustain Agile culture change at the organizational level
You will walk away from this workshop with actionable ideas for enabling sustainable teams, which is the first step towards enabling agility at an organizational level.
Outline/Structure of the Workshop
10 mins - Quick intro exercise to get people thinking, then level-set the audience on the terms sustainability and organizational agility
20 mins - Sustainable teams are the key to achieving organizational agility - Team activity focusing on the benefits of sustainable teams, then create the case for how sustainable teams maximize value for the organization
10 mins - Benefits we expect as an agile organization (reduced costs, high revenue, increased adaptability), relate these back to the benefits of sustainable teams
15 mins - Sustaining agile culture change at the organizational level; key considerations
20 mins - Group activity on how to enable and sustain organizational agility (each group will be given a specific category based on what was just presented and asked to identify specific actions to start doing and specific options to stop doing to enable and sustain organizational agility)
10 mins - Summary and call to action
Learning Outcome
- Learn why sustainable teams are the key to achieving organizational agility.
- Learn how to enable teams to maximize value to the organization.
- Learn how to enable and sustain Agile culture change at the organizational level.
Target Audience
Experienced practitioners looking to enable sustainable teams in their organization
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I have taught many courses over the past decade, which has contributed to my comfort in front of an audience explaining concepts and responding to questions and facilitating discussions. I have been a Professional Scrum Trainer through Scrum.org since June of 2015 and teach on average two courses per month.
In 2013 I discovered my talent and passion for public speaking with the goal of sharing ideas to both help my peers and to learn from my peers in the Agile community. I have presented in front of groups ranging from about 25-150 people. The largest/ most notable conferences I have spoken at are PMI Professional Development Day 2014, Path to Agility 2015, Agile and Beyond 2016, Keep Austin Agile 2016, and Agile2016.
This specific workshop grew out of a talk I first did in early 2015, and I have incorporated feedback and made it more interactive over time. It was most recently delivered to a full room at Agile2016.
