'System dynamics is an approach to understanding the nonlinear behavior of complex systems over time ' - tells us Wikipedia. One of the key skills that top management has to master according to the Harvard University. This technique becomes priceless when you deal with big and complex large-scale transformations. It's crucial to understand how saving a single status quo or choosing a wrong framework could ruin your transformation and the entire organization. And in this case System Thinking could be a lifesaver.
We'll quickly learn the theory and most of the time will spend in practices. And I can't guarantee you that your picture of the world will remain the same after this workshop.

You have tried Scrum, Kanban, XP, Crystal and other even less known frameworks and methods that claim to help you to become Agile. You have applied them pure, you have tried to tweak them, and even you have made some homemade cocktails out of them. So yet you still can't say your company is Agile. Your Cxx-s are willing to change the company, and themselves. Your employees on all levels genuinely want to step into the Agile journey. Yet there is nearly no progress toward a real organizational agility.

What is the secret? Why is it so hard? Why there are so many crashes on this way in our industry? Why most of the companies will still fail to become Agile, and yours will most probably too.

I'm going to answer all these questions during this talk. We will figure out what aspects of a large-scale agile transformation have a mission-critical impact and how they influence each other. Where to put your efforts? How to cut corners? And moreover, how to survive on this journey.

LeSS, Nexus, SAFe, XYZ - the more years passed since Agile Manifesto was created the more scaled frameworks we get. But is it really the only one way to help dozens of people to self-organise around the single product? What if there are other ways with fewer efforts and more efficiency, meaning, awareness?

I want to tell you the story of our company. One awesome product, millions of users all over the world, several platforms, around 100 brave people and... no backlogs synchronisations, no very special roles, no hierarchical structures, no prescribed aligned processes and no branded scaled frameworks.

On the other hand, there are technical excellence, impact driven development, platform silos absence, meaningful KPI orientation, lean startup culture and teams happiness.

How are we able to do this? Please, come and you will find out. A true HERE Maps team story with a lot of real examples.

This workshop will help participants to learn and to try several important product development technics.

We will learn how to

• frame new or ongoing product definition to set product development boundaries
• talk about our users to grow empathy that will help us to build the product, not just a set of cool features
• explore a problems area to make a positive impact to this world
• sharpen and optimise what you want to develop and deliver 

And cherry on top: we will do all these through the lego facilitation to make the session more effective and to learn how to boost team's creativity and efficiency.

All of these we will touch through extremely hands-on step-by-step exercises using LEGO bricks.

This workshop will help participants to understand how the Kanban method really works.

We will learn how to use the Kanban method to visualize your current process ("start where you are"). Will figure out how to limit work in progress (WiP); define and make process policies explicit; measure and manage flow.

Also we will figure out what does it mean to search for opportunities for continuous improvement. We will learn how to increase your team speed and at the same time decrease pressure at work.

All of these we will touch through extremely hands-on step-by-step simulation using LEGO bricks.