A Workshop about Workshops: Learn Building Blocks to create great interactive sessions

Facilitation is among the most important skills for building Working Intelligence. This highly interactive 50-minute workshop intend to provide any individual with an understanding and a toolset to create and structure their own interactive meetings and workshops.

In this high energy deep dive into a topic close to his heart, Aurelien inspires you to reflect on the crucial roles of the facilitator in meetings, and shares pragmatic ways to become meeting leaders and enable the collaboration of any team (“Agile” or “Traditional”), by resetting the focus on doing what matters if you want to make a real difference when getting together.

Come and attend this session and talk about workshops, in a workshop! In a style that Aurelien likes to call "workshop-ception."

What if the Trojans lost the war because of bad flow management?

An introduction to the benefits of Lean Thinking and Flow to any team, this talk will inspect flow (or lack thereof) during the Trojan war, and help you reflect on opportunities to improve the flow of value delivery in your own context. 

We will build a parallel with this mythical story to explore 3 kinds of team contexts (and their associated level of emerging complexity) a provide you with killer tips to boost their performance:

• Product teams (Athenians) - Backlog of work is reasonably stable but we are unsure how to get it done
• BAU or Service teams (Spartans) -  New work emerges often but we know how to get it done
• Hybrid teams (Trojans) - We have a reasonably stable backlog AND new work emerges often, also we may know how to get some work done but there are still unknowns

Now, in Aurelien’s experience, most teams struggling with work management may simply lack an understanding of which kind of complexity they are dealing with, and how they could benefit from adopting a couple basic Lean tools.

In this interactive deep dive into real success and war stories, Aurelien inspires you to learn from the significant impact of flow on all aspects of our daily work, and shares pragmatic ways for any team (“Agile” or “Traditional”) to improve their flow embracing Lean Thinking and keeping Trojan Horses out of their walls. 

Walking away from this talk you will wonder, if only Lean Thinking and Kanban principles were known by the ancient Greeks, perhaps history would tell a very different story…

Facilitation is among the most important skills for Scrum Masters and Meeting Leaders. This highly interactive 45 minutes workshop session intend to provide any individual with an understanding and a toolset to create and structure their own meetings and workshops. Master the art of facilitation in only 45 minutes.

"If you don't like the weather in Melbourne, wait 10 minutes."

There isn't an application able to correctly forecast what our day will be like. Many people in Melbourne are frustrated by both the weather apps that all look the same and the unpredictability of the weather changing every ten minutes.

This interactive session will see us reflect on Agile and System Thinking principles to build a prototype through one Lean Startup cycle. Using Melbourne's weather, it will highlight how important it is to question the value brought by things that are established.

Shy inventors will have an opportunity to understand that an idea is never too big and learn a good way to start getting their dreams into reality.

Agile is now considered as a "must-have methodology" to be successful in developing software. Even, it starts extending to non-software businesses and its practices and principles are spreading out to many teams and organizations.

But beyond the buzz-words, we often race to apply solutions and miss the true values beyond naming, frameworks or tools provided by Agility.

This session is an Lightning talk to foundation ideas that underpin Agility. It revisits some basic fundamentals that have dropped out of the modern agile discourse when leading the change toward better ways of working. Beyond the buzz-word that Agile became, let remind us what be Agile truly is.

It will be particularly useful to agile consultants, scrum masters, iteration managers and change agents driving the agile agenda.

This session can be adapted to a longer Agile 101 format mixing introduction of fundamentals and debat/experience feedback.