RMIT Online were looking at a number of ways to create alignment and promote collaboration. We tried Scrum of scrums, Walk the boards and other tools and now we're experimenting with OKRs at RMIT Online. This resulted in a number of stumbles and gnashing of teeth along the way. We're less than 1 year into our experiment so this is a great time to review what has worked so far, and what challenges remain.

Presenters: Ed Wong, Founder of the LAST, 1ST and Spark the Change conferences and Bruce Taylor, Agile Coach at RMIT Online.

Outline of program: How we used internal meetups, workshops, gamification, and learning design to build agile capability at RMIT University (One of Australia's oldest tertiary education institutions) as they navigated the rapidly changing world of online education.

With more and more institutions moving online, with all that implied in terms of speed, tech capability and agility, RMIT Online needed a world class agile capability. Ed and Bruce set up FERAL (The Federation of Eminent RMIT Online Active Learners): A fun, yet serious, way of fast tracking agile knowledge and practice within the many, disparate teams within this fast growing arm of the University. It was also a way of scaling learning and the effectiveness of 2 agile coaches working across multiple teams.

In this session we'll talk about the design of the program, the buy in needed from organisation, the types of workshops we ran, some practical examples from the workshops and our experiences running them and post-workshop application and coaching back in the teams to embed the practices.

Sharing and learning is easy for co-located teams.

But what about when you work on distributed or remote teams? How do you collaborate and learn together over distance?

Come here for stories about what has been tried, what has worked and at least one damn stupid idea. 

Please add your stories and your ideas here