Agile coaching is essential as keeper of the agile flame in an agile organization or transformation, but we can’t do it alone and have a lot to learn from Organizational Change Management. The traditional Organizational Change Management practice emphasizes the human aspect that should be primary focus if we want to influence the “culture” of an organization, beyond basic agile practices. In this session, we will look at the ADKAR model for change, and how to combine that with agile frameworks to make a lasting cultural foundation in your organization, to create true business agility beyond the IT department.

Getting to Business Agility requires expanding beyond agile practices strung together, it requires the entire organization working in concert to decrease time to market with a forward looking approach to their industry. We need to focus on organizational agility, as well as strategic agility. Ernst and Chrobot-Mason introduced these practices in their 2011 book “Boundary Spanning Leadership”. Join me in sharing my experience using Boundary Spanning Practices at a large financial institution to enable an enterprise agile transformation that sticks, while introducing the practices to you and giving you hands on practice. We will speed-date through each practice to give you an idea of how it works, with resources to dig deeper if this appeals to you.

You think you have your transformation figured out, but then your efforts to address one issue, you create unintended consequences that become the next hurdle. The only way to find your way out of the transformation maze is to understand your complex ecosystem and plan for change. In this workshop, we will explore how leveraging both the Integral Agile Model and a framework, such as SAFe can lead to executing successful transformation strategies. Join us as we discuss how to pair the Integral Agile Model with your framework to create a holistic view of your entire eco-system of leaders, vendors, compliance needs, and policy. We will also explore how to bring organizational goals to life by creating a priorities-based roadmap. If you're feeling lost in transformation, this workshop is for you!

From Baby Boomers to Millennials, every generation engaged in agile discovery has made an impact on our overall agility. So often the attention is placed on what makes the generations different as though the differences are a negative. If we ignore, rather than embrace the differences, we can be held back by gatekeeping, or ideological agile wars. The key is to find the best in every generation and close the agile generation gaps!

Just as there are generations of agile discovery, there are also generations of “transformations.” Many of those in the workplace have been through multiple transformations and adjustments to agile practices, with varying results. During this workshop, we will leverage the Integral Model and Boundary Spanning Leadership techniques to explore your organization's culture and altitude. Differences in ideology can disrupt work and be a dividing force in agile efforts and strategy. We will tackle those challenges and identify practical approaches to bringing a unified vision to what agile means in your organization along with ways to reinforce and continually hone the agile culture you want to thrive.

Whether you are moving to agile for the first time, or looking to boost or extend the agile culture in your organization, this workshop will provide you with tangible ways to bring out the best of each generation.