Being an Agile Champion is hard work. Whether you are just uncovering the value of agility or you are a seasoned transformation agent, you will inevitably find yourself hitting your head against the wall at some point and wondering why an agile transformation is progressing slowly, why people don't seem to get it, or why it's stalled all together. The answers to these questions will vary, but will most likely boil down to one or more people not understanding how transformation aligns with their priorities. 

So how can you convince them that it’s worth their attention, time, and energy? It all starts with changing your approach. In this workshop, we'll uncover key questions to ask yourself when it comes to influencing others to get your transformation moving. We’ll complete an exercise to get you thinking like the person you’re trying to influence, in order to prepare you for conversations at any level within your organization. You'll walk away with actionable steps you can take to immediately be more influential, more effective, and more confident as an agile champion.

With today’s teams spread across time zones and locations, tools are a necessity to support collaboration and productivity. But a common misconception is that tools come with an implicit process off the shelf that will magically make your business agile. What happens more often than not is that teams and organizations implement tools as a reflection of their people and practices. So while tools are meant to be flexible to support organizational needs, it can be difficult to understand how to implement them to get the best return on investment without looking at the bigger picture.

In this talk, I'll discuss the common pitfalls of implementing a tool without a clear understanding of your people and practices. We'll work on shifting the mindset from implementing a tool to drive processes, to implementing a tool to support business needs and goals. I'll also introduce real success stories where organizations found harmony between people, practices, and technology, using the Atlassian tools to unlock agility in product and marketing teams, clinical drug trials, and advertising.

Many of us are part of an agile transformation in some capacity. You may have experienced frustration around the time it takes to reach the end goal of "being Agile;" maybe you’ve never reached it and you want to know what it feels like to be done. In this session workshop, we’ll explore what an Agile Transformation is and isn’t and what it feels like to be done.

Fledging and mature Agile teams go through periods where their ceremonies lack the desired level of engagement. In this session, we'll work together to identify common behaviors and anti-patterns of one of the iconic Agile ceremonies and discuss ways to get your teams to re-engage in ways that support self-organization, agility, and adaptability.

In broad terms, there are three primary mechanisms that organizations should lean into to deliver customer value, drive growth, and respond to disruptive events:people, practices, and technology which we have developed into a proprietary framework - the Isosceles Triangle. 

Every organization has a go-to, a mechanism or set of mechanisms that they most frequently rely on when problems present themselves. Equally common, in a single company, each department, division, and work group will have their own set of go-tos. These are typically default mechanisms—strengths or skill sets where there is a level of expertise and/or comfort. While leaning into a go-to mechanism to overcome a challenge can lead to incremental improvement, it is rarely a formula for long-term success. An organization’s mechanism of choice may not always support true business agility and may not be the best option for driving customer value.

Companies are better served by looking at and addressing technology, practices, and people holistically, as an integrated systemto drive focused change. In the right combination, these approaches can increase business efficiency, accelerate product and service evolution, and even power innovation. It is important to note, though, that there is no universal solution. The answer—what to lean into and when—is going to be different for every company and in every situation, and because of this, it is necessary to have proficiency in all three.

In this session we will introduce the Isosceles Triangle Framework and how it can help your organization become more resilient and reach self-reliance.