
David Alia
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David Alia is CEO of OCTO Technology Australia, an IT Consulting company created in France in 1998.
Through his career of Software Engineer, he has advised his clients on various topics like Architecture, Lean, Agile and Transformation.
Still eager to code with his teams during internal coding nights, he assists executives and managers who desire to change their way of working for real and who value quality over quantity. This can be made possible through Discipline (Lean and Software Craftsmanship), Creativity (Culture Hacking, Mindfulness) and Expertise, all ingredients that bloom in a culture of safety and trust.
David is also a (Big) Data Architect - because you never totally quit your Software Engineer passion and curiosity for technology.
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Employee 1st: how to surf the corporate culture so that emerges an organisation outperforming the market
45 Mins
Case Study
Beginner
The best storytelling might be the one that you experienced yourself.
Let me tell you the story of how a 500-employee company completely changed its structure, lead by the employees' impulse.
After 10 years and an average of 20% organic growth every year, it was time to change, for the organisation to keep growing.
Originally, the teams were composed of senior & highly skilled consultants, divided into 3 industry-focused departments.
But over time, consultants started feeling frustrated being stuck in one department, working in 1 industry, on the same types of missions.
The company turnover reached a peak and in 2014 the executive team decided to address the problem.
More than half of the employees gathered to answer the question: how should the organisation be organised, in order to fulfil both business and consultants needs?
This talk will be about how the company organised a bottom-up conversation to invent and to collectively design their very own great place to work.
More than the organisation model itself, the talk will emphasis on the collective design process of the organisation based on a clearly stated problem, on the core principles on which the Tribes lie on and on the benefits that have been observed after 3 years of operation.
Greatly inspired by the book "Tribal Leadership" by David Logan, the employees ended up organising themselves as Tribes of expertise. -
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Employee 1st: how to surf the corporate culture so that emerges an organisation outperforming the market
40 Mins
Presentation
Beginner
The best storytelling might be the one that you experienced yourself.
Let me tell you the story of how a 500-employee company completely changed its structure, lead by the employees' impulse.
After 10 years and an average of 20% organic growth every year, it was time to change, for the organisation to keep growing.
Originally, the teams were composed of senior & highly skilled consultants, divided into 3 industry-focused departments.
But over time, consultants started feeling frustrated being stuck in one department, working in 1 industry, on the same types of missions.
The company turnover reached a peak and in 2014 the executive team decided to address the problem.
More than half of the employees gathered to answer the question: how should the organisation be organised, in order to fulfil both business and consultants needs?
This talk will be about how the company organised a bottom-up conversation to invent and to collectively design their very own great place to work.
More than the organisation model itself, the talk will emphasis on the collective design process of the organisation based on a clearly stated problem, on the core principles on which the Tribes lie on and on the benefits that have been observed after 3 years of operation.
Greatly inspired by the book "Tribal Leadership" by David Logan, the employees ended up organising themselves as Tribes of expertise. -
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"I'll start my transformation next Monday" - Overcoming the fear of pain to successfully transform corporates' mass
40 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
"Like for diets, if methods exist to lose weight significantly and sustainably, they require discipline and courage, which often lack in big organisations that worship silver-bullet cargo-cult frameworks and rituals.
I will use my own experience in dieting (+20kg in 4 years, -25kg in 6 months) and IT (+20 years of experience) to describe the parallel between the two, and how it is a powerful metaphor to understand why transformations tend to drag on and on in big corporate companies.
Participants will (re-)discover this evidence written in golden letters at gym clubs: ""no pain, no gain"", and how the diet metaphor suits particularly well for a digital/agile/culture transformation. Ramping up from individual motivation and discipline to tribal execution and ownership, find what are the key levers for managers to step up to become their company's Personal Trainers, with often the most underrated ingredient: courage" -
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The Dome: A powerful experiment for change when change is hard
40 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
"In ""Under the Dome"", the novel by Stephen King, the inhabitants of Chester's Mill wake up to a strange barrier, which is similar to a dome, covering the whole city, completely isolating it from the surrounding world.
The dome is impenetrable, only a small amount of air and water can pass through.
Following this puzzling event, the community under the dome has to change, for the best or the worst.
Most successful transformations at scale have a lot in common with this novel, metaphorically speaking of course.
Based on this story, we designed a brand new culture hacking experiment that proved to be successful in many environments.
Change automatically generates resistance from the team to change AND from the ecosystem around (the ""antibodies"").
What if, in order to change the culture of a whole ecosystem, a team was isolated from the outside world, protected by an unbreakable and transparent dome?
This story can be used as a referential, as this is a metaphor helping communicate and relate to the challenges faced in situations of change.
Using it as an alignment between fiction and reality, this story will open the discussion to easily relatable transformation and business agility topics." -
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"I'll start my transformation next Monday" - Overcoming the fear of pain to successfully transform corporates' mass
30 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
"Like for diets, if methods exist to lose weight significantly and sustainably, they require discipline and courage, which often lack in big organisations that worship silver-bullet cargo-cult frameworks and rituals.
I will use my own experience in dieting (+20kg in 4 years, -25kg in 6 months) and IT (+20 years of experience) to describe the parallel between the two, and how it is a powerful metaphor to understand why transformations tend to drag on and on in big corporate companies.
Participants will (re-)discover this evidence written in golden letters at gym clubs: ""no pain, no gain"", and how the diet metaphor suits particularly well for a digital/agile/culture transformation. Ramping up from individual motivation and discipline to tribal execution and ownership, find what are the key levers for managers to step up to become their company's Personal Trainers, with often the most underrated ingredient: courage" -
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The Dome: A powerful experiment for change when change is hard
45 Mins
Case Study
Intermediate
"In ""Under the Dome"", the novel by Stephen King, the inhabitants of Chester's Mill wake up to a strange barrier, which is similar to a dome, covering the whole city, completely isolating it from the surrounding world.
The dome is impenetrable, only a small amount of air and water can pass through.
Following this puzzling event, the community under the dome has to change, for the best or the worst.
Most successful transformations at scale have a lot in common with this novel, metaphorically speaking of course.
Based on this story, we designed a brand new culture hacking experiment that proved to be successful in many environments.
Change automatically generates resistance from the team to change AND from the ecosystem around (the ""antibodies"").
What if, in order to change the culture of a whole ecosystem, a team was isolated from the outside world, protected by an unbreakable and transparent dome?
This story can be used as a referential, as this is a metaphor helping communicate and relate to the challenges faced in situations of change.
Using it as an alignment between fiction and reality, this story will open the discussion to easily relatable transformation and business agility topics." -
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"I'll start my transformation next Monday" - Overcoming the fear of pain to successfully transform corporates' mass
30 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
"Like for diets, if methods exist to lose weight significantly and sustainably, they require discipline and courage, which often lack in big organisations that worship silver-bullet cargo-cult frameworks and rituals.
I will use my own experience in dieting (+20kg in 4 years, -25kg in 6 months) and IT (+20 years of experience) to describe the parallel between the two, and how it is a powerful metaphor to understand why transformations tend to drag on and on in big corporate companies.
Participants will (re-)discover this evidence written in golden letters at gym clubs: ""no pain, no gain"", and how the diet metaphor suits particularly well for a digital/agile/culture transformation. Ramping up from individual motivation and discipline to tribal execution and ownership, find what are the key levers for managers to step up to become their company's Personal Trainers, with often the most underrated ingredient: courage" -
keyboard_arrow_down
The Dome: A powerful experiment for change when change is hard
45 Mins
Case Study
Intermediate
"In ""Under the Dome"", the novel by Stephen King, the inhabitants of Chester's Mill wake up to a strange barrier, which is similar to a dome, covering the whole city, completely isolating it from the surrounding world.
The dome is impenetrable, only a small amount of air and water can pass through.
Following this puzzling event, the community under the dome has to change, for the best or the worst.
Most successful transformations at scale have a lot in common with this novel, metaphorically speaking of course.
Based on this story, we designed a brand new culture hacking experiment that proved to be successful in many environments.
Change automatically generates resistance from the team to change AND from the ecosystem around (the ""antibodies"").
What if, in order to change the culture of a whole ecosystem, a team was isolated from the outside world, protected by an unbreakable and transparent dome?
This story can be used as a referential, as this is a metaphor helping communicate and relate to the challenges faced in situations of change.
Using it as an alignment between fiction and reality, this story will open the discussion to easily relatable transformation and business agility topics." -
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