I'll be translating the agile manifesto and values into agile practices. It will be important for team leaders and managers to understand that agility in HR is also important in building strong teams and enterprises. The focus in people management will shift if they want to agile agility. 

It will highlight some of the important changes in practices when building a team such as your profiling, competences, talent management and acquisition practices. 

Using dancing to learn through experience on the communication differences between leaders and followers. We will use the dance, tango to learn the different things we should look our for in communicating. 

For many team discussions, sometimes we find difficulties reaching an agreement. Many times the conversation is with people who are more expressive. This is a systemic exercise to help teams find solutions through drawing and thinking differently. It will encourage people to understand each other's opinions and integrate them into their thinking.

The exercise is developed by Tom Wujec, I'll be adopting his exercise to the workshop. 

http://www.tomwujec.com/114/

Flattening the organisation is a key discussion in creating an agile organisation with shorter decision making cycles and quicker time to market impact. The key question is how to do it practically and what is the level of "flatness" to achieve. 

The session will focus on the different ways to flatten the organisation and the impact to people using actual case studies in projects I've intervened in. The topics to provoke thinking that will be covered:

- different options and career paths for individuals in an agile organisation 

- different ways to flatten an organisation iteratively 

- the benefits to organisation and to individuals

With over 5 years in the practice of tango, I would like to use tango techniques to explain the nuances in communication between product team and dev team. It's not often straight forward or easy. 

Tango is an extreme dance in coordination and non verbal communication where both dancers decide how fast or how slow they want to take it. It is also one of the few dances where pauses are encouraged and takes the form of regrouping. 

It will be an experiential learning experience. I will be using tango moves to explain communication techniques and considerations. 

(Note: It's not a session to learn tango, but a session to learn communication through tango.)

The session is ideal for 60mins but there is no option to choose the 60mins slot. 

How to make a toast is a workshop developed by Tom Wujec. 

In this workshop, the goal is to use systemic thinking in understanding perspectives within the group and to solve complex problems through collaborative drawing. 

It is useful any of the situations:

- A complex problem that can have multiple opinions and paths with no set solutions. Usually, strategic decision making. 

- Where team collaboration is lacking due to dominating members and/or lack of participation or voice of all players

- Different cultures in communication where team members may not be confident or feel safe or want to speak up

We will be using exercises to solve complex issues decided by the participants. 

This workshop will be conducted by myself and Miho Nagase. We will cross cultural and language barriers to show how this exercise can work. 

The stories of agile transformation are many, some funny, some painful, some frustrating, some motivating. It feels like colours of the wind and often I'm inspired to write books about the adventures in change management. 

Very often, when a bunch o friends and colleagues sat together to share camp fire stories of agile transformation, 2 phrases circulate in my retrospection of the many stories. 

From Einstein who said: The very definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different outcome. 

From Sun Tze who said: know yourself and know your enemy. 

The main challenge is that if you've only known waterfall method, then you are likely to do agile transformation in a waterfall way. How can you know what you don't know and implement that which you are learning to know? And then naturally, you'll fulfil what Einstein said, doing something in the way you know over and over again expecting a different outcome. 

Even agile practitioners are not spared in this trend. It's often easy to recognise software development cycles that are waterfall or agile. But in change, when the impact is team set up, stakeholders management, it's not easy to recognise when you had used waterfall and when it is agile. 

For eg. If in your agile transformation, you have not used a pilot to test assumptions, you've probably don't it waterfall. 

For eg. If in your team set up, you've written the job descriptions by yourself or by your HR, you've probably not used agile in your transformation. 

I'd highlight some blindspots we have, gathering all the camp fire stories from friends and colleagues to share and help us be more aware of it. 

With over 5 years in the practice of tango, I would like to use tango techniques to explain the nuances in communication between product team and dev team. It’s not often straight forward or easy.

Tango is an extreme dance in coordination and non verbal communication. it is also not the kind of dance that can be guided by strict rhythm like salsa. Instead, it’s a decision between both dancers on how fast or how slow they want to take it. It is also one of the few dances where pauses are encouraged and takes the form of regrouping.

I’ll be using experiential learning to demonstrate techniques in communication. (Note: it’s not a tango lesson but a communication workshop using tango.)

With over 5 years in the practice of tango, I would like to use tango techniques to explain the nuances in communication between product team and dev team. It's not often straight forward or easy. 

Tango is an extreme dance in coordination and non verbal communication where both dancers decide how fast or how slow they want to take it. It is also one of the few dances where pauses are encouraged and takes the form of regrouping. 

It will be an experiential learning experience. I will be using tango moves to explain communication techniques and considerations. 

(Note: It's not a session to learn tango, but a session to learn communication through tango.)