Think about your last BBQ when your brother in law told you he was dealing at work with an "agile change manager".

What was your first reaction?

How your brother in law told you he understood now what your job is about?

Schrödinger faced the same challenges when quantic physic suffered from its own labelling between scepticism and dogmatism.

Drawing from both history lessons and thought experiments we will observe together with the effect of the challenges we face when assisting people finding their approach in context to develop agility.

Either we can let the box with the cat closed with no way to predict if the cat dead or alive, or open it to trigger the state.

In the same way, we can prevent yourself from using "Agile labels" to keep the box closed or start using them to trigger reactions and dealing with.

The Derdians are rural and peaceful people living in small huts nestled in lush green valleys. Previously renouncing any form of modernity, the Derdians decided this year to open up to the world and welcome new products from around the globe.

Get ready for a clash of cultures!

"The Derdians" is a well-known workshop used by cultural hackers to make teams (or people) acknowledge their cultural differences, and find their way to a better communication/collaboration.

The participants of this workshop experiment (and therefore, discover) the gregarious reflexes that human groups have when they are in contact with a different culture. The participants leave the session with key levers to reduce the clash of cultures and to encourage the collaboration of culturally-distant teams.

Facilitated by Romain Vailleux, this workshop begins with a role-playing game (hilarious and dynamic!), and ends with a debrief phase to compile the learnings of the workshop as a takeaway.

As soon as...

• You define what 'Agile' is,
• You show people what 'Agile' is in your company,
• You list what you do to implement 'Agile'...

...everyone has an opinion.

And most of the time, that opinion would be... "that's not real Agile''.

Making the analogy with the Schrödinger's experiment, every time you open the box that contains your organisation, you reduce the possibilities of what Agile means and the degrees of freedom associated with this wide concept. As soon as you describe what concretely embodies Agile in your very own context, you prevent people to imagine the options available to extend or to improve the existing situation.

So, what should you do?
Stay in an undecided state of 'Agile' and keep a whole and rich 'Agile' concept, or make 'Agile' specific to your context and lose some of the flawlessness of the 'Agile' concept?

Based on a short story, I'll demonstrate that Agile is both dead and alive in your organisations.

Less time waste, more USEFUL meetings!

The Liberating microstructures (K. McCandless & H. Lipmanowicz) are a repertory of workshop formats that enable collective intelligence and enhance trust among the participants.

Inclusivity, collective intelligence, collaboration, innovation; these words resonate a lot in today's business world where companies struggle to keep up with growing complexity.
And that's why every change agent, leader or facilitator needs to know about Liberating structures.

This 90-minute workshop will be an interactive overview of the liberating microstructures, making every participant aware of the diversity of Liberating formats available.
After a quick introduction to the subject, the participants will investigate the framework to finish with the key principles behind the liberating structures.

Successfully tested in the past (ROTI of 4 at LAST Adelaide)

As soon as...
You define what 'Agile' is,
You show people what 'Agile' is in your company,
You list what you do to implement 'Agile'...
Everyone has an opinion

And most of the time, that opinion would be... "that's not real 'Agile'''.

Every time you try to go specific with Agile, you lose some of the options available, based on the Values of the Agile Manifesto.
So, what's best?
Stay in an undecided state of 'Agile' and keep a whole and rich 'Agile' concept, or make 'Agile' specific to your context and lose some of the flawlessness of the 'Agile' concept?

Less time waste, more USEFUL meetings!

The Liberating microstructures (K. McCandless & H. Lipmanowicz) are a repertory of workshop formats that enable collective intelligence and enhance trust among the participants.

Inclusivity, collective intelligence, collaboration, innovation; these words resonate a lot in today's business world where companies struggle to keep up with growing complexity.
And that's why every change agent, leader or facilitator needs to know about Liberating structures.

This 90-minute workshop will be an interactive overview of the liberating microstructures, making every participant aware of the diversity of Liberating formats available.
After a quick introduction to the subject, the participants will investigate the framework to finish with the key principles behind the liberating structures.

The Derdians are a rural and peaceful people living in small huts nestled in lush green valleys. Previously renouncing any form of modernity, the Derdians decided this year to open up to the world and welcome new products from around the globe.

Get ready for a clash of cultures!

"The Derdians" is a well-knowed workshop used by cultural hackers to make teams (or people) acknowledge their cultural differences, and find their way to a better communication/collaboration.

The participants of this workshop experiment (and therefore, discover) the gregarious reflexes that human groups have when they are in contact with a different culture. The participants leave the session with key levers to reduce the clash of cultures and to encourage collaboration of culturally-distant teams.

Facilitated by Romain Vailleux, this workshop begins with a role-playing game (hilarious and dynamic!), and ends with a debrief phase to compile the learning of the workshop as a take away.