
Steven Mitchell
Lean & Agile Consultant
Steven Mitchell
location_on Australia
Member since 3 years
Steven Mitchell
Specialises In
Polymath with a passion for the people side of Lean and Agile.
My professional interests gravitate towards the vital trivium of creativity, productivity, and inspiration - and how to practically and pragmatically lead change in organisations to adopt new ways of thought and behaviour. Complimenting my voracious appetite for knowledge, I have direct experience in these domains; for creativity, experience in improvisational theatre with credits including Melbourne International Comedy Festival (AU), Theatre Sports (AU,CA), Die Nasty! (CA) and Art & Shock (KZ); for productivity, an active practitioner and member of the Agile community and passionate Lean advocate; for inspiration, certified Harada Method trainer (one of only two in Australia).
If you would like to have your mind blown by a Lean Study Mission to Japan with the "Godfather of Lean" Norman Bodek - get in touch with me today.
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A Fistful of Spaghetti
40 Mins
Talk
Beginner
A brief overview of spaghetti westerns, and a less brief overview of spaghetti diagrams and their applications.
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The Heart of Lean
30 Mins
Talk
Beginner
Cutting through the crap and providing the essence of what it means to be Lean. This presentation was inspired and reviewed by the "Godfather of Lean" Norman Bodek.
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A Fistful of Spaghetti
30 Mins
Talk
Beginner
A brief overview of spaghetti westerns, and a less brief overview of spaghetti diagrams and their applications.
This session will provide a video demonstration and the opportunity for attendees to create and walk away with their own spaghetti diagrams. How cool is that!
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Friday Keynote: 2 John
Steven MitchellLean & Agile ConsultantSteven MitchellCraig BrownCEOEverest Engineeringschedule 2 years ago
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Friday Keynote 1: Henry
Steven MitchellLean & Agile ConsultantSteven MitchellCraig BrownCEOEverest Engineeringschedule 2 years ago
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Thursday Keynote - Kriti
Steven MitchellLean & Agile ConsultantSteven MitchellCraig BrownCEOEverest Engineeringschedule 2 years ago
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Scrum Olympics
30 Mins
Talk
Beginner
Steven was confronted with a challenge. A group of almost 200 people in a major enterprise. Staff new to Agile, lacking necessary training and experience. Teams struggling with the basics. Performance expectations from senior management. How to coach so many people and bring awareness to Agile principles and practices at scale - with just one coach? And so the ScrumOlympics were born.This session will provide an overview of the games and practical guidance for introducing them to your organisation. -
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Scrum Olympics
30 Mins
Talk
Beginner
Steven was confronted with a challenge. A group of almost 200 people in a major enterprise. Staff new to Agile, lacking necessary training and experience. Teams struggling with the basics. Performance expectations from senior management. How to coach so many people and bring awareness to Agile principles and practices at scale - with just one coach? And so the ScrumOlympics were born.This session will provide an overview of the games and practical guidance for introducing them to your organisation. -
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The Heart of Lean
30 Mins
Talk
Beginner
“Agile has become overly decorated. Let’s scrape away those decorations for a minute, and get back to the center of agile.”
— Dr. Alistair Cockburn, co-author of the Agile Manifesto.Lean has become a decorated (*cough* bullshit *cough*) prefixed buzzword plastered on to every latest (and not necessarily greatest) industry trend. Steve Mitchell will strip back the fluff and guff to what Lean really means.
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Agile Mind, Agile Body: Leadership in Action Redux
90 Mins
Interactive
Beginner
Leadership is challenging, but what if it could be as easy as walking? Or is walking really that easy?
Drawing upon almost a decade of experience in improvisational theatre and two decades in the knowledge sector, this interactive workshop will provide novel insights to common domains. It will make you think and feel differently about leadership in the workplace.
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The Most Important Metric for Business Agility
20 Mins
Keynote
Executive
Lean and Agile practices are fundamentally changing the way we lead organisations. More and more business leaders are realising that old methods of management are being replaced by newer and better ones. That means business metrics are also evolving.
Business agility sounds great but as an executive what do I measure for success? If I focus on just one thing to track business agility as opposed to Agile adoption, what should it be?
In this presentation, Steven Mitchell, will discuss two examples of how he helped turn programs around with focus on the number one metric for business agility, and explore related themes to aid your company’s quest for greatness.
Steven Mitchell is an independent Lean & Agile Consultant based in Melbourne, Australia providing training, coaching, and consulting services.
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Agile Mind, Agile Body: The Power of Perception
60 Mins
Workshop
Beginner
In post-industrial western society we live in a culture dominated by symbolic language (words). But it wasn't always the case and a lot of how we communicate is lost or overlooked by ignoring the totality of our social interactions.
In this session you'll be introduced to some very basic concepts of how we are perceived by others through non-verbal communication and how we unconsciously project ourselves, and learn how to influence others.
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Agile Mind, Agile Body: The Power of Perception
90 Mins
Workshop
Beginner
In post-industrial western society we live in a culture dominated by symbolic language (words). But it wasn't always the case and a lot of how we communicate is lost or overlooked by ignoring the totality of our social interactions.
In this session you'll be introduced to some very basic concepts of how we are perceived by others through non-verbal communication and how we unconsciously project ourselves, and learn how to influence others.
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Office drama theatre - bring tough conversations to life
Helen SnitkovskyEnterprise Agile coachMH SolutionsSteven MitchellLean & Agile ConsultantSteven Mitchellschedule 3 years ago
Sold Out!90 Mins
Workshop
Beginner
This workshop is inspired by drama therapy. This approach can provide the context for participants to tell their stories, set goals and solve problems, express feelings, or achieve catharsis. Bring in your challenges in adopting Lean, Agile or System thinking. We will stage the story and help you find the solution through interactive play.
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Agile Mind, Agile Body: The Power of Perception
90 Mins
Workshop
Beginner
In post-industrial western society we live in a culture dominated by symbolic language (words). But it wasn't always the case and a lot of how we communicate is lost or overlooked by ignoring the totality of our social interactions.
In this session you'll be introduced to some very basic concepts of how we are perceived by others through non-verbal communication, and learn how to influence others.
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Keynote by special guest
Craig BrownCEOEverest EngineeringSteven MitchellLean & Agile ConsultantSteven Mitchellschedule 3 years ago
Sold Out!60 Mins
Talk
Beginner
Norman Bodek's mission is to teach managers how to teach their employees how to be successful in life and also to teach teachers how to teach their students how to be successful in life.
Takashi Harada, a track and field coach, in Osaka, Japan developed a new methodology to lead underachievers to become winners. His students won 13 gold medals, best in all of Japan, and the school went from the worst to the best out of 380 schools. HIs methodology has been taught to over 60,000 people. Shohei Otani a student at high school and also followed the Harada Method, setting a goal to pitch in the Japanese baseball major leagues. He also set a goal to pitch at 99 miles an hour. He attained his goals and was selected into the majors. After just three years, he was Japan's best pitcher, throwing at 103 miles per hour, selected as most valuable player and rumored that the New York Yankees were willing to pay 20 million dollars to get him. The Harada Method might not get you into the major leagues but it will surely help you rise to your maximum capabilities. You can be a hero of your own life when you can learn how to set goals and how to attain them.
Norman Bodek has co-authored a book with Mr. Harada titled The Harada Method - the Spirit of Self-reliance. Self-reliance allows people to operate at their highest level of skill.
Norman played a prime role in introducing Lean to the West. He started with Vern Buehler the Shingo Prize and is a Shingo Prize winner. He was a frequent keynote speaker on Quick and Kaizen, Lean manufacturing and the Harada Method. He has written hundreds of articles; and when he owned Productivity Press he published a 100 Japanese management books in English, over 250 published books on productivity and quality, and has written seven books including his How to Do Kaizen and the Harada Method. -
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Keynote by special guest
Craig BrownCEOEverest EngineeringSteven MitchellLean & Agile ConsultantSteven Mitchellschedule 3 years ago
Sold Out!60 Mins
Talk
Beginner
Peter Michael Senge is an American systems scientist who is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute, and the founder of the Society for Organizational Learning. He is known as the author of the book The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization
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Conference opening
Ed. WongArm waverTabarSteven MitchellLean & Agile ConsultantSteven Mitchellschedule 3 years ago
Sold Out!5 Mins
Talk
Beginner
We will open the day in the ATC 101 lecture theatre. The morning session will see us all together, with a new for 2017, experiment. We haven't tried anything like this before, so we hope it all goes to plan! No more details for now, we'll let you know more when we see you at Swinburne.
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Conference opening
Ed. WongArm waverTabarSteven MitchellLean & Agile ConsultantSteven Mitchellschedule 3 years ago
Sold Out!5 Mins
Talk
Beginner
We will open the day in the ATC 101 lecture theatre. The morning session will see us all together, with a new for 2017, experiment. We haven't tried anything like this before, so we hope it all goes to plan! No more details for now, we'll let you know more when we see you at Swinburne.
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Agile Mind, Agile Body: The Power of Perception
90 Mins
Workshop
Beginner
In post-industrial western society we live in a culture dominated by symbolic language (words). But it wasn't always the case and a lot of how we communicate is lost or overlooked by ignoring the totality of our social interactions.
In this session you'll be introduced to some very basic concepts of how we are perceived by others through non-verbal communication, and learn how to influence others.
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