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The volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (short VUCA) world we currently live in asks for company-wide agility. Yet, agility in the literal sense that means companies need to be adaptive, responsive, fast, and nimble. Thus, although already created in the 90ies, the original idea of a learning organization, that is a company that facilitates the learning of its members and continuously transforms itself, is more relevant than ever. Yet, how can such a learning organization come to life? BOSSA nova is one approach to company-wide agility by synthesizing Beyond Budgeting, Open Space, Sociocracy & Agility. The key to its success are so-called probes – small, safe-to-fail experiments based on hypotheses derived from reflection on the current situation as well as on theory. In this session, I will share various probes implemented by different companies that can guide the probing in your company to establish a learning organization.
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In companies, we define OKRs and KPIs for aligning and measuring our performance. However, not much has been done thus far to measure how we are progressing on our journey to company-wide agility. With the right data, that journey can go more rapidly!
In this presentation, we provide an overview of what metrics to use, based on many years of experience and groundbreaking scientific theory and articulated as “BOSSA nova” - a synthesis of Beyond Budgeting, Open Space, Sociocracy & Agile.
Embracing a data-driven approach to company-wide agility doesn’t mean you’ll have all the answers - but you’ll be able to ask better questions.
A focus on data is especially important today when remote work settings create additional barriers to communication and understanding.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
● Learn about key indicators for measuring where your company is on its agile transformation journey
● Understand there are possibilities for measuring company-wide agility by examining transparency, continuous learning, constant customer focus, self-organization, and connected perspective
● Understand what can help you to have meaningful conversations, interviews, and objective baselines to make a compelling case for your next steps.
Authored by: Jutta Eckstein and John Buck
How Agile Is Your Whole Company? Use Data-based KPIs to Find Out!
There is a way to measure your company’s progress in transforming to company-wide agility! Gain a holistic perspective of (your company’s) organizational agility by using a new assessment tool.
In companies, we define OKRs and KPIs for aligning and measuring our performance. However, not much has been done thus far to measure how we are progressing on our journey to company-wide agility. With the right data, that journey can go more rapidly! In this session we provide an overview of what metrics to use, based on many years of experience and groundbreaking scientific theory and articulated as “BOSSA nova” - a synthesis of Beyond Budgeting, Open Space, Sociocracy & Agile.
Embracing a data-driven approach to company-wide agility doesn’t mean you’ll have all the answers - but you’ll be able to ask better questions. A focus on data is especially important today when remote work settings create additional barriers to communication and understanding.
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Webinar Abstract:
Digitalization and other disruptions call for rapid organizational flexibility and adaptability. This has an impact on all dimensions of a company: its strategy, structure, and the processes. Thus, companies are expected to be flexible and both rapidly responsive and resilient to change, which basically asks them to be agile. Yet, doing Agile (the mechanics) is different from being agile (the mindset). The mindset lets you apply flexible Agile patterns not only for software development teams but for the whole company.
In this workshop, we will examine what being agile really means and how it can be implemented by combining principles from different “streams” like Beyond Budgeting, Open Space, Sociocracy, Agility (BOSSA nova).
Together, these concepts enable a company not only to survive but also to thrive on (digital) disruptions through entrepreneur initiatives. In this session, we will use case studies of companies that are pioneering the combination of these concepts.
Key Takeaways:
1. Understand the organizational values that support the digital transformation
2. Learn how Beyond Budgeting, Open Space, Sociocracy & Agile combines supporting digitalization
3. Know how you can accelerate your digital transformation company-wide.
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Picture this: I'm a woman attending an Agile conference, ready to soak in all the knowledge and excitement. But there's one thing that never fails to catch my attention. Every time nature calls, I find myself standing in line for what feels like an eternity, just to access the women's restrooms. Interestingly enough, this never happens at general IT conferences. So, are we there yet? Not quite.
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We are dealing with a slow crisis. We are used to a crisis being now and urgent and stirring fight or flight hormones that cause us to drop everything and face the crisis. So, the difficulty with the climate crisis (and other planetary challenges) is that for most of us the fight or flight hormones are not kicking in. Additionally, that crisis is a wicked problem that tends to leave us overwhelmed (“what can little me do about such a big problem?”), uncertain if we can make a difference at all, and if so, how?
In this workshop, we will focus on the professional life of agile leaders and testers in their organizations and will present a strategy for creating necessary internal and external connections that can help us better react NOW to this slow crisis in our everyday work. Furthermore, we will explore how to overcome the helplessness many people feel with such a wicked problem and explore specific sustainable testing strategies you can use in your day-to-day work. We will not only create small experiments that we all can specifically do as agile leaders and testers but also as a group we will organize a way to get feedback on these experiments from the whole conference. This way, the whole conference can start to hear the “silent scream of the planet” and both the participants of the workshop and the whole conference can mutually benefit from these experiments.
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Das Agile Manifest erschließt „bessere Wege, Software zu entwickeln“. Könnte dieser bessere Weg auch den CO2-Fußabdruck der Software berücksichtigen? Einer Prognose zufolge wird die IT bis 2030 21% des weltweiten Energieverbrauchs ausmachen. Ändern wir die Art und Weise wie wir Software implementieren nicht, werden wir zur Erhöhung des CO2-Fußabdrucks beitragen. Es ist also Zeit zu prüfen, wie agile Entwicklung dazu beitragen kann, den Energieverbrauch zu senken und für mehr – ökologische, soziale & wirtschaftliche – Nachhaltigkeit zu sorgen.
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Do you know that some forecasts project that in 2030 IT will account for 21% of all energy consumption? So, if we do not change the way we implement software, we will contribute to the increase in the carbon footprint. This means it is about time to take another look at how agile development can help decrease energy consumption.
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The increase of digitalization means that software is a key driver for society and the economy. However, this means we can’t keep creating products and without taking the responsibility for the impact of the software. For example, IT is predicted to account for 21% of global energy consumption by 2030. If we don't change the way we implement software, we will add to our carbon footprint. So, it is time to examine how software development can help reduce energy consumption and ensure more - ecological, social & economic - sustainability.
In this keynote, I want to broaden our horizon on having a more holistic perspective on our responsibility for sustainability. I will share both ideas about possibilities and examples from companies who make already an effort in implementing this holistic perspective, because sustainability becomes more and more a success factor for every company: For finding and keeping both clients as well as talent. Thus, this session is about raising the awareness of our contribution to more sustainability and hopefully being a wake-up call for taking responsibility.
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At the core of agile development are self-organizing cross-functional teams. Yet, this is often understood as e.g., backend & front-end developers working together. If an organization is aiming for company-wide agility, to fully benefit from agility it has to enable teams as value centers that are truly cross-functional by bringing in different perspectives from business, markets, cultures, beliefs, etc. This way cross-functional teams overcome not only the limitations of organizational silos but also of a singular view on the market.
If teams are really cross-functional and are resembling the diversity of the market, the products they’re creating are also better. Thus, if the whole team has the full business expertise, knows the market, reflects the full diversity of the clients, then it can even disrupt the market and isn’t waiting for some person (e.g., the Product Owner) to decide on priorities. With this real cross-functionality, the team can fully understand the company’s business and has a holistic view of it, knowing its contribution to the company’s value stream.
Real cross-functional teams are an essential building block for implementing company-wide agility and the organization benefits by creating better and in a way more real products and by having more options when entering the war of talent.
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We often find ourselves in complex situations without recognizing what makes them complex. Yet, only understanding the context will help us to either benefit from the complex situation (yes, it can also be beneficial) or know how to reduce the complexity.
In this workshop, we will introduce a simple tool (the difference matrix of Human Systems Dynamics, HSD in short) that helps to see the differences and exchanges that at the same time make a situation complex and provide hints for reducing the complexity. Using a case study, participants will experience in small groups (using breakout rooms) how they can use the difference matrix by example.
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Agility and sustainability are intertwined and define more and more the success factor for every company: For finding and keeping both clients as well as talent.
Have you ever wondered about the responsibility that comes with “being agile”? If you, your team, or your organization claim to be agile people expect you, for example, to embrace diversity & inclusion, to satisfy your customers without any bias, and even to protect your environment. In this session, I want to broaden our horizon on having a more holistic perspective on our responsibility for sustainability that comes with being agile. I will share both ideas about possibilities and examples from companies who make already an effort in implementing this holistic perspective. Thus, this session is about raising the awareness of our contribution to more sustainability and understanding how the principles of the agile manifesto can be leveraged to change our actions.
Real Cross-functional Teams for Creating real and better Products
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Too many products have been developed that serve one kind of client only. The reason is that the composition of the teams leads (subconsciously) to the development of products that serve only people that resemble the people in the team. One “famous” example is the soap dispenser that only works if your hands are white.
If teams are really cross-functional and are resembling the diversity of the market, the products they’re creating are also better. Thus, if the whole team has the full business expertise, knows the market, reflects the full diversity of the clients, then it can even disrupt the market and isn’t waiting for some person (e.g., the Product Owner) to decide on priorities. With this real cross-functionality the team can fully understand the company’s business and has a holistic view of it, knowing its contribution to the company’s value stream.
Real cross-functional teams are an essential building block for implementing company-wide agility and the organization benefits by creating better and in a way more real products and by having more options when entering the war of talent.
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The Agile Manifesto captures "better ways of developing software" yet, could this better way also take the carbon footprint of your software into account? Some forecasts project that in 2030 IT will account for 21% of all energy consumption. Software lifecycle creates direct and indirect carbon emissions: it has a footprint, worsening environmental problems. If we do not change the way we implement software, we will contribute to the increase of the carbon footprint. This means it is about time to take another look at how agile development can help decrease energy consumption.
So, this session tries to provide the first answers to "how can the agile community and the agile principles contribute to or guide sustainability?" In this workshop, we want to examine how the principles of the Agile Manifesto can provide guidance for implementing sustainability in IT. In order to do so, we will explore how the principles can contribute to sustainability, and how a greater awareness can change our current way of working for providing our contribution to addressing climate change.
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“Measuring from above” traditionally means measuring against a standard set in the past - against a set of assumptions based on customer research. The unstated assumption is that the customer data will be valid for at least some period of time in the future. OKRs and KPIs then give feedBACK against targets set based on management’s picture of what customers want. What is needed in our VUCA world, however, is feedFORWARD. That is, we must build a model of what customers will want in the future and act now against that model.
Too often innovative people in medium to large organizations have the feeling of being in a box - with startling new ideas - and no one really listens. In essence, these innovators are trying to “measure performance upwards.” This upward voice intrinsically measures strategies and customer impact, and applying the concept can significantly improve the overall performance without relying on top-down OKRs and KPIs. Moreover, “measuring from above,” tends to measure only the output of production. However, in the VUCA world, we’re living in right now, measuring the output of production is not enough for companies that need to survive and thrive on disruption. Although OKRs and KPIs have served the business world well in the past, in the future, companies need to focus on the truly important outcome: what is really making a difference for our customers and therefore for our company.
However, in a VUCA world, we cannot assume any sort of stability - the model of the future must change often if it is to be sensitive to changing conditions. The “view from below” is very likely to be more attuned to such changes than the view from the top, which necessarily operates at a more abstract, longer-term level. Without measurement from below, the measurement from the top is likely to become “old-fashioned” very quickly.
Adding “measurement from below” to a company can create a mindset that empowers everyone to follow their passion and interest and nourish the company’s effectiveness. Implementing a “from below” approach to measurement involves a fundamental shift that asks the company to synthesize a variety of new approaches.
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In agile development we often talk about that our highest priority is to satisfy the customer or that we welcome change for the customer's competitive advantage. However, we always assume the customer is a business customer. In this session I want to attempt to broaden our horizon to have a more holistic perspective on who our customer is (or could be) and how this can change our actions. I will share both ideas about possibilities and examples from companies who make already attempts in implementing this holistic perspective.
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