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Agendashift roundup, September 2023

In this edition: Experience/practice sessions; Leading in a Transforming Organisation; December; Top posts

(New! Free!) Experience/Practice sessions

I have added two more dates to the calendar, the first experience/practice sessions of what should become a monthly fixture (series link):

26 October, online, 15:00BST, 16:00CEST, 10am EDT:
Experience/practice session: Deliberately Adaptive Organisation assessment 23 November, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CET, 10am ET:
Experience/practice session: The Agendashift Delivery assessment

They’re a chance to try one of our famously inclusive, non-prescriptive, and framework-agnostic assessments (a different template each month) and to experience with others some post-assessment conversations, Agendashift-style.

Post-debrief conversations will follow the IdOO (“I do”) pattern – Ideal, Obstacles, Outcomes, for which materials based on Leading with Outcomes: Foundation will be provided. If, within that structure, you would like to take the brief opportunity to practice our Clean Language coaching game 15-minute FOTO (Academy version here), this should be possible, numbers permitting.

The free webinars continue to cycle through the three “questions that drive us” (series link). The next two of those:

17 October, online, 15:00BST, 16:00CEST, 10am EDT:
Free webinar/AMA: How do we keep outcomes in the foreground? 09 November, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CST, 10am ET:
Free webinar/AMA: Where to start? Where next? Leading in a Transforming Organisation: Engaging with complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation

I’m both counting down the days to Australia and looking ahead to Manchester!

4-6 October, Melbourne, Australia:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation: Engaging with complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation 14-16 November, Manchester, UK
Leading in a Transforming Organisation: Engaging with complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation

This is where it’s happening in Agendashift-land right now. If you’re tired of approaches to organisational challenges that can’t see beyond process (and trust me, it’s liberating to get past that) and have little of consequence to say about complexity, get yourself to one of these if you possibly can.

I should mention that my trip to Australia – my first trip abroad since COVID – is thanks to Kanban Australia 2023. Thank you Daniel and the rest of the organising team!

Looking ahead to December

In early December I’m off to India for Kanban India and the last TTT/F of the year:

1-2 December, Bengaluru, India:
Kanban India 2023 3-4 December, Bengaluru, India:
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F)

And a thank you to Noopur, Prachi, and the rest of the organising team there too!

Top posts An invitation to a more thoughtful assessment (September) My favourite Clean Language question (January 2019) What I really think about Scrum (August 2020) Your organisation in 5 networks (November 2022) From Reverse STATIK to a ‘Pathway’ for continuous transformation (October 2019)

Leading with Outcomes from the Agendashift Academy
“Leadership and strategy in the transforming organisation”

Leading with Outcomes is our modular curriculum in leadership and organisation development. Each module is available as self-paced online training or as private, instructor-led training (online or in-person). Certificates of completion or participation according to format. Its four modules in the recommended order:

Leading with Outcomes: Foundation Adaptive Organisation , two parts:Part I: Business agility at every scalePart II: Between spaces, scopes, and scales Inside-out Strategy: Fit for maximum impact Outside-in Strategy: Positioned for success

Individual subscriptions from £24.50 per month, business subscriptions from £269 per month, with discounts available on both kinds of plan for employees and employers in the government, healthcare, education, and non-profit sectors.

To deliver Leading with Outcomes yourself, see our Authorised Trainer and Authorised Facilitator programmes. Our next TTT/F trainings take place in September (online) and December (Bengaluru, India).

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An invitation to a more thoughtful assessment

All the organisational scopes you identify with

Before you begin, think about all the organisational scopes you identify with. Formally-recognised or otherwise, your scopes bring together people, their value-creating work, and a sense of shared identity. Yours might include:

Teams, teams-of-teams, or biggerScopes smaller than teamsCross-cutting scopes that intersect with multiple other scopes

Next, two kinds of “healthy and productive”:

Thinking about your scopes individually, how healthy and productive would you say they are?How healthy and productive would you say are the relationships between scopes?

To the assessment itself:

As you score each assessment prompt, try to choose a point on our four-point scale that’s representative of all of your scopesWhere that’s hard to do authentically, you can restrict yourself to the scope or scopes with which you identify you most stronglyDon’t worry about being inconsistent – ranges of experience, opinion, and perspective are just as interesting as consensus, and our process will make good use of both

That’s quite a change from “Choose a scope and stick to it”! Given its length, I don’t know that I would use it frequently outside the Adaptive Organisation assessment, but for that one, it’s more in keeping with the module of the same name’s “Start where you are, everywhere all at once” approach.

Experience the full version of the assessment for yourself via the Melbourne (October) or Manchester (November) editions of Leading in a Transforming Organisation, or the online module Adaptive Organisation (I): Business Agility at every scale. Or a private event! If the 3-day Leading in a Transforming Organisation would be infeasible, various shorter options are available, and a new 1-day Adaptive Organisation workshop is ready to test, and on favourable terms. If that could be of interest, get in touch.

Related

Adaptive Organisation (I): Business agility at every scale v2.0 beta (July) Start where you are (February) Your organisation in 5 networks (November 2022)Upcoming events

With me (Mike Burrows) unless otherwise indicated:

September:

12-20 September, online, Tuesday & Wednesday afternoons (UK time):
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer/Facilitator (TTT/F) 28 September, 18:00 BST, Sheffield, UK:
Between spaces, scopes, and scales: What the scaling frameworks don’t tell you

October:

4-6 October, Melbourne, Australia:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation 09 October, Melbourne, Australia:
Kanban Australia 2023 17 October, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CET, 10am ET:
Free webinar/AMA: How do we keep outcomes in the foreground?

Later:

09 November, online meetup, 11:30 GMT, 12:30 CST, 06.30am ET:
Between spaces, scopes, and scales: What the scaling frameworks don’t tell you 14-16 November, Manchester, UK:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation 1-2 December, Bengaluru, India:
Kanban India 2023 3-4 December, Bengaluru, India:
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F)

Leading with Outcomes from the Agendashift Academy
“Leadership and strategy in the transforming organisation”

Leading with Outcomes is our modular curriculum in leadership and organisation development. Each module is available as self-paced online training or as private, instructor-led training (online or in-person). Certificates of completion or participation according to format. Its four modules in the recommended order:

Leading with Outcomes: Foundation Adaptive Organisation , two parts:Part I: Business agility at every scalePart II: Between spaces, scopes, and scales Inside-out Strategy: Fit for maximum impact Outside-in Strategy: Positioned for success

Individual subscriptions from £24.50 per month, business subscriptions from £269 per month, with discounts available on both kinds of plan for employees and employers in the government, healthcare, education, and non-profit sectors.

To deliver Leading with Outcomes yourself, see our Authorised Trainer and Authorised Facilitator programmes. Our next TTT/F trainings take place in September (online) and December (Bengaluru, India).

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At every scope and scale, developing strategy together, pursuing strategy together, outcomes before solutions, working backwards (“right to left”) from key moments of impact and learning.

Adaptive Organisation (I): Business agility at every scale v2.0 beta

As first mentioned to Academy subscribers here, I’m delighted to announce that the videos for all three chapters of v2.0 of Adaptive Organisation (I): Business agility at every scale have been released. As done previously for the Leading with Outcomes: Foundation module, it remains in beta until I’ve released the new workbook and added captions (hand-edited) to all videos. The previous version (v1.6) remains available for the time being on the old learning management system.

Part I covers key building blocks every leader needs to know about organising for adaptability:

The three overlapping spaces of the Deliberately Adaptive OrganisationIntegrating strategy, delivery, and mutual trust-buildingManaging complexity, finding balance in these and other relationships at every scale

As well as the usual improvements in flow we’ve seen with iterations of this and other modules, these are the main changes since v1.6:

A greater and earlier emphasis on emergence and self-organisationAn earlier introduction of this modules’s complexity-friendly “start where you are, everywhere all at once” approach, seen first with the accompanying assessmentBetter integrating the relational and constraint-based aspects of organising (we’ll build on this in some leading-edge complexity-related material in part II)A new interlude between chapters 2 and 3 incorporating workshop exercises from our in-person training, Leading in a Transforming Organisation

For news on progress on both parts I and II (the latter under development as part of my preparations for my Melbourne and Manchester trainings):

Members: Chat for up-to-the minute updates, also informal discussion* Leading with Outcomes: Discuss for interim updates, also for content-related questions/comments* Welcome: Announcements for public announcements

*Subscriber-only. For access to these and to all the Leading with Outcomes modules, visit our Store.

Related:

Resequencing Leading with Outcomes, what’s next, and how you can help (July) Explaining the “unreasonable effectiveness” of Agile (July) Three ways to understand the Leading with Outcomes universe (June)Upcoming events

With me (Mike Burrows) unless otherwise indicated:

September:

12-20 September, online, Tuesday & Wednesday afternoons (UK time):
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer/Facilitator (TTT/F)

October:

4-6 October, Melbourne, Australia:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation 09 October, Melbourne, Australia:
Kanban Australia 2023 17 October, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CET, 10am ET:
Free webinar/AMA: How do we keep outcomes in the foreground?

Later:

09 November, online meetup, 11:30 GMT, 12:30 CST, 06.30am ET:
Between spaces, scopes, and scales: What the scaling frameworks don’t tell you 14-16 November, Manchester, UK:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation 1-2 December, Bengaluru, India:
Kanban India 2023 3-4 December, Bengaluru, India:
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F)

Leading with Outcomes from the Agendashift Academy
“Leadership and strategy in the transforming organisation”

Leading with Outcomes is our modular curriculum in leadership and organisation development. Each module is available as self-paced online training or as private, instructor-led training (online or in-person). Certificates of completion or participation according to format. Its four modules in the recommended order:

Leading with Outcomes: Foundation Adaptive Organisation , two parts:Part I: Business agility at every scalePart II: Between spaces, scopes, and scales Inside-out Strategy: Fit for maximum impact Outside-in Strategy: Positioned for success

Individual subscriptions from £24.50 per month, business subscriptions from £269 per month, with discounts available on both kinds of plan for employees and employers in the government, healthcare, education, and non-profit sectors.

To deliver Leading with Outcomes yourself, see our Authorised Trainer and Authorised Facilitator programmes. Our next TTT/F trainings take place in September (online) and December (Bengaluru, India).

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Agendashift roundup, August 2023

In this late summer edition: Responding to “Scrum is cancer”; Foundation 2.8, Adaptive Organisation 2.0; Looking ahead to the autumn season; Top posts

Responding to “Scrum is cancer”

Doing the rounds on LinkedIn and X / Twitter is the abovementioned. My response here (linkedin.com).

Related:

What I really think about Scrum (August 2020) ‘Right to Left’ works for Scrum too (July 2018)Foundation 2.8, Adaptive Organisation 2.0

Leading with Outcomes: Foundation version 2.8 beta is now out of beta. As mentioned last month it is to be found not on the Agendashift Academy’s old learning management system (LMS) but on what until recently served only as the community platform for Academy subscribers. The latter is itself developing as an LMS and it presents therefore a consolidation opportunity.

Again as mentioned last month, of the several iterations of Foundation so far, this is the one most influenced by the experience of other authorised trainers (ie not only me) delivering it in person. It is definitely a smoother experience – 12 minutes shorter for no loss of content!

Next up for the same treatment is the two-part Adaptive Organisation module. Recording has started for the first part, Adaptive Organisation (I): Business agility at every scale. It will include some exciting new content (we’re turning up the dial on the complexity-related matters already integral to it), but not at the cost of any significant increase in length. At least that’s the plan; what I can promise is that for Academy students authorised trainers alike it will be a smoother experience.

The previous version (1.6) of Adaptive Organisation is still available meanwhile, and I dare say it remains the most refreshing treatment of its subject matter you will find anywhere. And don’t forget the Agendashift classics, Inside-out Strategy: Fit for maximum impact and Outside-in Strategy: Positioned for success.

With more about what to expect, some related posts:

Picturing Foundation (May) Resequencing Leading with Outcomes, what’s next, and how you can help (July) Three ways to understand the Leading with Outcomes universe (June)

If you’re not already a subscriber, sign up here.

Looking ahead to the autumn season

It being the summer here (though not where I am next headed)…

September and December bring different opportunities to do Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F):

12-20 September, online training, Tuesday & Wednesday afternoons (UK time):
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer/Facilitator (TTT/F) 3-4 December, Bengaluru, India:
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F)

Those are, respectively, the last chance to do TTT/F online this year, and the first to be held in person. Between those two, I’m doing Leading in a Transforming Organisation on opposite sides of the world:

4-6 October, Melbourne, Australia:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation 14-16 November, Manchester, UK
Leading in a Transforming Organisation

These events are driving forward the Foundation and Adaptive Organisation modules as mentioned above (one day of the former, two days of the latter), and it has been a delight to see how well they go together – hence the abovementioned resequencing. If you have any interest in what it means to lead in an organisation that is transforming (and what organisation isn’t?), join us!

I should mention that my trips to Australia and India – my first trips abroad since COVID – are thanks to these conferences:

Kanban Australia 2023 Kanban India 2023

I’m grateful to the organisers of both. And yes, there will be some kanban content in my keynotes – I haven’t forgotten my roots!

Finally, with the end of summer approaching, there are only days to wait until the monthly webinar/AMA sessions restart:

05 September, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CET, 10am ET:
Free webinar/AMA: What if we put agreement on outcomes before solutions? 17 October, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CET, 10am ET:
Free webinar/AMA: How do we keep outcomes in the foreground? Top posts Explaining the “unreasonable effectiveness” of Agile (July) When not to do Celebration-5W (August) My favourite Clean Language question (January 2019) Leaders as keepers of context (September 2022) Picturing Foundation (May)

Leading with Outcomes from the Agendashift Academy
“Leadership and strategy in the transforming organisation”

Leading with Outcomes is our modular curriculum in leadership and organisation development. Each module is available as self-paced online training or as private, instructor-led training (online or in-person). Certificates of completion or participation according to format. Its four modules in the recommended order:

Leading with Outcomes: Foundation Adaptive Organisation , two parts:Part I: Business agility at every scalePart II: Between spaces, scopes, and scales Inside-out Strategy: Fit for maximum impact Outside-in Strategy: Positioned for success

Individual subscriptions from £24.50 per month, business subscriptions from £269 per month, with discounts available on both kinds of plan for employees and employers in the government, healthcare, education, and non-profit sectors.

To deliver Leading with Outcomes yourself, see our Authorised Trainer and Authorised Facilitator programmes. Our next TTT/F trainings take place in September (online) and December (Bengaluru, India).

Agendashift: Serving the transforming organisation
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At every scope and scale, developing strategy together, pursuing strategy together, outcomes before solutions, working backwards (“right to left”) from key moments of impact and learning.

When not to do Celebration-5W

Celebration-5W is Agendashift’s trusty and energising context-capturing kickoff exercise. I say “trusty”, because I don’t think I have ever experienced a workshop that used it suffer for lack of context, and there have been times when I have regretted not using it. But could it be used inappropriately?

Before answering that question, a reminder of how it works. It’s in the genre of the time travel exercise, and its conceit is that you (by which I mean workshop participants) are using the journalistic 5W questions – Who, What, When, Where, Why – on the celebration you’re going to have when your next big breakthrough (one you haven’t made yet) is ready to be celebrated.

So, when shouldn’t you use it?

First, what is context? Here I mean it in the sense of what participants need to understand in common in order to have a productive conversation, and it lives at the intersection of situation and scope. If that is well enough established by the invitation and/or prework (an Agendashift assessment for example), you might not need it.

Then there are tradeoffs to consider. A narrower context is easier to understand, and for those for whom it is relevant, easier to engage with. The flip side of course is that for others, a narrower context can exclude people, perhaps unhelpfully. Conversely, a broader context engages more people but possibly at the cost of a more challenging experience.

Before choosing a context exercise or designing one, ask yourself the following:

Could it be that context will be well enough established already?If we need to narrow (or possibly broaden) context, which dimension needs the most adjustment: scope or situation?

Perhaps to narrow the organisational scope would be to prejudge the outcome. Perhaps the situation deserves broad and diverse representation. Perhaps the same issues impact on different parts of the organisation in very different ways, but still the opportunity to explore them from different directions will be helpful. Perhaps the concept to be explored is sufficiently independent of scale that it is applicable to every scope.

“Perhaps” – several of those there! What I am learning is that the more the situation, issue, or concept at the heart of the event can be seen as scale-independent, the less you need convergence on scope. For example, if you are focussing on something as general as leadership, an exercise that could have the effect of limiting organisational scope might do more harm than good; stories of “leadership at every level” might be a much better starting point. Conversely, process and process-related issues don’t scale well, in which case an exercise like Celebration-5W should get you off to a great start. If it brings multiple scopes into play such that they can learn from each other, so much the better!

How does play out in Leading with Outcomes? Because it emphasises patterns over tools, Leading with Outcomes: Foundation doesn’t use Celebration-5W; it does however ask the question “What and who are we dealing with?”. Adaptive Organisation: Business agility at every scale doesn’t use it either, but for a very different reason: the fractal model at its heart is scale-independent, and to consider how that works at (and between) multiple scopes and scales simultaneously (“everywhere all at once”) is very much the point. Inside-out Strategy: Fit for maximum impact and Outside-in Strategy: Positioned for success do use it; if there is an inside and an outside, scope matters, and we might as well settle on it (or them) early.

Related:

Celebration-5W , Creative Commons version (www.agendashift.com) Celebration-5W , Academy version (community.agendashift.com) Celebration-5W version 7 (January 2022) Agendashift Assessments (www.agendashift.com) White paper: Everywhere all at once: Introducing the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation, an accessible, situational, and complexity-aware presentation of the Viable System Model (www.agendashift.com) Talk: In times of change, what scales better than process? (www.agendashift.com)Upcoming events

With me (Mike Burrows) unless otherwise indicated:

September:

05 September, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CET, 10am ET:
Free webinar/AMA: What if we put agreement on outcomes before solutions? 12-20 September, online, Tuesday & Wednesday afternoons (UK time):
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer/Facilitator (TTT/F)

October:

4-6 October, Melbourne, Australia:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation 09 October, Melbourne, Australia:
Kanban Australia 2023 17 October, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CET, 10am ET:
Free webinar/AMA: How do we keep outcomes in the foreground?

Later:

09 November, online meetup, 11:30 GMT, 12:30 CST, 06.30am ET:
Between spaces, scopes, and scales: What the scaling frameworks don’t tell you 14-16 November, Manchester, UK:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation 1-2 December, Bengaluru, India:
Kanban India 2023 3-4 December, Bengaluru, India:
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F)

Leading with Outcomes from the Agendashift Academy
“Leadership and strategy in the transforming organisation”

Leading with Outcomes is our modular curriculum in leadership and organisation development. Each module is available as self-paced online training or as private, instructor-led training (online or in-person). Certificates of completion or participation according to format. Its four modules in the recommended order:

Leading with Outcomes: Foundation Adaptive Organisation , two parts:Part I: Business agility at every scalePart II: Between spaces, scopes, and scales Inside-out Strategy: Fit for maximum impact Outside-in Strategy: Positioned for success

Individual subscriptions from £24.50 per month, business subscriptions from £269 per month, with discounts available on both kinds of plan for employees and employers in the government, healthcare, education, and non-profit sectors.

For public training events, see our Events calendar. These are discounted for subscribers when the event is operated by us.

To deliver Leading with Outcomes yourself, see our Authorised Facilitator and Trainer Programmes. Our next TTT/F trainings take place in September (online) and December (Bengaluru, India).

Agendashift: Serving the transforming organisation
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Agendashift  Academy: Leading with Outcomes | Trainer and Facilitator Programmes

At every scope and scale, developing strategy together, pursuing strategy together, outcomes before solutions, working backwards (“right to left”) from key moments of impact and learning.

Agendashift roundup, July 2023

In this edition: Foundation re-recorded and re-platformed; Looking ahead to the autumn season; Top posts

Foundation re-recorded and re-platformed

Leading with Outcomes: Foundation version 2.8 beta is now out on a different platform to the previously-recorded version, 2.1. As an experiment, the newer one is to be found not on the current learning management system (LMS), but on the community site for Agendashift Academy subscribers. The latter’s underlying platform is itself developing as an LMS and it presents therefore a consolidation opportunity.

Of the several iterations of Foundation so far, this is the one most influenced by the experience of trainers delivering it in person. It is definitely a smoother experience – 12 minutes shorter for no loss of content!

I’ll remove the beta tag when I have finished adding captions, which I’ll release one video at a time. AI does a decent first approximation but I still take the trouble to edit them manually.

With more about what to expect, some related posts:

Picturing Foundation (May) Resequencing Leading with Outcomes, what’s next, and how you can help (July) Three ways to understand the Leading with Outcomes universe (June)

And to sign up:

Agendashift for Individuals Agendashift for Business Looking ahead to the autumn season

September, October, November, December. Ok, December isn’t really autumn, and neither are the preceding months if you’re in the southern hemisphere (to which I am headed), but it will do!

September and December bring different opportunities to do Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F):

12-20 September, online training, Tuesday & Wednesday afternoons (UK time):
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer/Facilitator (TTT/F) 3-4 December, Bengaluru, India:
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F)

Those are, respectively, the last chance to do TTT/F online this year, and the first to be held in person. Between those two, I’m doing Leading in a Transforming Organisation on opposite sides of the world:

4-6 October, Melbourne, Australia:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation 14-16 November, Manchester, UK
Leading in a Transforming Organisation

These events are driving forward the Foundation and Adaptive Organisation modules (one day of the former, two days of the latter), and it has been a delight to see how well they go together – hence the abovementioned resequencing. If you have any interest in what it means to lead in an organisation that is transforming (and what organisation isn’t?), join us!

While we’re here, there is no August webinar/AMA session. Not too long to wait though:

05 September, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CET, 10am ET:
Free webinar/AMA: What if we put agreement on outcomes before solutions? 17 October, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CET, 10am ET:
Free webinar/AMA: How do we keep outcomes in the foreground? Top posts Explaining the “unreasonable effectiveness” of Agile (July) Three ways to understand the Leading with Outcomes universe (June) The wholeheartedness equation (June) My favourite Clean Language question (January 2019)Avoiding the disaster that is ‘solution-driven’ (June)

Leading with Outcomes from the Agendashift Academy
“Leadership and strategy in the transforming organisation”

Leading with Outcomes is our modular curriculum in leadership and organisation development. Each module is available as self-paced online training or as private, instructor-led training (online or in-person). Certificates of completion or participation according to format. Its four modules in the recommended order:

Leading with Outcomes: Foundation Adaptive Organisation , two parts:Part I: Business agility at every scalePart II: Between spaces, scopes, and scales Inside-out Strategy: Fit for maximum impact Outside-in Strategy: Positioned for success

Individual subscriptions from £24.50 per month, business subscriptions from £269 per month, with discounts available on both kinds of plan for employees and employers in the government, healthcare, education, and non-profit sectors.

For public training events, see our Events calendar. These are discounted for subscribers when the event is operated by us.

To deliver Leading with Outcomes yourself, see our Authorised Facilitator and Trainer Programmes. Our next TTT/F trainings take place in September (online) and December (Bengaluru, India).

Agendashift: Serving the transforming organisation
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Agendashift  Academy: Leading with Outcomes | Trainer and Facilitator Programmes

At every scope and scale, developing strategy together, pursuing strategy together, outcomes before solutions, working backwards (“right to left”) from key moments of impact and learning.

Resequencing Leading with Outcomes, what’s next, and how you can help

[Discuss on LinkedIn]

Following the success of June’s first 3-day Leading in a Transforming Organisation, I’m initiating a resequencing of the Leading with Outcomes curriculum. It will take a while to implement in full (in particular, re-recording video-based content takes time, and I won’t be doing that for this reason alone), but consider this now the recommended flow:

Leading with Outcomes: Foundation Adaptive Organisation , two parts:Part I: Business agility at every scalePart II: Between spaces, scopes, and scales Inside-out Strategy: Fit for maximum impact Outside-in Strategy: Positioned for success

Basically, the Adaptive Organisation module moves up from last to second. Not only had I overestimated its reliance on Inside-out and Outside-in, I had greatly underestimated just how well Foundation and Adaptive Organisation go together. Foundation introduces the metaphor of the wholehearted organisation [1]; Adaptive Organisation provides a model [2] of how it might be pursued. Foundation introduces three key patterns [3] for the integrated development and pursuit of strategy; Adaptive Organisation builds on those, both conceptually and practically.

Viewed from the perspective of skills [4], the progression still seems natural. Adaptive Organisation does introduce some tools not seen in Foundation, but they play a supporting role, not the focal role they play in Inside-out and Outside-in. And I’m looking forward to discovering what it feels like to do (or in my case, re-record) those explicitly strategy-related modules with Adaptive Organisation as their platform.

Aside: Self-paced study or group participation?

Same excellent content, very different experiences, and not a binary choice! Subscribe to the Agendashift Academy and not only will you gain access to all four modules, but for monthly and yearly subscriptions you’ll get discounts of (respectively) 10% and 25% on the following:

12-20 September, online, Tuesday & Wednesday afternoons (UK time):
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer/Facilitator (TTT/F) 4-6 October, Melbourne, Australia:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation (Foundation and Adaptive Organisation)14-16 November, Manchester, UK:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation (Foundation and Adaptive Organisation)

These aren’t so far away, so why not use the summer for study?

What’s next, and how you can help

My next chunk of development work (internally-funded and for the benefit of all authorised facilitators, not done on the client’s clock) is to take the Adaptive Organisation training module and extract from it a 1-day workshop. Essentially a more model-driven version of the tried-and-tested Agendashift Assessment Debrief workshop, it will carry over some of the themes and purposes of the training. It will help participants to look below the surface of process and practice and to see deeper organisational relationships, the imbalances, contradictions, and other dysfunctions that plague them, and the constraints within which they operate. As well as putting things like Lean, Agile and business agility into broader organisational context – interesting in itself [5] – it will be, like everything we do, fully aligned to the following objective:

“At every scope and scale, developing strategy together, pursuing strategy together, outcomes before solutions, working backwards (“right to left”) from key moments of impact and learning.”

How you can help: With special emphasis on “the constraints within which they operate”, I would like to test this new workshop in a real-world setting, ideally before I take Leading in a Transforming Organisation to Australia in October. If it could be of interest to your organisation, you’re based anywhere in the UK or somewhere easily reachable from Manchester Airport, and you can get 6-15 people together for a day in September that works for all of us, I will be glad to facilitate the online assessment and in-person workshop at a very meaningful discount. If that’s you, get in touch.

References

[1] The wholeheartedness equation (June)
[2] Everywhere all at once: Introducing the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation, an accessible, situational, and complexity-aware presentation of the Viable System Model (agendashift.com)
[3] Picturing Foundation (May)
[4] Three ways to understand the Leading with Outcomes universe (June)
[5] Explaining the “unreasonable effectiveness” of Agile (July)

[Discuss on LinkedIn]

Upcoming events

With me (Mike Burrows) unless otherwise indicated:

September:

05 September, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CET, 10am ET:
Free webinar/AMA: What if we put agreement on outcomes before solutions? 12-20 September, online, Tuesday & Wednesday afternoons (UK time):
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer/Facilitator (TTT/F)

October:

4-6 October, Melbourne, Australia:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation 09 October, Melbourne, Australia:
Kanban Australia 2023 17 October, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CET, 10am ET:
Free webinar/AMA: How do we keep outcomes in the foreground?

Later:

09 November, online meetup, 11:30 GMT, 12:30 CST, 06.30am ET:
Between spaces, scopes, and scales: What the scaling frameworks don’t tell you 14-16 November, Manchester, UK:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation 1-2 December, Bengaluru, India:
Kanban India 2023 3-4 December, Bengaluru, India:
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F)

Leading with Outcomes from the Agendashift Academy
“Leadership and strategy in the transforming organisation”

Leading with Outcomes is our modular curriculum in leadership and organisation development. Each module is available as self-paced online training or as private, instructor-led training (online or in-person). Certificates of completion or participation according to format. Its four modules in the recommended order:

Leading with Outcomes: Foundation Adaptive Organisation , two parts:Part I: Business agility at every scalePart II: Between spaces, scopes, and scales Inside-out Strategy: Fit for maximum impact Outside-in Strategy: Positioned for success

Individual subscriptions from £24.50 per month, business subscriptions from £269 per month, with discounts available on both kinds of plan for employees and employers in the government, healthcare, education, and non-profit sectors.

For public training events, see our Events calendar. These are discounted for subscribers when the event is operated by us.

To deliver Leading with Outcomes yourself, see our Authorised Facilitator and Trainer Programmes. Our next TTT/F trainings take place in September (online) and December (Bengaluru, India).

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Explaining the “unreasonable effectiveness” of Agile

Anyone who has worked in an environment where Agile is working well will agree: when it’s great, it’s really great. However, this post is not about what separates the great from the mediocre or worse (for that I would recommend my 2019 book Right to Left), but about Agile’s impact on the organisation more broadly.

Agile’s benefits are usually touted in terms of things like these:

Delivery speed (“twice the work in half the time”)Rate of learning, enabled by incremental and iterative delivery coupled with regular reflectionAbility to adapt (“responding to change over following a plan”)Customer satisfaction, enabled by the above

Don’t worry, I’m not about to say that there’s anything wrong with any of these. Notice however how all but the last one are about what’s happening in the team or value stream, and as is so often the case with things Agile-related, none of them have anything at all to say about the wider organisation.

This has long bothered me, but for once I am going to be positive about that poorly understood relationship. What if Agile’s “unreasonable success” (when it happens) could be traced to organisational effects attributable to the Agile manifesto’s emphasis on “individuals and interactions”?

Starting with the team:

Improvements to communication and decision-making capacity at team level encourage self-organisation and other emergent behaviours (this relationship has been observed for decades)

Then the overlooked but very significant second-order benefit:

The decision-making burden on the surrounding organisation is thereby reduced, increasing both its available decision-making capacity and the possibility of emergent outcomes at larger scales

More succinctly: Agile increases its surrounding organisation’s decision-making capacity. What it does with that is of course down to the organisation itself, but it’s interesting that if its communication capacity is correspondingly good (or correspondingly improved), emergent outcomes are made very much more likely. Nice, and without any mention of process, not the easiest of things to scale!

A couple of parallels:

Channeling Modig & Åhlström’s This is Lean, we might describe Agile as “a strategy for improving an organisation’s decision-making capacity”Skelton & Pais’s Team Topologies talks of “reducing cognitive load”. It’s written more with team-level benefits in mind I think, but it’s an excellent starting point

To the first of those (and perhaps the second), it wouldn’t be completely wrong to describe Lean or Lean-Agile in those terms either. But that ship has sailed, and flow remains an important concept even if waste and its elimination lack something in attractiveness if not generativity.

Happily for me, I am free (within reason) to describe the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation in whatever way I like. Already, this idea of “improving an organisation’s decision-making capacity” is one of its key concerns.

Learn more:

4-6 October, Melbourne, Australia:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation 14-16 November, Manchester, UK:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation Online, self-paced:
Adaptive Organisation: Business agility at every scale Upcoming events

With me (Mike Burrows) unless otherwise indicated:

September:

05 September, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CET, 10am ET:
Free webinar/AMA: What if we put agreement on outcomes before solutions? 12-20 September, online, Tuesday & Wednesday afternoons (UK time):
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer/Facilitator (TTT/F)

October:

4-6 October, Melbourne, Australia:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation 09 October, Melbourne, Australia:
Kanban Australia 2023 17 October, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CET, 10am ET:
Free webinar/AMA: How do we keep outcomes in the foreground?

Later:

09 November, online meetup, 11:30 GMT, 12:30 CST, 06.30am ET:
Between spaces, scopes, and scales: What the scaling frameworks don’t tell you 14-16 November, Manchester, UK:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation 1-2 December, Bengaluru, India:
Kanban India 2023 3-4 December, Bengaluru, India:
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F)

Leading with Outcomes from the Agendashift Academy
“Leadership and strategy in the transforming organisation”

Leading with Outcomes is our modular curriculum in leadership and organisation development. Each module is available as self-paced online training or as private, instructor-led training (online or in-person). Certificates of completion or participation according to format. Its four modules in the recommended order:

Leading with Outcomes: Foundation Inside-out Strategy: Fit for maximum impact Outside-in Strategy: Positioned for success Adaptive Organisation: Business agility at every scale (parts I and II, a certificate for each)

Individual subscriptions from £24.50 per month, business subscriptions from £269 per month, with discounts available on both kinds of plan for employees and employers in the government, healthcare, education, and non-profit sectors.

For public training events, see our Events calendar. These are discounted for subscribers when the event is operated by us.

To deliver Leading with Outcomes yourself, see our Authorised Facilitator and Trainer Programmes. Our next TTT/F trainings take place in September (online) and December (Bengaluru, India).

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Agendashift roundup, June 2023

In this edition: Leading in a Transforming Organisation; Between spaces, scopes, and scales; Webinar/AMA series; Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F); Top posts

Leading in a Transforming Organisation

Last week’s Leading in a Transforming Organisation in London was a special and productive time. Here are some of the participants sharing afterwards on LinkedIn:

Plenty to think about and lots of potential for future innovation and experimentation (Karl Scotland) …thoroughly thought-provoking and inspiring few days… (Andy Spence) …super few days… much to think about (Anne Gambles) …great 3 days, … highly recommended (Rohit Gautam)…deep learning experience with highly engaged folks... (Jan Palencar) …really recommend … it will broaden your horizons (Stan Wade)

As well as plenty of encouragement, I’ve had feedback of the actionable and throught-provoking kind too, and the material will continue to evolve. A sincere thank you to Philippe Guenet in that regard (I should add that he’s doing interesting things with the Foundation module himself). And thank you to our hosts, Craig Lucia, Stan Wade, and Adrian Potter of PA Consulting.

Next up (the Manchester event added today):

4-6 October, Melbourne, Australia:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation 14-16 November, Manchester, UK
Leading in a Transforming Organisation

Meanwhile, two of this month’s blog posts flow from preparing for London or reflecting back on it afterwards:

Three ways to understand the Leading with Outcomes universe (June) The wholeheartedness equation (June)Between spaces, scopes, and scales

Spurred on by Leading in a Transforming Organisation (from which it borrows), my talk “Between spaces, scopes, and scales” continues to develop. I gave a version to the BCS Agile Specialist Group this week (ie after London), and the recording should be available soon.

Next week I give it in-person in Nottingham:

06 July, 18:30 BST, Nottingham, England:
Between spaces, scopes, and scales: What the scaling frameworks don’t tell you

And online in November:

09 November, online meetup, 11:30GMT, 12:30CST, 06.30am ET: Between spaces, scopes, and scales: What the scaling frameworks don’t tell you Webinar/AMA series

I’ve added a couple more dates to the “Questions that drive us” webinar series (note that there won’t be one in August):

11 July, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CET, 10am ET:
Free webinar/AMA: Where to start? Where next? 05 September, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CET, 10am ET:
Free webinar/AMA: What if we put agreement on outcomes before solutions? 17 October, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CET, 10am ET:
Free webinar/AMA: How do we keep outcomes in the foreground? Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F)

A reminder that there will be only one more online TTT/F this year (September), the other taking place in Bengaluru, India (December).

12-20 September, online training, Tuesday & Wednesday afternoons (UK time):
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer/Facilitator (TTT/F) 3-4 December, Bengaluru, India:
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F)

See also:

Leading with Outcomes: Authorised Facilitator and Trainer Programmes Top postsAvoiding the disaster that is ‘solution-driven’ (June) What the (Lean-)Agile scaling frameworks don’t give you (December 2020) Three ways to understand the Leading with Outcomes universe (June) Picturing Foundation (May) From Reverse STATIK to a ‘Pathway’ for continuous transformation (October 2019)

Leading with Outcomes from the Agendashift Academy
“Leadership and strategy in the transforming organisation”

Leading with Outcomes is our modular curriculum in leadership and organisation development. Each module is available as self-paced online training or as private, instructor-led training (online or in-person). Certificates of completion or participation according to format. Its four modules in the recommended order:

Leading with Outcomes: Foundation Inside-out Strategy: Fit for maximum impact Outside-in Strategy: Positioned for success Adaptive Organisation: Business agility at every scale (parts I and II, a certificate for each)

Individual subscriptions from £24.50 per month, business subscriptions from £269 per month, with discounts available on both kinds of plan for employees and employers in the government, healthcare, education, and non-profit sectors.

For public training events, see our Events calendar. These are discounted for subscribers when the event is operated by us.

To deliver Leading with Outcomes yourself, see our Authorised Facilitator and Trainer Programmes. Our next TTT/F trainings take place in September (online) and December (Bengaluru, India).

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Three ways to understand the Leading with Outcomes universe

My 3-day training Leading in a Transforming Organisation went really well last week, can’t wait to do it again1! Inevitably, the question of what relates Agendashift, Leading with Outcomes, The Deliberately Adaptive Organisation, etc came up, and while my answers were reasonable enough, I realised I still had a bit of work to do. So here we are with not just one, but three ways of joining the dots:

Perspective: Values-based, Outcome-oriented2, RelationalCurriculum: Patterns, Approaches, Tools Framework: Metaphor, Model, Method1. Perspective: Values-based, Outcome-oriented, Relational

Essentially the sequence of my books, this progression is the most historically accurate:

Values-based: For me this began with a system of nine values abstracted from the Kanban Method, identified first in a 2013 blog post3 and expanded on in my first book Kanban from the Inside (2014). Not needing to limit myself to writing about principles and practices, nor even only to Kanban, I enjoyed expanding on those values and demonstrating how other frameworks could – with that values-based perspective – be seen as complementary.

Outcome-oriented: Our big “What if”: What if we put agreement on outcomes before solutions? Followed by How do we keep outcomes in the foreground? and How do we connect the two in a learning process? Around that concept and via a lot of collaborative experimentation, we developed a real alternative to managed change, which the world knows is woeful for anything interesting – so no shortage of motivation there! Agendashift (2018, 2021) describes the engagement model; Right to Left (2019, audiobook 2020) takes that outcome-oriented perspective to the Lean-Agile landscape as a whole. A fourth book (a commission) written for the dialogic/generative OD audience is near completion.

Relational: In both Agendashift and Right to Left there are clues that I am beginning to think in terms of mutual relationships. And inspired by Weick, the perspective shifts from organisation (something easily regarded as static) to organising (something active). More recent than the books, the Leading with Outcomes training material goes on to describe organising as “Finding relationships between things; In and through those relationships, helping their participants realise their potential”. A fifth book is at the planning stage.

2. Curriculum: Patterns, Approaches, Tools

Informed this time by the sequence of the four Leading with Outcomes Modules:

Leading with Outcomes: Foundation Inside-out Strategy: Fit for maximum impact Outside-in Strategy: Positioned for success Adaptive Organisation: Business agility at every scale

As described recently in Picturing Foundation (May), Foundation’s job is to introduce these key patterns:

Ideal, Obstacles, Outcomes – the IdOO (“I do”) patternRight to Left – working backwards from key moments of impact and learningMeaning, Measure, Method – derived from the IdOO pattern, an ideation pattern

Foundation also introduces two complementary and long-established approaches to strategy, inside-out and outside-in, which start (respectively) with the internal experience and capability of the scope in question, or with its customers, suppliers, competitors, and other aspects of its business environment. A third approach, the relational approach, is the one taken in the final module.

Into the patterns plug the tools4, tool selection influenced by context and approach. Some tools are approach-specific; others such as Celebration-5W, 15-minute FOTO, and so on appear in multiple modules. In Foundation meanwhile, we simplify the tools so as not to distract from the patterns.

3. Framework: Metaphor, Model, Method

More concretely: Wholehearted, The Deliberately Adaptive Organisation, Agendashift, with the middle one of those taking a more central role.

Wholehearted – the metaphorical coming together of wholeness and “heartedness” as we think about organisation and leadership. In 2018, during the writing of Right to Left, this usage was inspired by the architect and father of the patterns movement, the late Christopher Alexander:

A thing is whole according to how free it is of inner contradictions. When it is at war with itself, and gives rise to forces which act to tear it down, it is unwhole. The more free it is of its own inner contradictions, the more whole and healthy and wholehearted it becomes.

The Timeless Way of Building, Christopher Alexander (1980, OUP USA)

Long story short, Wholehearted became the name of our mission statement and part of Agendashift’s branding (“the wholehearted engagement model”). Today, the concept appears in two of the four modules of the Leading with Outcomes training curriculum; Leading with Outcomes: Foundation opens with it. All that time, I have made a point of keeping wholehearted aspirational, exploring some of its implications but taking care not to ruin it by defining it as a process or some other model.

The role of organisational model (or should I say “model of organising”?) is taken by The Deliberately Adaptive Organisation5, which is roughly sketched out in the closing chapters of the 2021 second edition of Agendashift and much better developed in the final Leading with Outcomes module, Adaptive Organisation: Business agility at every scale. It began as a Lean-Agile and outcome-oriented interpretation of Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model, the structure into which other favourite models could be plugged in. It has since become a radical “re-presentation” of it, stripping the model of anything that could be regarded either as vestiges of implementation detail or part of the systems practitioner’s process, and emphasising strongly meanwhile its relational aspects. Further, and in the interests of accessibility, we limit its scope to organisations (Beer’s original model is more abstract) and engage with it progressively (a high-level “top view” comprising just three “spaces”, more detailed “inside views” for each space, and a “side view” that exposes the relationships between organisational scales).

The model loses none of its diagnostic power, but method-wise, there’s a gap. Taking the place of typical systems practice (as-is modelling, diagnosis, and perhaps to-be modelling, etc), we have Agendashift, and it’s a fundamental change. Bypassing the modelling step and resisting the urge to scope things down, we integrate many organisational perspectives, participants bringing experiences from all of the organisational scopes and scales with which they identify, from whole organisation down to sub-team – “Everywhere all at once”, you might say6. While exploring the model situationally to the depth appropriate to the event (anything between a 2-hour assessment debrief and 2-3 days of in-depth training7), participants are developing organisational strategy in the language of outcomes, producing a form of strategy highly amenable to testing.

The Leading with Outcomes universe

To finish, let me draw attention to this post’s title: Three ways to understand the Leading with Outcomes universe. It could just as easily have identified Agendashift instead – it is after all the longest-established of the brands mentioned here! I’m not saying that I won’t continue to describe Leading with Outcomes as “Agendashift as leadership development”, or to use the two terms interchangeably. Neither do I have any plans to rebrand the Agendashift Academy! But especially in relation to the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation, Agendashift as the method to complement the model (replacing more traditional methods, moreover) seems important somehow. Funny how clarifying the relationship helps clarify the things it relates. Who knew

Notes

1Melbourne, Australia in October (see calendar below), and there are discussions about putting one on in Manchester in November or early 2024. It comprises one day of Foundation and two of Adaptive Organisation, making three in total. Ping me if interested, or in having one at a city near you.

2While I was planning this post, I initially called this first section Organising Concepts: Values, Outcomes, Relationships. I had forgotten just how important the -oriented of outcome-oriented is, and totally deserved the ensuing confusion! Our direction given by the outcomes we have chosen (for now) to pursue, solutions emerging from the people closest to the need and the opportunity. Outcome-driven (meaning target-driven or perhaps solution-driven in disguise) it is not. That way lies dysfunction. See Avoiding the disaster that is ‘solution-driven’ (June 2023).

3Introducing Kanban through its Values (January 2013)

4See agendashift.com/resources and specifically agendashift.com/asessments for the three approach-specific assessment tools.

5The name is inspired by Kegan & Lahey’s Deliberately Developmental Organisation – see their book An Everyone Culture (2016).

6See the white paper Everywhere all at once: Introducing the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation, an accessible, situational, and complexity-aware presentation of the Viable System Model.

7Between those extremes there is room for a 1-day Adaptive Organisation workshop. If you’re based in the UK or not too far away and might be interested in having one at your organisation, the first one or two will be on favourable terms. Again, ping me if interested.

Upcoming events

With me (Mike Burrows) unless otherwise indicated.

June:

27 June, online meetup, 18:00 BST, 19:00 CEST, 1.00pm EDT:
Between spaces, scopes, and scales: What the scaling frameworks don’t tell you

July:

06 July, 18:30 BST, Nottingham, England:
Between spaces, scopes, and scales: What the scaling frameworks don’t tell you 11 July, online, 15:00 GMT, 16:00 CET, 10am ET:
Free webinar/AMA: Where to start? Where next?

Later:

12-20 September, online, Tuesday & Wednesday afternoons (UK time):
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer/Facilitator (TTT/F) 4-6 October, Melbourne, Australia:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation 09 October, Melbourne, Australia:
Kanban Australia 2023 09 November, online meetup, 11:30 GMT, 12:30 CST, 06.30am ET:
Between spaces, scopes, and scales: What the scaling frameworks don’t tell you 1-2 December, Bengaluru, India:
Kanban India 2023

TBC:

November or early 2024, Manchester, UK, Leading in a Transforming Organisation – as held recently in London and soon in Melbourne and comprising one day of Leading with Outcomes: Foundation and two days of Adaptive Organisation

Leading with Outcomes from the Agendashift Academy
“Leadership and strategy in the transforming organisation”

Leading with Outcomes is our modular curriculum in leadership and organisation development. Each module is available as self-paced online training or as private, instructor-led training (online or in-person). Certificates of completion or participation according to format. Its four modules in the recommended order:

Leading with Outcomes: Foundation Inside-out Strategy: Fit for maximum impact Outside-in Strategy: Positioned for success Adaptive Organisation: Business agility at every scale (parts I and II, a certificate for each)

Individual subscriptions from £24.50 per month, business subscriptions from £269 per month, with discounts available on both kinds of plan for employees and employers in the government, healthcare, education, and non-profit sectors.

For public training events, see our Events calendar. These are discounted for subscribers when the event is operated by us.

To deliver Leading with Outcomes yourself, see our Authorised Facilitator and Trainer Programmes. Our next TTT/F trainings take place in September (online) and December (Bengaluru, India).

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