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Confirmed venue for Lean-Agile Strategy Days, London

Quick one…

The 2-day workshop Lean-Agile Strategy Days, London (June 7th & 8th) has a confirmed venue:

Monticello House

45 Russell Square

London

WC1B 4JP

That’s fairly central, a 20ish-minute walk from St Pancras International, and close to Russell Square (Piccadilly Line), Goodge Street (Northern Line), and Holborn (Central Line and Piccadilly Line) tube stations.

In case you missed it, here’s a previous post describing this exciting collaboration with my co-facilitator Karl Scotland: Lean-Agile Strategy Days, London. And here’s Karl’s: Lean-Agile Strategy Days: An X-Matrix and Agendashift Fusion.

And read the book! Part I of Agendashift: clean conversations, coherent collaboration, continuous transformation came out exactly a week ago.

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If you’ve read Kanban from the Inside…

…what should you expect from my second book?

TLDR: Agendashift wouldn’t have happened without Kanban from the Inside. It is however very much its own book. I think you will enjoy it

It’s here! Agendashift (part I) is published!

Part I of Agendashift: clean conversations, coherent collaboration, continuous transformation is available now on Leanpub in MOBI (Kindle), EPUB (iBooks, Google Books, and other e-readers), and PDF formats, also via Leanpub’s online reader. Buy it today and you’ll still have time to recommend it to your colleagues for the weekend

Lean-Agile Strategy Days, London

June 8th is a special day: not just because the UK general election is (somewhat inconsiderately) being held on that day, but because I’m pairing up with Karl Scotland for a 2-day public workshop in London, Lean-Agile Strategy Days.

I like to think of it as “pure & applied” strategy deployment. On day 1, we’ll be experimenting with Lean approaches for engaging people in the development and implementation of strategy. On day 2, we’ll use Agendashift as a model for continuous Lean-Agile transformation, a serious question of organisational strategy if ever there was one.

This workshop is a first, and I’m proud to be doing it with Karl. We describe the workshop as an opportunity for collaboration, and this isn’t just hype. As a key collaborator in the development of Agendashift, Karl did much to push Agendashift upstream, suggesting (and bravely testing) ways to develop the Discovery tools, also to better integrate the Cynefin-related material. He has a gift for nudging me in productive directions, and I would be surprised if something new and exciting didn’t come out of this event.

You can be part of it! Book your place here.

Read Karl’s post: Lean-Agile Strategy Days: An X-Matrix and Agendashift Fusion

PS Did I mention I have a book coming out? May 11th!

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