Agendashift roundup of the year 2024

I’m back now from an enjoyable and successful trip to India (which is why this is my first and only post of the month) and it’s that time again – the top 10 posts of the year, and another top 10 of still-popular classics.

Before we get to those, a reminder of what’s currently in the calendar:

24-27 February, four 4-hour sessions online, afternoons UK time:
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F) 06 March, London, UK:
Kanban Edge 2025

Expect some additions to be announced in the new year.

Those two top 10 lists below. That’s it from me this year – have a great Christmas!

Top 10 posts of 2024

Mostly a year of two books – Organizing Conversations: Preparing Groups to Take on Adaptive Challenges, published this year (and available for your holiday reading!), and Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation, coming soonish:

From Flow to Business Agility (January) – by a big margin the most-read post of the year Agile’s Great Rebalancing: My next book’s take on the Agile manifesto (April) Engage, Invite, Celebrate: Leading “wholeheartedly” for innovation (July) From classic Lean-Agile to Outcome-Oriented Enterprise Agility: The 10-year Journey (October) “Organizing Conversations” is now out (May) A taste of my own medicine: Why “Organizing Conversations” took two and a half years to write (June) Help our research: an “Organisational DNA test” (May) Assessment template tidyup and an update on book 5 (November) A big update to 15-minute FOTO (February) When to use which Leading with Outcomes workshop (March)

See also our media page for recordings and my Amazon author pages for the UK, the US, and Germany (three of my books are available in translation).

Top 10 still-popular classics What Lies Beneath (Spoiler: Constraints) (2023) My favourite Clean Language question (2019) Better user stories start with authentic situations of need (2016) Towards the wholehearted organisation, outside in (2018) Your organisation in 5 networks (2022) 15-minute FOTO’s cheat mode (2023)‘Right to Left’ works for Scrum too (2018) Agendashift is not a maturity model (2018) #2MBM: Meaning before Metric, Measure before Method (2020) Stringing it together with Reverse Wardley (2019)

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