Agendashift roundup, April 2024

Posted on by Mike Burrows

In this edition: Books in progress: 2; Two new videos; Upcoming: online, Berlin (SOLD OUT), London, and Southampton; Top posts

Books in progress: 2

I’m putting the final touches on Organising Conversations: Patterns of Dialog for the Transforming Organization and have a decent first draft of the first part (of two) of Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation. Needless to say, they’re keeping me busy!

With that workload in mind and the summer approaching, I’m pausing the monthly webinars and experience/practise sessions until the autumn.

Encouragingly, an excerpt from Wholehearted is by a big margin the most-read blog post of the month (shared on LinkedIn here):

Hot on the heels of January’s From Flow to Business Agility it looks set to feature high up in the top 10 for 2024. Like that post, organised on LinkedIn there was some community review of the post prior to publication, and the feedback has benefited the Wholehearted manuscript also. Thank you again Chris Combe, Sarah Whiteley, Kert D. Peterson, CST, AKT, Elle Anderson, FRSA, FBCS, Karen Beck, Daniel Walters, Ricardo Alvarez, Simon JAILLAIS, and Matthew White.

Two new videos

In the last (until the autumn) of our monthly webinars, we were joined this month by Karl Scotland. Here’s the recording of his excellent session, also the PDF of his slides, links, etc:

Related to the still-to-be-written Part II of Wholehearted and with a fun Q&A session (always a good sign) here’s the latest version of one of my ever-evolving keynotes:

Upcoming: online, Berlin (SOLD OUT), London, and Southampton

Yes, Berlin has sold out, but there’s still the online TTT/F and then Leading in a Transforming Organisation (London) at the end of June and another in Southampton in October:

Past (or booked) attendees of TTT/F can re-attend for free and/or attend Leading in a Transforming Organisation for less than half price. There are big discounts in the opposite direction also – ping me for coupon codes. Also significant discounts for government, healthcare, education (a number of university staff have attended in recent months), non-profits, etc. As was the case in Manchester last year, I know that London for one will have participants from outside of technology, which always makes for a more interesting experience.

If you really can’t get to any of those, don’t forget the online self-paced option: Leading with Outcomes.

Top posts

  1. Agile’s Great Rebalancing: My next book’s take on the Agile manifesto (April)
  2. From Flow to Business Agility (January)
  3. My favourite Clean Language question (January 2019)
  4. What Lies Beneath (Spoiler: Constraints) (October)
  5. Venue confirmed for Leading in a Transforming Organisation (London) (April)

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