In this edition: Right to Left; Reverse Wardley; Coaching Agile Journeys; The Open Leadership Symposium; Top posts; Upcoming Agendashift workshops

Right to Left

Exciting news: as of last night I have a complete draft of my third book, Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile. Not that “complete” means “finished” – as the old joke goes it’s more like 95% complete with only the remaining 50% left to do. For the record, it comes out at 40,685 words – just a tiny bit longer than Agendashift and way less than KFTI.

I’m not giving publication dates yet (in fact I’m still exploring publication options) but my original target of midsummer still looks very doable. Also, I’ve consciously written it with the possibility of releasing it as an audiobook, which would be a first for me.

Reverse Wardley

An amazing response to this month’s top post, Stringing it together with Reverse Wardley, pushing My favourite Clean Language question into second place for the year.

For the 2-day workshop, introducing the new exercise as part of a “string” of exercises – one feeding quickly into the next – has caused me to push one exercise from day 1 to day 2, improving the balance of the two days overall. To experience that for yourself, check out the calendar later in this post.

Coaching Agile Journeys

Check out episode CAJ 032 of the Coaching Agile Journeys webinar. You’ll find there a YouTube video hosted by Heidi Araya and Cristin Hernandez, and then me:

1. Introducing the topic of outcome orientation
2. Facilitating an online exercise
3. Mentioning some of the tools we use to turn outcomes into concrete action
4. Describing how needs-based and outcome-oriented approaches work in both change and delivery (the connection between Agendashift and Right to Left)
5. Answering some questions!

The Open Leadership Symposium

At the end of that webinar there’s a plug for the Open Leadership Symposium event happening in Boston in May (my Boston workshop follows immediately afterwards). I’m very excited about this event, a lot of streams coming together. More on that soon no doubt!

Top posts

1. Stringing it together with Reverse Wardley
2. My favourite Clean Language question (January)
3. On the quality and nature of backlogs
4. How the Leader-Leader model turns Commander’s Intent upside down (June 2018)
5. ‘Right to Left’ works for Scrum too (July 2018)

Upcoming Agendashift workshops

See also the recent blog post: Agendashift workshops in Seattle, London, Boston, and Berlin, which includes a detailed description of the 2-day workshop. Workshops facilitated by Mike Burrows (yours truly) unless otherwise indicated:

• 29 March 2019, Seattle, WA, USA:
  Facilitating Outcome-Oriented Change with Agendashift
  (Core, 1-day workshop, Julia Wester)
• 4-5 April 2019, London, UK
  Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation
  (Advanced, 2-day workshop)
• 16-17 May 2019, Boston, MA, USA:
  Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation
  (Advanced, 2-day workshop)
• 22-23 May 2019, Berlin, Germany:
  Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation
  (Advanced, 2-day workshop)
• 3-4 June 2019, Stockholm, Sweden:
  Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation
  (Advanced, 2-day workshop, Mike Burrows and Kjell Tore Guttormsen)
• 6-7 June 2019, Oslo, Norway:
  Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation
  (Advanced, 2-day workshop, Mike Burrows and Kjell Tore Guttormsen

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