In this edition: Martin, this one’s for you; Two kinds of organisation development (OD); Featureban and Changeban; Upcoming workshops – Stockholm, Berlin, and online; Top posts

Martin, this one’s for you

This month the Lean-Agile community mourned the sudden and tragic loss of Martin Burns, a friend to many. My tribute, with links to several others – all of which well worth reading – is here:

• Martin, this one’s for you

Right to Left

Everything crossed, Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile comes out next month (sorry, I can’t give an exact date yet). Watch out for a Q&A with Ben Linders on InfoQ soon, always a pleasure!

Two kinds of organisation development (OD)

“So many books, so little time” (Pliny the Younger or Frank Zappa – take your pick). I began the month with a book I wish I had known about soon enough to reference in Agendashift, Bushe & Marshak’s Dialogic Organization Development: The Theory and Practice of Transformational Change. In a highly encouraging way it had a profound effect on me and continues to do so; read my initial thoughts and then some practical follow-through in these two posts:

• What kind of Organisational Development (OD)? (And a book recommendation)
• Takeaways from Boston and Berlin

Featureban and Changeban

For months I’ve been promising a big update to Featureban, a Kanban simulation game that is used around the world and remains one of my most popular downloads. Not only do I now have a 3.0 beta version that I’ll be playing next week and releasing soon, we’ve tested some improvements too in Changeban (see below a photo from Berlin last week) that benefit both games. So watch out for an announcement, both here on the blog and in your inbox if you’re a registered user of either game.

Meanwhile, we have at last a video for Changeban (thank you Steven Mackenzie for producing it), announcement here:

• A video for Changeban (and related: what’s in store for Featureban)

Upcoming workshops – Stockholm, Berlin, and online

• 26-27 June, Online – two 2h sessions on consecutive days:
  Learning the language of outcomes (two 2h online sessions)
• 16-17 July, Online – two 2h sessions on consecutive days:
  Learning the language of outcomes (two 2h online sessions)
• 9-10 September, Stockholm, Sweden:
  2-day Advanced Agendashift workshop: Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation
• 13-14 November, Berlin, Germany:
  2-day Advanced Agendashift workshop: Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation

Watch this space for autumn dates in Greece, Turkey, London, and the Benelux region.

Top posts

Recent:

1. Martin, this one’s for you
2. What kind of Organisational Development (OD)? (And a book recommendation)
3. A video for Changeban (and related: what’s in store for Featureban)
4. Takeaways from Boston and Berlin
5. Needs-based, outcome-oriented, continuous, open

Older:

1. ‘Right to Left’ works for Scrum too (July 2018)
2. How the Leader-Leader model turns Commander’s Intent upside down(June 2018)
3. Stringing it together with Reverse Wardley (February 2019)