[Update: Fixed link the main Xuviate site – initial version pointed to a staging site]

Diving into Right to Left in five tweets (published shortly after the book’s publication), five short videos, in which I’m interviewed by Matthias Tölken of the Xuviate community. Thumbnail sketches of the five:

1. What makes Digital different? Success in digital means integrating delivery, development, and strategy – continuously identifying and addressing impediments to flow, alignment, and anticipation. This is clearly a learning process; a successful digital organisation is a learning organisation
2. Why Lean-Agile? To Lean’s “strategic pursuit of flow” (after Modig & Åhlström), we bring from Agile a safe default assumption, that in knowledge work, most failures of flow are rooted in failures of collaboration.
3. It is quite embarrassing that many Agile rollouts are done waterfall fashion… There’s good in frameworks, but blindly rolling out a process framework is more a recipe for pain than a guarantee of success, especially when done at scale.
4. Left to right or right to left, that is the question… Starting “from the left” with solutions, frameworks, backlogs of work items, etc is a terrible way to explain or experience Agile. Always keep the things “on the right” – needs met and outcomes realised – ahead of all else.
5. Leaders and managers often get a bit of a raw deal in Agile. Does it have to be that way? The need to clearly & strategically identify, articulate, & stand for outcomes will never grow old. Neither will removing organisational impediments, freeing people to pursue purpose, and developing the next generation of (servant-)leaders

You can watch (or just listen) to all five here:

• 84. Right to Left: The Digital Leader’s Guide to Lean and Agile

Thank Mathias and Mark for putting this together!

In case you missed them, other book-related links:

• All three of my books:
  • Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile (2019)
  • Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation (2018)
  • Kanban from the inside (2014)
• Blog posts tagged right-to-left, including the announcement:
  •  It’s out! Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile

Longer podcast interviews you may have missed:

• Agile on the Edge with Maurice (Mo) Hagar: Mike Burrows: Right to Left
• A Geek Leader with John Rouda: AGL 117: From Right to Left with Mike Burrows
• Agile Atelier with Rahul Bhattacharya: Episode 12: The right terminologies for Agile with Mike Burrows

Last but definitely not least, for this InfoQ article I am interviewed by Ben Linders:

• Q&A on the Book Right to Left: The Digital Leader’s Guide to Lean and Agile

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Upcoming workshops – London, Istanbul, Berlin, and online

It’s not too late to join the London workshop, Thursday-Friday next week. For that and the online workshops I can offer deep discounts for government sector and non-profit employees and for anyone returning for a repeat visit (some people have done several!). Ping me for details.

• 3-4 October, London, UK:
  2-day Advanced Agendashift workshop: Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation
• 15-16 October, online, two 2-hour sessions, mornings UK time:
  Agendashift online: Learning the language of outcomes
• 26th October (changed from the 23rd), Istanbul, Turkey:
  1-day Core Agendashift workshop: Facilitating outcome-oriented change
• 13-14 November, Berlin, Germany:
  2-day Advanced Agendashift workshop: Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation
• 5-6 December, online, two 2-hour sessions, afternoons UK time:
  Agendashift online: Learning the language of outcomes

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