In this edition: Berlin; Working at the intersection / a monster post on SAFe; Right to Left; Changeban, Featureban, and 15-minute FOTO; Upcoming workshops – Berlin, Oslo, Malmö, and online; Top posts
Berlin
I have a free day in Berlin today, arriving a day early to avoid travelling on what threatened to be Brexit day before a private workshop tomorrow. That workshop is actually the first of three November engagements in Berlin, with a 2-day Advanced Agendashift workshop and (through happy coincidence) the Open Leadership Symposium:
- 13-14 November, Berlin, Germany:
2-day Advanced Agendashift workshop: Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation - 18-20 December, Berlin, Germany:
The Open Leadership Symposium: Berlin 2019
I keep saying it and I will say it again:
- The Berlin workshop consistently delivers – not just a full house and a great experience, but a reliable source of great feedback and new ideas. Thank you Leanovate not just for hosting but for participating
- The inaugural Open Leadership Symposium in Boston last May was a key coming together of multiple communities and it launched a new one. I have high expectations of the Berlin event, which takes place on the 19th with a selection of masterclasses on the 18th & 20th. If you’re thinking of coming to the main event, ping me for a chunky discount code (big enough to make a real difference, so don’t miss out!).
Working at the intersection / a monster post on SAFe
This was just a quick picture posted to LinkedIn and Twitter, but it has struck a chord with many people and it has already established itself as a way to introduce both myself and the communities I participate in. You’ll see some of the language reflected on the Agendashift site, the partner programme page most especially.
That picture is a good scene-setter to a post that within 36 hours was my most-read post of the year:
Also doing well is a Kanban-related post:
And I can only apologise for this related tweet 😉:
Right to Left
Thank you Paul and Justyna! Two podcasts for the price of one, a book review and an interview:
After a long delay, Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile is at last available in EPUB format. That means you can download it as an ebook from more online booksellers, including Apple Books, Google Play Books, and Kobo – just search “Right to Left Mike Burrows”.
There were two more 5 star reviews on Amazon UK this month (thank you!), making eight so far. We’re still waiting for the first one on Amazon US though, so who will be first?
Changeban, Featureban, and 15-minute FOTO
Some news about three of our Creative Commons-licensed resources.
Changeban 1.3 is now the recommended version (it was in beta until properly tested). I’ll be making the equivalent changes to Featureban before making a separate announcement. Also, their respective Slack channels have merged into one, #featureban-changeban.
The updated 15-minute FOTO cue card is definitely an improvement and it too is out of beta. A new ‘Lite’ (gentle introduction) version of the game has been through a number of iterations and we’ll announce it soon. It’s available to try if you know where to look! Slack channel #cleanlanguage, and it’s enabling some new #workshops (we’ll announce those properly soon too).
Upcoming workshops – Berlin, Oslo, Malmö, and online
- 13-14 November, Berlin, Germany:
2-day Advanced Agendashift workshop: Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation - 9-10 December, Oslo, Norway:
2-day Advanced Agendashift: Coaching & leading continuous transformation - 11-12 December, Online – two 2h sessions on consecutive days:
Learning the language of outcomes (two 2h online sessions) - 11-12 March, Malmö, Sweden – Julia Wester & myself:
Advanced Agendashift: Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation
Top posts
- What I really think about SAFe
- From Reverse STATIK to a ‘Pathway’ for continuous transformation
- What kind of Organisational Development (OD)? (And a book recommendation) (May)
- There will be caveats: Warming cautiously to OKR (September)
- Right to Left in five 5-minute videos (September)
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