Agendashift roundup, April 2021

Posted on April 29, 2021June 2, 2021 by Mike Burrows

In this edition: Leading with Outcomes launch offer; Agendashift 2021; LAG21; Featureban milestone; Upcoming; Top posts

Leading with Outcomes launch offer

Our new (and first ever) self-paced training Leading with Outcomes is off to a flying start – a pleasing number of signups and excellent feedback so far. Our launch offer expires April 30th (tomorrow) so get in there quickly! Use coupon code LEADING-WITH-OUTCOMES-20 and join for €71.20 instead of €89. Our next self-paced offering (strategy-related) will have LwO as a prerequisite, so grab it now.

Agendashift 2021

Not long either to the Agendashift 2021 conference on May 18th. The programme is nearly complete, and already a great lineup, including:

Keynote speakers Pia-Maria Thorén (Agile People, contributor of the Agendashift 2nd edition’s foreword) and Professor Gervase Bushe (author or co-author of two of the 2nd edition’s most important references)
Daniel Mezick (Open Leadership Network, OpenSpace Agility), contributor of the 1st edition’s foreword which contained the gift of the term engagement model, two words that describe Agendashift so well
Caitlin Walker (Clean Language, Systemic Modelling), author of another key reference and a prime example of the generosity and support offered by the Clean Language community
Evan Leybourn (Business Agility Institute), who shares in our pursuit of better organisations
Karl Scotland, Dragan Jojic, and Kjell Tore Guttormsen – all of whom instrumental in Agendashift’s development
Andrew Jones, whose Agile Listening Project is powered by Agendashift

I could go on, and watch out for further announcements on speakers and sponsors! A massive thank you meanwhile to the organising team, Andrew Jones, Kjell Tore Guttormsen, Karl Scotland, and Russ Lewis.

LAG21

We’re also sponsoring another conference: Lean Agile Global 2021, organised by Agendashift partners Jose Casal & JP Bayley and their team. It takes not long after Agendashift 2021 on the 24th and 25th, and I’m a speaker on the 25th with first outing for a brand new talk based on the closing chapters of the 2nd edition. So sign up and join me for Up and down the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation – business agility at every scale.

If you’re very quick, you can join me also this evening (UK time) for a pre-conference meetup:

Road to LAG21: Leading and Transforming with Outcomes with Mike Burrows

Featureban milestone

Via the #featureban-changeban channel on Slack, Kaiten founder and CEO Slava Tsyrulnik tells us that their online version of my Kanban simulation game Featureban has reached the impressive milestone of 5,000 games played. Moreover, the community has now contributed six language translations in addition to their two. Congratulations!

Upcoming

Listed now on the Academy’s Store page are our scheduled workshops, the next one only days away:

04 May, one 2-hour session, EMEA-friendly timing:
Agendashift interactive: Strategic Mapping with Outcomes (EMEA)
14-17 June, 8 online sessions (2 per day) of 120 minutes each, Americas-friendly timing:
Agendashift Deep Dive: Coaching and leading continuous transformation (Americas)
6-7 July, two 2½-hour sessions (1 per day), APAC-friendly timing:
Agendashift interactive: Coaching with Outcomes (APAC)

And always now the self-paced option: Leading with Outcomes.

Announcing 1) our first self-paced training Leading with Outcomes (LwO) and 2) the Agendashift Academy

Posted on April 21, 2021May 19, 2021 by Mike Burrows

Last week’s little announcement (a rename) paves the way for today’s, big enough that I’ll do it two parts:

Leading with Outcomes (LwO) is our first self-paced training offering, and we’re very excited about it, seeing it as the foundation module for a powerful blend of self-paced and real-time/interactive/experiential learning. And it won’t be the last such module – recognising that some of the new material introduced in the Agendashift 2nd edition is well suited to that medium. We anticipate that by the end of the year it will be possible to do a “hybrid” Deep Dive equivalent over an extended period and multiple modules, both self-paced and interactive.
Agendashift Academy (academy.agendashift.com) is both our new platform for self-paced training and the hub for our training workshops and other public events. It has been several months in the making, a collaboration with Agendashift partner Kjell Tore Guttormsen and Humanize, the Norway-based company of which he is a principal. My gratitude and respect for them is enormous.

The Academy has been hiding in plain sight for a while – among other things it hosts the landing page for our May 18th conference. Well done if you guessed what we were up to! Longer term it gives us a new platform for different kinds of participation: people from a range of backgrounds self-funding their (quite affordable) self-development; the ecosystem of Agendashift partners, their firms, and their clients; corporates using Agendashift in their learning & development programmes.

Before we go any further, a launch offer:

Sign up for Leading with Outcomes by April 30th and receive a launch discount of 20% – use coupon code LEADING-WITH-OUTCOMES-20 and join for €71.20 instead of €89. LwO will in time become a prerequisite for many of our other modules, so why not take advantage now?

Listed now on the Academy’s Store page are our scheduled workshops, the next one only days away:

27-28 April, two 2½-hour sessions (1 per day), EMEA-friendly timing:
Agendashift interactive: Coaching with Outcomes (EMEA)
04 May, one 2-hour session, EMEA-friendly timing:
Agendashift interactive: Strategic Mapping with Outcomes (EMEA)
14-17 June, 8 online sessions (2 per day) of 120 minutes each, Americas-friendly timing:
Agendashift Deep Dive: Coaching and leading continuous transformation (Americas)
6-7 July, two 2½-hour sessions (1 per day), APAC-friendly timing:
Agendashift interactive: Coaching with Outcomes (APAC)

Coaching with Outcomes (April and July, for EMEA and APAC – hurry if you want to do the EMEA one) is the interactive version of Leading with Outcomes. They’re a great pairing, LwO doing the groundwork and CwO focussing on the experience, facilitation options, and so on. CwO will evolve this year to acknowledge its self-paced cousin but LwO is not yet a prerequisite. That will change.

Strategic Mapping with Outcomes (also soon – early May for EMEA) is our most popular single-session workshop. It is included in the Deep Dive and is a natural follow-on to CwO and LwO.

The Agendashift Deep Dive (June, Americas) still goes strong, and my feeling is that there will always be a place for something as intensive as this. Some however will prefer the hybrid model and take its equivalent over a period of months. And they’re not mutually exclusive – not so crazy when you know that there are people out there who have done multiple Deep Dives!

You may be relieved to hear that this completes the announcements and followups saved up pending the launch of the 2nd edition of the book. So to finish, let me bring them all together:

What’s in a name? Coaching with Outcomes (CwO)

Posted on April 14, 2021April 14, 2021 by Mike Burrows

April seems to be for us a month of post book launch announcements. Today’s is smaller than the others but it creates some space for another next week.

A little over a year ago – mid lockdown #1 – we launched Agendashift online: Leading with Outcomes (LwO), a short online workshop of 2 sessions of 2 hours. Now it’s 2 sessions of 2½ but the idea stands: not just to learn about Celebration-5W, Good Obstacle / Bad Obstacle, 15-minute FOTO, the assessment tools, and the rest, but to experience them with other people and to understand how these and similar exercises can be facilitated online.

Today that workshop is renamed to Agendashift interactive: Coaching with Outcomes (CwO). The content remains the same but we need the name Leading with Outcomes for a related product that we’ll announce next week. I’ve left a few clues over the weeks already but watch this space!

We have two Coaching with Outcomes workshops in the calendar currently:

27-28 April, two 2½-hour sessions (1 per day), EMEA-friendly timing:
Agendashift interactive: Coaching with Outcomes (EMEA)
6-7 July, two 2½-hour sessions (1 per day), APAC-friendly timing:
Agendashift interactive: Coaching with Outcomes (APAC)

Should you attend this workshop? Agile Uprising’s Mike and Jay certainly think you should (agileuprising.libsyn.com)!

And notice that the list of other upcoming events has exploded. Not just workshops, there’s a sudden flurry of upcoming appearances – no less than four next week, beginning on Monday with my first Clubhouse session. And two conferences in May: our own Agendashift 2021 and then Lean Agile Global 2021 which we are proud to sponsor.

19 April, Clubhouse / AgileClub.eu: Interview with Mike Burrows of Agendashift (Mike Burrows, Ricardo Liberato)
21 April, Agile People online meetup: Meetup: Agendashift – Engaging with Agile HR’s adaptive challenges (Mike Burrows, Kjell Tore Guttormsen)
22 April, Discovering Agile Community online meetup: Meetup: Yes IdOO! Mike Burrows
24 April, Online conference, Lemberg Tech Business School / Ukrainian Branch of the Project Management Institute: Conference: UA Online PMDay 2021
29 April, Lean Agile London meetup: Meetup: Leading and Transforming with Outcomes (Mike Burrows, Jose Casal)
04 May, one 2-hour session, EMEA-friendly timing: Agendashift interactive: Strategic Mapping with Outcomes (EMEA)
18 May, Online conference: Agendashift 2021 (Karl Scotland, Kjell Tore Guttormsen, Mike Burrows)
24-25 May, Online conference: Lean Agile Global 2021 (Jose Casal, Karl Scotland, Julia Wester, Mike Burrows)
14-17 June, 8 online sessions (2 per day) of 120 minutes each, Americas-friendly timing: Agendashift Deep Dive: Coaching and leading continuous transformation (Americas)

Hope to see you at at least one of these!

Leading with Outcomes: a cheat sheet

Posted on March 16, 2021July 16, 2022 by Mike Burrows

To whet the appetite, a cheat sheet for:

The Leading with Outcomes workshop – there are two interactive workshops upcoming (see below) and watch this space for news of new online self-paced training
The first half of the Core, Deep Dive, and Outside-in strategy workshops; we’ll shortly be adding a Deep Dive at an Americas-friendly time
Last but very definitely not least, the first two chapters of the book, Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation (2nd edition March 2021)

Yes, you read that right: March 2021. Publication imminent!

Go to agendashift.com/leading-with-outcomes-cheat-sheet or click on the image below for download information, references, etc. It’s Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA); by subscribing you’ll get not just the PDF but the original .pptx file too – translations and other adaptations welcome. Enjoy!

What if we put agreement on outcomes ahead of solutions?

The Outside-in Service Delivery Review (OI-SDR)

Posted on November 9, 2020 by Mike Burrows

It’s something of a work in progress but I have given the Outside-in Service Delivery Review (OI-SDR) its own page now, agendashift.com/oi-sdr, its content Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA). It’s long overdue – the OI-SDR was introduced in the 1st edition of Agendashift (2018), described more fully (with a case study) in chapter 5 of the Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile (2019, audiobook 2020) and it will be revisited big time in the Agendashift 2nd edition due early 2021.

I don’t want to give too much away just yet but you can expect the second edition to be a lot stronger on questions of organisation, leadership, and (self-)governance than the first, and the OI-SDR is a key part of that (moreso than might be obvious at first glance). Meanwhile, there’s plenty in Right to Left if you haven’t already read that or listened to it, and the Deep Dive workshop – see Upcoming workshops below.

Towards the wholehearted organisation, outside in (May 2018)

Upcoming workshops

17-20 November, 8 online sessions (2 per day over 4 days) of 120 minutes each, EMEA-friendly timing:
Agendashift Deep Dive: Coaching and leading continuous transformation
19-20 January, two 2½-hour sessions (1 per day), Americas-friendly timing:
Leading with Outcomes (Americas)

All the usual discounts apply: repeat visits (not uncommon), partners, gov, edu, non-profit, country, un- or under-employment, bulk orders. If you think that one might apply to you, do please ask. We have a quorum already but the more the merrier.

Agile Uprising discusses Agendashift’s Leading with Outcomes workshop

Posted on November 2, 2020November 2, 2020 by Mike Burrows

On Sunday evening I got a very nice surprise – Twitter alerted me to this new episode from the Agile Uprising Podcast additional to my interview with Jay only a few weeks ago:

Join @mcaddell94 and @backdooragile as they discuss the @Agendashift workshop "Leading With Outcomes", taught by @asplake. SPOILER ALERT: take this course! https://t.co/rrnx1asGvV
— Agile Uprising (@AgileUprising) November 1, 2020

Listen here. SPOILER ALERT (per their tweet): take this course!

Slightly embarrassingly, when this went out on Sunday I had only this month’s Deep Dive workshop in the calendar. Naturally, this includes a deeper version of Leading with Outcomes, but still! So in gratitude to Jay and Mike the first public Agendashift workshop of 2021 will be Leading with Outcomes, scheduled late enough in the my (UK) afternoon for folks based in the Americas to join.

All the usual discounts apply: repeat visits (not uncommon), partners, gov, edu, non-profit, country, un- or under-employment, bulk orders. If you think that one might apply to you, do please ask.

17-20 November, 8 online sessions (2 per day over 4 days) of 120 minutes each, EMEA-friendly timing:
Agendashift Deep Dive: Coaching and leading continuous transformation
19-20 January, two 2½-hour sessions (1 per day), Americas-friendly timing:
Leading with Outcomes (Americas)

And I’ll mention this just this once: discount code UPRISING for 15% off either/both events.

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Agendashift roundup, October 2020

Posted on October 30, 2020December 4, 2020 by Mike Burrows

In this edition: Media – recordings, articles, etc; November Deep Dive; Updates to Celebration-5W; Progress on the 2nd edition; Top posts

Media – recordings, articles, etc

Released this month:

Webinar recording: Good obstacle, bad obstacle: The recording
Podcast: Agile Uprising Podcast: Right to Left with Mike Burrows (agileuprising.libsyn.com)
Article: Outside-in and Right-to-Left: 2 Perspectives on Strategy Deployment(cutter.com)

I’ve taken the opportunity to gather these and similar resources from the past year or more on a new media page, agendashift.com/media. Over time I’ll add dig out some Agendashift-era conference recordings etc also. If you have any favourites you think I should add, let me know!

Thanks for those I’ve added so far go to the Cutter Consortium, Jay Hrcsko (Agile Uprising podcast), Martin Aziz & team (SquirrelNorth), Joe Auslander & Jakub Jurkiewicz (Joekub podcast), Ben Linders (InfoQ), Rahul Bhattacharya (Agile Atelier podcast), Mo Hagar (Agile on the Edge podcast), John Rouda (A Geek Leader podcast), Paul Klipp & Justyna Pindel (Agile Book Club podcast).

November Deep Dive

17th-20th November: Agendashift Deep Dive: Coaching and leading continuous transformation – eight 2-hour sessions over four days, EMEA-friendly timing. A practical, hands-on experience of Agendashift, the wholehearted outcome-oriented, engagement model.

Updates to Celebration-5W

There is a new version 4 deck for our workshop kickoff exercise, Celebration-5W. Like most of our exercises, games, templates etc it is Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA) and you can obtain it via its resource page agendashift.com/celebration-5w.

The main changes:

I’ve tweaked a key slide – see the image below – to suggest some initial iteration between When and What; the discussion (if not its later presentation) begins here
Unhiding the initial slides for facilitators – they weren’t showing up in Dropbox
In those initial slides for facilitators, the quote from Agendashift is now from the pending 2nd edition (more on that in a moment)

celebration-5w-2020-10-30

Progress on the 2nd edition

A couple of blog posts this month flow from (among other things) work on the 2nd edition of Agendashift:

From the second of those, nearly 3 weeks old now:

I’ll be pulling out all the stops, integrating (as Agendashift has done consistently for a long time) ideas and experience from Lean-Agile, organisation development, and strategy

Glad to report that this work on the 5th and final chapter is not only well underway, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel now! Just a few more sections and I’ll have a first complete draft and I’ll be at the “90% done and still half the work to do” stage. I’m not quoting dates yet but quarter 1 of 2021 seems very doable.

Good obstacle, bad obstacle: The recording

Posted on October 21, 2020December 14, 2020 by Mike Burrows

The recording of yesterday’s webinar Good Obstacle, Bad Obstacle is now live on Youtube. You can find it and all the links mentioned in it gathered together here:

Webinar: Good Obstacle, Bad Obstacle (agendashift.com/gobo)

I’ve added the deck to the Agendashift Assets Dropbox and you can request access to it via the above page. It’s CC-BY-SA, so feel free to have some fun with it.

While we’re here, let me repeat Monday’s updates, starting with the November Deep Dive:

17-20 November, 8 online sessions (2 per day over 4 days) of 120 minutes each, EMEA-friendly timing:
Agendashift Deep Dive: Coaching and leading continuous transformation

Don’t hesitate to ask for a discount code if you think you might qualify on grounds of country, non-profit, government, educational, etc. Also if you’d be a repeat participant, of which there have been a good number!

Jay Hrcsko interviewed me the other day for the Agile Uprising podcast and you can listen to the recording at the link below. Thanks Jay, that was a lot of fun!

Agile Uprising Podcast: Right to Left with Mike Burrows (agileuprising.libsyn.com)

Also in the “just happened” category, Cutter Consortium has just published an article of mine in the form of an Executive Update. It’s a little dense compared to my books but it was fun rehearsing that particular chain of thought for the Agendashift 2nd edition. Grab it here:

Outside-in and Right-to-Left: 2 Perspectives on Strategy Deployment (cutter.com)

Happening (or just happened)

Posted on October 19, 2020October 21, 2020 by Mike Burrows

Update: The webinar recording is now live – see here

Happening: Good Obstacle, Bad Obstacle; Agendashift Deep Dive. Just happened: Agile Uprising podcast; Cutter Consortium paper

Tomorrow’s free webinar is sailing close to the 100 participant limit (to the point that I’ve asked anyone who can’t attend to cancel) but there are at the time of writing a single-digit number of tickets available. Get yours here:

20 October, Online, 10:00BST (GMT+1), 11:00CEST:
Free webinar: Good obstacle, bad obstacle (EMEA)

After that, the next big event is the November Deep Dive:

17-20 November, 8 online sessions (2 per day over 4 days) of 120 minutes each, EMEA-friendly timing:
Agendashift Deep Dive: Coaching and leading continuous transformation

Re that one, don’t hesitate to ask for a discount if you think you might qualify on grounds of country, non-profit, government, educational, etc. Also if you’d be a repeat participant, of which there have been a good number!

Meanwhile, Jay Hrcsko interviewed me the other day for the Agile Uprising podcast and you can listen to the recording at the link below. Thanks Jay, that was a lot of fun!

Agile Uprising Podcast: Right to Left with Mike Burrows (agileuprising.libsyn.com)

Outside-in and Right-to-Left: 2 Perspectives on Strategy Deployment (cutter.com)

And thank you Andrea Chiou, Jonathan Sibley, and Jon Cashmore for your help – very gratefully received!

Agendashift roundup, September 2020

Posted on September 30, 2020March 24, 2023 by Mike Burrows

In this edition: Good obstacle, bad obstacle; The quality that now has a name; 15-minute FOTO update; Agendashift #community Zoom; Upcoming events; Top posts

Good obstacle, bad obstacle

Important dates coming soon: a free October webinar ahead of a November Deep Dive workshop. Details of both here:

Good obstacle, bad obstacle

The quality that now has a name

I’m hard at work on the 2nd edition of the Agendashift book (not far short of a rewrite if I’m honest) and I’m now on chapter 3 (of 5). In my head I’m a couple of chapters ahead and in this blog post you can see some of what’s going on up there!

The quality that now has a name

15-minute FOTO update

I’ve done some work on the deck for 15-minute FOTO, aligning it with how I have been facilitating our Clean Language-inspired coaching game over recent weeks. Also, I’ve made it both easier for me to maintain and more flexible: hide/show slides according to format (Lite or Classic) and medium (in-room or online). More here:

15-minute FOTO, latest v9 deck

Agendashift #community Zoom

On Wednesdays I like to put out a reminder on Slack that tomorrow (ie every Thursday) it’s the Agendashift #community Lean Coffee Zoom at 14:00 BST, 15:00 CEST, 9am EDT. I can’t include the Zoom link in this post so ping me for details or check the #community channel in Slack.

Upcoming events

06 October, one 2-hour session, EMEA-friendly timing:
Probe! Stories, Hypotheses, Challenges, and Experiments (EMEA)
20 October, Online, 10:00BST, 11:00CEST:
Free webinar: Good obstacle, bad obstacle (EMEA)
17-20 November, 8 online sessions (2 per day over 4 days) of 120 minutes each, EMEA-friendly timing:
Agendashift Deep Dive: Coaching and leading continuous transformation

I might yet add some December dates but that will very definitely be the last Deep Dive of the year. If you’re holding out for one in a different time zone in early 2021, let me know.

I get asked about discounts based on country or similar factors. Typically answer is yes, also for non-profit, government, educational, etc, or if you’ve done one of the bigger workshops before – several people have attended multiple times. And Agendashift partners of course. Again, ping me.

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Agendashift roundup, April 2021

Leading with Outcomes launch offer

Agendashift 2021

LAG21

Featureban milestone

Upcoming

Top posts

Announcing 1) our first self-paced training Leading with Outcomes (LwO) and 2) the Agendashift Academy

What’s in a name? Coaching with Outcomes (CwO)

Leading with Outcomes: a cheat sheet

The Outside-in Service Delivery Review (OI-SDR)

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Upcoming workshops

Agile Uprising discusses Agendashift’s Leading with Outcomes workshop

Agendashift roundup, October 2020

Media – recordings, articles, etc

November Deep Dive

Updates to Celebration-5W

Progress on the 2nd edition

Top posts

Good obstacle, bad obstacle: The recording

Happening (or just happened)

Agendashift roundup, September 2020

Good obstacle, bad obstacle

The quality that now has a name

15-minute FOTO update

Agendashift #community Zoom

Upcoming events

Top posts