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(Part 1) WORLDWIDE RETRO ON THE AGILE INDUSTRY: THE LAST 2 YEARS
PART 1: FOR USA TIME ZONES
What are the most pressing issues of our time in the Agile industry today?
The last two years have featured a surprising and alarming level of industry consolidation. What and Who are the major influences on Agile culture today? Are these influences uniformly positive? Are we happy with the way things are? Are we happy with where things appear to be going?
To put a fine point on it, are we happy with the results we are getting?
OUR THEME:
"HOW DO WE IMPROVE?"
The "whisper number" for success with "Agile transformation" is around 1 legitimate win for every 8 or 9 very expensive attempts. Are we happy with that? If we are not, how can we improve?
This is a worldwide retrospective on the multi-billion-dollar Agile Industry. We are conducting this retro in the Open Space meeting format. We are producing Proceedings and every participant will get a copy. The intent of this retrospective is to hear every voice in service to improvement.
Here are some of the more pressing issues in the Agile industry today:
ENGAGEMENT MODELS. We don't have any. Instead, we have frameworks that are void of any employee-engagement plan. Employee engagement is not a focus in Agile transformation. Why not? Does engagement matter? If not why not? If so, what engagement models are available right now? Who cares about employye-engagement models?
SUCCESS CRITERIA. We teach client organizations to value a "definition of done," yet we have no such definition for our own Agile transformation work. Why is this? Are we happy with that? How can we compare the merit of various approaches to success, if we have no shared definition of what "success" looks like?
ALARMING LEVELS OF IMPOSITION WORLDWIDE. Imposition of Agile frameworks and practices on teams is the standard. We do not ask for any input about the top-down Agile decision. Meanwhile, Agile supposedly runs on feedback. Why then do we "roll out" Agile practices without first collecting feedback from those who are affected?
But wait, there's more....
CERTIFICATIONS. Is certification helping or hurting the success rate of Agile adoptions worldwide? How do certifications help? How do they hurt? Where do certifications need to go to support better results overall?
DOGMA and TRADITIONALISM. What does it mean to be Agile? Does it mean dogmatically following the Scrum Guide? The Agile Manifesto? Your favorite framework? Does dogma-thinking assist or prevent real agility? What is genuine agility-in-fact?
FRAMEWORKS. Frameworks like SAFe, Nexus, LeSS, Scrum At Scale (and more) are dominant right now. What is good about this? Are rigid frameworks actually an impediment to good agility? If not why not? If so how so?
These are just a few of the more pressing issues before us. The purpose of a retrospective is to improve. That is the purpose of this event: to improve. In service to continuous improvement, you are invited to participate. This is an **online** Open Space event that uses ZOOM video (a simple thing to use.)
Leaders: Where Are They?
A major goal of this event is the identification of genuine and emerging LEADERS. Who will lead us in 2018 and beyond?
Only *you* can provide the answer to this very important question.
Regarding Open Space:
If you are new to Open Space, you are invited to learn more, here:
www.openspaceagility.com/what-is-ost
NOTE: These are the Ground Rules for participation: No refunds. Substitutions OK. By registering, you are committing to your learning and the learning of all the other participants in every session you attend. By registering, you are also a) authorizing the organizers to record images, audio and video of you as you participate, and b) granting the organizers a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual license to use these recordings for any purpose (for example, for the marketing and promotion of future events) without limitation. If you do not agree to these Ground Rules, do not register for the event.
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