Dr Klaus Leopold, computer scientist, Kanban pioneer and creator of the Flight Levels Model, has many years of experience as a top management consultant. He advises companies worldwide on how to act agile on the market. Klaus is the author of the bestseller Rethinking Agile, Practical Kanban and co-author of the standard work Kanban Change Leadership. He is co-founder of the Flight Levels Academy, and he publishes his current thoughts and experiences in the world of Flight Levels and organisational development on his blog www.LEANability.com.
Keynote
Rethinking Agile - Why Agile Teams Have Nothing to Do With Business Agility
Session Overview
In this talk, I discuss an agile transformation where approximately 600 people were involved. The goal was to shorten the time-to-market for initiatives to respond to customer needs more quickly and, as such, improve business agility. The company reorganised to construct cross-functional teams to have the required knowledge fully available within the team. Also, the teams were set up according to the products to remove any dependencies. Visualisation of the work, Standup meetings and Retrospectives made the agile transformation complete - except for the expected improvements. In this session, I share what we did to improve the situation and reach "more business agility". I also show how you can approach an agile transformation of this size to avoid no improvements being seen. So much I can tell you in advance: do not start at the team level - it will save not only your nerves but also a lot of money!