Meet the Fractal Organisation

Diagnosing Your System's Variety in the AI Era

Why do scaling frameworks like SAFe, LeSS, and Nexus so often stall as organisations grow? The answer lies in variety, the sheer complexity every organisation must absorb to stay viable, and today AI is driving much of that surge.
This session introduces the Fractal Organisation, an idea from cybernetics and complexity theory. It builds on what Agile has already got right (Scrum's small, self-organising teams) and points toward a genuinely viable way forward for Scaled Agility.

To achieve this, the Fractal Organisation mimics nature's scaling laws by repeating the same self-regulating structure at every scale, from squad to enterprise. Embedded within this organisation, AI stops being just another source of disturbance and becomes an internal amplifier of variety, giving organisations the capacity to match the complexity they face.

Agenda

• 5:30 to 6:00: Networking, food and drink
• 6:00 to 6:10: Welcome, announcements, and intro
• 6:10 to 6:50: Meet the Fractal Organisation
• 6:50 to 7:00: Q&A
• 7:00 to 7:30: Networking

Sponsors
A BIG thank you to Randstad Digital Australia (Especially Jake Kennedy) for providing the venue and catering, and also to our overall sponsor PMI Agile Alliance.

Speaker Bio
Chris Fortuin (Agile Chris) is an Agile Coach exploring how AI-augmented cybernetics can meet the variety demands of the AI era and deliver on the fractal scaling promise of the Viable System Model.