#AgilityLab Copenhagen

𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 inquiry to experience how humans make anything “🅳🅸🅵🅵🅸🅲🆄🅻🆃”. The good news is you are the one that makes it difficult. Surprise! Where else would it come from but you? Did you think it was SAFe or Scrum or the Scrum Master or the Agile Coach or the Leader or the Team? Nope. It’s you. And even better news, it’s all the other humans too. And this is very good news because it gives you something to work with.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 in this interactive conversation is your version of how you and others make Agile “difficult”. And as a hint… it’s not about Agile. Substitute “Agile” with other words like “relationships”, “thinking”, “society”… etc. Humans Make “Difficult”. The beauty of “Agile” is it becomes a catalyst to play with the heart of any “conflict” or “difficulty” … how humans process Life and how they learned how to process Life. Yes, you read that correctly. You have a process, and you were automatically trained (conditioned) to process the way in which you process Life. And not knowing that is what makes Agile “🅳🅸🅵🅵🅸🅲🆄🅻🆃”.

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮:
👉 Want to know why it is so “hard” to “Be Agile”?
👉 Want to understand why it is so “difficult” to install SAFe (any framework)?
👉 Want to begin an awareness into your human (and all human) pattern(s)?

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐢𝐬:
✳️ Awareness into how you process Life (you, circumstances, others, events)
✳️ Curiosity to see yourself and others in a new way
✳️ A “tool” or two to employ in your life and in your work

This inquiry is designed to create a new insight into your pattern and thereby human patterns of processing Life. And then give you a couple of tools of what to do with this new insight for you and any “Agile” movement you are trying to catalyze.

𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫

Phillip Cave, founder of Dear Human.LIFE, is a “being human afficionado” who helps humans and leaders at all levels step into their whole human integrity to express and lead with courage. Through his work with hundreds of humans in leadership, team and life roles, he’s seen firsthand that putting “You” (your whole aware self) into your life and leadership is pure magic for having the results you intend to have, get your relationships and teams to “co-create”, and most importantly, feel good about yourself and your impact.

In addition to startup founder leader types (his favorite), Phillip’s list of clients he’s helped include Starbucks, Microsoft, Tableau, Accenture, Roche as well as leaders and teams in tech startups, banking, insurance and health care. While that list might look “impressive” to some, he loves getting down and dirty with real life human “problems” to create “solutions” that matter to the people that call on him to coach, mentor and teach.

Phillip has been “around the block” and “in the trenches” creating his own life “messes” in tech startups, relationship systems, large corporations, world travel, consulting and coaching. He takes his own life experiences to then compassionately connect with others with a little zest and fire. He shares what he calls his “personal WTF moments” because he always wants to be reminded of his humanness and to relate to our collective humanness.

📒 Are you trapped within an unfit agile framework?

😳 Are you doing Scrum but wonder if it is as the right choice?

🤝 Can you distinguish Kanban from Scrum?

𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 ...
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... relatively new to the concept of agile and want to get a taste of Kanban, or you are

... involved in a Scrum initiative and are wondering what Kanban can offer, or you are

... wondering if your organisation has chosen the appropriate approach to increasing agility.

And you might want to skip this Meetup if you are an experienced Kanban practitioner.
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽
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You will learn...

★ What is Kanban
★ What to use Kanban for
★ How to distinguish Scrum from Kanban
★ Should you even consider using Kanban?
★ Why you should never impose Kanban on any teams

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Bring your own dilemmas or wicket problems, and discuss them in breakout rooms with likeminded people.
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👇 What 's next? 👇

Maybe learn more about 𝗞𝗮𝗻𝗯𝗮𝗻 in AgilityLab Copenhagen...
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Ulrik U. Gade will continue AgilityLab's Kanban Meetup series on March 17: 🅺🅰🅽🅱🅰🅽 Basics, Made Simple.

It is an interactive workshop where Ulrik guides us on how to do Kanban in a team, using the online simulation tool TWIG.

Sign up to the AgilityLab KANBAN - Made Simple, March-17: https://www.meetup.com/AgilityLab/events/275961973/

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𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
Kanban Guide by ProKanban community:
https://prokanban.org/the-kanban-guide/
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🎤 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗶𝗼
Leise Passer Jensen has been a passionate agnostic agilist for more than two decades. She is an entrepreneur and founded AgiliT in 2018 where she is guiding teams, leaders, and organizations with increasing their agility - by ensuring high engagement, inspiration, and without using force. She is an associated Scrum Trainer at AgileLeanHouse, pragmatic, and an advocate for simplification.

"𝘐 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 - 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦. 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮! 𝘋𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘢 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘥𝘰 !", Leise says.

She is a writer and co-editor of Serious Scrum, and one of her articles was just nominated a top-100 candidate for Best Agile Articles 2020.

𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
♦︎ 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘴𝘶𝘣-𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘦 — 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘮 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴
https://medium.com/serious-scrum/stop-sub-optimizing-fix-the-real-problems-or-your-scrum-will-stay-as-is-forever-803fd8c73b6
♦︎ Can we please stop imposing agile?
https://agilit.dk/can-we-please-stop-imposing-agile/
♦︎ "𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘨𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘴"
https://agilit.dk/article-scaling-agile-for-dummies/

Learn 🅺🅰🅽🅱🅰🅽 the fun way.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽
In this interactive workshop, you will be learning by doing Kanban in a team, using the online simulation tool TWIG.

➡️ You can participate regardless of your starting point and prior knowledge.

➡️ You will learn about the basics of Kanban no matter what agile framework or method you already use.

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We will connect your experience from the simulation to the basic concepts in the Kanban Guide Guide, provided by members of the ProKanban community.
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𝗢𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲
After the workshop, you are able to start working with 🅺🅰🅽🅱🅰🅽 in your own work. Or at least you will have a good, initial understanding of what doing so might entail.

𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲?
There are no prerequisites for participation.
However, some interest in basic agile thinking may be helpful.

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👀 ^ 👀 𝗞𝗮𝗻𝗯𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗺?
If you wonder when Kanban might be preferred over Scrum and vice versa, you may wish to join the even more basic 𝘈𝘨𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺𝘓𝘢𝘣 𝘒𝘈𝘕𝘉𝘈𝘕 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘱 on March 10th. Here we may also briefly touch upon 'What is Agile'.

Sign up to the AgilityLab KANBAN Appetizer: https://www.meetup.com/AgilityLab/events/276116180/

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𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀
Kanban Guide by ProKanban community: https://prokanban.org/the-kanban-guide/

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🎤 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗶𝗼

Ulrik H. Gade is a lean-agile coach with Agil Procesforbedring in Copenhagen, Denmark, with about 15 years of experience with agile. He is focused on making agility work for the organisation as a whole, and has long cultivated a side interest in Kanban while doing a lot of Scrum and SAFe in his day job. At this event, Ulrik is looking to share his passion and to give people new to Kanban a great, approachable start.

“I was so confused and frustrated!”
“No one listened l to my input.”
“It was such a waste of time.”

Sound familiar?

These are comments we’ve probably all heard after a PI Planning event. What we want to hear instead is:

“𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆, 𝗜 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲.”
“𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝘄𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀.”
“𝗦𝗼 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀.”

After preparing and facilitating countless SAFe planning events, Ole Jepsen understood key things that enable SAFe planning events to actually work, including:

★ The input (epics or features) must be co-created by representatives from the teams and key stakeholders, and they must be sliced into potential releases, so they drive the program toward early deliverables.

★ The longer-term plan (typically 9-18 months) must be co-created by the same people by roughly estimating and prioritizing the epics/features, so both stakeholders and teams get a shared overview, shared understanding, and shared ownership.

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𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁
In this session, Ole will share war stories from both face-to-face and virtual big room planning events as well as tips and techniques that have worked to turn frustrated event participants into ones who get the benefits.

We’ll also play with some of the trickier steps TOGETHER in breakout rooms.

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And yes, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀!
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Bio
𝗢𝗹𝗲 𝗝𝗲𝗽𝘀𝗲𝗻 works as a transformation advisor at Denmark-based goAgile, and is the author of the new book TOGETHER: How leaders involve & engage people to get great things done.

Ole uses his expertise in Agile methodologies, Intent-Based Leadership™ and facilitation, to help get large programs back on track, and support leaders in organizations to create workplaces where people thrive and deliver value.

Ole is active in the international Agile community, speaking at conferences and consulting worldwide. In addition to numerous SAFe™ and other Agile certifications, Ole is also a certified Intent-Based Leadership™ practitioner.