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Welcome to #AgilityLab in Copenhagen!

We are a diverse group of people, eager to experiment with and explore ideas and concepts in the agile space.

We welcome curiosity, creativity, interaction and an open mind. We donโ€™t believe we have all the answers and we do not see agility as a religion.

The organizer team is here to help you get started with events, invites, venues etc. Just reach out to one of us if you have an idea for a meetup.

Looking forward to meeting you soon!

On behalf of the organizer team

Torsten W. Hansen
Mobil: +45 2034 6161

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Upcoming events (4)

Humans Make Agile โ€œ๐Ÿ…ณ๐Ÿ…ธ๐Ÿ…ต๐Ÿ…ต๐Ÿ…ธ๐Ÿ…ฒ๐Ÿ†„๐Ÿ…ป๐Ÿ†ƒโ€ - with Phillip Cave

๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐š๐ง ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž inquiry to experience how humans make anything โ€œ๐Ÿ…ณ๐Ÿ…ธ๐Ÿ…ต๐Ÿ…ต๐Ÿ…ธ๐Ÿ…ฒ๐Ÿ†„๐Ÿ…ป๐Ÿ†ƒโ€. 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. Itโ€™s you. And even better news, itโ€™s all the other humans too. And this is very good news because it gives you something to work with.

๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก in this interactive conversation is your version of how you and others make Agile โ€œdifficultโ€. And as a hintโ€ฆ itโ€™s not about Agile. Substitute โ€œAgileโ€ with other words like โ€œrelationshipsโ€, โ€œthinkingโ€, โ€œsocietyโ€โ€ฆ etc. Humans Make โ€œDifficultโ€. The beauty of โ€œAgileโ€ is it becomes a catalyst to play with the heart of any โ€œconflictโ€ or โ€œdifficultyโ€ โ€ฆ 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 โ€œ๐Ÿ…ณ๐Ÿ…ธ๐Ÿ…ต๐Ÿ…ต๐Ÿ…ธ๐Ÿ…ฒ๐Ÿ†„๐Ÿ…ป๐Ÿ†ƒโ€.

๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ:
๐Ÿ‘‰ Want to know why it is so โ€œhardโ€ to โ€œBe Agileโ€?
๐Ÿ‘‰ Want to understand why it is so โ€œdifficultโ€ to install SAFe (any framework)?
๐Ÿ‘‰ Want to begin an awareness into your human (and all human) pattern(s)?

๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ญ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐š๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ค ๐ข๐ฌ:
โœณ๏ธ Awareness into how you process Life (you, circumstances, others, events)
โœณ๏ธ Curiosity to see yourself and others in a new way
โœณ๏ธ A โ€œtoolโ€ 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 โ€œAgileโ€ movement you are trying to catalyze.

๐€๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐ค๐ž๐ซ

Phillip Cave, founder of Dear Human.LIFE, is a โ€œbeing human afficionadoโ€ 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, heโ€™s seen firsthand that putting โ€œYouโ€ (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 โ€œco-createโ€, and most importantly, feel good about yourself and your impact.

In addition to startup founder leader types (his favorite), Phillipโ€™s list of clients heโ€™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 โ€œimpressiveโ€ to some, he loves getting down and dirty with real life human โ€œproblemsโ€ to create โ€œsolutionsโ€ that matter to the people that call on him to coach, mentor and teach.

Phillip has been โ€œaround the blockโ€ and โ€œin the trenchesโ€ creating his own life โ€œmessesโ€ 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 โ€œpersonal WTF momentsโ€ because he always wants to be reminded of his humanness and to relate to our collective humanness.

๐Ÿ…บ๐Ÿ…ฐ๐Ÿ…ฝ๐Ÿ…ฑ๐Ÿ…ฐ๐Ÿ…ฝ - an Appetizer - with Leise Passer Jensen

๐Ÿ“’ Are you trapped within an unfit agile framework?

๐Ÿ˜ณ Are you doing Scrum but wonder if it is as the right choice?

๐Ÿค Can you distinguish Kanban from Scrum?

๐—๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜‚๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ณ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ...
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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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๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ฝ
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You will learn...

โ˜… What is Kanban
โ˜… What to use Kanban for
โ˜… How to distinguish Scrum from Kanban
โ˜… Should you even consider using Kanban?
โ˜… 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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๐Ÿ‘‡ What 's next? ๐Ÿ‘‡

Maybe learn more about ๐—ž๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐—ป in AgilityLab Copenhagen...
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Ulrik U. Gade will continue AgilityLab's Kanban Meetup series on March 17: ๐Ÿ…บ๐Ÿ…ฐ๐Ÿ…ฝ๐Ÿ…ฑ๐Ÿ…ฐ๐Ÿ…ฝ 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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๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ
Kanban Guide by ProKanban community:
https://prokanban.org/the-kanban-guide/
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๐ŸŽค ๐—ฆ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—•๐—ถ๐—ผ
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.

"๐˜ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜บ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ - ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ. ๐˜•๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด. ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜บ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ! ๐˜‹๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ'๐˜ต ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฌ ๐˜ซ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ !", 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.

๐—ฃ๐˜‚๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€
โ™ฆ๏ธŽ ๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ฃ-๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ป๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ. ๐˜๐˜ฏ๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฆ โ€” ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏโ€™๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜š๐˜ค๐˜ณ๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ด
https://medium.com/serious-scrum/stop-sub-optimizing-fix-the-real-problems-or-your-scrum-will-stay-as-is-forever-803fd8c73b6
โ™ฆ๏ธŽ Can we please stop imposing agile?
https://agilit.dk/can-we-please-stop-imposing-agile/
โ™ฆ๏ธŽ "๐˜ž๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏโ€™๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฉ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜š๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ˆ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด"
https://agilit.dk/article-scaling-agile-for-dummies/

๐Ÿ…บ๐Ÿ…ฐ๐Ÿ…ฝ๐Ÿ…ฑ๐Ÿ…ฐ๐Ÿ…ฝ Basics, Made Simple - with Ulrik H. Gade

Learn ๐Ÿ…บ๐Ÿ…ฐ๐Ÿ…ฝ๐Ÿ…ฑ๐Ÿ…ฐ๐Ÿ…ฝ the fun way.

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ฝ
In this interactive workshop, you will be learning by doing Kanban in a team, using the online simulation tool TWIG.

โžก๏ธ You can participate regardless of your starting point and prior knowledge.

โžก๏ธ You will learn about the basics of Kanban no matter what agile framework or method you already use.

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๐—ข๐˜‚๐˜๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ
After the workshop, you are able to start working with ๐Ÿ…บ๐Ÿ…ฐ๐Ÿ…ฝ๐Ÿ…ฑ๐Ÿ…ฐ๐Ÿ…ฝ in your own work. Or at least you will have a good, initial understanding of what doing so might entail.

๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—พ๐˜‚๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—ธ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜„๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ด๐—ฒ?
There are no prerequisites for participation.
However, some interest in basic agile thinking may be helpful.

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๐Ÿ‘€ ^ ๐Ÿ‘€ ๐—ž๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฆ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—บ?
If you wonder when Kanban might be preferred over Scrum and vice versa, you may wish to join the even more basic ๐˜ˆ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ๐˜“๐˜ข๐˜ฃ ๐˜’๐˜ˆ๐˜•๐˜‰๐˜ˆ๐˜• ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ป๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜”๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ฑ 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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Kanban Guide by ProKanban community: https://prokanban.org/the-kanban-guide/

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๐ŸŽค ๐—ฆ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—•๐—ถ๐—ผ

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.

Making SAFeยฎ work with virtual scaled planning - with Ole Jepsen

โ€œI was so confused and frustrated!โ€
โ€œNo one listened l to my input.โ€
โ€œIt was such a waste of time.โ€

Sound familiar?

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

โ€œ๐—™๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐˜†, ๐—œ ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ.โ€
โ€œ๐—œ๐˜ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐˜† ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ธ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€.โ€
โ€œ๐—ฆ๐—ผ ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐˜† ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐˜€.โ€

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

โ˜… 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.

โ˜… 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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๐—–๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜
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.

Weโ€™ll also play with some of the trickier steps TOGETHER in breakout rooms.

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And yes, ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—น๐—น ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฎ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐—ณ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฝ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€!
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Bio
๐—ข๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ป 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 Leadershipโ„ข 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 SAFeโ„ข and other Agile certifications, Ole is also a certified Intent-Based Leadershipโ„ข practitioner.

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