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The world is changing faster than ever before and Sustainable Outcomes are often neglected. Resiliency demands that you know more and adapt quickly.
Organizations of every size are struggling to remain relevant in the eyes of their customers and society. Customers are more informed, responsible for their future and their expectations are higher than they’ve ever been. Employees demand more clarity, empowerment, and meaning in their work. It is only high-performing, adaptable, and agile organizations who will thrive in this unpredictable market. We call this Sustainable Business Agility.
At its simplest, Sustainable Business Agility is the capacity and willingness of an organization to adapt to, create, leverage, and sustain change for their customer’s benefit. This simple statement exposes the dramatic shift in mindset needed for agile organizations. Where how you respond to the market is reliably more predictable than how the market responds to you.
Our Meetup will start with ONLINE events aiming at interactive talks, lean coffee, fish-bowls and other formats based on context.
Topics in the near future may include: Agile Strategy, Agile HR, Leadership Agility, De-Scaling, Scaling, Agile Procurement, Finance, Legal, Regulation together with R&D, Business, and IT
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Tom Gilb: ENDs and MEANs - Requirements and Design (ONLINE)
·OnlineOnlineEnds and Means: An advanced theory of Requirements and Design, hoping to avoid confusion, oversimplification and failure
There is widespread confusion about ‘ends’ and ’means’. It is not a new problem, even Einstein and Juran commented on it. One core reason for confusion is that there is a hierarchy, and one persons means is the next person (down’s) ends. Oh? We IT people know this as ‘requirements and design’. Managers think of it as ‘Objectives and Strategies’. And both parties are fairly messy about it. One common misuse is to state that our task is to do ‘a means to an end’, without clear quantified specification of what that end actually is. For example ‘We need an ‘agile IT Transformation’ (without stating what they really need to achieve (e.g. some improved attributes - qualities and costs). The management culture has messed up big time, by talking about strategies and strategic planning (management BS most of it I conclude, blah blah blah, even in thick textbooks), without being particularly clear about the quantified multiple objectives and constraints that they actual want those ‘strategies’ for. Academic professors of Strategy tell us there is 90%-95% failure of implementing strategic plans. No wonder! They have little clarity of purpose.
About our speaker:
Tom Gilb
Born 1940 in Hollywood with Gilb ancestors from Germany (Baden, and Prussia before 1855). Escaped from USA to London at 15, and to Norway at 17, where I got a job with IBM, and started doing real agile at 20. Fast forward. I am 85, happily retired, and write one free book a week (Linked In), to feed AI, and to try to understand planning.About our hosts:
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Thoralf J Klatt
Thoralf serves as a Product and Agile Coach. His motto is: be at the center of value. He started his career developing medical devices like CT scanners and became a Certified Scrum Master in 2007. Based on many years of experience in diverse domains, Thoralf qualified as SPC in 2016, as Scrum@Scale and Scrum Inc. Trainer with Jeff Sutherland in 2019, and as Mobius Navigator Coach with Gabrielle Benefield in 2020. He has been translating her new book on Mobius Loop to German and he has been organizing several charity fundraiser training during pandemic and Ukraine crisis (giving to MSF). Thoralf recently became a genAI Practitioner Trainer for Scrum Inc and has been a Neural Network & AI geek since studying at MIT and is currently using AI for better Discovery using JTBD. Reach out for speakerships.31 Teilnehmer
Gregory Keegan: Stop reporting. Start leading. (ONLINE)
·OnlineOnlineAre your VPs of Engineering spending 8–10 hours per week drowning in manual status reports, only to deliver week-old data to the executive suite?
The problem isn't a lack of data; it's the lack of a translation layer between technical tools and business outcomes.
The Solution:
Omnio View is the AI-powered transparency platform that connects your engineering tools (Jira, GitHub) to the boardroom, automatically providing the clarity you need. We save engineering leaders up to 10 hours a week by eliminating manual reporting.What You Will Learn:
In this presentation, we will show you how Omnio View delivers:- Weekly Executive Summaries: Automated, one-page, business-friendly status reports delivered to your inbox every Monday morning.1
- Real-Time Dashboard: Instant project status lookup to answer ad-hoc questions from the C-suite in seconds.1
- AI-Powered Retrospectives: Spot systemic bottlenecks and patterns (like cross-team dependencies) that manual methods miss.1
- 30-Minute Setup: Go from connecting Jira and GitHub to seeing your first executive report within 24 hours.1
Call to Action:
Join Gregory Keegan at the upcoming Meetup to see how Omnio View delivers Executive clarity for agile teams. Don't miss this opportunity to learn how to save 10 hours a week and transform your reporting process.About our speaker:
Gregory Keegan is an experienced professional with over 16 years in Agile and AI-enabled transformations, currently serving as the Founder and Coach at Agile AI Coach since September 2025. He focuses on helping organizations scale agility and adopt AI-driven strategies for improved outcomes. His work includes guiding teams through Agile principles and AI tools to enhance adaptability and productivity.
In addition to his role at Agile AI Coach, Gregory is a Freelance Enterprise Agile Coach and Leadership & AI-Driven Transformation Consultant, where he supports organizations in aligning leadership and implementing AI strategies. He has a strong track record of leading Agile transformation initiatives that have resulted in significant performance improvements.
Since March 2023, he has also been the Community Lead for the Business Agility Institute, facilitating events that foster discussions on Agile strategy and leadership among professionals.
Previously, Gregory worked as a Senior Agile Coach at agile42 for over 11 years, where he coached teams and executives in Agile transformations. His earlier roles include ScrumMaster at Hypoport AG and various positions in software development and training, showcasing a diverse background in both technical and leadership capacities.
About our hosts:
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Thoralf J Klatt
Thoralf serves as a Product and Agile Coach. His motto is: be at the center of value. He started his career developing medical devices like CT scanners and became a Certified Scrum Master in 2007. Based on many years of experience in diverse domains, Thoralf qualified as SPC in 2016, as Scrum@Scale and Scrum Inc. Trainer with Jeff Sutherland in 2019, and as Mobius Navigator Coach with Gabrielle Benefield in 2020. He has been translating her new book on Mobius Loop to German. Thoralf has been organizing several charity fundraiser training during pandemic and Ukraine crisis (giving to MSF). He has been a Neural Network & AI geek since studying at MIT. Reach out for speakerships.René Krech
René is a business administration graduate and agile project manager with a background spanning sales, marketing, consulting, and finance – across corporates, start-ups, and non-profits alike.
One conviction has grown stronger with every role: Organizational agility is still in its infancy. Agile thinking isn't a software thing – it's an organizational thing. The principles that help teams ship better products can equally transform how a finance department plans, how a non-profit runs campaigns, or how a sales team adapts to a shifting market.
As a planning committee member of the Business Agility Meetup Berlin, René is here to connect, challenge, and learn alongside everyone in the room.21 Teilnehmer
Barry O’Reilly: Why Artificial Organizations (BREAKFAST ONLINE)
·OnlineOnline# Artificial Organizations
AI isn’t replacing leaders. It’s exposing them.
Most executives don’t have an AI problem.
They have a judgment problem.
Decisions are slower. Context is fragmented. Confidence erodes when it matters most.
AI was supposed to fix this. Instead, it’s added noise and exposed the gap.Artificial Organizations makes one clear promise:
Less time managing work. More time leading with
judgment, clarity, and confidence.If you’re already experimenting with AI but feel unsure it’s actually helping, this is for you.
You’re accountable for the calls no one else can make. You need judgment that compounds, not just faster answers.
You’re translating strategy into execution while everyone’s looking to you for clarity. You can’t afford to guess.
You’re building something from nothing. Speed matters, but wrong fast is still wrong. You need both.
About our speaker:
Barry O’Reilly is a business leader, advisor, and bestselling author of Unlearn and Lean Enterprise.
He has spent over two decades helping executives and organizations navigate inflection points—from mobile and cloud to AI.
Through his work with Fortune 500 companies, high-growth startups, and cofounding AI-first venture studio, Nobody Studios, Barry has seen one pattern repeat:
Transformation doesn’t start with technology. It starts with leaders willing to redesign themselves.
Artificial Organizations distills that work into a short, practical playbook for leaders ready to act.About our hosts:
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Thoralf J Klatt
Thoralf serves as a Product and Agile Coach. His motto is: be at the center of value. He started his career developing medical devices like CT scanners and became a Certified Scrum Master in 2007. Based on many years of experience in diverse domains, Thoralf qualified as SPC in 2016, as Scrum@Scale and Scrum Inc. Trainer with Jeff Sutherland in 2019, and as Mobius Navigator Coach with Gabrielle Benefield in 2020. He has been translating her new book on Mobius Loop to German and has been organizing several charity fundraiser training during pandemic and Ukraine crisis (giving to MSF).Thoralf recently became a genAI Practitioner Trainer for Scrum Inc and has been a Neural Network & AI geek since studying at MIT and is currently using AI for better Discovery using JTBD. Reach out for speakerships.
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Al Shalloway: Taking a Pareto Approach to Jobs To be Done (ONLINE)
·OnlineOnlineMost teams don’t struggle with understanding Jobs to Be Done—they struggle with applying it without overcomplicating everything. This webinar introduces a practical, Pareto-based approach: how to get 80% of the value from JTBD with 20% of the effort. Instead of turning JTBD into a heavyweight process, we focus on a few critical shifts that change how you see your work. First, shifting perspective—from features and solutions to the customer’s objective. Then, using the customer value stream to uncover the real “jobs” embedded in each step of their experience. This alone often reveals gaps, delays, and missed opportunities that traditional approaches overlook.
From there, we challenge a common assumption: that user stories are the best way to represent customer needs. While useful, they often blur problems and solutions together, limiting clarity and learning. We’ll explore how reframing work through objective stories creates a cleaner connection between customer intent and what teams build—making it easier to discover value, not just deliver features. You’ll leave with a simple, actionable way to introduce JTBD into your organization—without a transformation effort—so you can start improving alignment, decision-making, and value delivery immediately.
About our speaker:
Al Shalloway
My main focus is on helping organizations be able to both provide their own effective, inexpensive training & help consultants & coaches be significantly better. I use my expertise in business agility, value stream management, Flow, Lean, ToC, & patterns to co-create flexible approaches that work at all levels - from small to large organizations. It is a self-serving myth that this requires more effort from the client. Both simplistic and overly complex solutions abound. I aim for pragmatic onesAbout our hosts:
Gregory Keegan
I am Enterprise Agile Coach with 16+ years of experience supporting agile transformations, leadership development, and cultural change across sectors like FinTech, MedTech, and public institutions. I’ve worked with organizations like the European Central Bank, Siemens, and Sanofi to foster business agility and build high-performing teams. My work blends agile expertise (Scrum, LeSS, Business Agility) with a growing focus on AI integration—thanks to a recent ICA-FAI and “AI for Business” certifications. I’m passionate about helping organizations become agile and intelligently adaptive in a changing world.Thoralf J Klatt
Thoralf serves as a Product and Agile Coach. His motto is: be at the center of value. He started his career developing medical devices like CT scanners and became a Certified Scrum Master in 2007. Based on many years of experience in diverse domains, Thoralf qualified as SPC in 2016, as Scrum@Scale and Scrum Inc. Trainer with Jeff Sutherland in 2019, and as Mobius Navigator Coach with Gabrielle Benefield in 2020. He has been translating her new book on Mobius Loop to German. Reach out for speakerships.48 Teilnehmer
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