Having been at the forefront of agility adoption at scale for nearly 30 years of combined effort, we see the same patterns playing out in most organisations. All start with best intent and inspirational visions, and then get bogged down as their current systems and ways of working exert pressure and draw the change agents back to the core before benefits are realised and the change can be sustained.
This plays out almost universally in the way we govern the work. No snowflake is that unique! People are people, and organisations are about people and the evolution of their interactions. The world is always changing, so we need a system of governance that transcends the variety of problems we solve and that flexes with emergence.
In this talk, we aim to provide support and learning to those on this journey, showing the way you can approach governance and assurance differently and truly achieve the goal of agility.
We will do this by introducing the attendees to the the 5 "stanchions" of good agile governance: Conductive Leadership, Sensible Transparency, Patterns of Work, Data-Driven Reasoning, and Humanity from our book, Govern Agility: Don't Apply Governance to Your Agile Apply Agility to Your Governance!
Info on our speakers
Tony Ponton brings three decades of expertise as a leader and contributor in the Australian and international Agile communities. His extensive experience spans organizational change and governing systems, transformations, agile implementations, leadership change, and coaching.
Tony has also authored and co-authored articles for the esteemed Cutter Consortium Journal and is also known for authoring the white paper that introduced Dynamically Adaptive Organisations to the landscape of organisational understanding.
He is a co-author and co-creator of "The Remote Agility Framework" and serves as a guide for the global Heart of Agile movement.
Phil is the co-author of "Govern Agility" and has worked extensively with Alistair Cockburn, one of the co-signatories of the original agile manifesto, including in the creation of the Heart of Agile, which is his approach to getting agile back to the essence of agility, including being one of the first globally recognised Heart of Agile Guides.
Most recently, he helped to co-create the initial Remote Agility Framework and has also been recognised as an Executive Guide in Operating Model Design.