SUMMARY:
Frustrated by slow delivery, customer dissatisfaction, tension between teams, or missed deadlines? Continuous improvement practices such as retrospectives can help with these issues, but often our improvements just address the symptoms and don't create long lasting change.
In this talk we will introduce the Current Reality Tree (CRT), a tool from the Theory of Constraints to help you to visualise the problems within your teams or organisations, uncover the root cause(s) of persistent issues and ensure you are addressing the right problems.
After a brief introduction to Complex Adaptive Systems, we will introduce you to the Current Reality Tree (CRT).
Through a playful example with cats, caterpillars, and geckos, we’ll show you how to build a CRT step by step.
We will also share some practical tips, common mistakes and real-life examples as we go, so that you can easily start using this tool with your own teams.
No prior TOC knowledge required.
BIO:
Suzanne Morrison
Suzanne is an experienced Agile Coach, Trainer, and Facilitator. She helps product and delivery leaders overcome challenges that impact team performance, delivery speed, and product success.
With over 25 years of experience across multiple sectors from startup to global organizations, Suzanne specializes in creating environments where teams can thrive, building psychological safety, increasing collaboration, and aligning around clear outcomes.
Vinnie Gill
Vinnie works with leaders to solve real business problems that affect performance, culture, delivery and profit.
She partners with organizations to uncover root causes and apply systems thinking, team dynamics and lean and agile principles to create measurable, sustainable improvement.
Vinnie brings more than 20 years of global experience, having worked with over 100 teams and trained more than 1,000 professionals.
She is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, an international speaker, co-founder of Outcome Over Output and Chair of the Product Management Initiative for the Agile Alliance.
