Mike Burrows: Between Spaces, Scopes, and Scales

Mike Burrows: Between Spaces, Scopes, and Scales: What the Scaling Frameworks Don't Tell You

In an adaptive organisation, how do the relationships between different organisational scales work? Or the same question, but for the networked organisation? And what does that mean for me? Drawing on systems, complexity, and flow thinking – models such as the viable system model, the Cynefin framework, and Flight Levels – we'll explore how to look beyond process and recognise the deeper organisational imbalances that explain many scale-related challenges. Whether or not you use a branded framework, these are important skills to develop!

Bio:
Mike works at the intersection of Lean-Agile, strategy, and organisation development in the pursuit of the ‘wholehearted’ organisation. He is the author of Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation (2nd edition 2021), Right to Left: the digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile (2019, audiobook 2020), and the classic Kanban from the Inside (2014). He is recognised for his pioneering work in Lean, Agile, and Kanban and in recent years his advocacy for participatory and outcome-oriented approaches to change, transformation, and strategy. Prior to his consulting career, Mike was global development manager and Executive Director at a top tier investment bank, CTO for an energy risk management startup, and later served as interim delivery manager for two UK government digital ‘exemplar’ services.

The organiser Silke
Silke is an Enterprise Coach, Accredited Kanban Trainer, Kanban Product Professional, Kanban Coaching Professional and Kanban Management Professional in New Zealand and certified facilitator of all versions of the Okaloa Flowlab. Her public classes "Team Kanban Practitioner", "Scrum Better with Kanban", "Kanban System Design", "Kanban Systems Improvement", "Kanban for Design and Innovation" (the Product Manager / Product Owner / Project Manager path of the KMP credential) can be found under her Kanban University profile. https://kanban.university/kuapps/#/user-profile/user/24536. She has trained many people and organisations also in-house around New Zealand.
As an intercultural trainer, she has written the two only intercultural books about New Zealand in German, one of them translated into English. https://wahlheimat-neuseeland.de/silke-noll-training-and-coaching/
She has previously worked in Scrum, SAFe, Nexus, LeSS and waterfall contexts as a Business Analyst, Tester, Scrum Master and Agile Coach. Her original background is (investment) banking / trading.
She loves networking, intercultural topics, kite-surfing, running, gym, sauna, tramping, languages, learning new things, going on roadies with her van, wine, good food, hanging out with friends.