True North: Its more than just a statement - Karl Scotland & Jim Benson

About the Session
A True North helps people understand their long term goals. It sets a clear strategic direction by which people can take effective action, and enables teams to stay aligned and deliver meaning full results. Join Karl Scotland and Jim Benson to explore what it means to create an effective True North statement.

About Karl
I help businesses become Learning Organisations, through outcome-oriented, continuous transformations, with everyone, everywhere.
Over the last 20+ years I have been an advocate of Lean and Agile approaches to achieve this, working with companies including the BBC, Yahoo!, EMC Consulting, Rally Software, Cisco, Legal & General, HSBC and Sky.
During this time, I have been an early adopter of XP and Scrum, a key contributor to Agendashift, and a pioneer in using Kanban Systems and Strategy Deployment for product development. I am a founding member of both the Lean Systems Society and Limited WIP Society, as well as being active in the community and a regular conference speaker. As a result, I was awarded the honorary Brickell Key Community Contribution Award at the 2013 Lean Kanban North America conference.

About Jim
I want us all to be truly effective - not because I want us to have money or power or get "things" done - but because I want us to get the right things done. I want work and life to matter. When I work with others I want them to feel the passion and excitement of finishing something I do. We get ourselves focused on metrics and numbers and lose sight of professionalism and care. When we do that, we stop communicating. Work becomes about meetings and money and not about success ... real success. With Personal Kanban or Lean Coffee or our other tools, Toni and I are taking a lifetime of experiences to create systems that help people achieve - and nothing is better than that.