Teal

Renee and Craig are at Agile2019 in Washington, DC and catch up with Sanjiv Augustine, author of “Managing Agile Projects” and “Scaling Agile” and founder and CEO of Lithespeed:

Craig’s InfoQ interview with Sanjiv
“Leadership is about managing change while management is about managing complexity… you need to be both”
Lithespeed = flexible speed
“Reinventing Organisations” by Frederick Laloux and the Morningstar model
The Agile community is excited about the benefits of the teal level but not the responsibility
Business Agility Sparks – need to shift left from IT to the business and shift right to DevOps and shift up into leadership
What makes you successful at the executive level is working with others
Agile Value Management Office (VMO) is a cross functional leadership team that manages the flow of work from end to end
PMO is more oriented towards best practices process, whereas…

Craig and Tony are once again roaming the halls at Agile Australia in Sydney and finding random folks to talk to at the conference:

Sarah Romeyn from WorkCover Queensland – enjoyed Pete Steel talk “Developing an Experimentation Culture” and Sherif Monsour talk “The art of building a roadmap“
Rachel Slattery from Slatterys (organiser of Agile Australia) – 1,200 attendees (a sellout) at the conference, such a good level of goodwill in the Agile community, half of the conference are new people and 60% hear about it through word of mouth, all flavours of ice cream (even coconut apparently…), AgileAus hub for all things Agile in Australia
Melissa Perri keynote “The Build Trap“, teal organisations tend to form like that at inception, other organisations have the people but the process to get there is still hard
Adam Boas and Andy Kelk from Marketplacer – enjoying…

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