Comparative Agility

Comparative Agility

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Comparative Agility episodes

  • Beyond Budgeting with Steve Morlidge

    This month I was lucky enough to talk with Steve Morlidge to talk about the Beyond Budgeting. He is an expert in Beyond Budgeting, a financial method that searches for a lot of the same anti fragile outcomes as the Agile manifesto.

    Why is this important?

    Yearly budgets are inefficient and wasteful.

    Trying the forecast your budget for the year is like trying to forecast your roadmap for the year. It will most likely change with new information, so moving to “just enough” planning is less wasteful.

    Yearly budgeting encourages bad behaviour.

    Forcing people to allocate dollars before they know what they need it ends up with them asking for too much at the beginning and madly spending before the EOFY.

    Here is What You Will Learn

    The six pillars of change.

    Understand the six pillars that will support your organisation to this more Agile financial method.

    The Beyond Budgeting iterative method.

    See the cycle that manages failure within boundaries and allow for a greater opportunity for growth and learning.

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    About Steve Morlidge

    Steve Morelidge is the author of ‘The Little Book of Beyond Budgeting: A New Operating System for Organisations’ and ‘The Little Book of Operational Forecasting’ in 2018. As well as being the Development Director for CatchBull, he currently a member of the Beyond Budgeting Institute’s core team.

    About Simon Hilton

    Simon Hilton is an Agile Coach and Teacher that has worked in and guided Agile transformations across a diverse range of organisations. Simon is an empathetic leader and instructor that has trained thousands of people as in Agile mindset, frameworks and transformation.

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    1 hr 7 min
  • Agile leadership with Peter Moreno

    This month I was lucky enough to sit down and talk with Peter Moreno to talk about the Agile Leadership Framework. This framework combines Agile principles with Integral Theory to equip leaders with a more wholistic view of the world and empower their teams to succeed.

    Why is this important?

    Great leaders empower the team.

    While there is a lot said about the development team in Agile, there is still a need for great leaders to create positive environments for teams to thrive.

    Leaders need a wholistic and integrated view to lead through change.

    Change is pervasive, so if a leader is to be effective, then they need to consider how decisions and events affect all levels of their organisation.

    Here is What You Will Learn

    The Four domains of an Agile leader.

    Understand the four levels that every Agile leader must inhabit to serve their team and deliver results.

    The behaviors of successful Agile leaders.

    More than just theory, the Agile Leaders framework gives clear behaviours that leaders can engage in to improve their organisation.

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    About Peter Moreno

    Peter Moreno is an Agile coach and the founder of the Integral Agile Institute. His interest in bringing a more authentic approach to leadership inspired him to develop the Agile Leadership framework.

    About Simon Hilton

    Simon Hilton is an Agile Coach and Teacher that has worked in and guided Agile transformations across a diverse range of organisations. Simon is an empathetic leader and instructor that has trained thousands of people as in Agile mindset, frameworks and transformation.

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    1 hr 16 min
  • Agile Distributed Teams with Johanna Rothman and Mark Kilby

    This month I was lucky enough to sit down and talk with Johanna Rothman and Mark Kilby , the authors of the book “From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver”.

    Distributed agile teams have a terrible reputation. They don’t deliver “on time,” and too often, they don’t deliver what the customer needs. However, most agile teams have at least one remote team member. And, agile approaches are here to stay.

    Why is this important?

    Distributed teams are becoming more normal.

    With the global nature of business and the recent need to be remote because of pandemic, businesses need to be remote friendly to survive and attract the best talent.

    Distributed teams need to be intentional.

    Sometimes culture and work practices evolve organically in an organisation, but in distributed teams it needs to be intentional and maintained to avoid isolation and misalignment.

    Here is What You Will Learn

    How important collaboration and communication is to any team.

    Making a team distributed will amplify the collaboration and communication skills of the team, so understand how well your team has formed first.

    The eight principles of distributed agile teams.

    Drive clarity and communication by seeing the main pitfalls that Agile distributed teams fall into and how they can be avoided.

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    1 hr 4 min
  • High-Performance Teams with Richard Kasperowski
    High Performance Teams

    This month I was lucky enough to sit down and talk with Richard Kasperowski, the author of two books, High-Performance Teams: The Foundations and The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness. We talked about his framework for high performance teams and how it brings a practical set of behaviours to some concepts we have talked about previously.

    Why is this important

    Teams need the tools to effectively communicate at speed. 

    Helping teams establish a set of communication tools and emotional intelligence establishes a trust-based environment.

    Teams and Culture drive your organisation

    Trust based environments allow team members to devote all their energies to customer value and improved business performance.

    Here is What You’ll Learn

    What a great team looks like. 

    We have teams all around us but the best ones all have a few things in common.

    Team Emotional Intelligence and Psychological Safety. 

    Why these two concepts are so important for teams to be cohesive and drive real value in and out of the organisation.

    The six building blocks of High Performance Teams. 

    Learn the six distinctive areas that your team can focus on to build rapport and trust through explicit behaviours.

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    About Richard Kasperowski

    Richard Kasperowski is an author, teacher, speaker, and coach focused on team building and high-performance teams. Richard is the author of two books, High-Performance Teams: The Foundations and The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness, as well as the forthcoming book High-Performance Teams: Core Protocols for Psychological Safety and Emotional Intelligence. He leads clients in building great teams that get great results using the Core Protocols, Agile, and Open Space Technology. Richard created and teaches the class Agile Software Development at Harvard University.

    About Simon Hilton

    Simon Hilton is an Agile Coach and Teacher that has worked in and guided Agile transformations across a diverse range of organisations. Simon is an empathetic leader and instructor that has trained thousands of people as in Agile mindset, frameworks and transformation.

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    1 hr
  • Inspired Teams and Team Emotional Intelligence with Dr. Steven B. Wolff

    This month I was lucky enough to sit down and talk with Dr. Steven B. Wolff, Author of “Inspired Teams” to talk about how modern teams require a mastery of Emotional Intelligence to be effective in today’s work environment.

    Why is this important

    Teams are more than just a sum of individuals.

    Team cultures have needs that exist greater than the sum of their parts and need tools to enable them to be effective as autonomous groups.

    Teams and Culture drive your organisation

    Teams and knowledge work are becoming more autonomous. By empowering them with Emotional Intelligence we create a culture of resilience and excellence.

    Here is What You’ll Learn

    The Need for a Emotional Intelligence at the team level.

    Understand the shifts in team culture and the business landscape that requires teams to navigate emotions around uncertainty and failure.

    The difference between Team Emotional Intelligence and Individual Emotional Intelligence.

    Many people are familiar with Emotional Intelligence but we lay out how Team Emotional Intelligence differs in ways you might not expect.

    The Four Quadrants of Inspired Teams

    Learn the four key areas to help uplift the Emotional Intelligence of your teams to deal with uncertainty and change.

    How Team Emotional Intelligence can bring agility to any team.

    Understand how Inspired Teams blends with Agile concepts so any team to adopt it without the need for frameworks like Scrum etc.


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    1 hr 10 min
  • Agile Team Health and Continuous Improvement with Jorgen Hesselberg
    This month I was lucky enough to sit down and talk with Jorgen Hesselberg, the Co Founder of Comparative Agility to talk about how to grow and sustain Continuous Improvement in your organisation.
    Why is this important
    Change is no longer optional
    52% of Fortune 500 companies have disappeared because of digital disruption. If you want to survive in modern business, then adaption is a key skill to master.
    People and Culture drive your organisation
    Teams and knowledge work are becoming more autonomous. By empowering them with a culture of learning and managed risk taking you supercharge their ability to adapt to the market.
    Here is What You’ll Learn
    The Need for a Change Culture
    Understand the shifts in team culture and the business landscape that requires the ability to navigate change at pace.
    The 6 Step Process For Continuous Improvement
    We lay out the exact process you can follow to create real change driven by data, people and leadership.
    The Pillars of Agile Transformation
    Understand the pillars and which ones are necessary for your Agile teams to operate at a high performance level.
    Psychological Safety
    Learn how to create the culture where people feel empowered to raise imperfections and turn them into improvements.
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    51 min

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