Peter Merel, founder of xScale Alliance, in his Agility Narrative talks through the xScale's approach to agility, and enabling organizations build capability to respond to market conditions. 

He talks through how learning flow in an organization is key to responding to market change. This is something that 95% of agile transformations do not achieve effectively, according to the longest and largest survey in the Agile world, "The state of Agile Report". 

Peter is highly entertaining, with great stories of the birth of Agile and XP.  Enjoy... 

0:01 Welcome & Intro

1:21 Peter's early engagement with XP

3:49 The birth of Agile (before the manifesto)

5:01 then Snowbird happened and I was busy...

5:21 The story of to xScale

8:35 Why is learning flow so critical?

11:00 How to improve learning flow by looking at constraints?

12:14 Learning flows as a product

13:03 Importance of market constraints

13:51 Onboarding people

15:33 "The Progressives"

17:00 using trust to scale teams

19:04 Responding to market conditions

21:01 Changing market conditions, design and patterns

24:32 "How do teams make decisions?"

29:19 Villains are also heroes

30:33 Changing the game - game theoretics to reward mutual benefit

32:28 What at stake for us?

35:22 Noble intent and the wrong track

37:04 Call to action - key learning constraint, starting with an open space

40:39 Pattern language used to have a conversation

42:21 Ongoing process, 3 month change increment

44:40 The threats and opportunities are often same

47:31 Getting ahead - pirate canvas

48:11 As business agilists, who are our clients?

49:08 xScale Alliance offering's

50:50 The importance of these conversations