In most agile teams, the focus on delivering projects has continued to distance them from what’s important – delivering value to their customers.

All too often we’ve been measuring activity and cost, not outcomes and value. And it’s important to understand that an organisation that plans for growth outcomes (without binding a team to a specific output) can fundamentally adapt to a changing market. By creating clearly defined, non-conflicting, outcomes and common working principles senior management can delegate the “how” to their teams, while retaining ownership of the “what” and “why”.

This interactive presentation will help participants define the real outcomes and associated measures for their work and teams. Participants will come to understand that outcomes can be complex, interdependent and occasionally conflicting.

Dive into a case study. Is there a prominent business in your area undergoing an agile transformation? Is there a case study from the Business Agility Library that intrigues you?

Analyze them and see what you can learn.

The world is changing faster than ever. Organizations of every size are struggling to remain relevant to their customers and to wider society. Customers are better informed and their expectations are mounting all the time. Employees demand more clarity, empowerment and meaning in their work. It is only high-performing, adaptable and agile organizations that will thrive in this unpredictable market. We call this business agility.

Recently, 453 respondents from 274 companies around the world took part in the 2019 Business Agility Report. This rates their maturity and shares their insights, challenges and successes.

With thanks to Tatiana Lima [Sao Paulo Business Agility Meetup]

If you’re looking for a different kind of meetup, why not try one of the Business Agility games. Developed by Tatiana Lima from the Sao Paulo Business Agility Meetup, these 4 games are a fun way of showcasing different aspects of Business Agility.

Includes:

• Business Agility with LEGO
• Business Agility Emergent Bingo
• Business Agility Dice Game
• Business Agility Cards - Myths and Facts

Imagine leading a workforce that LOVES what they do! A group of motivated individuals who, not only, come into the office to do their job, but take ownership of their work, build respectful connections with their peers and delight their customers. This meetup will explore what it means to incentivize or reward people in an agile organization.

Starting from the hypothesis that purely skill-based recruitment is ineffective to build strong teams in complex and adaptive environments, the Business Agility Institute brought together a global team to examine the latest research and trends on recruitment.

The organizations that succeed now and into the future will be those that attract, retain and inspire the best talent with the skillset suited to this new landscape. To start, leaders must understand what these workers are seeking and satisfy that. But to get and keep talent in this competitive environment, they must go beyond mere employee satisfaction and strive to reach the next level – employee engagement.

Lightning talks are 5-minute presentations from the audience on a common theme. The intention is to give everyone a voice and tap into the wisdom of the crowd.

Make it light-hearted and fun to encourage everyone to take part. Especially those who normally aren’t public speakers.

Lean Coffee is a structured, but agenda-less meeting. Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking. Conversations are directed and productive because the agenda for the meeting was democratically generated.

All content referenced from: https://leancoffee.org and http://agilecoffee.com/leancoffee/

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The intention behind a "Seekers & Sharers" board is to connect those people in the audience who want to learn with those in the audience who can teach.

0pen Space Technology (OST) is an approach for hosting meetings, conferences, corporate-style retreats and community summit events, focused on a specific and important purpose or task—but beginning without any formal agenda, beyond the overall purpose or theme.

This information has been primarily taken from Wikipedia. 

Networking doesn’t have to be hard. Speed Networking can be a great way to meet a number of people all interested in Business Agility. In brief, half the room sits at tables and the other half of the room moves to the next table every 5 minutes. This means that in a 60 minute meetup, everyone has had the chance to meet 12 new people.

To find out more about how to run a speed networking event, visit: https://www.speednetworking.com/post/how-to-run-a-speed-networking-event

This is the most common form of meetup event. A single speaker presenting on their topic of expertise.

In general we recommend stories over theory, but it depends on the needs of the audience.

Bring 3-4 experts to the front of the room and open up a discussion with the Audience.

You may also choose to let each panelist present a short (maximum 20-minute) presentation before the panel. This is very similar to the format used at the Business Agility Conferences.

A word of caution though – panels can become very boring. The panelists need to have some dynamism with each other. That can either come through humour or respectful adversary (disagreement). There is nothing worse than a panel where everyone agrees with each other.

If you have a diverse range of experiences and skills, a coaches clinic can be an effective way to help the community to help each other. Over the course of the meetup, each coach offers 15-minute advisory sessions to the audience.

Of vital importance: this is not a sales activity for the coaches. If the coachee asks for a business card, they can offer one, but they can’t solicit work.