Cheers from San Diego! After a week of rather casual work in Miami, FL – Katrin and I arrived in San Diego, CA. And we gonna pick up pace: three events in only five days. On Monday, 16 May, I was speaking at the Lean Kanban North America Conference 2016, followed by the Enterprise Services Planning Summit and the American Kanban Leadership Retreat which Katrin and I are facilitating.
My conference talk on Monday was, with 130 people, really well attended. As you probably know – that’s what I really like!! 🙂 The topic of my talk was “Don’t Optimize Teams” and well, the name says it all. One of the biggest mistakes I see in Agile transformations (gee, I hate this term) is that organizations “install” Agile methods on teams and then they think agility of their organization improved. Unfortunately, that is totally not working!! I mean, it’s a perfect approach if you are a consulting company. You really can sell a lot of billable days because all these teams need training and coaching. However, if you are the company that’s striving for agility it’s no good advice. In most of the cases the company’s performance will go down and this with very high consulting costs. I also presented the latest version of Kanban Flight Levels in my talk. Which reminds me that I need to blog about it… :-/
I loved the energy of the audience in the room during my session. I really had a lot of fun on stage and many very deep conversations about the topic after the talk. And there was also quite some Twitter coverage during my session. Here some highlights:
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