Talk: The Agile Army
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John Barratt
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The Agile Army
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• What could the Agile/Scrum Community learn from the Army? • Is the mindset a chain of Command and Control of resources (following and obeying orders)? During this interactive session, we will answer these questions and more. Exploring the speakers personal experiences of Agile in the Army and how he and his colleagues faced this on a continuous basis. We will do this in an interactive role play format and see what we can learn from some of the best self-organising teams in the world. Using the Agile Mindset as our base of operations we will explore the following topics: • A Team Out on Patrol • How equipment is maintained • Setting up a new Base • Relationship Building exercises • Goal Setting We shall also explore relate this to how the outside world perceives the Army mindset to operate and why the current expectations of Veterans are miss managing expectations within the corporate world. And how this can even transgress into Agile Adoptions in large Enterprises. By the end of this session, you will have a new perspective on how the Army is perceived and learnt some valuable lessons on how the world’s elite people work. Learning Objectives Learn some lessons from some of the best teams in the world including: • Understand the idea of Decentralise versus Centralised decision making • Understand Ideal Team Sizes • Improve Relationship Building in your teams • Mastering the skills of Self-Organisation rising to Self-Reliant • Create Clear and Relentless Goal setting focusing on the What not the How Session Format • Introduction (5 Minutes) • Agile Mindset v Command and Control (5 minutes) • Scenario 1 (A Team out on Patrol) with discussion (10 minutes) • Scenario 2 (How equipment is maintained) with discussion (10 minutes) • Evidence of how large Enterprises have assumptions about theArmy mindset and how can affect Agile Transformations (5 minutes). • Other Scenarios Discussed as requested by the Audience (5 minutes) • Conclusion and Questions (5 minutes)
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