Talk: Liberating the Execs – Bringing them down to the beach and helping them successfully ride the waves of organisational wide agility – Aloha!

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Title:	Liberating the Execs – Bringing them down to the beach and helping them successfully ride the waves of organisational wide agility – Aloha!
Short synopsis:	Successfully scaling agile across large organisations is challenging and as it becomes the norm, it ultimately affects the Executive team which is seldom well equipped to work in the modern ways needed. How do we help these often suited and booted leaders, stuck in their traditional ways? How do we get them to successfully surf with the converted agilists? Graham describes joint experiences from 3 consultants, exploring basic ways of helping Developers, to help Execs, to help Developers. Bringing Execs ‘down to the beach’ and helping them to ‘successfully ride waves with us – Aloha’! Max size: 500 chars
Long synopsis (optional):	Successfully scaling agile across large organisations is challenging, often for cultural and personal reasons. Creating true organisational and/or business agility is tiresome, hard and can injure individuals, teams and organisations in painful and sometimes scarring ways. As whole organisational agility becomes more and more the norm, this is spanning wider across whole organisations affecting very large corporate organisations that often come from a more traditional, corporate background. One of the many places these negative agility aspects can affect, and often fester, is amongst the Executive team, which ideally should be well placed to successfully lead the charge through the digital disruption era with well thought out organisational agility strategic execution. Unfortunately the Exec Team, comprising individual members, is seldom well equipped to work in the modern ways needed of them. They don’t often come ‘down the beach’………and if they do, they’re ill equipped with their suits, corporate dashboards & status quo. They need help donning their ‘board shorts’ and ‘waxing’ their boards and they could certainly do with some help ‘hanging ten’! Often Execs are keen to harness the benefits of organisational wide agility by forming guiding coalitions across the organisation to help, but they often struggle ‘being’ agile and can end up focusing too much on ‘doing’ agile. Further their traditional toolbox of techniques often blocks creativity and the innovation of the agilists and development teams if left unchecked. So how do we help these often suited and booted leaders, stuck in their traditional ways and mindsets? How do we get them to successfully surf with the converted agilists, get them ‘down to the beach’ and ‘hang ten’ and whoop n holler…….’Aloha – Peace Be Upon You’? Graham describes the recent experiences of a troika of Craig Lucia, Bill Knight and himself, exploring basic ways of helping Developers, to help Execs, to help Developers. Bringing Execs ‘down to the beach’, helping them to ‘successfully ride waves with us – Aloha’! After all we can’t take the beach to the Board room! A mix of presentation, story telling and audience participation takes the audience through past experiences, current approaches and real time data analysis from teams and the audience to establish what works and what doesn’t in successfully bringing the Execs ‘to the beach’ to safely experience that ‘big swell’ of organisational wide agility. The troika take their experiences from a wide range of different ‘surf spots’ including Retail, Financial Services, Banking & Government Regulators where they’ve personally endured the challenges of the long, hard ‘paddle out back’, suffered some big ‘wipe outs’ along the way, but ultimately have caught the ‘big wave’ of successful organisational agility at scale. In particular they describe how they’ve enabled Exec Teams to gain that ‘Big Wednesday’ experience at the Annual ‘Board’ meeting through the effective support from their Development & Scrum Teams of their affectionately known ‘Surf Groms’. Aloha! Max size: 5000 chars
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