Seeking Nirvana

30-minute Talk

Inspired by the ground-breaking work by Daniel Vacanti, this session explore the different steps that allow us to create a predictable system in complex and uncertain environments.

Timetable

11:55 a.m. – 12:25 p.m. Thursday 7th

Room

Room F2 - Track 2: Talks

Audience

Anyone working in Agile environments looking for ways to improve that are focused on people.

Key-Learning

  • Understanding of how to achieve predictability in complex environments
  • Discover a Flow-based approach to agile transformation focused on people
  • Connecting the elements in Little's Law to actionable improvements
  • Using the core Flow-based Agile Metrics to drive improvements
  • Connecting these Flow-based metrics and Little's Law to the Agile Manifesto

Achieving predictability in a complex world

As Simon Wardley says: “predictability is a measure of how accurately we can anticipate something”

In life and in business, human beings struggle to deal with uncertainty.

When you ask people why they engage in agile transformations, change programmes, digital initiatives, scaling projects, and things like that, they will often say that they want things like faster delivery times, cheaper development, better products, higher quality or, just, more benefits.

The truth is that what they often really want is to be able to trust the work and for it to be predictable.

Faster, cheaper, better, higher, richer are all important, but predictability is the building block that enables the others.

Inspired by the ground-breaking work by Daniel Vacanti, this session will discover and explore the different steps that allow us to create a predictable system in complex and uncertain environments.

Since Jose Casal introduced this workshop to Actineo’s Kanban training courses and workshops, participants consistently highlight it as the outstanding jaw-dropping takeaway from the class.

So, health warning, if you have a fragile facial bone structure, please DO NOT attend the workshop. Otherwise, don’t miss out on this session.

A Nirvana of predictability awaits you.

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