Building Agile Teams: Personal Responsibility and Self-Organization

How Organizations Remain Capable of Taking Action Amid Complexity

• The PDCA cycle as the basis for iterative work.
• Understanding and Leveraging Value Streams.
• Build cross-functional teams.
• Creating Flow: Enabling Uninterrupted Work.
• Switch from a push system to a pull system.
• Principles and values that promote personal responsibility.

Organizational Models: Which One Is Right for Which Company?

• Why there is no blueprint, and what that means.
• Consistently align the organization with customers .
• Scrum and Scaled Scrum.
• Sociocracy.
• The Spotify model.
• Real-World Examples: What Successful Companies Do Differently.
• Value Stream Analysis: Rethinking Your Own Company.
• Distinguish between value-added and support teams.

Rethinking Leadership: Understanding Your Role as an Enabler

• Striking a Balance Between Autonomy and Alignment.
• Servant Leadership: Empower, Don't Control.
• The five pillars of self-organization.
• Building psychological safety within the team.
• Communication in Decentralized Structures.
• Distribute decisions based on the principle of consensus.

Shaping Change: Methods That Work in Practice

• Understanding Resistance and Using It Productively.
• The Five Logical Levels According to Robert Dilts and Their Significance for Change.
• Lean Change Management: Managing Transformation in Iterations.
• Objectives & Key Results (OKR) as a management tool.
• Proven Models of Change and Their Application.
• Liberating Structures: Tools That Foster Participation.