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Would you be interested in investigating, exploring, and trying a way of working that might give you: - shorter lead times? - fewer bugs? - more knowledge transfer? - shorter feedback loops? - happier co-workers that know each other better? - a climate in the team that improves our ability to contribute well? - a decreased need for status and planning meetings? - an environment of amplified learning? - an effective way of on-boarding new team members? - higher quality? These are some results people find from Software Teaming / [ Mob/Ensemble Programming?] I have a few openings the week of Oct. 28-Nov. 1 to do a #SoftwareTeaming (#MobProgramming) workshop for your organization in Sweden/Denmark/Norway (or nearby). Please let me know if you are interested in exploring this. Please share.

"Education is not in conversation with reality." That's about as succinct a framing for the problem with schooling right now as I've found. It comes from Ginie Servant-Miklos, the author of the upcoming book "Pedagogies of Collapse: A Hopeful Education for The End of The World as We Know It." (Pre-ordered.) Reality is telling us that our existential challenges are becoming more complex, more impactful, and speeding up. In his latest post, Benjamin Freud, Ph.D. cites a new "2024 Living Planet Report" which states that we have five years to figure out how to change our ways if we want an Earth our kids and grandkids can inhabit. Wake up call? Yet education writ large is still focused on a "success" narrative that will do nothing to fundamentally change our current trajectory. In fact, it only serves to feed the beast. Yes, there are the outlier schools and innovators who are offering different experiences and practices in an effort to change the narrative. But even with those examples, I can't find many who explicitly reframe the outcomes of schooling around a narrative that eschews its primary purpose to be going to college to get a good job and be a contributing member of society (read: make lots of money and accrue individual wealth.) That's the "good life" path that has gotten us here in the first place. And that path is not sustainable. If education was truly engaged with reality, every school would be interrogating its "why" right now. And if I had to offer a "why" based on the realities that I'm seeing and reading, it would be along the lines of: "An education must now center on preparing our children to navigate complexity and collapse emotionally, physically, and spiritually, and to put deep emphasis on repairing the relationships we have with one another and with the planet." Our collective immunities to change are many. I get why this is so hard. But at the very least, shouldn't every school community be engaging in conversations about the realities of the world right now instead of the "move along...nothing to see here...it'll all be ok" approach? You can and should start that tomorrow, because time is running out. #education #edleadership #schooling #future #collapse

This article highlights for me that the climate crisis is not primarily a tech challenge. It is a humanities challenge: how do we affluent folks (the 10% who emit 50% of the carbon in this world) create an environment for ourselves in which small or multi-family houses ??, rapid transit ??, low-beef diets ??, water-cooled floors ??, and other climate-responsible behaviors and lifestyle features are as attractive to us as smartphones??, sufficiant to shift our behaviors? ??

I’m delighted to share that I just completed: Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F), taught by Mike Burrows from Agendashift Academy! I've been a user and fan of Agendashift's outcome-oriented approach to leadership and delivery, and their vast array of tools, for a number of years, and wanted to learn Mike's recommendations for drawing organizational strategy (goals to tactics) out of the struggles and informed-insights of the people doing the work. I look forward to inviting colleagues and clients into this Leading With Outcomes experience!

Thought-provoking talk with Mike Burrows last night in our joint Kanban NZ, Sydney and Melbourne meetup groups (Daniel Ploeg), about "between spaces, scopes and scales, and what scaling frameworks don't tell you". I loved "be the keeper of context" and build an organisation through trust and relationships. As Mike's background is in mathematics, he sees "surprise synonymous with information. If a piece of data has no surprise in it, it hasn't told you?anything, which says a lot about organisations." Enjoy watching if you missed it! Agendashift Academy Agendashift Events #kanban #scalingagile #scaling #yeswekanban #agility

Opportunity: You would like to really hear the ideas of your employees to improve your enterprise. And in fact, empower them to just make these happen. Solution: Watch our short video, where we explain a possible approach - ?? Keywords: Change management with Open Space and Inviting opt-in (voluntary) participation in initiatives. Prepared by Alexander Krause and myself, standing on the shoulders of giants - Daniel Mezick Mark Sheffield among others. #radicalcollaboration #collaboration #participation #invitation #changemanagement #agileleadership #agile #futureofwork #selforganisation

I captured this image at Mass yesterday. I was struck that despite our best efforts to crucify the earth, she continues to give and give to us, such as the beautiful flowers in the picture. She will only fail us if we insist out of selfishness to destroy her (as we know her now; she will live on; we may not). I am grateful. Saving her simply requires scaling back our wants to be closer to our needs. Peace.