Peter Merel's Agility Narrative on learning flow & responding to market change

The Agility Narratives

Peter Merel, founder of xScale Alliance, in his Agility Narrative talks through the xScale's approach to agility, and enabling organizations build capability to respond to market conditions.
He talks through how learning flow in an organization is key to responding to market change. This is something that 95% of agile transformations do not achieve effectively, according to the longest and largest survey in the Agile world, "The state of Agile Report".
Peter is highly entertaining, with great stories of the birth of Agile and XP. Enjoy...

0:01 Welcome & Intro
1:21 Peter's early engagement with XP
3:49 The birth of Agile (before the manifesto)
5:01 then Snowbird happened and I was busy...
5:21 The story of to xScale
8:35 Why is learning flow so critical?
11:00 How to improve learning flow by looking at constraints?
12:14 Learning flows as a product
13:03 Importance of market constraints
13:51 Onboarding people
15:33 "The Progressives"
17:00 using trust to scale teams
19:04 Responding to market conditions
21:01 Changing market conditions, design and patterns
24:32 "How do teams make decisions?"
29:19 Villains are also heroes
30:33 Changing the game - game theoretics to reward mutual benefit
32:28 What at stake for us?
35:22 Noble intent and the wrong track
37:04 Call to action - key learning constraint, starting with an open space
40:39 Pattern language used to have a conversation
42:21 Ongoing process, 3 month change increment
44:40 The threats and opportunities are often same
47:31 Getting ahead - pirate canvas
48:11 As business agilists, who are our clients?
49:08 xScale Alliance offering's
50:50 The importance of these conversations

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1. Peter Merel's Agility Narrative on learning flow & responding to market change (00:00:00)

2. Welcome to The Agility Narratives Podcast and Introduction to Peter (00:00:01)

3. Peter's early engagement with Extreme programming (00:01:21)

4. The birth of Agile (before the manifesto) (00:03:49)

5. It was depressing because 6 months later, Snowbird happened and I was busy... (00:05:01)

6. The story of the circumstances that led to xScale being launched (00:05:21)

7. Why is learning flow so critical to enterprise agility? (00:08:35)

8. How do we improve learning flow by looking at constraints? (00:11:00)

9. Learning flows as a product and how xScale was designed to support this model (00:12:14)

10. A different way to approach agility (market constraints) (00:13:03)

11. Key to Onboarding people to a transformation program (00:13:51)

12. Peter's protagonists - "The Progressives" (00:15:33)

13. Using trust relationships to scale teams (00:17:00)

14. Peter's theme of Agility Narrative - responding to market conditions (00:19:04)

15. 95% can't respond to changing market conditions (00:20:02)

16. Responding to changing market conditions, design and patterns (00:21:01)

17. A great set of practice pattern on "How do teams make decisions?" (00:24:32)

18. Villains are also heroes (00:29:19)

19. Changing the game - game theoretics to reward mutual benefit (00:30:33)

20. What at stake for us? Changing market conditions... climate, mutual decisions, a larger frame for agility (00:32:28)

21. The business we are in started out with noble intent and has taken the wrong track (00:35:22)

22. Call to action - key learning constraint, starting with an open space (00:37:04)

23. xScale is a pattern language used to have a conversation about the "stuckness" that everyone feels (00:40:39)

24. Ongoing process, 3 month change increment (00:42:21)

25. The threats and opportunities are often same - the rate of change - funding exponential curves and responding (00:44:40)

26. Getting ahead - pirate canvas - understanding the frame before we paint the picture (00:47:31)

27. As business agilists, who are our clients? (00:48:11)

28. xScale Alliance offering's - enable coaches to bring practice patterns so organizations don't have to swallow a methodology (00:49:08)

29. The importance of these conversations (00:50:50)