Agility at Scale: A Meeting of Mindsets • Anna Urbaniak & Daniel Terhorst-North • GOTO 2021

This presentation was recorded at GOTOpia Chicago 2021. #GOTOcon #GOTOpia http://gotochgo.com Anna Urbaniak - Agile coach and consultant managing organizational systems, coaching and consulting for over 10 years Daniel Terhorst-North - Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & principal at Dan North & Associates @daniel-terhorst-north ABSTRACT The shift from industrial thinking to digital product thinking is profound. Tools and structures designed to support one often work directly against the other. Great industrial leadership does not transfer to great digital product leadership. So we tend to think of them as being in conflict. Agile-in-the-small - a single team with a single product - is all about digital product thinking. Agile-in-the-large is a very different thing. In this talk, Daniel and Anna show how combining industrial and digital thinking is the key to achieving autonomy with alignment, and they offer pragmatic advice and useful tools [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 02:06 Part 1: A tale of two mindsets 02:16 Digital product mindset vs. industrial mindset 06:53 Industrial habits clash with digital product principles 10:45 Agility at scale requires both mindsets 14:23 Part 2: Autonomy with alignment 14:34 Alignment 17:01 Autonomy 21:27 Autonomy liquidity 25:27 We need both autonomy and alignment 27:20 Getting started 32:46 Summary 34:50 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotochgo.com/2021/sessions/1768/agility-at-scale-a-meeting-of-mindsets RECOMMENDED BOOKS Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt • The Pragmatic Programmer • https://bookshop.org/a/9452/9780135957059 Uncle Bob • Clean Agile • https://amzn.to/3tpAqb5 Derby, Larsen & Schwaber • Agile Retrospectives • https://amzn.to/3hB4eNk Subramaniam & Hunt • Practices of an Agile Developer • https://amzn.to/2XjbWor https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #Agility #AgileDevelopment #Agile #AgilityAtScale #Alignment #Autonomy Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1