Agility at Scale: A Meeting of Mindsets • Anna Urbaniak & Daniel Terhorst-North • GOTO 2020

This presentation was recorded at GOTOpia November 2020. #GOTOcon #GOTOpia http://gotopia.eu Anna Urbaniak - Agile Coach & Consultant 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 [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:45 Part 1: A tale of two mindsets 02:34 Digital product mindset vs. industrial mindset 08:04 Digital product mindset introduces new habits 16:59 Industrial habits clash with digital product mindset 21:03 Agility at scale requires both mindsets 23:53 Part 2: Autonomy with alignment 24:09 Alignment 26:01 Autonomy 30:27 Autonomy liquidity 33:11 We need both autonomy and alignment 34:20 Getting started Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotopia.eu/november-2020/sessions/1628/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