Lean Agile Edinburgh had a meetup on September 19, 2017. Below are some of the key highlights and the recording on YouTube, courtesy of Product Forge.

Key highlights

• Learning cycle and stages of competence - can cause issues if try to implement without being competent (from @ohallorantony)
• pay sufficient attention to the people aspect, requires different skill sets and other business functions to be involved
• instead of just focusing on outside in from list below (outside listed first), get help on working from inside out
  • Tools & Processes
  • Practices
  • Principles
  • Values
  • Mindset
• Different people have different mindsets & that’s ok as sometimes you want ability to change easily and others predictability is more important - but we all face change & ability to handle it better is good for all
• When you ask someone to do something different, you aren’t just asking them to change what they do, but asking them to change their perception (who you are)
• dialogue vs debate (this next site wasn’t referenced at the meeting but covers some of the same topic https://thesystemsthinker.com/the-process-of-dialogue-creating-effective-communication/
• appreciation - difference between appreciating the outcome vs appreciating the person
• Some of the resources mentioned:
  • Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale, by Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky & Barry O’Reilly
  • Impact Mapping
  • The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Flex: Do Something Different
  • Sense and Respond: How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously
  • Scrum Mastery
  • Coaching Agile Teams
  • Emotional Intelligence