Pascal Mestdach is one of our speakers on the 3rd edition of IT Talks, on 12th of December 2019. Curious about this event, and want to register or see when the next edition is taking place? Find more on https://www.tvh.com/talks.
Content:
Pascal will share a case study on how to kickstart an agile community in a big company. Pascal will walk you through the journey and zooms in on the tools & techniques used to stimulate an agile culture. Looking for ways to boost the agile transition in your company? Want to win the hearts of the change makers? Curious for some great culture hacks? See you there!
Bio:
Pascal is an agile coach at TeamPowr. Pascal has 15+ years of experience in applying agile & lean and making the change towards this mindset in organizations. Pascal worked in different roles (software developer, scrum master, PMO lead, facilitator, solution designer, enterprise architect, agile coach, organisation designer) and in different sectors (marketing, healthcare, telecom, energy). Pascal helps teams to "thrive", guiding them towards growth and success using their own abilities. Pascal also coaches organizations in creating the right environment for agile by changing the way their operating system works.
At the end of the session, Pascal did an interactive exercise with the participants. Through a Liberating structure 25/10 crowd sourcing he got the 10 best ideas from the group about what they wanted to try themselves after having gained some inspiration in the session.
The 10 best ideas from the participants:
- Organize regular data-focussed hackatons to test some crazy ideas that live throughout the company to start discussions (score 23/25)
- Organize Lean Coffee sessions with people of all levels in the organization (score 23/25)
- Facilitate Open Spaces / Workshops to redesign support / backoffice structures for better support (score 22/25)
- Implement webinars across departments to share knowledge & end silos ((score 21/25)
- Only use cross funtional teams, no matter what job (score 20/25)
- Improve co-working between different teams (score 20/25)
- A more operational approach - daily targets & follow up to keep focus (score 20/25)
- Use webinars to align opinions (score 20/25)
- Strenghten interdepartment collaboration (score 19/25)
- Create a common goal (score 19/25)
- Give the development team 20% time to learn new skills (score 19/25)