In the first episode of the Agile Coaching Mastery's "True or False Series," Ian and I decided to dive into the world of enterprise agility with a fun and engaging true or false game. Inspired by Ian's youth group days, we debated whether certain statements about agile transformations were true or false. With a slightly humorous tone, we explored three topics, each with interesting insights and real-world examples.The first statement we discussed was "all transformations fail if the company is above 20,000 people." While Ian thought this was false, he emphasized the importance of working with the company's size and finding the right approach to make a transformation successful. I agreed, pointing out that a company's size isn't the only determining factor for success; it's also about how the transformation is executed.Moving on, we tackled the statement "it is crucial to get the right data in place, otherwise, you'll make poor decisions." Both Ian and I agreed that this was true, but we elaborated on the importance of having the right amount of data and making decisions based on that information. We discussed examples of companies like Amazon that have successfully made decisions with less-than-complete data and emphasized the importance of timely decision-making.Finally, we addressed the statement "if leaders don't lead a transformation, it will never work." Ian and I both agreed that this was true but clarified that leadership is necessary to provide direction and support for self-organizing teams. We discussed the balance between having strong leadership and giving teams the autonomy to make their own decisions.Throughout the episode, Ian and I shared personal experiences and valuable insights into the world of enterprise agility. We emphasized the importance of having clear definitions, understanding the role of leadership, and making decisions based on the right amount of data. Though we aimed for a 15-minute episode, our engaging conversation led to a 24-minute discussion, proving that even agile coaches can benefit from some improvement. Overall, the first episode of the "True or False Series" was an entertaining and informative exploration of agile transformations. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.enterpriseagility.info

If you're a fan of the Agile Coaching Mastery podcast, you know that it's all about coaches helping organizations become more agile and adaptable. But what if you're not a coach? What if you're a leader who wants your company be more agile and adaptable? Well, good news! In this episode, we pivot to a new audience of people like you! We get started together on your journey who want to increase you company's agility. We talk about why we pivoted and what you can expect So, if you're ready to become more agile and adaptable, this episode is for you! SUMMARY KEYWORDScomplex adaptive systems , podcast , agility , enterprise , coach , coaching , question , audience , leader , SaFE , change agents ,Read the transcript at otter.ai This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.enterpriseagility.info

I used to consider myself a Kanban/ Agile practitioner and got a lot of value from the principles and values from these disciplines. Yet with 12 principles and 4 values in Agile and 4 in Kanban, had a nagging feeling that there must be something simpler; that single north star which I could use to make decisions easily yet completely aligned with both Agile and Lean. Now I found it.Gall's law is named after its creator, paediatrician and author John Gall and states that "a complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system." Gall is most known for his critique of systems theory in his book «Systematization: how systems work and especially how they fail»More a rule of thumb, that a physical law, in nutshell it states that attempts to build extremely complicated systems are likely to failDoes it mean I now call myself a Gall’s law coach? Well, not many job openings for that description — Yet!From Gall’s law you can per example easily deduce that the best way to create a complex system is therefore not to design it all up front, but let it emerge over time through the creativity, initiative, and ingenuity of the people involved — and what are the enterprises we transform but complex systems, actually complex adaptive systems.In starting to apply Gall’s law to my agility work, I found several benefits, very close to the foundations of true enterprise agility: 1. It helps organizations to avoid the common pitfall of over-engineering their agile transformation. Organizations often make the mistake of over-engineering their agile transformation. They try to perfect their process before they start, or they try to design their agile transformation from scratch. Gall's Law helps organizations to avoid these mistakes by reminding them that a complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. 2. It helps organizations to focus on delivering value early and often, rather than trying to perfect their agile process. You can clearly see Gall’s law in agility approaches like lean startup. By focusing on building a small thing and proving it works with real costumers you’re ensuring you get to the simplest system that works, which than you can grow using customer feedback into a complex system that works better. 3. It helps organisations to create an environment where creativity and innovation can flourish. One of the corollaries of Galls law is that you can build a complex system that works by composing simpler systems that work. This is what we do in most agility approaches by creating small autonomous teams, each of which can innovate and together can achive greater innovation. 4. It helps organizations to avoid the common mistakes that lead to agile transformations failing. The most common mistake I on the road to agility is to atempt to copy a complex system that worked somewhere else and assume we can teleport an organisation into it. How many companies have tried to copy the Spotify Model and failed? Or attempted a large scale implementation of SAFe to see productivity grind to a halt?Gall’s law is why the most successful transformations are where we plant the seed of agility in one or more groups and when you see them start to work replicate the model organically throughout the enterprise, always trying to grow agility rather then implement agility. Golden Question: That is all and nice, but what do yo do on your first day, week, month as a leader guided by Gall’s Law when trying to grow agility in your enterprise? On the first day, week, or month as a leader guided by Gall's Law, the best thing to do is to start with a working simple system. This could mean starting with a small agile team and letting it grow organically from there. Look around and try to find a pocket of agility mired by complex processes or handovers and simplify their way of work, getting back to basics and building iteration and feedback loops. The key is to focus on delivering value early and often, rather focus on adopting a process from elsewhere. This will help to create an environment where creativity and innovation can flourish. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.enterpriseagility.info

A short message from Ian, the lead on the crew to talk about our pivot to a new name and new audienceIan can be reached on twitter @ianatbigagilityRicardo can be reached on twitter @riclibThe new podcast home is https://enterpriseagility.info  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.enterpriseagility.info

Welcome to Season 3 of our growing podcast.... The job of a coach is to always leave behind a legacy of change that lasts. That's what this episode is about 0 how to enable the change and embed it into the culture of the Enterprise 'before you leave' You can get a picture of the model at my website bigagility.com - look for the clubhouse link Agile Coaching Mastery is recorded live at 5:30PM UK on Mondays on Clubhouse. Go to http://agileclub.club to find out more and join us for the recording Ricardo can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardoliberato/Dan can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieldina/Graham can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamshopland/Roby can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/overvliet/Jason Cameron joined the conversation [https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronjason/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronjason/)Ian can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-banner-3173229/Ian's courses can be found  at https://www.agilevisa.com, select the ICAgile Global Schedule, then select  Enterprise Coaching Courses for  CAT and ENT courses,  or Products and Portfolio for the LPM course This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.enterpriseagility.info

Welcome to Season 3 of our growing podcast.... In this episode, the crew talk about the need for credibility and the basis for that. We talk through the top ask of most agile coaches, 'If you're so good at this, why not get on with leading some delivery then?'Sometimes the answer is yes and sometimes it's no. Listen to the reasoning from the crew this week You can get a picture of the model at my website bigagility.com - look for the clubhouse linkAgile Coaching Mastery is recorded live at 5:30PM UK on Mondays on Clubhouse. Go to http://agileclub.club to find out more and join us for the recordingRicardo can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardoliberato/Dan can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieldina/Graham can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamshopland/Roby can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/overvliet/Jason Cameron joined the conversation [https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronjason/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronjason/)Ian can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-banner-3173229/Ian's courses can be found  at https://www.agilevisa.com, select the ICAgile Global Schedule, then select  Enterprise Coaching Courses for  CAT and ENT courses,  or Products and Portfolio for the LPM course This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.enterpriseagility.info

Welcome to Season 3 of our growing podcast.... In this episode, the crew talk about the GP Model for what we as coaches do. We (like a GP) discover the problems and hurts and then diagnose what can be done to put these right. Like a good GP we diagnose a solution in discussion with the client, then we test to see if the 'medicine' works. If it doesn't we try again :) You can get a picture of the model at my website bigagility.com - look for the clubhouse link Agile Coaching Mastery is recorded live at 5:30PM UK on Mondays on Clubhouse. Go to http://agileclub.club to find out more and join us for the recording Ricardo can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardoliberato/Dan can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieldina/Graham can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamshopland/Roby can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/overvliet/Jason Cameron joined the conversation [https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronjason/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronjason/)Ian can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-banner-3173229/Ian's courses can be found  at https://www.agilevisa.com, select the ICAgile Global Schedule, then select  Enterprise Coaching Courses for  CAT and ENT courses,  or Products and Portfolio for the LPM course This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.enterpriseagility.info

Welcome  to Season 3 of our growing podcast.... In this episode, the crew talk about Advocacy - sometimes called Evangelism. We talk about part of the Enterprise coaching role is to be an advocate of Agile and Lean and we discuss how to advocate. We also discuss how to advocate for the coaching role itself - why do we need coaches :) You can get a picture of the model at my website bigagility.com - look for the clubhouse link Agile Coaching Mastery is recorded live at 5:30PM UK on Mondays on Clubhouse. Go to [agileclub.club](http://agileclub.club/) to find out more and join us for the recording Ricardo can be found at [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardoliberato/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardoliberato/) Dan can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieldina/Graham can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamshopland/Roby can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/overvliet/Jason Cameron joined the conversation [https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronjason/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronjason/)Ian can be found at [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-banner-3173229/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-banner-3173229/)Ian's courses can be found  at https://www.agilevisa.com, select the ICAgile Global Schedule, then select  Enterprise Coaching Courses for  CAT and ENT courses,  or Products and Portfolio for the LPM course This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.enterpriseagility.info

Welcome  to Season 3 of our growing podcast.... In this episode, the crew talk about how to give advice Watch out for Ricardo's fabulous hammer analogy and some wise advice from JasonYou can get a picture of the model at my website bigagility.com - look for the clubhouse link Agile Coaching Mastery is recorded live at 5:30PMUK on Mondays on Clubhouse. Go to [agileclub.club](http://agileclub.club/) to find out more and join us for the recording Ricardo can be found at [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardoliberato/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardoliberato/) Ras can be found at [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rasoulbaghban/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rasoulbaghban/)Dan can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieldina/Graham can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamshopland/Roby can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/overvliet/Jason Cameron joined the conversation [https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronjason/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronjason/)Ian can be found at [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-banner-3173229/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-banner-3173229/)Ian's courses can be found  at https://www.agilevisa.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.enterpriseagility.info

S03E04 ACM Unscripted - Are we really just consultants in disguise?Welcome  to Season 3 of our growing podcast.... In this episode, the crew Talk about part of the Agiel coach role - certainly at the enterprise level - consulting.Watch out for discussions about sacking a coach who can only coach, and PowerPoint ! love it our hate it - it's a communications vehicle that many recognise You can get a picture of the model at my website bigagility.com - look for the clubhouse link Agile Coaching Mastery is recorded live at 5:30PMUK on Mondays on Clubhouse. Go to [agileclub.club](http://agileclub.club/) to find out more and join us for the recording Ricardo can be found at [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardoliberato/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardoliberato/) Ras can be found at [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rasoulbaghban/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rasoulbaghban/)Dan can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieldina/Graham can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamshopland/Roby can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/overvliet/Jason Cameron joined the conversation [https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronjason/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronjason/)Ian can be found at [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-banner-3173229/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-banner-3173229/)Ian's courses can be found  at https://www.agilevisa.com - look for CAT, ENT, LPM or BOOTCAMP This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.enterpriseagility.info