Can we apply Agile ideas to the definition and execution of Strategy for our businesses? Trent Hone, award winning Naval historian, Karl Scotland, Agile Strategy pioneer, and Henri Mårtensson, long time author on the topic of business strategy got together to discuss just that.
This is the second episode on the topic of Agile Strategy, and you can find the other episode on Agile Strategy here.
For a complete set of show notes and resources from this episode (and there are a lot), visit http://scrum-master-toolbox.org/ and click on this Roundtable episode.
About the participants
Trent Hone is a Managing Consultant with Excella Consulting (blog) and an award-winning naval historian. He helps software and IT organizations improve their art of practice, increase effectiveness, and accelerate learning. Trent regularly writes and speaks about organizational learning, doctrine, and strategy and how the three interrelate. He has presented at the Annual North American Agile Conference, Lean Kanban North America, Lean Agile Scotland, the Society of Military History's Annual Meeting, the McMullen Naval History Symposium, and other conferences. His latest book, Learning War: The Evolution of Fighting Doctrine in the U.S. Navy, 1898–1945, will be published in June 2018.
You can link with Trent Hone on LinkedIn and connect with Trent Hone on Twitter. You can also read Trent Hone’s blog.
Karl Scotland has, over the last 15 years been an advocate of Lean and Agile approaches to achieve this, working with companies including the BBC, Yahoo!, EMC Consulting, Rally Software, Cisco and SDL. During this time, he was a pioneer of using Kanban Systems and Strategy Deployment for product development, a founding member of both the Lean Systems Society and Limited WIP Society, as well as being active in the community and a regular conference speaker. He has been awarded the honorary Brickell Key Community Contribution Award at the 2013 Lean Kanban North America conference.
You can link with Karl Scotland on LinkedIn and connect with Karl Scotland on Twitter.
Henrik Mårtensson is a systems thinker. He works with companies and other organizations to solve complex problems:
Henrik writes to bridge the current gap between theory and practice in management and leadership. He provides strategy coaching, and helps improve processes. His presentations, live and on video casts, have been seen by more than 70,000 people.
You can link with Henrik Mårtensson on LinkedIn and connect with Henrik Mårtensson on Twitter.
has, over the last 15 years been an advocate of Lean and Agile approaches to achieve this, working with companies including the BBC, Yahoo!, EMC Consulting, Rally Software, Cisco and SDL. During this time, he was a pioneer of using Kanban Systems and Strategy Deployment for product development, a founding member of both the Lean Systems Society and Limited WIP Society, as well as being active in the community and a regular conference speaker. He has been awarded the honorary Brickell Key Community Contribution Award at the 2013 Lean Kanban North America conference.
You can link with Karl Scotland on LinkedIn and connect with Karl Scotland on Twitter.
Henrik Mårtensson is a systems thinker. He works with companies and other organizations to solve complex problems:
Henrik writes to bridge the current gap between theory and practice in management and leadership. He provides strategy coaching, and helps improve processes. His presentations, live and on video casts, have been seen by more than 70,000 people.
You can link with Henrik Mårtensson on LinkedIn and connect with Henrik Mårtensson on Twitter.