A conversation with Helen Lisowski and Agility by Nature (Ian Gill)

09/13/20 • 40 min

Helen Lisowski - Lending her belief in you and growing pains

Helen is a wonderful speaker and a sucker for the intriguing challenge. Her successful and varied career, “lending her belief in people”, means she has built deep expertise in nurturing teams and company performance. Helen’s sweet spot is the scale up businesses of between 50-250 people and how to step round the pitfalls that can be “quite painful”

We cover four key areas for the the business:

Culture - getting it right, making it explicit (and make it findable!)

Recruitment - how to find and win great people that engage with the business

Retention - preserving all that wonderful expertise (replacing people is even more expensive)

Results - at the end of the day, you are a business with purpose and we can hold each other accountable.

We discuss different types of founders and how they can set the right tone and culture for growing fledgling business, and also the fundamentals of good management which is lightweight and really is the very best investment you can make.

Regardless of the size of your company, this is chockfull of insights to give every manager pause for thought and the time to raise your hand and make it right.

#agility #waysofworking #coaching

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Helen Lisowski - Lending her belief in you and growing pains

We cover four key areas for the the business:

Culture - getting it right, making it explicit (and make it findable!)

Recruitment - how to find and win great people that engage with the business

Retention - preserving all that wonderful expertise (replacing people is even more expensive)

Results - at the end of the day, you are a business with purpose and we can hold each other accountable.

Regardless of the size of your company, this is chockfull of insights to give every manager pause for thought and the time to raise your hand and make it right.

#agility #waysofworking #coaching

https://agilitybynature.com/contact-us/

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A conversation with Louisa Mensah and Agility by Nature (Ian Gill)

Louisa Mensah - so you want to be a scrum master?

Fellow night owl, Louisa Mensah, earned her stripes in IT support roles and is now a well established scrum master/coach. Her experience includes large telecoms and Banks and provides real insights into the day to day role of a Scrum Master

So we unpack what it means to be a ‘servant/leader”, how to take a step back and use the power of observations. Louisa creates safe spaces and tells how you need to be brave. No surprise she is happy to take on challenges and and accepts nothing less than the best for her team. We talk about the relationship with (often over stretched) Product Owners and how to maximise value. Tango dancing comes to mind at the beginning ...

Louisa explains how she helps an organisation deal with all this agile change, in a way people across the business can understand and work with. It’s not disruption for disruption’s sake and agile buzz words get shown the door. We discuss scaling, managing dependencies and working on the right things: what are we trying to achieve? Louisa has been there and willingly shares her views.

Plain speaking, Louisa is passionate about people, very engaging and is pretty frank. And you know good things will get done.

Mamma is in the house. There might be trouble.

#agility #scrummaster #agile

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A conversation with Graham Padgham and Agility by Nature (Ian Gill)

Graham Padgham- Business Architecture and and the dynamics of maximising Value

Graham is elegant, eloquent and deeply experienced, working with IT and exploiting it to solve customer problems and adding value. We touch on Digital in the retail space drawing on 18 years of experience in www.specsavers.co.uk (which is much more than retail itself covering logistics, health care and support to name a few.)

Graham concisely outlines the roles of different Architects whether Solution, Technical and Enterprise. Business Architects look at the business as a whole (including but not solely IT) and maps business capabilities across:

People

Process

Technology

And Data

And examining how they support the strategic objectives of the company.

This fundamentally allows businesses to respond to change holistically and ensure strategy at the top is connected to execution across the company. Graham explores the use of agile and how businesses can and should focus on the delivery of value.

This is not just a high level, slow analysis of the business but an ongoing, ruthless focus on value streams and delivering maximum value however fast your market changes. Graham is a master of joining up these very complex relationships and moving from the “as is” to what could and should be and relaying it in a very simple, achievable way.

The books referred to by Graham are:

Great Transition: Using the Seven Disciplines of Enterprise Engineering by James Martin

Jackson structured programming (JSP) is a method for structured programming developed by British software consultant Michael A. Jackson and described in his 1975 book Principles of Program Design

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

Graham’s email is [email protected]

Hello to James Yoxall linkedin.com/in/james-yoxall-67859a and Rob Smith.linkedin.com/in/robsmith4

#transformation #architecture #itprogrammes

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