Working beyond buzzwords:
making the most out of agile
28 May, 2019 by Cocoon Staff
It’s now mainstream. Everybody talks about it, sometimes using the word as an adjective, sometimes putting it in capital letters as a noun. Doing it agile. Being agile. Agile.
But what is behind this buzzword?
What are the real benefits of adopting this mindset, with its values and principles, not just as an excuse to legitimate disorder and chaos? And, on the other hand, how can you apply the agile techniques and tools without making them even more rigid than a plan-and-control approach?
In a nutshell: What’s good in it for you?
Linked to these main questions, some of the doubts we’ve collected in our work in supporting organizations are:
- How does it work in practice?
- Is it suitable also for a non-software company?
- Is it just for the operations or can I adopt it at the strategy level? And what’s the relationship between the two?
- What is the best agile framework for my organization?
- Is it just for teams or can I use it at scale?
And we received these questions in a wide variety of markets, from tech companies to finance ones, from retail to NGOs. Even in the public sector, they started to ask if and how, to adopt an agile approach.
This X-Course is meant to answer these questions, helping you in understanding what’s *truly* there that you can use, and how to make the first step in the right direction, avoiding fancy and misleading solutions.
For these reasons, this X-Course is useful if in your organization:
- You lead projects or teams.
- You have to take decisions in uncertainty.
- You have to manage fast-changing priorities.
- You research and develop new products or services.
- You interface with customers and manage their requests.
“It is our responsibility to reconnect with the profound meaning that a change brings with it, so that it is not only innovation but also a true evolution, which allows the organization to be the best expression of itself, in its continuous evolution.”
From “I wish you resistance to change” by Emanuele Rapisarda.
• • •
It will be a 1 and a half day journey with Emanuele Rapisarda.
The language will likely be English, but if all participants are Italian, it will be done in their native language. Let us know if you are interested, so to understand as soon as possible which scenario it will be.
This X-Course will be held in Rome on July 15th, and it will be confirmed within June 21st, as soon as the minimum number of participants will be reached.
The price is € 650 (VAT excluded).
If more than one person from the same organization wishes to join, we are providing a special discount.
Also, Emanuele is available to organise this X-Course at your organisation premises, if desired.
To jump in or to ask for any information, contact us: xc@cocoon-pro.com
The X-Courses are meant for those organizations that want to increase awareness on complex issues, learning about effective tools and techniques that can be applied in their own contexts. They will follow an experiential approach through which the participants can dive into the specific domain of the course. Moreover, if they want, they’ll be able to take part in the building of a community among companies and organizations for exploring and sharing insights about the evolution of work.
Building on the idiomatic meaning of “in the ordinary course of business“, we developed the eXtraordinary Course of Business: experiences that take you out of the ordinary, allowing for a first step on a new journey.
Working beyond buzzwords:
making the most out of agile
It’s now mainstream. Everybody talks about it, sometimes using the word as an adjective, sometimes putting it in capital letters as a noun. Doing it agile. Being agile. Agile.
But what is behind this buzzword?
What are the real benefits of adopting this mindset, with its values and principles, not just as an excuse to legitimate disorder and chaos? And, on the other hand, how can you apply the agile techniques and tools without making them even more rigid than a plan-and-control approach?
In a nutshell: What’s good in it for you?
Linked to these main questions, some of the doubts we’ve collected in our work in supporting organizations are:
And we received these questions in a wide variety of markets, from tech companies to finance ones, from retail to NGOs. Even in the public sector, they started to ask if and how, to adopt an agile approach.
This X-Course is meant to answer these questions, helping you in understanding what’s *truly* there that you can use, and how to make the first step in the right direction, avoiding fancy and misleading solutions.
For these reasons, this X-Course is useful if in your organization:
“It is our responsibility to reconnect with the profound meaning that a change brings with it, so that it is not only innovation but also a true evolution, which allows the organization to be the best expression of itself, in its continuous evolution.”
From “I wish you resistance to change” by Emanuele Rapisarda.
• • •
It will be a 1 and a half day journey with Emanuele Rapisarda.
The language will likely be English, but if all participants are Italian, it will be done in their native language. Let us know if you are interested, so to understand as soon as possible which scenario it will be.
This X-Course will be held in Rome on July 15th, and it will be confirmed within June 21st, as soon as the minimum number of participants will be reached.
The price is € 650 (VAT excluded).
If more than one person from the same organization wishes to join, we are providing a special discount.
Also, Emanuele is available to organise this X-Course at your organisation premises, if desired.
To jump in or to ask for any information, contact us: xc@cocoon-pro.com
The X-Courses are meant for those organizations that want to increase awareness on complex issues, learning about effective tools and techniques that can be applied in their own contexts. They will follow an experiential approach through which the participants can dive into the specific domain of the course. Moreover, if they want, they’ll be able to take part in the building of a community among companies and organizations for exploring and sharing insights about the evolution of work.
Building on the idiomatic meaning of “in the ordinary course of business“, we developed the eXtraordinary Course of Business: experiences that take you out of the ordinary, allowing for a first step on a new journey.