Agile working in a slow-moving world
summary
A lot of concrete fixes and experiments not platitudes — a cross‑campus weekly drop‑in and Slack channel to reuse staff expertise, recruiting students for usability tests and blogs, small internal working groups that repainted mugs and changed office culture, a proposal for three meeting types (info sharing decision brainstorming), and quarterly pulse checks replacing triennial surveys. Stories include a naval collision as a metaphor and a Github outage example so expect practical lessons and mixed results rather than theory.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:35Big organization challenges
- 7:17Agile in slow-moving structures
- 10:49Breaking silos
- 13:54Building team culture
- 15:58Better meetings
- 17:22Trust and communication
- 19:52Measuring change
- 21:39Small changes, big shifts
- 23:48Final thoughts
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