Alok Uniyal's Agility Narrative

The Agility Narratives

Enjoy Alok's personal story as a change maker, his patterns for success delivery of agility, organizational constraints, and his call to action... (a list of 5).
There is no cookie cutter... Yet Alok outlines key principles and lights the path towards success.
Alok, Thank you for sharing Your Agility Narrative.
ENJOY!
4:04
Alok's origin story with Agile
5:55
Alok's first experience with iterative process (DSDM) - Early Agile
6:52
Back to India and a process role - how this connected for him
7:54
Learnings from advising on effectiveness and efficiency
9:18
Balancing internal controls with external delivery - still as part of the mid-career journey
11:30
Starting Alok's agility narrative for today - Change maker or Agile leader?
12:35
Alok introduces the protagonist in his Agility narrative
13:56
When Agile is working well, what does that feel like?
16:10
Alok outlines patterns for success
16:41
Pattern #1 - Leadership through sense of purpose - The Why
18:38
Pattern #2 - Establishing The Agility Why
19:14
Pattern #3 - Know your customer
19:31
Pattern #4 - Adapt Agile to your core agility requirements
20:00
Pattern #5 - information radiators - Data, data, data
20:28
Pattern #6 - Equipping people to co-create the Culture Change
21:19
Intro to exploring underlying constraints
22:18
Organization structure as a constraint
23:32
Constraint created by lack of clarity for Middle management
24:47
Hard"er" constraints
25:39
The unspoken "internally-held" constraints
28:41
Alok, what is your theme for this Agility Narrative?
29:51
Villians! "impediments" - who are they?
31:02
What's at stake if these impediments aren't addressed?
33:14
In talking to a leadership who aren't where they want to be, what is your call to action?
33:45
Action #1 - go and meet organizations who have been on this journey
34:28
Action #2 - Articulate the need for change - The Why as well as the Upside & downside - real open discussion - Have guard rails
35:10
Action #3 - Based on that - agree on certain guard rails
35:38
Action #4 - Leadership create a safety net
35:56
Action #5 - Use an iterative approach to do transformation - And build in inspect and adapt
36:53
Exploring a practice shift to Product thinking
37:42
Exploring site reliability engineering
38:17
Alok, Thank you for sharing Your Agility Narrative
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Published: Nov. 19, 2021 @11PM Edit