Session Title

Camelot: A Business Survival Toolkit

Abstract

Private Sector, Public Sector, and Community organisations all make bad decisions under stress. In the age of Covid-19, the consequences of most bad decisions are exponentially terrible. The virus has disrupted our management channels, reward models, business drivers, and market ecosystems — all at the same time.

The challenge our organisations face today isn't about growth and progress. It's about survival. Camelot is a simple self-management pattern that enables large and small organisations to rapidly respond to extreme rates of learning and change. It enables small teams to work autonomously and adapt immediately while still aligning to the overarching intent of their organisation. It scales — or more properly 'descales’ — without filtering decisions through fragile command and control channels yet it maintains the efficiency of a hierarchical structure, localises responsibility to individuals and small teams, and guarantees timely decisions even when key decision-makers are unavailable.

In this talk, he will explain how Camelot works, examine case studies of its use in large and small organisations, and explain how to immediately apply it to the challenges your organisation faces today.

Bio

Peter Merel is an agile pioneer credited in Beck's original XP book. He is founder of the XSCALE Alliance, a global, Linux-style learning ecosystem for senior independent agile coaches. And he's keeper of the flame for XSCALE, a Gartner-recognised descaling business-agility, devops and product management framework.