These 6 words are the heart of business agility - but they are also an invitation. Does your organization have the freedom, flexibility, and resilience to achieve its purpose - no matter what the future brings? And to complicate matters; it is a continuum, where the question is not whether you have it, but rather how much you have and is it enough?

There aren't many of them, but those organizations who can answer yes to these questions can instinctively seize emerging and unforeseen opportunities for their customers’ benefit. But copying their processes isn't going to help you. There is no single framework, method, or system that can create business agility — and, by definition, because an organization is a complex adaptive system, there can never be one. In many cases, even different business units within the same organization need different approaches.

Yet, while no two organizations follow the same journey, common patterns of behavior emerge. The shape of business agility.

In this briefing, we will explore these patterns and introduce the latest version of the Domains of Business Agility. A cultural operating model for your organization consisting of 5 primary domains spanning 18 emergent business capabilities.

What does it mean for an agile team to be predictable? How could you tell how predictable an agile team is or whether they are becoming more or less predictable? Is improving predictability even desirable for an agile team? This talk will explore these questions and more and introduce different ways of answering them. Attendees will go away with some new approaches and techniques they might use as part of an agile transformation to assess their success.

You'll hear about the following:

• An overview of flow metrics
• Defining predictability in terms of flow metrics (i.e. lead time and throughput)
• The pros and cons of flow metrics and say/do measures
• Predictability, stability and consistency
• Aging WIP
• Blockers

The key takeaways will be:

• Measuring flow
• Measure predictability in terms of consistency
• Focussing on WIP ageing and blockers

"Imagine, if we could create a playbook around the 1st principles of Leadership Agility that could accelerate our journey as we discover and develop differentiating capabilities. This practical session on :Leadership Agility will shine a light on key capabilities and practices (in the form of Adventures) as we explore patterns tools, techniques and traps that will prepare us for our uniquely personal quest using a metaphor of "Envisioning and Planning a Trip to our Leadership Agility Future"....evocative of The Hero's Journey.

Rocío Briceno was a Vice-President Candidate in the last elections of Costa Rica, her original country with a proposal for agile in the government applied in social impact development.

Agile is 21 years old but in 2019 in Virginia, the USA a new manifesto for Social Impact Agile: SiAgile, was written with the participation of Rocío Briceño and Alistair Cockburn (one of the authors of the agile manifesto)

Its first applications have already been used by multilateral organizations. At this event, Rocío will comment on her application experiences in Latin America and in the USA.