Our program is taking form! We have a great line-up of inspiring speakers and facilitators. We are still talking to further potential speakers and workshop moderators and evaluating proposals. We will continue to share our progress with you to give you an idea of what awaits you at the unFIXcon 23.
At the unFIXcon, this is where we all come together for presentations, impulses, cases – inspiration.
Henriette Wienges loves system thinking and a structure-oriented approach toward organizations. Over and over again she is amazed, at how structures define a great part of the “what”, the “how” and sometimes even the “if” of our work, while helping us to understand our environment, and make it strategically manageable and efficient. And yes – of course, she is working agile and human-centered. Henriette is an experienced systemic Agile and Flight Level Coach. She is the founder of The Elephant in the Room.
At the unFIXcon, we will ask you to go on missions sometimes. How often you switch between teams is left to you.
What do improvisation theater and organizational design have in common, you might ask? Join this workshop and find out! In short, improv games enable people to connect with the moment, themselves, and with their creative minds. And even though the improv games are not related to work, they can easily be connected to the topics. The three core rules of improvisation: “Every suggestion is welcomed,” “Use ‘Yes, and’ mindset,” and “Your goal is to make your partner look good,” are also very valid in any team formation. Improv cards are already used in Management 3.0. Let’s try out some more interactive games that you can easily apply in your workshops!
Since Stefan began his career as a consultant more than 25 years ago, he has witnessed many poor management decisions and frustrated employees. When he was in the management role himself, he also found that the job was not easy. His role models turned out to be uninspiring and unknowledgeable. For this reason, he ceased managing his people and began to involve them. That was the beginning of a long, satisfying, and still ongoing search for ways to manage companies and teams in a way that gives all employees a chance to work together on something inspiring and fulfilling. His repertoire today includes topics like Agility, Management 3.0, Lean Startup, unFIX, Happiness at Work, Blue Ocean Strategy, Feedback as a Competitive Advantage, Stress in Teams, Successful Worplace culture. But in a nutshell, it’s always about helping people thrive and grow within the context of their work. For him, the most exciting area of research is discovering how to engage management in the required transformation.
Should companies be concerned with “Happiness at Work”? From a financial perspective, the answer is yes, because companies that pay attention to the well-being of their employees are more successful. What can be done to increase happiness at work? If you turn the question into the opposite, it becomes easier: How can you destroy “Happiness at Work”? Many employees can answer that question. This session is not a lecture but rather an interactive experiment. Participants share their experiences on how to destroy “Happiness at Work” most effectively. Then, together, we will try to find antidotes using the unFIX repertoire.
As one of the co-founders of Transform Reply, Felix is helping companies implement sustainability in the workforce by transforming companies with a special focus on people and their needs.
A passionate Scout, OKR aficionado and Champion for the Future of Work, Felix aims to combine the best of those worlds by using OKR to empower teams and people, including intrinsic motivation and storytelling to create a cohesive approach. He comes from a background of Agile Coaching and has consulted both corporates and startups before now founding his own with Unfix methodologies about which experiences he will talk at the conference.
Felix worked in everything from Startups (incl. founding his own) to corporations where he always had the focus on empowering people with sustainable systems to flourish at work. He is both an Agile- & OKR Coach as well as a Scout and likes to go everywhere by bike.
In this workshop, we will cover:
Jakub has been Agile his entire professional life. He knows no other way and truly loves what he does. He thrives in an environment that enables self-organization. He likes to bend the rules and create working conditions that suit teams individually. He brings his whole self to work and encourages people around him to do the same.
He is a Scrum Master at Ørsted, Poland, enabling the world to run entirely on green energy.
Rhetorical Playground is a workshop/game that allows you to try different presentation approaches, test your creativity, and work with your body and voice. The workshop is run in the spirit of believing that experience and confidence come from the number of repetitions and practice, not from lectures and the number of books read. You will be presenting in front of people you don’t know. You will listen and exchange feedback in short feedback loops to enable more learning. Curious? I will make sure that this workshop is not boring.
At the unFIXcon, these are spaces for exchange and learning that participants can attend according to their interests and needs.
Most agile teams struggle to get “ownership” from their team members. How can we establish an entrepreneur mindset and what benefit would it bring to the teams?
Sharmila Patwardhan will explain explain what entrepreneur mindset is, what steps that teams and management can take to establish entrepreneurship and ownership, and talk about some typical challenges you can face.
Jaana is an agile coach, executive coach, systemic organizational consultant, and story developer. She works for companies and public organizations and is a lecturer for leadership and storytelling at different universities. Jaana loves to enable people to work more with more fun, creating connections between humans and developing learning journeys. She is a passionate networker and lives in Hamburg.
The world is in crisis. As agilists, we need to act united and have to overcome differences instead of nitpicking about frameworks. Jaana shares the IDG (inner development goals) approach of engaging from a position of abundance rather than scarcity, working with the enemy for the greater good, getting over yourself to become a bigger person, and organizing sustainable change. #InnerDevelopmentGoals
Comsysto Reply has grown from 30 to 150 people since I joined 10+ years ago. The responsibility for “everything” rested on our management team, which became unbearable. We needed organizational change! In a big workshop in 2022, we developed a new organizational structure. Several concepts we introduced and even terms like “crew” are very similar to unFIX, even though we did not know the model at the time.
I will talk about our journey to re-design Comsysto Reply and share our learnings. Later in the day, I will hold a workshop with my colleague Katie Clark to work interactively with you on restructuring organizations.
In my experience, leaders can learn to bring their customers and users inside their corporate walls, to help their employees, processes and plans align with the user needs. In this 20-minute speech, I will introduce Tight Loose Tight and alignment levels and how they inspire leaders to change.
Gabor has been an enthusiastic techie over the past decade. He has been part of various projects/products, both as a developer and as a product manager, which made him grow to become a happy generalist. Otherwise, Gabor is always busy building some fun things, whether software, hardware, teams, or something in between. He is currently the only member of the unFIX Applications Base, a joint venture under the unFIX umbrella, where he creates digital tools that make unFIX even more scalable.
At the time of writing this, I’m preparing to release the first piece of software to the public, named the unFIX Plotter. Once that’s out, everyone will be able to (co-)design their Bases with the unFIX Pattern Library – all based on semantic data. But we won’t stop there. The goal is to create a generic tool stack that supports customers in connecting all the good patterns around the internet. During my presentation, I will demo the actual state of the tool and give a sneak peek at future plans, and I would be more than happy to receive some feedback from the audience.
Jens is a part of The unFIX Company. He is captaining the unFIX Ignition crew, which helps companies apply the unFIX model within their organizations. He also participates in other crews, such as the partnership, the customer experience, and the model crews.
During his studies in computer science, Jens founded his first company. He has over twenty-five years of experience with medium-sized companies with flat hierarchies and international, matrix-organized corporations. Accordingly, he has practical know-how in the functional and disciplinary management of individual teams up to business units with over a hundred employees.
With his growth mindset, he is also a management 3.0 practitioner, which has equipped him with additional tools and practices. During the unFIXcon, Jens will be facilitating a workshop and is a go-to person for all questions about unFIX.
Katie is a Software Developer and Agile Trainer at Comsysto Reply. Over the past five years, she has been involved in complex projects in various domains ranging from semiconductor manufacturing to fresh food supply chains.
“Great software products can only be developed as a team!” is her motto, that is why she focuses on fostering a collaborative team culture, an agile mindset, and implementing processes that are continuously evolved and adapted within the team. Similarly, on a company level, she promotes transparency and self-organization to improve her organization continuously.
Carolin Adler is an independent consultant for transformation and change management, leadership communication, and business & executive coaching. As an executive in global companies for many years, she shaped topics around (agile) transformation, change, and communication.
Today, Carolin passionately accompanies and manages sustainable change processes in diverse organizations, enabling real transformation. In doing so, she works on all levels (systemic, team, and individuals), with many questions, listening, and a great mix of methods. She shares her experiences and enjoys connecting inspiring people with each other.
For over 10 years, David Cummins has accompanied the personal and organizational development, agile working, and self-organized teams in the Ministry Group as owner, managing director, mentor and coach.
Now he also accompanies other entrepreneurs, leaders, HR and change teams in leadership development and organizational transformation. With Ministry’s consulting crew, David seeks new opportunities to inspire and help organizations on the path to what he calls a Creating Organization, utilizing the approaches of Impeccable Leadership, Agility, and the unFIX model.
David is an official unFIX Diamond Partner.
As owner and CEO of Ministry Group, Andreas believes that companies need different forms of work organization to survive in the digital age. That’s why he works together with his partners and his team to make Ministry Group a little better every day.
Andreas likes to share his experiences with New Work – as a moderator, speaker, coach and consultant. He regularly leads discussion groups on the topic of digital transformation and, due to his multi-layered experience in this area, is also a sought-after discussion partner for various media such as brandeins, Werben & Verkaufen, NDR, HORIZONT and Capital.
Would you like to contribute a case presentation, workshop or other interactive format?
Check out our call for proposals page!
Jürgen Dittmar is an organizational psychologist, systemic management consultant and “Agile Consultant and Coach”.
With his company “cocondi”, he has been successfully advising and supporting companies in the introduction and optimization of better leadership principles and more agile structures and approaches since 2011. Focusing on the topic of “Agile Leadership” and agile organizational development, he works primarily with executives in various companies and management levels.
In addition, he is considered one of the most experienced trainers and representatives for Management 3.0 and unFIX.
After taking part in the first unFIX Foundation Workshop in Munich in September 2022 with Jurgen Appelo, both of us started our active journey with unFIX, quite independent from each other.
While Markus is working within a software consultancy supporting rather big clients on their way to agility, Jurgen was consulting with a variety of organizations, small and big, but also gained different perspectives through the discussions within the unFIX workshops he delivered.
In this talk we would like to share our most important experiences and insights we gathered while working with our consulting clients and workshop participants. Even more important, we want to report on the typical but also different benefits and gains our customers found, using the unFIX patterns and language elements as well as typical irritations and misunderstandings we were confronted with.
In doing so, we hope to contribute to the further development of both unFIX as a product and the unFIX community.
Joachim Nuszkowski works as an Agile Coach at diconium. He enjoys helping people work well together and uses methods from agility, moderation, facilitation, and organizational development. As a Scrum Master, he works with individual teams and coaches a group of teams in a scaled agile environment. Most important to him is a trusting environment where people can work together at eye level.
In addition, he has served in international production and project management positions in shipbuilding, aircraft, and railway companies, such as Thyssenkrupp Marine System, Diehl Aviation, and Evac GmbH. Based in Hamburg, Germany, Joachim coaches American Football and soccer teams in his free time.
Joachim has worked with agile, scaled team situations in the past years and often found that silo structures of companies and projects impede team and project success. For nearly a year now, he has been putting unFIX to the test to resolve the problematic silo structures at his current assignment.
Joachim will show us how unFIX and SAFe can work together and how unFIX can help eliminate the silo structures common in large companies. While SAFe considers silos problematic, unFIX offers methods to resolve these structures, providing benefits for scaled agile settings.
As an organizational architect in the field of new work, self-organization and (IT) strategy, Kim is in her element when she works with people who want to do something themselves instead of making do with theory or sample solutions. Depending on the situation, Kim changes into the role of consultant, coach or trainer. Experiences from job stations in process management, as a trainer in EAM, RE, soft skills, new work, and as an elected board member of a self-organized cooperative, as well as further education in coaching and conflict management and growing up in two cultures, have laid a broad foundation to develop organizations both externally and internally.
Several customer projects – tons of insights! Using unFIX in different environments with totally different challenges has revealed patterns. These I want to showcase in this impulse:
Which questions do you need to address first? Which tools and methods are helpful when designing your future organization? Which unFIX designs emerged when the key challenge was to transform to Cloud, using Mikro-Service-Architectures.
Joe is the Creator of the Agile Kata and this www.agilekata.pro certification program. He is a life-long learner, host of the Agile.FM podcast, author (www.agilekatabook.com), and a certified trainer who certifies Scrum Master, Agile Coaches and Leaders. Joe has delivered an agile curriculum to thousands of professionals around the globe. His quest for helping organizations to change to a new way of working and agile ways of thinking is directly linked to the creation of the Agile Kata, a universal agile change management pattern. Joe founded Incrementor, an agile coaching and training company located in New York back in 2009. Three years in a row, Incrementor made the prestigous INC 5000 ist.
Three out of four agile transformations fail based on a McKinsey study created in conjunction with the Agile Alliance in 2022. The number one reason is the lack of cultural change. Using a waterfall process for a transformation, like many companies do, is the wrong recipe for success. Culture does not become alive in powerpoint decks or fancy framework illustrations. Culture changes when people change behaviors and do things differently. Those behaviors don’t change overnight. The Agile Kata is a very unique approach. It is a pattern to drive change by deliberately practicing it until it becomes a new habit.
In this talk, Joe shares how the Agile Kata is fundamentally different and how you can apply this universal pattern to improve your agile transformation, reaching a higher degree of business agility, or to improve your agile team process. It can even be the starting point for introducing unFIX into your organization.
The unFIX patterns are a nearly unlimited resource for new ideas to play – in retros, with teams and customers. So let us use our collective brainpower to INVENT new games and methods of use with the cards – collaborate, fun, and gamification at their best. Join us for a fun session.
This is a workshop following Christian’s speech in the morning, in which he explains Comsysto Reply’s journey of re-designing their organization.
In this workshop, we will travel 12 months back in time. We’ll share our situation in 2022 with you and let you come up with an improved organizational structure. By facilitating this interactive session, we enable our participants to experience how to find a good starting point quickly. Finally, we will share some of our learnings since implementing our new structure.
This experience will reduce the fear of starting to change things in your own context once you travel back to the present. You will come equipped with the knowledge of the real-world case study we discussed.
Let’s “Play Change”, a card game designed for deep organizational change processes. By uncovering hidden beliefs (“The last person to leave the office works the hardest.”), processes and structures can be adapted to create new attitudes, new ways of thinking and new ways of working. This is an eye-opener for many organizations wondering why their culture is the way it is.
With unFIX, you are invited to build your own methods. In this workshop, we share one possible approach to combine patterns and describe organizations more in-depth than just on the base level. We will do a deep dive into defining crews and their members, using patterns like Teaming Options, Role Attributes, and Time Commitments, but also talk about the “Job to be done.” After a short introduction, you will be invited to get hands-on and experiment with the corresponding cards. As a result, you will have a template you can use or modify for your needs.
The most pressing challenges of our time need an urgent paradigm change, which must expand from our current legacy / linear management into what I call non-linear management. This will enable organizations to seamlessly and continuously transform. To do so, the first step is to establish a theory of everything, which should cover all decisions for all organizations, which I present during this talk.
In this talk, we will look at key ingredients of successful agile teams and why most agile teams fail. Leadership and hierarchy play a key role in that regard. But how can crews help? Let’s find out together!
As an author, speaker, and founder, Jurgen is helping creative organizations survive and thrive in the 21st century. He offers concrete games, tools, and practices, so you can introduce better management, with fewer managers. He also offers the unFIX model for designing versatile organizations focused on continuous innovation and better human experience.
Jurgen calls himself a creative networker. But sometimes, he’s a writer, speaker, trainer, entrepreneur, illustrator, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader, freethinker, or… Dutch guy. He is the author of the book Management 3.0, which describes the role of the manager in agile organizations; How to Change the World, which describes a supermodel for change management; Managing for Happiness, which offers you practical ideas to engage workers, improve work, and delight clients; and Startup, Scaleup, Screwup, which dives into the major topics that business leaders and entrepreneurs are confronted with throughout the business lifecycle.
Jurgen can help you upgrade the design of your company with more engagement and faster results; He can show you how to become an agile business with better software; He shows you how to creatively manage your company; And he can inspire professionals with a purpose, advocating work-life integration for creative people. Jurgen is CEO of Happy Melly and the unFIX Company and he is co-founder of the Agile Lean Europe network.
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Ministry Group, Team unFIXcon
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