Agile Lyon 2018

Agile Lyon 2018 management

Organized by CARA, the Agile Lyon 2018 day was, this year, on the theme of management. And management skills, whatever our role within an Agile team, are always welcome. As a Product Owner, I manage products. Management concepts are useful and adaptable to my job. Increasing management skills also allows you to better interact with the different stakeholders involved in a project, whether in the design/conception or production phase.

A look back at the day at Agile Lyon 2018:

The morning is dedicated to plenary conferences on management in the face of disability, or even on Neuroleadership to discover how our brain works in the face of decision-making and change, enough to get us into the swing of things. Then comes the afternoon when you have to choose your workshops. The choice is complex. Wanting to try my hand at improvisation theater, I turned to a workshop called “Reveal the leader in you with improv”. This workshop is led by kolinkis (http://www.kolinkis.com/).

It’s fun, we move, we do the exercises. We must listen to the rest of the group and be ready to bounce back on any idea. (You are a tree, I am an apple on the tree. If you are an apple, I am the worm in the apple).

The games are simple, without any fuss: “the more average, the better” reminds us the host. Indeed, bouncing back on an average idea is easier, letting go is easier, and good ideas will be born more easily.

Then comes the final exercise, where we are all moving or standing still, each listening to the others: in synchronization with the group. We walk around the room, free to impose movement or stopping on the group, decisions are self-regulated, collective intelligence is expressed.

(What? You didn’t understand anything about the exercise I went through?)

In management, the leader must sometimes impose himself but always in synchronization with the team

It’s alchemy with the group. you also have to know how to step aside and adapt according to the self-organization of the group.

Individuals and their interactions are at the center of the workshop. Adaptation to change is constant.

We find the values ​​of Agility, the loop is closed.

This day at Agile Lyon 2018 was rich in discoveries, knowledge exchanges and meetings. Thank you and congratulations to Cara for the organization, thanks to which we were able to approach management from different prisms. See you next year for another exciting day around a new theme :)!

Marine

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