Without YAGNI, Agile frameworks work to increase bureaucracy and kill alignment:
We coach the organization's most innovative business, design & devops staff into a slender, self-propagating "steel thread" value stream.
Generating neither internal nor external resistance, this thread works as a superconductor for change, With coaching, it can double its capability every three months, proving and improving its value at an exponential rate without ever disrupting pre-existing teams and streams, nor confusing old ways of working with new ones.
Small, fixed-price self-propagating changes, each scoped to the current learning-flow bottleneck and what you need now, not later:
Discovery: Assessing constraints and raising awareness.Inception: Aligning change architecture to leadership.Mobilization: Maturing & multiplying steel threads.Refactoring: Simplifying & automating self-management.
Agility is a collaborative game like basketball, not an individual one like golf. It's harmonious interaction, not a role or skill, and comes from learning how to work together by working together, not book learning.
XSCALE courses serve to accelerate pull transformations by building a learning ecosystem. The courses focus on group objectives, measured by group assessments, and games where groups of students learn to work together by working together.
We offer two modes of learning agile alignment principles and practices.
Self-serve learning paths: you face a problem solved by specific practice-patterns. You want to understand how these work and how to apply them to this immediate problem.
Coached Practitioner Courses: for change professionals seeking fluency in the whole pattern-language, or a fast start for steel threads in inception or mobilization mode.
XSCALE provides a complete enterprise alignment ecosystem that works with and without an agile framework. It covers:
Business Agility: self-aligning portfolios of self-managing value streams.
Product Agility: aligning business, design, and tech breadth-first to continuously optimize ROI.
AI Driven Development: human-mediated BDD for AI analysis and AI testing of AI solutions.
Traditional conference formats divide speakers from attendees. Although open-space "unconference" formats empowers attendees to speak, they don't help align their learnings, resolve conflicting opinions, nor prioritize burning questions.
XSCALE's Camelot model does all these things, forming attendees into a coherent AI-integrated learning ecosystem that continuously focuses the conference on the learning objectives of the greatest mutual interest to its attendees.
An international online conference advancing the state of the descaling art, X-One offers TED-style talks and interactive games in 4 domains – Business Agility – Product Agility – GPTOps – & "Rebel Scum" - each with 3 edges:
The most progressive conference on the agile calendar calls for proposals by the most progressive agile speakers in the world. Folks with fire in the belly to advance the state of the art. If you just want to share some Lean / SAFe / Scrum tweaks ... look elsewhere.
XSCALE One runs late Feb 2025. You can purchase Early Bird now at $240 USD or wait and pay full price at $490 USD. Early Birds get priority seating at all conference events and a 15% discount on all 2025 XSCALE courses.
Eco - "from community" - is critical to alignment. Agile and Lean frameworks too often form top-down zero-sum bureaucracies where, in our community, we make decisions together for our mutual benefit.
Commerce is critical for growth and we often serve competing commercial interests. The XSCALE ecosystem lives in the positive-sum intersection of these interests, enabling us to interoperate and collaborate freely in the mode of participants in the Linux community.
XSCALE's Camelot Model empowers our communities to align themselves. Xscale.co provides a platform for this purpose combining virtual spaces, 3D Kanban, and social network groups for our three principal communities:
Coaches: seasoned change professionals committed to descaling principles.Practitioners: change leaders practicing descaling patterns.Partners: consultancies and professional groups invested in the six descaling values.
XSCALE's model is Open Core. Everything is licensed CC-BY-SA except course collateral shared as CC-BY-NC-ND. XSCALE Coaches gain a commercial license to this core, and may contribute to it too under a Harmony CLA.
To promote frictionless collaboration, XSCALE takes no margin on coaching fees, only training and event fees in an A+B+C split:A: 15% to XSCALE for licensingB: 25% to sales & relationship partnersC: 60% to engaged coaches.
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