Without YAGNI, Agile frameworks increase bureaucracy and kill alignment:
We coach an organization's most proactive business, design & devops staff to form a slender, self-propagating "steel thread" value stream.
Without generating resistance, this stream acts as a "superconductor for change", With coaching, it doubles capability every three months, proving and improving its value flows at an exponential rate without ever disrupting pre-existing teams and streams or confusing old ways of working with the new ones.
Small, fixed-price, self-propagating changes, each scoped to the organization's current learning-flow bottleneck, not what it's gonna need later:
Discovery: Assessing constraints and raising awareness.Inception: Aligning change architecture to leadership.Mobilization: Maturing & multiplying steel threads.Refactoring: Simplifying & automating self-management.
Alignment is a collaborative game like basketball, not an individual one like golf. It's harmonious flow, not a role or skill, and comes by learning together through working together, not certification.
XSCALE courses accelerate pull transformation by forming a learning ecosystem, not promoting a framework. The courses focus on group interactions, measured in terms of group objectives, and taught through group workshops where the students learn together by working together.
We offer two modes of learning AI & Agile Alignment principles and practices.
Self-serve learning paths: you face an immediate problem solved by a specific XSCALE practice-pattern. You want to learn how to apply this to your problem, not change the world with it.
Coached Practitioner Courses: for change professionals seeking fluency in AI & Agile Alignment or a fast start for client steel-threads in inception or mobilization modes.
XSCALE offers an enterprise solution for AI & Agile Alignment for clients with and without pre-existing agile frameworks. It provides:
Business Agility:Â self-directing portfolios of self-managing value streams.
Product Agility: aligning business, design, and AI agents breadth-first to product-market fit and ROI.
AI Driven Development: mobbing BDD for AI analysis and AI testing of AI solutions.
Our two AI & Agile Alignment invitational events - a summit on October 11 2024 and November 11 Promptathon - use intelligence-mining to rank thought leaders based on contributions to this growing field - so we don't have these events clogged with brand boosters and certificate collectors.
Our June summit focused on "AI & Business Alignment" and you can watch the keynots and panel session here. October is on "AI & Product Alignment". Keynoters to be announced shortly
We're also calling for proposals by AI & Agile Alignment folks with fire in their bellies to speak at Agilign 2025. And that's open to all, newcomers welcome!
The first AI & Agile Alignment conference. TED-style talks and hands-on workshops in AI Driven Development, AI Business Alignment & AI Product Alignment. With three edges:
Agilign 2025 runs 3 days starting March 11. Early Bird is on sale at $240 USD; Full Price starts at $490 USD. Early Birds also get priority seating and 15% off of 2025 XSCALE courses.
Traditional formats divide speakers from audience. Open-space "unconference" formats, which empower attendees, don't align learnings, reconcile differences, or resolve questions.
XSCALE's Camelot model does those things by forming attendees into an AI-integrated learning ecosystem that focuses on the greatest mutual interest to the attendees.
Prepared talks, hands-on workshops, and open space sessions plus a breadth-first structured marketplace of ideas - it'sboth conference and unconference. And Camelot really comes into its own at the Promptathon - which is like a hackathon but tech skills aren't required - everybody's welcome!
Eco - "From Community" - is critical to alignment. Agile and Lean frameworks too often form politically charged cults. In the XSCALE Alliance we leverage the XSCALE patterns to align our decisions to mutual benefit through LaaS, TA, OBM & Camelot.
Commerce is critical for any organization to grow so we must serve competing commercial interests. Our Alliance lives in the positive-sum intersection of these, enabling us to interoperate and collaborate in the mode of contributors to the Linux ecosystem.
XSCALE's Camelot Model powers our communities' ability to to align themselves. Xscale.co makes a platform for this purpose combining virtual spaces, 3D Kanban, and social network groups across our three principal communities:
Coaches: seasoned, independent pros focusing on AI & Agile Alignment.Practitioners: change leaders applying XSCALE practices.Partners: consultancies and professional groups invested in the AI & AA Manifesto.
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 contribute to it too under a Harmony CLA.
To work as an open platform for independent coaches, XSCALE takes no margin on coaching fees, only training and event fees in a globally standardized A+B+C split:A: 15% to XSCALE for licensingB: 25% to sales & relationship partnersC: 60% to engaged coaches.
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