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: 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.
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 politically charged cults. In the XSCALE Alliance we leverage the XSCALE patterns to align our decisions to mutual benefit.
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 delivering 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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