Self-management for Agile programs in Covid lockdown: The Camelot Model
Channel: XSCALE Alliance
Date: 17/02/2021

Covid kills business agility. Small teams may work better in Zoom than in person but program management turns farcical when only one person can speak at a time. Business needs a way to align teams to its changing needs continuously at this time of VUCA, not "once every three months".

Self-management doesn't mean "fire the managers" or "yet another scaling framework". It means minimizing meeting size, doer-decider distance, and decision-making loop length to accelerate the flow of learning across the organization regardless of choices of frameworks and managers.

Camelot is "only a model" for this. It's a small toolkit of simple practices that each solve a specific problem. You apply one of these practices only when you're actually experiencing the problem it solves. So it's easy to use these tools without changing any of your organization's existing management structure or ways of working.

Camelot practices have seen use at Apple, Produbanco, Sberbank, Air Canada, College Board, CBA, Ray White, eHealth NSW and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. In this #Agile20Reflect session we cover all the Camelot practices in about an hour and then another 20 minutes of Q&A.