8 Benefits of a Team Agile Canvas

Creating Sync

When teams share a sense of the future they want to create together, they experience a more rigorous sense of sync in their work in the present, always on the same page

Deepening Passion

Teams work with passion when they have a long view of the future they want to create together; the depth of their passion is always equal to the length of their vision

Fostering Velocity

Teams are nimble and responsive when they have shared priorities they work from at a two week tempo

Sustaining Progress

The biggest driver of a sense of agency and happiness that overcomes sense of victimhood powerlessness is having a continuous sense of progress being made this happens from the tempo of the canvas

Growing Culture

The process by design makes it possible for people to feel valued, connected and free to so their best

Inspiring Meaning

Because present action is always aligned with future dreams, everything we do in the present has a sense of significance beyond

Expanding Learning

Because the process is question based allows us to learn our way into a new future inspired by the constant of uncertainty.

Hierarchy in Agile Canvas

It is fairly inevitable that in an agile canvas strategic planning process, which is uniquely empowering and engaging, there are people accustomed to hierarchical approaches who bristle at the lack of hierarchy in the process.

It takes them out of their comfort zone. They are used to there being top-down mission and vision statements, values lists, top-down governance, managerial assignments, executive mandates. They are not used to people being entrusted, empowered and engaged in doing what matters inspired by shared dreams.

They actually have to go through the process and see it happen to have any faith in it. Hierarchy is intrinsically a mistrust of people. And this mistrust is not necessarily ill intentioned. It simply comes from having no idea how to do otherwise. People who are committed to hierarchical structures are not bad people. They have gifts to be engaged as well as others do. They wil

The principles behind the Agile Canvas conversations

The 4 Agile Canvas conversations have power because of the principles behind them. 

Dreaming: The depth of our passion is equal to the length of our vision 

Clarity: The tempo of our dreams is equal to the rate of our questions 

Gifts: The scope of our success is equal to the engagement of our talents and resources

Doing: The momentum of our progress is equal to the cadence of our actions 

In business as unusual, these principles inspire and organize the process with unique power to keep us continously focused, realistic, aligned and productive.