Rich Sheridan's keynote slides

1. Agile & The Business Value of Joy
Richard B. Sheridan
CEO, Co-founder, Chief Storyteller
Menlo Innovations
@menloprez

3. Joyful?

4. Destroy the person.

5. Destroy the team.Destroy the team.

6. Destroy the culture:
Leadership
Pyromania*
*Brought to you by arsonists!

7. Welcome to Menlo
• Introduction

8. Menlo Version 3
• Introduction

9. Menlo Version 3
• Introduction

10. The tools of our intentional culture.

11. Storycards
• Write it down
• Get away from management by
suggestion
• Writing a card does not “authorize” it.
Clarity and Simplicity

12. Common
sense
• Anthropology
• Study people
• Observe them
– In their native environment
• Look for the invisible
• Be the empath!

13. Serious
fun!
Practice, practice
.

14. Conversation
The way we engage stakeholders matters!

15. Freedom & Structure
The joy of getting things done!

16. Permission
The joy of learning. Teamwork and collaboration.

17. Experiments
Trust your people!

18. Space, Energy, Humility
• High-speed Voice Technology™
• Energy, creativity, imagination, Wow!
• Knock down towers of knowledge.

19. Rigor and discipline
• Automated Unit Testing
• Simple, powerful, ignored.
• Living, breathing documentation.

20. Overcoming Brook’s Law
You can’t do that! Yes we can!

21. Build a “Learning Organization”
“In the long run, the only
sustainable source of
competitive advantage is your
organization’s ability to learn
faster than your competition.”
- Peter Senge

22. The Team, the Team …
“Not finance. Not
strategy. Not technology.
It is teamwork that
remains the ultimate
competitive advantage,
both because it is so
powerful and so rare.”
- Patrick Lencioni

23. Inspiration
Menlo Park,
New Jersey
1880-1881

25. Questions?
Richard B. Sheridan
rsheridan@menloinnovations.com
twitter @Menloprez
734-665-1847
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How We Built
a Workplace
People Love
Joy,
Inc.
Richard Sheridan
Co-founder and CEO, Menlo Innovations
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