Is there something missing from your transformation initiative? in this talk Chris will highlight the learnings from three years as a community of practice leader within a large transforming organisation, Centrica. Starting with a single guild we have grown an informal movement for change that holistically addresses people, process and technology aspects of transformation with an emphasis on the former. And in the process, Chris has, himself, grown from being a technologist to a more rounded transformation professional. The techniques we stumbled upon align well to modern management practices including: Agile and Flow, Network Science, Sociocracy, Servant Leadership, Teal Organisations—and even System Thinking and Complexity Science. I will share highs and lows, patterns, anti-patterns and all the information you will need to create your own thriving guild movement.

If you are in IT, you would have worked in or at least heard of projects.

When we hear of projects, we think of money, success. what we're trying to build, and we think of the roles and other resources such as the budget.

We sometimes even think of the people that we want to avoid or the people that we want to include. We think about winning.

But we never think of the human behind the projects.

I will take you through the humanising of projects and the genius way to manifest your projects whilst transmuting the complexity we have become so used to experiencing.