Do you find yourself asking questions like what did ‘just’ happen, what does it mean, without getting satisfying answers? No matter a role we are in, we work with individuals, teams, and organizations where we observe different events and situations in different contexts. How can we make sense out of all of these events and situations? What tools can we use in getting more clarity and understanding? What are the right questions? If you do find yourself asking those questions, this session will help you discover one approach on how to deal with such situations by combining Michael Spayd’s and Michele Madore’s Integral Agile Transformation FrameworkTM and powerful questions. The workshop will address the perspectives of leadership and mindset, practices and behavior, organizational architecture, and organizational culture and relationships. And in the combination with powerful questions give the opportunity to experience the creation of clarity and understanding.

1. PERSPECTIVES AT HELP
Zvonimir Durcevic
@zvonimir

2. INTRODUCTIONS

3. THE PURPOSE
The purpose of this workshop is to introduce
you, the participants, to the concepts of the
Integral Agile Transformation Framework™
(IATF) and the power of Powerful Questions.

4. THE AGENDA
Part 1
1. Introductions
2. What do we observe?
3. Overview
4. Perspectives & IATF
5. Powerful Questions
Break (14:15 – 14:25)
Part 2
1. Choosing a situation
2. Describing the situation
3. Collaborative questions
4. Closing

5. EXERCISE – INTRODUCTION
1. Prepare for 1 minute to answer following questions:
What is your name?
Where are you coming from (country, city, company)?
What is the best thing that happened to you this week?
2. You will have 30 seconds to introduce yourself to the
rest of the group.

6. WHAT DO WE OBSERVE?

7. MY STORY (PARTS OF IT, AT LEAST)
Trainer/Teacher
Software Developer
Project Manager
Manager
Scrum Master
Consultant
Agile Coach Husband
Father
Friend
Child
Student

8. OUR STORIES CONNECTED

9. WHAT DO WE OBSERVE?
Self
Individuals
Teams
Program
Organization
MARKETPLACE

10. STEP BACK - MAKE SPACE
Organization
Program
Individuals
Teams
SelfSeparate
Reflect
Take Time
MARKETPLACE

11. OVERVIEW

12. USE PERSPECTIVES & QUESTIONS
Organization
Program
Individuals
Teams
Self
Integral Agile
Transformation
Framework™️
Powerful
Questions
MARKETPLACE

13. PERSPECTIVES & IATF

14. EXERCISE – CHANGE PERSPECTIVE
1. Please, change the chair in the circle.
2. What has changed for you?
3. What has changed for others?

15. “A point of view, in philosophy, is an attitude–how
one sees or thinks:[1] a specified (or stated) manner
of consideration[2] as in "my personal point of view".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_view_(philosophy)
Mushki Brichta cc CC BY-SA 4.0

16. PERSPECTIVES BY MICHAEL SPAYD & MICHELE MADORE
©️2018 Trans4mation, LLC
Mindset, Beliefs,
Values, Intentions
Skills,
Competencies,
Performance,
Individual Results
Systems,
Structures, Value
Flow, Governance,
Policies
Mental Models,
Shared Values,
Common Vision
“I” Quadrant “IT” Quadrant
“ITS” Quadrant“WE” Quadrant

17. MICHAEL SPAYD & MICHELE MADORE
TRANS4MATION.COACH

18. POWERFUL QUESTIONS

19. “There are three characteristics that typically
distinguish powerful questions: they invite
exploration, resist easy answers, and invoke strong
passions. In essence, powerful questions affect the
way we gather information by helping us move
beyond simple intellectual analysis to create a more
holistic view of the challenge.
Critical Reflections, How Groups Can Learn from Success and Failure: Chris Ernst, Andre Martin

20. “What are the patterns? …
What‘s interesting, unique, beautiful, or unusual about
this? …
What is one hope you have going into this? …
How do you feel about this at a deep down gut level? …
What is this like? …
What questions are we neglecting to act? …
What would be positives if we failed? …
What are we doing right? …
The Leader's Edge: Charles J. Palus, David M. Horth

21. POWERFUL QUESTIONS
Search: Co-Active Coaching & Powerful Questions
https://learn.coactive.com/hubfs/2019%20Toolkit/Co-Active-Coaching-Toolkit-POWERFUL%20QUESTIONS.pdf

22. POWERFUL QUESTIONS - EXERCISE
Search: Co-Active Coaching & Powerful Questions
https://learn.coactive.com/hubfs/2019%20Toolkit/Co-Active-Coaching-Toolkit-POWERFUL%20QUESTIONS.pdf
1. Find a partner and sit near each other
2. Everybody will have 1 minute to think about one
problem/challenge currently facing.
3. For 4 minutes one partner is asking powerful
questions (use the link provided) and only powerful
questions. Asking partner waits until the question is
answered to ask another powerful question.
4. After these 4 minutes partners change the role.
5. What has changed for you? What did you notice?

23. MAIN EXERCISE

24. WORKSHOP EXERCISE
Event /
Situation
Story Telling
“I” Quadrant
Questions
“IT” Quadrant
Questions
“ITS” Quadrant
Questions
“WE” Quadrant
Questions
1. Collectively choose 1 event/situation
5 min: conversation in a group
2. Describe the event/situation
5 min: tell a story about the specific event, if you
all share the same story, each can tell part of it
(Fill in the center of the flip-chart)
3. Collectively write questions you would ask
from a specific quadrant’s PERSPECTIVE to create
a MEANING, to clarify the event/situation.
5 min for each quadrant: in total 20 min

25. THANK YOU FOR
BEING HERE!
Zvonimir Durcevic
@zvonimir

26. FLIPCHARTS – MAIN EXCERCISE

31. AGILE COACHING - AREAS OF WORK & DEVELOPMENT
Individuals
Self
Teams
Program
Organization
Source: ICAgile Learning Roadmap Agile Coaching Track
The International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile)
CC License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

32. HANDOUT 1 (PERSPECTIVES AT HELP)
©️2018 Trans4mation, LLC
Mindset, Beliefs, Values,
Intentions
Skills, Competencies,
Performance, Individual
Results
Systems, Structures, Value
Flow, Governance, Policies
Mental Models, Shared
Values, Common Vision
“I” Quadrant “IT” Quadrant
“ITS” Quadrant“WE” Quadrant
Search: Co-Active Coaching & Powerful Questions
https://learn.coactive.com/hubfs/2019%20Toolkit/Co-Active-Coaching-Toolkit-POWERFUL%20QUESTIONS.pdf
Individual
Collective
External
Internal

33. HANDOUT 2 (CASE SCENARIOS)
1. The keynote of Agile Tour Vienna 2019
The advantage of this case scenario is that all, or at least the majority of the
group members share this experience.
2. A successful product or feature launch.
3. A successful meeting where the outcome benefited the whole organization.
4. A meeting where the outcome of the meeting completely missed the target.
5. Conflict in the team based on the interpretation of roles (example: developer
in a conflict with an architect, …)
Some of you will have similar experiences. If possible, take one of your
experiences and share it with a group in a form of a story (what happened,
where were you, what did you feel, what was the impact of the event).
This is a list of possible case scenarios you can use for the main exercise. As a
group, select one of these scenarios and decide who will provide a specific
details of the event or situation.

34. RESOURCES
Integral Agile Transformation Framework™️: Michael Spayd & Michele Madore
Agile Transformational Leader Workshop: Michael Spayd & Michele Madore
(http://www.trans4mation.coach)
Co-Active Coaching 2nd Edition: Laura Whitwort, et. al.
ICAgile Learning Roadmap Agile Coaching Track Version 2.0: The
International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile)
Ken Wilber: Theory of Everything, Shambhala (2001)
Ken Wilber: Brief History of Everything, Shambhala (2017)
Christopher T. Ernst, Andre Martin: Critical Reflections: How Groups Can Learn
from Success and Failure, Center for Creative Leadership (2007)
Charles J. Palus, David M. Horth: The Leader's Edge: Six Creative Competencies
for Navigating Complex Challenges, Jossey-Bass (2002)