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1. Agile HR
Community
London Meetup
www.agilehrcommunity.com
@NatalDank
#AgileHR

2. Natal Dank
Co-founder, Agile HR Community
HR Agilest, Southern Blue Consulting
Kate Rand
People & Ops Director, Beyond
Facilitator & Partner, Agile HR Community

3. Share your
Agile HR
adventure
so far…

4. Our new
working
paradigm
@NatalDank
#AgileHR

5. Agile for HR
Applying the mindset and tools
within your own HR teams and
projects
HR for Agile
Evolving your people practices to
support Agile teams and
organisational transformation
@NatalDank
#AgileHR

7. Agile HR
Community
www.agilehrcommunity.com

8. Treat your culture like a
product

9. What is
Beyond?
Jan 24th 2019

10. We pursue objectives through agile
roadmaps, experimenting and adapting for
stronger solutions, delivered sooner.
Product Design & Build
We uncover opportunities for innovation
across digital and physical touchpoints.
Customer Experience
We align your message with your audience to
drive use throughout the product ecosystem.
Product Marketing
We solve for the future with progressive
technology strategy, design, and engineering.
Technology
We believe in innovation with intent.

11. Where we
are

12. We work with...

13. Meet the
team

14. People & Op’s Team
Kate Rand
People
Operations
Ary Mustafa
Employee
Experience
Fran James
Talent
Development

15. EX
L&D
Talent
Aq
D&I
People
Ops

16. Team
EX
L&D
Talent
Aq
PO
D&I
People
Ops
PO
PO
PO
Team
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17. Pillars

18. Ways of Working

19. We use these to rectify issues
that have been identified,
and also to include the larger
studio in rapid problem
solving.
Swarms
Daily stand ups used outside
of the sprint format for all
People Ops team members.
Stand ups
Project specific kanbans, and
also our overall people ops
kanban are up in the studio in
physical format.
Kanbans
We use sprints in 1,2,4 and 8
week intervals.
Sprints

20. We work in principles
over policies.
Prescription is a sure
fire way for things to
go out of date quickly.
Principles
Principles feed in to our
overall belief in
adaptability. This is in
our approach, and our
processes. Rigidity
causes things to snap.
Adaptability means you
can flex with the
environment.
Adaptability
It’s not always right to
operate with full
transparency, but we
advocate it where we
can with everything we
do.
Transparency
We practice human
centred design when
creating process or
guidelines. Any changes
are taken through user
testing, and are done in
iterations so we can
ensure they are right for
the people.
Human
Centred
Decisions are not made
in vacuums. Data is
collected, and analysed
to ensure we’re
delivering the right
thing, not what we
think is right.
Data Driven

21. T Shaped

22. By mirroring the way we
interact with our clients, we
have become a client first
team with a human centred,
agile approach to #GSD

23. Experiment 1
Global People Strategy

24. It’s A Process
Shared Language
Prioritisation training
Backlog introduction
Priorities shared
Process harmonisation
2
Team Dynamics
Emotional Cycle of Change
Team & Purpose workshop
Reflections
Retrospectives & Standups
Commitments
3
Global Roadmap
Communication cadence
User stories defined
Backlog prioritised
Product Owner established
Communication framework
agreed
4
Discovery & Insight
User Research with NY Studio
Journey Mapping
GM Offsite Presentation
D&I Discussion
Key note speakers
1

25. The Backlog
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26. Experiment 2
User Research & Personas

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34. Experiment 3
Product Teams & Kanban

35. MoSCoW

36. KANBAN

37. Experiment 4
Productising Employee
Experience (BEE Suite)

38. Open Source
Frameworks
We’re publicly releasing the
frameworks that have helped us
create a more diverse and inclusive
environment.
You can find them here:
frameworks.bynd.com

39. Beyond’s Product Solutions

40. Antibias
Chrome Extension here: https://antibias.webflow.io

41. Pay Attention

42. Does it work?
Jan 24th 2019

43. In one year, we’ve been
shortlisted for more than
10 D&I awards, opened our
doors to children, dogs, drag
queens, and thrown over 52
inclusive socials, taken on
1 extra floor and introduced
agile HR. Throughout this our
eNPS has remained above 20.

44. Questions?

45. 1. Explore the concept of developing
your culture like a product…
2. How does Agile and incremental
development begin to reshape the HR
operational model?
3. How do we develop T-shaped HR
professionals and teams?
Group Chat

47. Upcoming London
Agile HR Certified
Programs
11th & 12th Sept 2019
26th & 27th Nov 2019
28th & 29th Jan 2020

48. Agile HR
Community
London Meetup
www.agilehrcommunity.com
@NatalDank
#AgileHR