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How do you foster a thriving LeSS Huge adoption in a deeply traditional, hierarchical mechanical corporation? In this session, we explore the unique journey of a line manager navigating the intersection of two worlds: the agile product organization embracing LeSS principles, and the larger corporate structure still rooted in classic management paradigms.

This story isn’t about frameworks or ceremonies—it’s about people, power dynamics, and purposeful change. As a manager, I will share how I work to protect, grow, and sustain a learning environment for teams, while fulfilling mandatory corporate processes without compromising agility. With me on stage will be a business controller, bringing the voice of corporate “musts,” and a product developer, offering an on-the-ground perspective of how management decisions truly impact teams.

Together, we’ll reflect on:
- Balancing compliance and adaptability: surviving audits without destroying autonomy.
- Evolving legacy mindsets: engaging peers and executives in systems thinking and lean principles.
- Building trust, not bridges, between the agile bubble and the rest of the organization.
- Developing a new kind of leadership—one that teaches, listens, and serves.

This is a candid and practical conversation on what it really takes for a manager to help a large organization become natively agile.

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