Are you struggling with communicating difficult agile challenges to the decision-makers in your organization? Does Management think you're a dogmatic evangelist when, in reality, you're trying to help your company improve by using the agile ways of working? Can't you get through the ones with power? Then, you should try articulating your message as a humorous agile comic strip.

Through his globally popular agile comic strip, Comic Agile, Luxshan Ratnaravi has, together with his partner Mikkel Noe-Nygaard, shown the agile community the effectiveness of articulating anti-patterns, risks and failures when seeking to improve organizations' agile practices. And now, you can also learn to do it.

In this workshop, you'll learn which elements constitute an effective agile comic strip, so it becomes a very powerful way of addressing the challenges that impede organizations in reaping the benefits of working agile. You will get a taste of the Comic Agile secret sauce by trying to structure your comic strip in the way Comic Agile does in our typical four-panel comics. You'll have identified an actual real-life agile challenge from your own organization, reflected on how to humorously exaggerate it and caricature how the theory behind it fails when it meets reality (i.e., your organizational context). Ultimately, you'll end up with your group's very own Comic Agile comic that you can actually use back at your organization to address the articulated challenge.

No drawing skills are needed, as the comic can also be described as a manuscript; the key is having trained the way of thinking, i.e., the identification, breakdown, articulation and punchline of the chosen anti-pattern or impediment.

Learning Outcomes:

• You will have created your own Comic Agile comic that addresses your actual real-life agile challenge
• You will have understood what elements a comic needs to include to be an effective way of communicating otherwise complex agile challenges
• You will have learned how to humorously articulate and describe relevant organizational impediments or anti-patterns in the form of a comic
• You have received feedback from other agile practitioners on how to actually solve your illustrated agile challenge