Agile
RevolutionOver Transformation
Isn’t Enough
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Agile
RevolutionOver Transformation
Isn’t Enough
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Todd CharronTwitter: @toddcharron
Email: todd@toddcharron.com
Agile Coach, ImprovisorMentor: Lean Startup Machine Founder: Follow Your Fear Day
Who Am I?
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At the current churn rate, 75% of the S&P 500 will be replaced by 2027.
Year Tenure for average firm on S&P 500 (years)
1958 61
1980 25
2011 18
Of Your
Use TheWHOLE
Organization
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Organizations Need to be cutting edge thinkers
Leaders Not Followers
BUT
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WHOOrganizations
Who Do YouWork For?
Who Are You?
Or do you relinquish itto leadership?
Can you bring your full
power, creativity,
intelligence to work every
day?
Agile Transformation Styles
Thou Shalt Be Agile!
Top Down
Can we really order people to be Agile?
Changes practices but rarely changes the organization
Bottom Up
Are we really committed?Pilot Team
Will we ever get there? Do we even have a vision of where we’re going?
Gradual Evolution
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DOOMED!
Culture attracts and retains top Talent
Culture Wins Over Process
Need tobake it
into yourDNA
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Dictatorships
Organizations Operate Like Dictatorships
This happens whether you want it to or not
Rule Through Authority, Suppress Dissent, and Use Fear
- Gene Sharp
The population gets turned into a mass of isolated individuals
Cannot do much of their own initiative
Current Organizational Structures May be Removing Power from People
- Gene Sharp
People are often too frightened to share their hatred of the dictatorship
You only have authority if the people recognize it
Authority is an illusion
Authority can make change but only winning hearts and minds can sustain it
We must make change on an emotional level
Authority: DirectionForceCoercion
So if not authority, then what?
Liberty: FreedomAutonomyOpportunity
How far can we go creating liberated organizations?
Valve, Zappos, Netflix experimenting with increasing liberty
We can be more free, more liberated
We will get better
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How do we defeat a dictator?
Attack where it is weak
Incompetent Bureaucracy, excess controls, ineffective policies and operations
Institutional conflicts and personal rivalries
People may become apathetic, skeptical and even hostile to the regime
To defeat your organizational dictator
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To remove the dictator we must remove its legitimacy and the rewards that sustain it
Rebellions can be put down
Warning: Revolutions start as rebellions
5 Steps To Revolution
1. Understand Who You Are2. Understand Where you Are
Going3. Messaging4. Build Autonomy5. Build a Cult(ure)
1. Understand who you are
As a companyAs a group of rebels
Who are you?
Who is the face of this change?
Who is your leader?
Be intentional.Be polarizing.
What’s your point of view?
...and live by them
Have Values
Keep Method WeirdWhat would MacGyver Do?Innovate Don’t ImitateCollaborate, Collaborate, CollaborateCare Like Crazy
Method Values:
Leaders Change First
You Won’t Please Everyone
What Is Your Shared Pain?
What Is Your Dictator?
Is there an inciting incident?
2. Understand Where You Are Going
What does success look like?
How do we measure the strength of the dictator?
We Are (Company, Rebel Group), we believe _________
Exercise:
Our dictator is ______ it causes _______
Exercise:
The dictator gets its power from: __________
Exercise:
The dictator is vulnerable to: __________
Exercise:
We will know the dictator is losing power when: __________
Exercise:
We will know we have succeeded when: __________
Exercise:
Create a declaration of independence from the dictator
What is
vs.
What could be
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
We are uncovering better ways of developingsoftware by doing it and helping others do it.Through this work we have come to value:
That is, while there is value in the items onthe right, we value the items on the left more.
Build your narrative
Tell your story
While respecting what was good about it
Focus on Dissatisfaction with the Dictator
Be factual, don’t sugar coat
Celebrate Your Victories
Autonomy requires Clarityand Competence
What am I concerned about?
From may I toI intend to
Or Go Against The Grain
Embrace Ideas That Seem Uncomfortable
Trust Their Choices Even If They Are Different Than Your Own
If not, fix THAT rather than remove power
Trust that they are competent and have clarity of vision
Why Are They There?
If you don’t believe they can understand the vision or pick up the skills
Focus on the bright spots
Create Opportunities For Them To Go Deeper
Meet People Where They Are
5. Build a Cult(ure)
Working Towards A Common Goal
Warm Ups and Other Rituals
Become More Group’ish
Flip Your Hive Switch
Synchrony Builds Trust
Focus on What You Have In Common
Increase Similarity Not Diversity
Membership Rather Than Followership
NOT Between Individuals
Healthy Competition Between Teams
Dancing Dissolves HierarchyPlay Poker
Lose Yourself In The Group
How will you keep Method weird?
Create Positive Rites Of Passage
Tribes, Squads, Chapters, GuildsSprints, Scrum, Daily Scrum, Retrospectives
Create Symbols, Names, Insider Language
Give your members a name- Beliebers is taken
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Provide Immediate Recognition for those living the values
The is THE top priority
The is an ongoing long term effort
You need to be intentional about who you are
This is the thing you have to scale
You need to lead it and own it
Outsiders Can Help
BUT
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Organization
WORKS
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AREWe Need To
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WHOOrganizations
RevolutionStart a
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