University School of Agility SAFe Leadership Presented by: Berkana Enterprise Consulting Mac Felsing, SPC/CSM The College of William & Mary Mason School.
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University
School of Agility
SAFe Leadership
Presented by:Berkana Enterprise Consulting Mac Felsing, SPC/CSM
The College of William & Mary Mason School of Business
Center for Corporate EducationWilliamsburg, Virginia
Mac Felsing
Certification history: SPC – SAFe Program Consultant CSM - Certified Scrum Master Author
Agile Community Involvement:NYC, Virginia, SoCal, Denver; speaker at conferences and community events, including: InnovateVirginia.com
Instructor Fun or Unique Fact:Performed with 3 professional opera companies and a regional symphony. Also builds scale models.
“Your Job, should you choose to accept it…”
PlantCultivate
Grow
Share, listen, discuss Understand Apply
SAFe Leadership - Points
• Quick Overview of SAFe 3.0
• Focus on Leadership In SAFe
• Making it Real – Leadership at any level
• Personal Challenge – How can I… - (This means you)
Quick Overview of SAFe 3.0
SAFe 3.0 Video
The Big Picture
The Big Picture
Lean Thinking
SAFE Leadership – the Lean View
House of Lean – Foundation is Lean Agile Leaders
Responsibility for success lies with existing leaders, managers, executives – not the agile champions, practitioners, teams, consultants. The leaders must be trained in these new ways of thinking and exhibit and teach them.
Characteristics• Understand Lean-Agile Principles, long term philosophy guides day-to-day
decisions, understand and teach the behaviors• Trained in practices, roles, activities, and artifacts of SAFe and other
effective Agile practices• Trained in tools and practices of continuous improvement
and teach problem solving and corrective action skills• Engaged in new process adoption, remove impediments, facilitate OCM• Take personal responsibility for Lean-Agile success
Discussion
1) How does this differ from “traditional” Agile views on leadership?
2) What do we expect from managementin a “traditional” Agile environment?
3) Where does this type of Lean-Agile attitude usually reside?
SAFE Leadership – Lean Agile Leaders
Lifelong learners and teachers.
Build better teams by demonstrating the values,
principles and practices of Lean, Product Development
Flow, and Agile Development
Lean Agile Leadership Principles
1. Take a Systems View
2. Embrace the Agile Manifesto
3. Implement Product Development Flow
4. Unlock the Intrinsic Motivation of Knowledge workers
Take a Systems View
Understand the economics, value chain and the Cost of Delay.
Optimize the whole not the parts – organization and systems.
Own the system. Take responsibility for Systemic Change.
Align everyone to a common mission Implement Lean-Agile budgeting
Embrace the Agile Manifesto
Support the its values and principles.
Know how to use the tools and practices
Foster excellence in software engineering, craftsmanship, collaborative system design
Empower teams. Exhibit Kaizen mind and a bias towards doing (action).
Implement Product Development Flow
Visualize the work, expose WIP and bottlenecks, reduce queues and backlogs.
Smaller batches. Accelerated feedback. Exploit and manage variability
using cadence and synchronization. Limit WIP and match demand to capacity
Unlock Intrinsic Motivation of Knowledge Workers
Build a learning organization – emphasize itCreate an environment of mutual influenceEncourage decentralized decision makingProvide vision with minimal requirements –
what not howEliminate policies that cause bad behavior
(MBO’s etc) and suck the life out of an organization
Align evaluations and measures to reflect lean values and principles
Discussion – Making it Real
1) For each of the 4 Lean-Agile Principles talk about when you have seen it in yourorganization?
2) What are some of the barriers to achieving
3) Are these behaviors for each of the principles only for management? Think about defending your answer.
4) Do you have any opportunities to practice any of these behaviors at your work
The Challenge…
Ask yourself,
What can I do to start exhibiting Agile-Lean Leadership in my organization?
Write down 3 things to actively change
Start working on them when you leave today!
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