An Agile Adoption and Transformation Survival Guide.pptx

@MichaelSahota

Agile 2012 Grapevine, TX

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STRATEGIC PLAY®

Session Outline

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Quick Survey – What Agile Adoption Success have you seen?

•  5  =  Every  )me  a  success  

•  ...  •  0  =  Every  )me  a  failure  

•  Raise  your  hand  when  your  number  comes  up…   Photo CC

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Agile Tour Toronto 2011

XP Toronto Mtg 2011

Agile New England 2011

Causes of Agile Failure

Copyright VersionOne 2011

Barriers to Further Agile Adoption

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Why is Culture Important?

Edgar  Schein  Professor  MIT  Sloan  School  of  Management  

“The  only  thing  of  real  importance  

that  leaders  do  is  to  create  and  manage  

culture.”    

“If  you  do  not  manage  culture,  it  manages  you,  and  you  may  not  even  be  aware  of  the  extent  to  which  this  is  happening.”  

Photo courtesy: http://leadership-tdoerffer.blogspot.com/2010/11/enjoy-interview-with-prof-edgar-schein.html

Agile Tour Toronto 2011

Agile New England 2011

Example Survey Question

When  all  is  said  and  done,  the  way  we  accomplish  success  in  this  organiza7on  is  to:  

1.  Create  an  organiza)on  that  has  the  highest  possible  level  of  competence  and  capitalize  on  that  competence.  

2.  Get  and  keep  control.  3.  Provide  the  condi)ons  whereby  the  people  within  

the  organiza)on  can  develop  and  make  valuable  accomplishments.  

4.  Put  a  collec)on  of  people  together,  build  them  into  a  team,  and  charge  them  with  fully  u)lizing  one  another  as  resources.  

Graphic © Jurgen Appelo

Graphic © Jurgen Appelo

Kanban Principles (Anderson)

First  adopt  the  founda:onal  principles    

•  Start  with  what  you  do  now  

•  Agree  to  pursue  incremental,  evolu7onary  change  

•  Respect  the  current  process,  roles,  responsibili7es  &  7tles  

Then  (use  the  5  Core  Proper:es)    

1.   Visualize  the  workflow  2.   Limit  WIP  3.   Manage  Flow  4.   Make  Process  Policies  

Explicit  5.   Improve  Collabora7vely  

(using  models  &  the  scien7fic  method)  

 http://agilemanagement.net/index.php/Blog/the_principles_of_the_kanban_method/

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Working with Existing Culture

Kanban is Like an Oreo Cookie!

Outside:  Crunchy  Control  

Inside:  Sweet  White  Agile  Goodness  (collabora)on,  cul)va)on  and  craTsmanship)  

Craftsmanship as a starting place

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kalavinka/4617897952

What are your goals?

Pascal Van Cauwenberghe

Photos©http://www.flickr.com/photos/pascalvancauwenberghe/3053517274

My  main  focus  is  to  stop  companies  from  doing  Agile.  

Namiya.be

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tza/3214197147

Adoption of Agile Practices in a Mismatched Culture

Agile Transformation

http://www.wanderingthought.com/2012/01/squishy-balls.html

Adoption Transformation

Adoption of Agile Practices in a Mismatched Culture

Adoption - Practices à Doing Agile

When  culture  is  not  compa:ble  with  Agile  q  Incremental  Adop)on  

q Look  at  Context  q Pain  à  Prac)ce  

q Avoid  q Scrum    q Agile  Manifesto  

q See    q “Agile  Adop)on  PaXerns:  A  Roadmap  to  

Organiza)onal  Success”  by  Amr  Elssamadisy  q “Becoming  Agile  in  an  Imperfect  World”  provides  a  

lot  of  prac)cal  advice  on  adop)ng  Agile  [Smith  &  Sidky].    

Agile Transformation

Agile Is Not Enough

http://www.wanderingthought.com/2012/01/squishy-balls.html

Plan for Hard Conversations

Photos©http://www.flickr.com/photos/pascalvancauwenberghe/3053517274 and The Innovation Games Company

Johnny Scarborough

Agile  is  about  people,  and  as  such  they  will  tend  to  be  largest  

obstacles,  we  will  need  to  have  serious  

conversa)ons  at  some  point  if  we  really  want  

to  go  Agile.  

Some Interesting Patterns of Transformation

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WARNING: This will fail eventually*

#2 Incubate Transformational Leadership

•  Live  the  values  •  Lead  by  example  •  Seek  to  truly  understand  their  culture  •  Be  as  transparent  as  the  teams  they  lead  See  presenta7on:  Agile  From  the  Top  Down:  Execu7ves  &  Leadership  Living  Agile  by  Jon  Stahl  

hXp://www.slideshare.net/LeanDog/agile-­‐from-­‐the-­‐top-­‐down  

Leaders  go  first!  

#3 Develop Transformational Leadership Team

Ø Deep alignment between leadership teams’ personal visions and organizational compelling shared vision

Ø Continued commitment to maintaining integrity and sacredness of leadership team

See Temenos retreat @Siraju

Ref: http://adaptivecollaboration.com/2012/04/23/temenos-retreat-a-journey-of-change/

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Transforming the World of Work

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Resources •  These  slides  are  available  on  slideshare  

•  Free  eBook:  hXp://www.infoq.com/minibooks/agile-­‐adop)on-­‐transforma)on      

•  Videos,  Blog  PostshXp://agilitrix.com/2011/04/agile-­‐culture-­‐series-­‐reading-­‐guide/  

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