Disciplined Agile - A mini Survival Guide to …...A mini Survival Guide to Continuous Improvement Aldo Rall, CDAP Senior Consultant Forecasting the future: A scene at a house somewhere

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A mini Survival Guide to Continuous Improvement

Aldo Rall, CDAPSenior Consultant

Forecasting the future: A scene at a house somewhere in Wellington…. In about 2 hours

Mark Thompson, 2012“I blame entropy”

Increase in entropyHighly ordered

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Making sense of our world: Cynefin

Cause-and-effect is known

Cause-and-effect is unknown

OrderedUnordered

ComplexProbeSense

RespondEmergent Practice

ComplicatedSense

AnalyseRespond

Good Practice

ChaoticAct

SenseRespond

Novel Practice

SimpleSense

CategoriseRespond

Best Practice

Disorder

For more see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework and David Snowden and Cognitive Edge

VolatilityUncertainty

VUCAComplexityAmbiguity

“How can you arm yourself so that you successfully tackle those new, unfamiliar situations that are bound to come your way? Through Learning”

From: Becoming an Agile Leader, Victoria Swisher

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Where can VUCA occur?

AA Meta Mental Model by Aldo Rall and Andy Cooper is licensed under a Creative

Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

A3 complete version can be found here: https://goo.gl/JrjMnt

Me

My Teams

My Organisations

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Learning Agility Spirals

Share and Explain

Evaluate the Learning

Implement via Experiments

Explore Alternatives

Awareness

Enabling Active, Continuous and Intentional Learning

Awareness

“Through the deliberate use of practice and dedicated strategies to improve our ability to learn, we can all develop expertise faster and more effectively…. Learning is a learned behaviour. “

- Ulrich Boser -From: HBR, “Learning is a learned behavior. Here’s how to

get better at it. -

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People, Systems,

structures & processes

Leadership

Employee

Engagement

Transformation

Start here

And… it starts with Leadership…

“Only three things happen naturally in organisations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.”Peter Drucker

LearningAgility

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Putting it in practice: a Learning Kanban

Mental model

sub topics

Decide whether you need to learn

it

(Low Priority)

Schedule a block of time for learning it

(Highest Priority)

Learn it right away

(High Priority)

Learn it as the chance arises

(Lowest Priority)

Adapted from the original HBR article by Marc Zao-Sanders. See https://hbr.org/2017/09/a-2x2-matrix-to-help-you-prioritize-the-skills-to-learn-right-now

Tim

e to

lear

n

Usefulness/ Value/ Impact of the feature

Celebration Grids from Jurgen Appello’s Management 3.0 materials. See https://management30.com/practice/celebration-grids/

Celebration gridBehaviour

Out

com

e

Mistakes Experiments

You screwed up!Where’s your brain?

You lucky fish!

OK, You failedBUT you learned!

Yay! You exceeded AND your learned!

Argh, bad luck!

Yay! You exceeded by doing the right things!

Practices

LEARNINGNo learning No learning

FAIL

URE

SUCC

ESS

New Ideas

Done

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Real world examples

A Learning Kanban for myself

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Real World Examples

A Learning Kanban for a team

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Ideas for Success in Learning Agility

Experiment and have multiple tools available

Be comfortable with failure and ambiguity; Think about your thinking

Visualise your learning and learning objectives

It starts with me (You don’t need permission from management to start learning)

Reduce waste and prioritise the learning and learning goals

Promote and Participate in Active Learning

Keep the environment fail safe and experiment friendly

Reflect on and Celebrate the learning

Keep it in digestible sizes (micro-learning)

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In conclusion

“The Speed of learning is the new unfair advantage”

From: Leanstack.com

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn”Alvin Toffler

People, Systems,

structures & processes

Leadership

Employee

Engagement

Transformation

Start here

Final Thought: Successful Continuous Improvement is rooted in effective learning Agility and driven through leadership for myself, my teams and my organizations

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Thanks!

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