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Holacracy & Scrum in Washington State Modernizing Government: How Agencies Became Awesome Places to Work using Holacracy & Scrum
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Page 1: Holacracy & Scrum in Washington State · PARTNERING: EDUSCRUM, WIKISPEED, SCRUM.INC PORT OF ROTTERDAM ROYAL DUTCH TELECOM ptakken@xebia.com @jptakken Current Roles: Agile Coach, Coach

Holacracy & Scrum in Washington State

Modernizing Government: How Agencies Became Awesome Places to Work using Holacracy & Scrum

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Introduction: Paul Takken

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www.linkedin.com/in/paultakken

Agile Consultant @

ING BANK

TOMTOM INTERNATIONAL

WASHINGTON STATE

DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

PARTNERING: EDUSCRUM, WIKISPEED, SCRUM.INC

PORT OF ROTTERDAM

ROYAL DUTCH TELECOM

[email protected]

@jptakken

Current Roles: Agile Coach, Coach of Coaches,

Agile Trainer, Mindset Engineer, Agile Innovator

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The Netherlands – Washington State Connection

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The Netherlands – Washington State Connection- From bulbs to bud...

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Introduction: Michael DeAngelo

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Washington Technology Solutions

Office of the CIO

Department of Fish and Wildlife

Health Care Authority

Walt Disney Internet Group

US Department of the Interior

[email protected]

@egovwatech, @mikel_deangelo

Current Roles: Agile Advocate, Cloud Advocate, Employer of Choice Thinker, Holacracy Advocate, Business Strategy, Commerical Product Engineer, Space Ace, Pencil Whip...

https://egov.watech.wa.gov

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The story of today: WaTech

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Why did we start this journey?

$40M

projects

https://egov.watech.wa.gov/blog

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Why did we start this Journey?

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The story of today: WaTechExamine

Holacracy

Jan 2015

Launch

Learning

Experience

Feb 2015

Launch

Blog

Mar 2015

Meet to discuss

HR and Union

Policy

Apr 2015

1st Data

Published

Aug 2015

Experiment

Planning

Begins

Jan 2016

Experiment

Launch

April 2016

Initial Findings

TBD

June 2017We are here

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Self-management is a natural increment

Bureaucracy

Authority vested in

depersonalized

rules and roles

Intent: create

predictability,

repeatability, and

consistency

Feudalism

Authority vested

according to

status, class, or

wealth

Intent: to increase

status and wealth of

lords

Bureaucracy 2.0

Authority vested in

depersonalized

rules and roles

Intent: responsive,

adaptability, purpose

driven employees,

wholeness

Today 100 years ago 1000 years ago

...you could think of

self-management

systems as

Bureaucracy 2.0.- HBR, Beyond the Hype, July 2016

To compete in our

rapidly changing

world, we need a new

kind of organization.- Salim Ismail, "Exponential

Organizations"Max Weber

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And: Hierarchies are killing innovation and your purpose!

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Is self-management improving things?

“It gave me a place to create transparency on an issue

that I needed resolved.”

“Holacracy has improved our Scrum discipline.”

“We are having project success because of

Holacracy. There is now a system for addressing

systemic issues.”

"I'm willing to take a $10k-$28k pay cut to

work in this environment."

$10M per year

value proposition to the State

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Where to start? What we did

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https://egov.watech.wa.gov/blog

"Reinventing organizations", Frederic Laloux

"Exponential organizations", Salim Ismail

"Holacracy", Brian Robertson

"Team of Teams", General McChrystal

"Beyond the hype", HBS

“We can easily forgive a

child who is afraid of the

dark; the real tragedy of

life is when men are

afraid of the light.”—Plato