AT1 Session 6/6/2013 10:15 AM "The Five Facets of an Agile Organization: Holistic Change for the Serious" Presented by: George Schlitz BigVisible Solutions Brought to you by: 340 Corporate Way, Suite 300, Orange Park, FL 32073 888‐268‐8770 ∙ 904‐278‐0524 ∙ [email protected]∙ www.sqe.com
Is agile—or lean, kanban, lean startup, etc.—starting to follow the path of other management buzzwords in your organization? Is it losing steam, now resembling only a minor change from the old ways? Have you compromised to "make agile work in our organization?” As organizations introduce new paradigms, they often run into roadblocks of inertia. When these are not overcome, the initial excitement and the potential benefits drain away. Treating changes such as agile as merely a software delivery approach typically means disregarding four other key facets of the agile organization. It is from these neglected areas that most resistance and regression come. George Schlitz presents these five facets—execution, delivery, product, organization, and leadership. This holistic view helps us understand the complex nature of the changes we are introducing; provides a basis for a simple, evolving change strategy; and helps us head off problems before they occur in any organization—but only if we are serious about change.
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AT1 Session 6/6/2013 10:15 AM
"The Five Facets of an Agile Organization:
Holistic Change for the Serious"
Presented by:
George Schlitz BigVisible Solutions
Brought to you by:
340 Corporate Way, Suite 300, Orange Park, FL 32073 888‐268‐8770 ∙ 904‐278‐0524 ∙ [email protected] ∙ www.sqe.com
George Schlitz BigVisible Solutions
Co-founder of BigVisible Solutions, George Schlitz is an experienced change agent. Initially introducing agile and lean to large companies and recognizing the benefits of change, George has shifted his passion to coaching organizations through difficult changes by applying systems thinking, agile, lean, and the theory of constraints. By bringing an awareness of complexity to leaders and teams, he believes that large-scale change is not only achievable but should be part of our every day. BigVisible Solutions is the largest coaching company focused on organizational transformation via introduction of new paradigms such as agile and lean. George is a Certified Scrum Coach and a Project Management Professional.
Five Facets of the Agile Organization:Holistic Change for the Serious
• Leadership and management styles and beliefs about what constitutes effective leadership and management
• Orienting Vision & Environment Design
• Structures, processes and systems by which work gets done and is organized
• Continuous Improvement• Collective beliefs, perspectives and habits by
which people make sense of things• Product Management & Strategy• Lean, continuous planning (portfolio->program)• Innovation – Lean Startup, Business Model Gen.
• Product Development & Delivery• Kanban & Lean• Scrum• Multiple Team/Programs and Scaling (e g SAFe)
3. Developing more stuff without greater development capabilities results in problems over time – defects, poor design, etc.
Results Are Delayed…
5- The solution to this is to be more aware of the need for capacity and capability, and to take action to ensure that we are always improving capacity and capability as neededneeded.
6- Investment in capacity and capability decreases the negative effects described earlier, preventing the decrease in ability to do more stuff. This effect takes place after some time/delay, however.
1. Execution: Tactics of Hope
Expose “Growth and Underinvestment” in your Underinvestment” in your
Encourage decision making at team level vs. escalation
Awareness on dysfunctions by measuring metrics
Product Management can plan value incrementally
Introduce BMC Level 3-4
Introduce BMC Release Burndown Chart shared across the Product Stack
Introduce Business Model Canvas Level 1-2
Ability to prioritise PBIs across all dependent RVs
Enable transparency across boundariesEnable transparency across boundaries Definition of Ready Shared across the Definition of Ready Shared across the whole Product Stackwhole Product Stack
Identify only the minimum actions required
Enablement team formed
We are Awesome
Teams focusing on delivery customer value together
3. Innovative, Adaptive product
4. The organization continuously evolves to enable success.
5. Leadership that catalyzes change and designs environments for success
2. Deliver product iteratively, incrementally, and quickly to customers
1. Execution1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_programming2. “Collaboration Explained” by Jean Tabaka
2. Delivery2. Delivery• http://scaledagileframework.com• BV Lean/Agile Portfolio Management and Planning
3. Product• http://businessmodelgeneration.com• http://theleanstartup.com• Principles of Product Development Flow, by Reinertsenhttp://www.amazon.com/Principles-
5. Leadership• “Leadership Agility,” by Bill Joiner and Stephen Josephs• “Leadership and the New Science,” by Meg Wheatley• http://hbr.org/2007/11/a-leaders-framework-for-decision-making/
6. General• “The Fifth Discipline,” By Peter Senge
This is just a start….MANY more available on request!