This survival guide (based on book) will provide you with essential mental models and a framework to navigate safely through the treacherous jungle of Agile adoption and transformation.
As much of the Agile adoption failure is a result of not understanding organizational culture, you will learn how to use the Schneider model to assess your organization.
5. Quick Survey – What Agile Adoption
Success have you seen?
• 5 = Every time a
success
• ...
• 0 = Every time a
failure
• Raise your hand
when your number
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comes up… http://www.flickr.com/photos/lindsey
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6. XP Toronto Mtg 2011
Agile Tour Toronto 2011
Agile New England 2011
10. Why is Culture Important?
“If you do not manage
“The only thing of culture, it manages you,
real importance and you may not even be
that leaders do is to aware of the extent to
create and manage which this is happening.”
culture.”
Edgar Schein
Professor MIT Sloan School of Management
Photo courtesy: http://leadership-tdoerffer.blogspot.com/2010/11/enjoy-interview-with-prof-edgar-schein.html
14. Example Survey Question
When all is said and done, the way we
accomplish success in this organization is to:
1. Create an organization that has the highest possible
level of competence and capitalize on that
competence.
2. Get and keep control.
3. Provide the conditions whereby the people within
the organization can develop and make valuable
accomplishments.
4. Put a collection of people together, build them into
a team, and charge them with fully utilizing one
another as resources.
19. Kanban Principles (Anderson)
First adopt the Then (use the 5 Core
foundational principles Properties)
• Start with what you do 1. Visualize the workflow
now 2. Limit WIP
• Agree to pursue 3. Manage Flow
incremental, 4. Make Process Policies
evolutionary change Explicit
• Respect the current 5. Improve Collaboratively
process, roles, (using models & the
responsibilities & titles scientific method)
http://agilemanagement.net/index.php/Blog/the_principles_of_the_kanban_method/
36. Adoption - Practices Doing Agile
When culture is not compatible with Agile
Incremental Adoption
Look at Context
Pain Practice
Avoid
Scrum
Agile Manifesto
See
“Agile Adoption Patterns: A Roadmap to
Organizational Success” by Amr Elssamadisy
“Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World” provides a
lot of practical advice on adopting Agile [Smith &
Sidky].
48. #2 Incubate Transformational
Leadership
Leaders go
first!
• Live the values
• Lead by example
• Seek to truly understand their culture
• Be as transparent as the teams they lead
See presentation: Agile From the Top Down:
Executives & Leadership Living Agile by Jon Stahl
http://www.slideshare.net/LeanDog/agile-from-the-top-down
49. #3 Develop Transformational Leadership Team
Deep alignment
between leadership
teams’ personal visions
and organizational
compelling shared
vision
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/
53. Resources
• These slides are available on
slideshare
• Free eBook:
http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/agi
le-adoption-transformation
• Videos, Blog
Postshttp://agilitrix.com/2011/04/a
gile-culture-series-reading-guide/
CC @MichaelSahota
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Sample survey available here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VVNT5FB