Culture is critical for understanding how to succeed with Agile. We will explore culture and how Agile impacts organizations. In this session, you will learn the Schneider culture model and how it can be applied to make changes that align with your organization's culture. We will also explore Agile adoption and transformation approaches in the context of culture.
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5. Quick Survey â What Agile Adoption
Success have you seen?
âą 5 = Every time a
success
âą ...
âą 0 = Every time a
failure
âą Raise your hand
when your number
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10. Why is Culture Important?
âIf you do not manage
âThe 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.â
culture.â
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)
âą Start with what you do 1. Visualize the workflow
now 2. Limit WIP
âą Agree to pursue 3. Manage Flow
incremental, evolution 4. Make Process Policies
ary change Explicit
âą Respect the current 5. Improve Collaboratively
process, roles, responsi (using models & the
bilities & titles scientific method)
http://agilemanagement.net/index.php/Blog/the_principles_of_the_kanban_method/
32. Adoption - Practices ï Doing Agile
When culture is not compatible with Agile
ï± Incremental Adoption
ï± Look at Context
ï± Pain ï Practice
ï± Avoid
ï± Scrum
ï± Agile Manifesto
ï± See âBecoming Agile in an Imperfect Worldâ
42. #2 Incubate Transformational
Leadership
Leaders go
first!
âą Live the values
âą Lead by example
âą Seek to truly understand their culture
âą 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
43. #3 Build Transformational Leadership
Team
âWe focus on improving leadership and team
performance by helping people increase their
ability to be situationally aware. This helps
people increase the quality of their
conversations and other relational
interactions, which in turn improves flow.â
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