Today companies are expected to be flexible, rapidly responsive and resilient to change - which, basically, is asking them to be agile. But doing agile (the mechanics) is different from being agile (the mindset). The mindset lets you apply flexible agile patterns - not only for software development teams, but for the whole organisation. However, implementing company-wide agility isn't straightforward. It means combining principles from the Agile Manifesto (inspecting and adapting), sociocracy (creating equivalence), Beyond Budgeting (flexible budgeting and relative targets), and Open Space (passion bound by responsibility). By showing what such a combination can look like, Jutta will reveal a path toward company-wide agility.

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Jutta Eckstein, @juttaeckstein
Company-wide Agility with
Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy

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WHAT? CHALLENGES

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AGILITY

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http://agilemanifesto.org

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Agile Principles
 Value system is based on the following principles:
– Early and continuous delivery of valuable software
– Welcome changing requirements
– Deliver working software frequently
– Business people and developers work together
– Trust motivated individuals
– Face-to-face conversation
– Working software is the primary measure of progress
– Promote sustainable development
– Technical excellence and good design
– Simplicity is essential
– Self-organizing teams
– Team reflection and adjustment
http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

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Values for Company-wide Agility?
Self-Organization
Transparency
Constant Customer Focus
Continuous Learning

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Beyond Budgeting
 Beyond command & control
– Toward a management model that is more empowered and
adaptive
 Separate the 3 budget purposes
– (relative) targets
– (rolling) forecast
– (dynamic) resource allocation

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Open Space
 Self-organization
– Everyone is invited to address critical issues
 Passion bound by responsibility
– Self-responsible for learning and helping others learn
– Passion follows the strategy
 Empowerment
– Anything can happen inspired by anyone

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Sociocracy
 Equivalence
– Shared decision-making by consent
– Feedback embedded in the structure: double linking

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Agile
 Continuous learning through feedback:
– Rapidly, regularly, and frequently
– On needs, product, technology, process, quality, …

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INVITATION TO PROBE FOR
INNOVATION

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Are performance evaluations really
reflecting customer focus?
 Background:
– Company values are often lip service, other values often
rewarded
 Hypothesis:
– If customer focus is the foundation for performance
evaluation, customer satisfaction improves
 Experiment:
– Invite an experimental unit to write own performance
evaluation criteria related to their work & reflecting customer
interests

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Failures are Opportunities

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Is trust cheaper?
 Background:
– Traditional travel expense procedures are burdensome and
assume people can’t be trusted.
 Hypothesis:
– Such procedures cost more than they save and are
demoralizing.
 Experiment:
– Pre-survey and audit. Try for three months in a few units
with other units as controls. Post-survey and audit.

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COMPANY-WIDE AGILITY

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Eager to Experiment

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BOSSA nova for Company-wide Agility
 Never stop…
– …trying
– …learning
– …changing

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Many Thanks!
John Buck, @johnabuck
John.Buck@SociocracyConsulting.com
http://SociocracyConsulting.com
Jutta Eckstein, @JuttaEckstein
Jutta@JEckstein.com
http://JEckstein.com
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