Agile beyond IT and beyond just doing it, but rather being it requires experimenting continuously in order to learn continuously. Thus more important than failing fast is learning fast. In this workshop we will learn what learning fast means for every individual and the organization as a whole and we will define experiments for you to use in your company for becoming agile truly. This will allow you to create an environment for continuous innovations. In this workshop we will also make use of examples that make: the organizational structure (hierarchy?) more agile the organizational processes faster so that they enable innovation the organizational strategy better aligned with current needs so that your organization is able to drive the market instead of being driven by the market

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Jutta Eckstein | @juttaeckstein
John Buck | @johnabuck
http://agilebossanova.org
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Learning Fast & Small:
Nourishing Company-wide Agility
in a Skeptical Environment
Company-wide Agility with BOSSA nova
http://tinyurl.com/AgileBossaNova

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Set the Stage
 Why are you here?  What books you
read, you
recommend?

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Goal for the Workshop
 Learn how to bring a culture of experimentation into your
company

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Agenda
 Welcome & set the stage
 Defining the context
 Values for company-wide agility
 Challenges for company-wide agility in your company
 A new perspective
 Using probes
 Next steps & wrap-up

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WHAT? CHALLENGES

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Reflect & Discuss
 What are the consequences
and impact for (your)
organization(s) of VUCA etc
from the perspective of:
– Entrepreneur
– Employee
– Client
– Shareholder
– Top management?

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Reflect & Discuss
 What has in your context
supported or hindered
company-wide agility (agile
beyond IT) and what was
difficult along the way?
 Come up with top challenge in
your group

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Discuss & Create
 What are the different perspectives in your organization?
 Draw the organigram for at least one organization
showing the synthesis of perspectives

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Cynefin
Kurtz, C.F. & Snowden, D. (2003): The new dynamics of strategy: Sense-making in a
complex and complicated world In: IBM Systems Journal, Vol.42, No.3, p.462-483.
Available also online: http://alumni.media.mit.edu/brooks/storybiz/kurtz.pdf

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Discuss
 What is the primary organizational characteristic
(strategy, structure, or process) for your top challenge?

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Eager to Experiment

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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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Discuss & Create
 Look at your top challenge
– Revisit your reflections on your top challenge and any
necessary details
• What is your challenge and what is it not?
• What might be the source of the difference?
 Pick a probe that you might use to explore that challenge
– If necessary modify the probe for your existing challenge
– Or invent a whole new probe

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Design a Probe
 Name of the Probe:
– <...>
 Background:
– <Define the context>
 Hypothesis:
– <Define what you expect to happen>
– <Observable impact>
 Safe-to-fail experiment:
– <Define what do you want to try and how you can (dis) prove
the hypothesis>

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Reflecting on the Probe
 Our results were largely not as the hypothesis predicted.
 We believed <hypothesis>
– But found while <activity>
– That <insight>
– And rejected this idea.
 Had we tried <x>,
– We might have discovered this
• <sooner, more cheaply, &/or more safely>
Source: Mike Burrows, Agendashift

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Publish to Your Peers
 Publish in the LinkedIn group:
– http://tinyurl.com/AgileBossaNova
 Based on the experiment results and comments of our
peers,
– What are the next questions to explore?
– What changes (if any) do we want to implement?

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Reflection Time
 What will you do on Monday?
– Come up with at least three things you want to do
(differently)

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BOSSA nova for Nourishing
Company-wide Agility

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

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Many Thanks and… Stay in Touch:
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Jutta Eckstein | @juttaeckstein
John Buck | @johnabuck
http://agilebossanova.org
@AgileBossaNova | #agilebossanova
Company-wide Agility with BOSSA nova
http://tinyurl.com/AgileBossaNova