Developing an Agile Mindset can be purposeful. We can triple distil Beliefs Values and Principles, and let those ideas mature to help develop an Agile Mindset in ourselves and others.
2. Who am I?
• Former developer (COBOL &
Java)
• Software teams since 2001
• Scrum and XP since 2007
• Scrum Master since 2012 *
• Coach since 2018
• Editor with Serious Scrum
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6. Agile Mindset
“… tends to be built on the hard-won
knowledge of experience and crafted from
the lessons of trying to cope with massive
change in the face of incomprehensible
complexity.”
Steve Denning, “Understanding the Agile Mindset” (Forbes.com Article)
8. What personal values are important to you?
“______ is important to me because…” (3 mins)
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11. Edgar H. Schein, “Organisational Culture and Leadership”, (Book)
12. Empiricism
“Empiricism is the act of making decisions
based on what is actually experienced..”
Sjoerd Nijland, “Empiricism: Transparency”, (Serious Scrum Post)
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14. Leadership
“The way to change culture is for leaders to
change how they interact with people and the
organizational system.”
Michael Sahota, “How To Change Your Organizational Culture”, (Agilitrix Blog Post)
15. Leadership
“Leadership is wanting to do something new
and better, and getting others to go along.”
Edgar H. Schein & Peter Schein, “Humble Leadership”, (Book)
16. Humility
Humble Leadership can “maximise the
possibility that you will be open and honest with
each other and will feel safe in reporting when
things are not going well, when you don’t
understand each other and, most important,
when you need each other’s help.”
Edgar H. Schein & Peter Schein, “Humble Leadership”, (Book)
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18. Values
“If values affect our decision-making then it
makes sense to do a value scan and to
identify the values we use for decisions.”
Edward de Bono, “The Six Value Medals”, (Book)
26. Breakout Rooms for 5 mins
Discuss and share your values from earlier
Can you build a list of share values in your group?
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28. Principles
“a step between the universality (and vagueness)
of values and the concreteness (and dogmatism)
of practices.” (Kent Beck)
Martin Fowler, ‘Principles of XP’, (Blog Post)
49. Growth Mindset
1. Your intelligence is something very basic about you that
you cannot change very much.
2. You can learn new things, but you can’t really change how
intelligent you are.
3. No matter how much intelligence you have, you can always
change it quite a bit.
4. You can always substantially change how intelligent you
are.
Carol Dweck, “Mindset”, (Book)
50. Growth Mindset
“The fixed mindset stands in the way of
development and change. The growth
mindset is a starting point for change, but
people need to decide for themselves where
their efforts toward change would be most
valuable.”
Carol Dweck, “Mindset”, (Book)
55. In Summary
Developing an agile mindset takes time.
You can be methodical.
Lead: discuss, be humble, learn.
Values and Principles help guide.
Empiricism can help evaluate.
Fall seven, rise eight…
57. Thanks for your time!
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Hinweis der Redaktion
It got me thinking about an Agile Mindset
How to I get one?
And how do I help others to get one?
Inspiration arrived in the form of Whiskey
It got me thinking about an Agile Mindset
How to I get one?
And how do I help others to get one?
Inspiration arrived in the form of Whiskey
Contrast with a Bureaucratic organisation.
What is an important Personal Value to you?
Make a list if you want. Choose 1 and complete the sentence “<blank> is important to me because ….”
Distillation - purification
Expect the unexpected. Unlike Defined Process Control
Empiricism is a way to learn what customers want, and it is also a way to organise ourselves.
Move forward in small safe steps, and change course if we learn something new.
It requires leadership and humility.
It requires vulnerability to admit we don’t understand everything before we start.
Paradoxically, vulnerability is a form of strength: it personises us.
Empiricism can help guide decision-making and learning in complex contexts.
Personal Values
‘Things we value over other things’
‘Things we believe have a lot of value’
These are not exclusive lists...
Individuals and Interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Responding to change over following a plan
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
What is an important Personal Value to you?
Make a list if you want. Choose 1 and complete the sentence “<blank> is important to me because ….”
The Fixed Mindset was one in which “I believe that my intelligence, personality, character, are inherent and stale. locked down or fixed. My potential is determined at birth. It doesn’t change.” By contrast, a Growth Mindset was one in which “I believe my success is based on hard work, learning, training, and doggedness.”
Question here?
1 and 2 – Fixed Mindset
3 and 4 – Growth Mindset
Learning require failure. It requires stepping out of the comfort zone and into the unknown, with a real possibility of being wrong.