My keynote from Lean Agile Scrum 10th anniversary conference in Zurich in May 2019. Trends from Verson One's State of Agile survey from the last 13 years, different approaches for managing change at natural intervention points.
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Agile Manifesto
February 11, 2001
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Responses
over 13 years
Version One State
of Agile survey
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Why Agile?
Accelerate
Delivery increased
by 10% as of 2017
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Whoâs
responding?
As of 2015,
âcoaches or smâ
increased from
15% to 34%, pm/
prod mgr decreased
from 25% to 11%
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Most popular
methods
Scrum continues to
be the most
popular, âhybrid/
customâ increasing
while âscrum/xpâ
decreases
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Barriers
More or less the
same since
inception,
although âlack of
skillâ and âlack of
management
supportâ increased
the last 3 years
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Scaling agile
Scaled Agile questions began in 2015
2015
2018
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Whatâs been
getting better?
More or less the
same each year
2018
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Tips for
success
Having internal
coaches increased
the most from 2012
to 2016,
âconsistent
processâ added in
2014
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Tips for success
As of 2017, only
the âtop tipsâ
were shown.
20182017
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Interesting notes
âdevopsâ questions added in 2016
Post-2015 includes regions outside of north america
and Europe
Lessons learned added in 2012
More responses from 20,000+ enterprises
Questions skew towards enterprise topics after 2015
âreasons for agileâ lean towards the ârightâ of the
manifesto
adecadeofagile.com
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Weâre here
7000+ âagileâ books on
Amazon
Too many agile
certifications to count
12+ agile related meetups
in my city (Toronto) alone
At least 6 annual âState of
Agile/Scrum etc etcâ
reports
Gazillions of Agile tools
vendors
Trend of Agile + Function
Name
Has agile become a racket?
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Suppose youâre
new to agile
What would you
think of this?
24. â2 things will never change. Competition and
innovation. An idea is in decline when mainstream
consultants start using the terms, then the same
idea is reinvented with different languageâ
-Larry Smith, U of Waterloo
Intrapreneur Conference 2015
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Create 12 layers of management
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Design 83 new departments
Implement bell curve of performance
Develop 175 page best practice guide for delivery
Develop 254 page best practice guide that
contradicts the 175 page version
Purchase best-of-breed delivery guide
from vendor
Build transformation plan to undo all of
this
Finalize and implement culture of blame
Our plan to become the worst company ever
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Re-organization
Externally visible failures Creation of new departments
Implementation of new processes
Years of rituals and events put us here
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If youâre here
Focus on this
Not this
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Emergence
Coalescence
Decline
Bureaucratization
Intervention Intervention
How all change happens (Herbert Blummer)
Success
Failure
Co-optation
Integration
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Cause and purpose
Over
Urgency
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Theory U
Deep
transformation
through purpose
and meaning
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Meaningful dialogue
Over
Broadcasting communication
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âThe people who
write the plan, donât
fight the planâ
- Jill Forbes
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Response to change
Over
Resistance to change
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People donât
resist change
People donât resist
being change
either
People change
when they feel the
need to do so.
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Co-creation
Over
Getting buy-in
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Letâs build a
futureâŠ
Where these 3
problems donât
exist anymore.
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Running experiments
Over
Executing change activities
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Whatâs the
simplest way
To get to the next
foothold?
40. Your homework if you are looking for meaningful
transformation:
- Theory U (Otto Scharmer)
- Integral Agile (Spayd/Madore)
- Leadership Gift (Christopher Avery)
- MITâs 4 Capability Leadership Model
If youâre not looking for meaningful transformation, hire a process
consultant. Seriously. Thatâs not a bad thing, just be congruent about it.
41. Thank you
Donât forget to vote on what session Peter and I run
tomorrow:
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