What does a Lean-Agile delivery process look like? If you had to describe one, where would you start – "from the left", with a backlog of work to plough through, or "from the right", with needs met by working software? And does the difference in perspective matter?

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How would you begin to describe
your kind of Agile?
Backlog items in JIRA… People collaborating over
working software,
meeting needs…

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Two levels of backlog,
planning events, …
Shared objectives pursued
goal by goal…
Your kind of Scrum?

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n levels of backlog,
planning events, …
Shared objectives pursued
goal by goal…
SAFe?

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• Prescribe a solution
• Justify it
• Roll it out
• Deal with the
consequences
• Agree on outcomes
• Generate some options
• Test assumptions
• Begin to treat change
as part of the day job
Your kind of Agile adoption?

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The Agile Industrial Complex
imposing methods on people is
an absolute travesty.
Martin Fowler, The State of Agile Software in 2018
martinfowler.com/articles/agile-aus-2018.html
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Engagement Model (noun): Any pattern,
or set of patterns, reducible to practice,
which results in more employee
engagement, during the implementation of
an organizational-change initiative.
Daniel Mezick, Engagement
openspaceagility.com/engagement/
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It should now be clear why engagement models such as
Agendashift, OpenSpace Agility (OSA), Systemic
Modelling, BOSSA nova, and TASTE are so necessary.
Non-prescriptive by design, they work happily with
frameworks big or small, branded or home-brewed, and
with each other. In their various and complementary
ways, they bring people together from multiple levels of
the organisation, help the organisation collectively to
reveal to itself what needs to change, and come to
agreement on what needs to change.
Mike Burrows, Engagement: more than a two-way street
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Expert Organisation1.
Organisation Staff2.
Teams Organisation3.
Agile needs 21st century engagement models
– the old ones are too badly broken

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Imagine…
Everyone able to work consistently at their best:
• Individuals, teams, between teams,
across the organisation and beyond
• Right conversations, right people,
best possible moment
• Needs anticipated, met at just the right time

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Imagine…
Everyone able to work consistently at their best:
• Individuals, teams, between teams,
across the organisation and beyond
• Right conversations, right people,
best possible moment
• Needs anticipated, met at just the right time
Q1: What obstacles do you see in the way?

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Imagine…
Everyone able to work consistently at their best:
• Individuals, teams, between teams,
across the organisation and beyond
• Right conversations, right people,
best possible moment
• Needs anticipated, met at just the right time
Q2: What would you like to have happen?

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Imagine…
Everyone able to work consistently at their best:
• Individuals, teams, between teams,
across the organisation and beyond
• Right conversations, right people,
best possible moment
• Needs anticipated, met at just the right time
Q3:Then what happens?

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Imagine…
Everyone able to work consistently at their best:
• Individuals, teams, between teams,
across the organisation and beyond
• Right conversations, right people,
best possible moment
• Needs anticipated, met at just the right time
Q4:Then what happens?

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Is there a relationship between X andY?
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What would you like to have happen?
And your first/next obstacle?
And when X,
then what happens?
What happens
before X?
What kind of X?
Is there anything
else about X?
What is happening
when X?
15-minute FOTO
From ObstaclesTo Outcomes –
as many as you can generate in 15
minutes, using only clean questions
and the client’s own words
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18. Discovery
Where we’d like
to get to
Exploration
Prospecting for
opportunities
Mapping
Plans & priorities
visualised
Elaboration
Actions framed,
our thinking tested
3. Keep the
for change
visible
4. Manage
testing
options
assumptions
Operation
Change as
real work
5. Organise for clarity of intent,
speed of decision-making, and alignment of impact
1. Start with needs
2. Agree on outcomes
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Done (adj) /dʌn/
Someone’s need was met.

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