- The pitfalls of Agile
- Succeeding with Agile
- Lean as a business strategy
Most of us think of strategy as reaching a new market, developing new products or acquiring companies. Whilst that is true, the first and most important strategy any organization should be focusing on is operational excellence.
If your processes are full of drama, if you are slow, with quality problems and low productivity, it doesn’t really matter your breakthrough strategy; you won’t be able to compete.
Agile was born to solve this execution problems in software development. However, after 15 years of the famous Agile Manifesto, very few companies have been able to really benefit from Agile.
Many managers and executives do not even want to hear about Agile anymore.
In all this time an inbred and pyramidal industry has developed around Agile. An industry that moves a lot of money but does not help to solve the fundamental problems of the companies.
This industry has made us believe in certain practices, roles and techniques that far from leading to agility perpetuate the problem
And, along the way we never look back at the basics, the essence of what really works.
Agile appeared as something new, while it really wasn’t.
We have been reinventing the wheel and creating models and frameworks which don’t work. Or which are poorly implemented due to lack of understanding of the underlying principles of LEAN THINKING.
We have been wrong in many things, we are still wrong, and it seems that we do not learn from the main source in successful transformations that Lean represents.
We need to look at the essence, we need to look at the learnings of Lean which allowed to transform whole industries and still does.
There are a few basic things you need to do in order to achieve an strategic breakthrough, everything else is just patches or pretending to be.
If you get the basics right, then you just need the energy of great leadership in applying the principles of Lean Thinking.
In the next few minutes, we will see what are the traps of Agile and how to succeed by applying fundamental principles of Lean Thinking.
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The Seven Capital Sins of Agile
1. Agile as an operational improvement
2. Building the wrong thing right
3. Failure to innovate
4. The evil managers
5. The all mighty change agents
6. Lack of leadership
7. The bottleneck is at the top
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1. Lean is the Strategy
2. Lead from the Top
3. It’s all about People
4. Define Core Values
5. Organize around Value Streams
6. Continuous Improvement
7. Lean Management
8. Hoshin Kanri
9. The Agile Promotion Office
10. Managing Change
The Ten Commandments of Agile
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● Lower costs
● Best quality
● Short time-to-market
● Increased productivity
● Customer satisfaction
● Cash flow
● Growth and Innovation
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7 - Lean Management
“People are already
doing their best; the
problems are with the
system.
Only management can
change the system”
W. Edwards Deming