My talk exploring what is at the edge of things agile in 2019. Drawing from InfoQ and other sources to explore business and technical agility; agile beyond information technology particularly in people operations, marketing and finance; remote work and the implications of new technologies

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The Edge of Agility
Hi, I’m Shane
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Agile is Dead!
Agile is Dead!
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Or not?
https://www.stateofagile.co
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Technical
Agility
Business
Agility
They go together
Photo by Jonathan
Pendleton on Unsplash
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Technical Agility
DevOps & More
Agile development practices are necessary but not sufficient
Technical agility today is a key enabler for business agility tomorrow
Photo by Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash
State of DevOps
https://www.infoq.com/articles/book-review-accelerate/
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High performers
• 46 times more frequent code
deployments
• 440 times faster lead time from
commit to deploy
• 170 times faster mean time to
recover from downtime
• 5 times lower change failure rate
(1/ 5 as likely for a change to fail)
Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
by Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
http://manifesto.softwarecraftsmanship.
org/
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Empowered teams get better results
We find that teams which have the authority to experiment with new
ideas do better in terms of both software delivery and organizational
performance.
Unfortunately, many organizations that claim to have implemented
“Agile” still don’t allow this, and their software teams are still
fundamentally just order-taking functions rather than partners in
creating value
https://www.infoq.com/articles/book-review-accelerate/
Photo by Perry
Grone on Unsplash
Programmer Anarchy?
“What manager allows you to rewrite the core of the
system three times? No Manager. That’s why we don’t
have managers!”
https://www.infoq.com/news/2012/02/programmer-anarchy/ forwardtechnology.co.uk
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Business Agility
When Teal starts to get real
Photo by Anna Dziubinska on Unsplash
State of
Business Agility
Presented by
Evan Leybourn & Sally Elatta
at Agile 2019
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BENEFITS
Faster
turnaround
times
Increased
revenue
Improved
relationships
Greater
transparency
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PERCEPTION OF BUSINESS AGILITY
CHALLENGES TO BUSINESS AGILITY
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CHALLENGES TO BUSINESS AGILITY
Hype: the biggest obstacle to true agility
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An operating model for the next generation of organizations
https://businessagility.institute/learn/domains-of-business-agility/
New Structures
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Manifesto for Agile HR Development
We are uncovering better ways of developing
an engaging workplace culture by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Collaborative networks over hierarchical structures
Transparency over secrecy
Adaptability over prescriptiveness
Inspiration and engagement over management and retention
Intrinsic motivation over extrinsic rewards
Ambition over obligation
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.
Ana Anastasijevic Vuletic
Josh Bersin
Willemijn Boskma
Klaus Bucka-Lassen
Amy C. Edmondson
Fabiola Eyholzer
Stew Friedman
Bob Gower
Riina Hellström
Rickard Jones
Sandeep Joshi
Radoslaw Lont
Marjaana Murtomaa
Chris Nikitas
Simon Paynter
Hugo Pibernat
Adam Polczyk
Jussi Hölttä
David Rock
Sergey Rogachev
Marti Serra
Dan Sloan
Pia-Maria Thóren
Dov Tsal
Manfred van Veghel
Hannes Velt
Dariusz Wylon
https://www.agilehrmanifesto.or
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http://agilemarketingmanifesto.or
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https://www.educba.com/agile-finance/
https://www.lean-agile-procurement.com/lean-agile-procurement-approach#lean-procurement-
canvas
Employee Experience
https://management30.com/practice/moving-
motivators/
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Joyous workplaces
Image source: Shane Hastie
Remote teams are normal now
http://www.liberatingstructures.com/ https://www.infoq.com/articles/remote-meetings-article-series/
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Ethics & Tech for Good – being good global citizens
The ACM Code of Ethics and
Professional Conduct aims
to help professionals reflect
upon the impact of their
work and act responsibly.
https://www.infoq.com/articles/acm-code-ethics/ https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/09/tech-for-good/
What Tech for
Good is and
Why it Matters
Product Management wars?
We got waterfall and we all complained about
it and now we all complain about agile. I’ve started to
think the problem is us!
Jeff Patton talking at Mind the Product
https://www.infoq.com/articles/joyinc-hightech-anthropology/ Image source: Shane
Hastie
https://www.mindtheproduct.com/2018/06/owning-agile-by-jeff-patton/
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The impact of new technology –
everything is “digital” now
"The chief challenge for CEOs and their
teams in our digital age is to have the human
side of organizations keep up with the
technological, such as artificial intelligence,
data science, and advanced robotics.“
"IMPACT: 21st Century Change Management, Behavioral Science,
Digital Transformation, and the Future of Work (Leading Change in
the Digital Age Book 2)" by Paul Gibbons
Photo by Roberto Nickson on Unsplash
Photo by Sebastian Kurpiel on Unsplash
Agile is Dead – Long Live Racoon
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Change your organisation
• Leadership at every levelTop-down
management
• Do less, betterDo more with less
• Minimum viable process,
empowered people
Process over people
• Realtime value metricsCentralized annual
planning & budgeting
• Decentralized rolling-wave
planning
Activity milestones
• Long lived teams responsible
for products or services
Temporary teams on
projects
• Vision: The intent to
create the future
• Understanding: Learn,
hear, feedback
• Clarity: Sense making
• Agility :The ability to
respond to change in
order to profit in a
turbulent world
“A rapidly evolving,
dynamic, chaotic
complex business
environment is the norm
rather than the
exception”
David Sypnieski
VUCA Prime
http://www.iftf.org/bobjohansen/
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Shane Hastie MIM ICE-PO ICE-AC
Director of Agile Learning Programs
Contact Information
shane@icagile.com
ICAgile.com
Twitter: @shanehastie
LinkedIn: http://nz.linkedin.com/in/shanehastie/
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