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Agile Makes Organisations Work,

Leadership makes Agile Work –

Because it is about Culture

ABC Conference 2013

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Michael Short Head of Radtac:Culture @tweetandshort

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Michael Short

Head of Radtac:Culture and COO

Run businesses from 10s to 100s of people

Have raised £10s millions for vision based businesses

Delivered significant change as President / CEO

Have broad experience at Board level in EU and USA

Have seen what I do that fails and what works

Worked in complex & innovative companies for 30 yrs

Have learnt when to lead and when to manage

Successes have all been achieved as part of a team

About me or Why Listen to Him

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Outline – Why

Why I am doing this presentation

To illustrate why leadership and the culture are the most

important part of change and transformation and why a

failure of leadership causes failure of transformations

What is Vision and why is it important

The Change Wave – what does good look like

Vertical Slice and the Horizontal Strip - Effectiveness

and Efficiency

Agile Manifesto – Leadership over Management the

missing principle

Thank you to Simon Sinek, Peter Senge, ‘True North - Authentic Leadership’ by Bill George, ‘Drive: The

Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us’ – by Daniel Pink, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) – Dean

Leffingwell amongst many others



Visioning Change – ‘why’

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“The fantasy that somehow organizations can change without personal change,

and especially without change on the part of people in leadership positions,

underlies why many change efforts are doomed from the start.”

Peter Senge

What

How

Why

‘Why’ is the Vision If you start from ‘Why’ you

always look outwards

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Unsustainable Change

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The Shallow Wave

• Individual teams adopt their own way of working

• The way of working is compatible with existing method of

programme and project management

• Not a sustainable change outside of the team, when members

depart the way of working is likely to collapse

• Has little Enterprise benefit, in fact is unlikely to deliver any benefit

as it sits in isolation surrounded by Constraints

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Dean Leffingwell

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‘Tsunami’ – powerful & destructive

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The Breaking Wave

• ‘All senior team on Board, ‘gung-ho’ , flavour’ of the month

• It is a managed and ‘driven’ adoption.

• Small project teams at layer 3 embrace ideas

• Layer 2, ‘The Frozen Middle’ not engaged, wave crests, breaks and

collapses, senior team ‘walk away’

• Layer 3 get beaten up by layer 2 for being so ‘stupid’ – don’t do it

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What good change looks like

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The Sustainable Wave

• Change comes from in all layers in a vertical slice through the

organisation

• The change is ‘Led’ through adoption and demonstrable behaviour

• Company starts small and acts fast to expand

• Scalable growth horizontally across the whole enterprise –

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Horizontal Stripe

Horizontal Stripe

Good Change with Evolution

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‘T’ Shaped People – ‘T’ Shaped Organisation

• Horizontal Stripes are where most people would recognise Agile

implementations – IT Teams and departments

• Vertical Slice is where true change is required to effect sustainable

Transformation

• Why Most Transformation is unsuccessful is because it doesn’t have this model (60-70% fail – McKinsey – “Inconvenient Truth About Change Mang’t “ http://bit.ly/16HRxlZ)

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Change Challenges Leadership

Efficiency Effectiveness

Innovation Status Quo

>80% of

Organsation

<20% of

Organsation

Managed Led Managed Led

The status quo is safe, it is how I got here

My status is based on the status quo, why should I change what isn’t broken

If I really try and change this I am going to upset my executive colleagues

Vision is hard

People follow leaders who have vision

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Leadership is central to Change

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“People don’t resist change; they resist being changed” Peter Senge

You cannot manipulate people’s beliefs, therefore their intrinsic behaviours can only

be adjusted through their own observation of results

You create “pull” by leading actions that meet a vision that is supported by results

You create enablement through toolboxes e.g. Agile, Lean, Kanban

People will drive change themselves when given the tools and leadership

Results

Actions

Intrinsic Behaviours

Beliefs

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measurement

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actions as

successes

Clear short iterations

provide fast wins and

easy adjustment to shape

success

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Agile Manifesto – The Missing Part

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

And the missing part

Leadership over Management

“…without change on the part of people in leadership positions .. (is) .. why

many change efforts are doomed from the start” Edited from Peter Senge



Agile Culture – It’s about the people

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“The Reengineering Alternative” - William Schneider

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Radtac’s experience

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We are uniquely positioned after 15 years to offer true

effective cultural change that embeds and makes agile

leadership and transformation a reality

The Radtac Culture team has experience with major

companies, executive and senior management teams, to

deliver leadership programmes e.g. Consumer and

Pharmaceutical Cos

Radtac is uniquely positioned to offer; Culture, Consulting,

Delivery and Training in the Agile Transformation market as

the specialist company that provides a ‘soup to nuts’ for

understanding, planning and implementation for our clients

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Thank you for your time

Where now?

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