business craftsmanship cas2013

Business Craftsmanship

Tobias Mayer

CAS2013, Bilbao, Spain

11 October 2013

The modern knowledge work organization must look beyond science,

beyond engineering and beyond logic

We need to engage our right brains

Why Craftsmanship?

Business leaders need to be artists

How Does Agile Help

So...

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32in order to learn, adapt, improve, and...

create joy and engagement in the workplace

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In a Nutshell, Agile helps us to

86% of Companieshave tried Agile

Joy & Engagement

Stress & Isolation

What went wrong?

It started well

How did this...

...become this?

NOT

AGILE

...or this?

NOT

AGILE

...or even this?

NOT

AGILE

How much process do we need?

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Knowledge work needs

Visionaries Makers

Knowledge work needs

Visionaries Makers

Knowledge work needs

Visionaries Makers

Coming together in collaboration

PurposeFocus

ReleaseInvention

Confrontation

5 Principlesfor building new products

PurposeWHERE TO and WHY

Release

Let go of control

Lead by vision and goals

Inspire, rather than direct

“Maximize the amount of work not done”Kent Beck

Focus

“Transform scarcity into abundance”Jeff Sutherland

Invention

play, risk, fail

Confrontation

for the greater good

These principles create fertile ground for emergence

Remember

Build—Deliver—LearnRepeat

The Essence of Agility

Building new productsis an emergent adventure

and the journey is full of surprises

thank you