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Growing Agile Organisations
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Pierluigi Pugliese
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The Quests for Modern Companies
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Quest: Optimisation and efficiency - ehm… efficacy!
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Quest: Adaptability
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Quest: Reduce Waste7
Quest: Scalability for Growth
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Quest: Innovation
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Quest: Continuous Improvement
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What about scrum, kanban, agile, lean, …?
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Very important aspects, but…
The Learning Organisation
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Is where innovation happens!
Growing Agile Organisations
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ScrumMaster and Product Owner
Organisation
Team
Individuals
Perfecting Agility Installing
Agility
Stabilising Processes +
Initiating Agility
Time
Growing Organisations
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Teams
Agile Culture
• Agile knowledge => Agile values
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Communication, Collaboration => Cohesion
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Intrinsic Motivation
• This is an effect, not a cause!
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Promote cohesion & enable motivation
• Qualified feedback!• Share big picture & vision!• Feedback culture!• Team building!• Deal with hygiene factors (Herzberg)!• Deal with bad apples!• Coaching for individual blockers
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Herzberg’s Two-Factors theoryFelps et al. - How, when and why bad apples spoil the barrel
Reflection Skills=> Continuous improvement
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Learn to reflect
• Time available!• Facilitation!• Environment: Failure
=> Learning opportunity
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Team: Typical Plan
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Initiating Agility Installing Agility Perfecting Agility
Basic Agile Training
Team Coaching
1-to-1 Coaching (where needed)
Team
Individuals
Technical Trainings
Project Meetings Facilitation: Retrospectives, Planning, ...
Building Communities of PracticeTeam Building, Hackatons, Open Spaces, ...
Engineering practices mentoring
Advanced Agility Topics
ScrumMaster and Product Owner
Organisation
Team
Individuals
Perfecting Agility Installing
Agility
Stabilising Processes +
Initiating Agility
Time
Training
Coaching
Facilitating
Mentoring
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ScrumMasters and Product Owners
Executors => Distributed brain
• Enable, empower
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Leadership: Organisational Trait
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O’Toole & Pasternak, “When Leadership is an organisational trait”Wimmer, “Führung und Organisation - zwei Seiten ein und derselben Medaille”!
Connect
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Enable & Empower & Connect: how to?
• Knowledge: product, process, organisation!
• Co-operative attitude!• Non-heroic attitude!!
• Training + [business] coaching+ mentoring
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Greenleaf - Servant Leadership + post-heroic leadership
Co-create and promote vision
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SMs and POs: Typical Plan
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ScrumMaster and Product Owner individual coaching
ScrumMaster and Product Owner
Leadership Training
Individual Mentoring
Basic Agile Training Advanced Agility Topics
Soft Skills Training
Initiating Agility Installing Agility Perfecting Agility
ScrumMaster and Product Owner
Organisation
Team
Individuals
Perfecting Agility Installing
Agility
Stabilising Processes +
Initiating Agility
Time
Training
Coaching
Facilitating
Mentoring
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Organisations
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IT Manager
Manager
VP Division
Manager
Manager
CEO
Shareholders
Customer Manager
Customer StaffCustomer
Support
Organisational Agility Stress Line
Mount Corporate Dates!
Plans! Revenue forecasts!
Dates! Deliverables!
Emergent processesAgile Values
Vision and Sensemaking32
Foster alignment
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Peter Drucker - The task of leadership is to create an
alignment of strengths
Post-heroic leadership
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New leadership: how to?
• Coaching, coaching, coaching!!• Reflection!• Feedback “from below”
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Leadership: Typical Plan
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Agile 101Agile for Managers
Organisational coaching
Leadership TeamWorkshop Facilitation
Management Consulting on agile topics
Leadership Training TBD
Initiating Agility Installing Agility Perfecting Agility
ScrumMaster and Product Owner
Organisation
Team
Individuals
Perfecting Agility Installing
Agility
Stabilising Processes +
Initiating Agility
Time
Training
Coaching
Facilitating
Mentoring
Consulting
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Coaching Skills
Growing coaching
skills
• Ask the right & difficult questions!
• Support reflection & innovation processes!
• Support people’s growth
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Summary…
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Questions?
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Pierluigi Pugliese
http://blog.connexxo.com