Agility is an Organizational Value

by Kevin Donaldson on Mar 09, 2010

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A presentation I gave walking through the basics of Agile Lean and Scrum to an organization that was looking to deploy the use of Scrum and the Agile philosophy for business management. Scrum is a powerful framework that can be applied outside of a software development context to bring Agility to any organization.

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Agility is an Organizational Value — Presentation Transcript

Agility is an Organizational Value

What is your “ Product ”

Traditional Execution Models Touchdown Right?

Not Always…

“ The only constant is change ”

Heraclitus of Ephesus

Greek Philosopher (535 BC – 475 BC)

Chaotic environments require self organization around basic patterns with continuous re-assessment

Your processes need to match the relative stability of your environment

OK – so where do we start?

Agile Philosophy

People & Interactions Over process and tools

Results Over comprehensive documentation

Customer Collaboration Over contract negotiations

Respond to Change Over following the plan

Lean Thinking

Eliminate Waste

Amplify Learning

Decide As late as possible

Deliver As fast as possible

Empower The team

Integrity Built in

See the whole

Scrum: A self organizing adaptive system

Scrum Master Scrum Team Product Owner

Backlog A sorted list of priorities

Sprint A time boxed work cycle

Daily Scrum Each day, same time, 15 min max

Impediments Anything that slows the team down

Management Systems Are critical to adoption

“ Agility…execute your OODA loop more quickly than your adversary ”

USAF Colonel John Boyd

Organizational Rhythms Daily Weekly Monthly Quarterly Annual Intra-day (Drive Gear of the Company)

Strategy Process People Technology Pilot Solidify Rollout Alignment Organizational adoption of Agile is an iterative learning process

Case Studies

Balihoo has rolled out Agile with the Scrum framework across all business functions

Dec 18/09 BOSTON, MA

… After deploying its first $108 million fund quickly, making nine investments over about two years, OpenView has so far put money from its second fund into only one startup, Idaho-based marketing software maker Balihoo Inc.

OpenView has instead focused on building a 15-person, in-house consulting shop it calls OpenView Labs, which has been studying a set of software development techniques called scrum, and adapting them for all aspects of management at OpenView's 10 existing portfolio companies…

“ Scrum in church? Of course! How else did God create the world in seven days?”

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Agility is an Organizational Value

by Kevin Donaldson on Mar 09, 2010

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