Topics to consider in your company transformation: "Agile Champion", "Roger's innovation adoption model", "Business commitment", "coaching", etc.

1. Agile corporate adoption – Key Success Factors
Xavier Albaladejo
CAS2014 - Agile Spain Conference
December 2014

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Speaker Bio & Company Information
 Xavier Albaladejo is Agile-Lean Coach of organizational
transformation and member of everis Agile Excellence
Center. He helps large organizations to bring more value,
faster and efficiently, using Agile and Lean principles.
 Xavier Albaladejo coordinates a Postgraduate on Agile
methods in La Salle, he is Certified Scrum Practitioner,
founder of proyectosagiles.org, Agile Barcelona and
member of Agile Spain Board of Directors.
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AGILE EXCELLENCE CENTER
IT Government – Technology BU
PMA
Postgrado en
Métodos Ágiles

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CEO
Corporate Agile adoption
■ Still silos, little alignment
and collaboration, lack of
business value focus.
■ Low motivation.
■ No retrospectives with
bottom-up improvement.
■ Agile = iterations.
■ Agile = change whatever
whenever.
■ … 

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■ Faster (Time To Market )
■ More flexible (to quickly incorporate market feedback)
■ More efficient and more quality
■ More people motivation
You want to be Agile

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■ End user value focus.
■ Teamwork (Business & IT).
■ Break silos to create cross-
functional stable cells.
■ Self organized teams.
■ Regular reflection.
■ Bottom-up improvement.
Agile means…
■ Discipline.
■ Sustainable pace.
■ Technical excellence.
■ Simplicity.
■ Motivating people.
■ …

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■ End user value focus
■ Teamwork (Business & IT).
■ Break silos to create cross-
functional stable cells.
■ Self organized teams.
■ Regular reflection.
■ Bottom-up improvement.
Agile means…
■ Discipline.
■ Sustainable pace.
■ Technical excellence.
■ Simplicity.
■ Motivating people.
■ …
More changes in
people and interactions
than in processes

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BTW…

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How is your corporate culture?
I can’t bear
these horrible
histories

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XXX
 XXX
Wait! My organization already works

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Ufff, what a
challenge.
Am I really
sure of
launching
this??

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XXX
 XXX
Yes, I want my organization out-perform

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3 questions and 1 order
1. Why?
2. How?
3. Who?

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1. Why?
We need a powerful reason
in order to align people

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1. Why?
We need a powerful reason
in order to align people
What’s yours?

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So, how much
do you must
change…?
… to be there?
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The most powerful reason
Do you have
any choice?

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3 questions and 1 order
 Why?
2. How?
3. Who?

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3 questions and 1 order
 Why?
2. How?
3. Who? !

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■Who sponsors the change?
■Who wants the change? Are they really committed?
■Who have the needed culture?
■Who will fight for the change to make it real?
How Who=

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How Who=
Find the right people to start with
Agile
is not
for all
people

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High Level Manager
Agile Champion
How Who=
■ Change agent – Make things happen at an
organizational level, sells the concept so everybody wins.
■ Leader – Do changes, people ask him for guiding,
aligns high and (specially) middle management.
■ Evangelist – Showing more than telling.

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How Who=
Business commitment.
Agile is for them !!!
■ Stakeholders involvement.
■ Product Owner dedication
and role recognition –
Responsibility and authority.
■ They will be your
ambassadors and do
traction in the organization.

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How Who=
■ Acceleration and avoid falling in typical
mistakes.
Experienced
Agile & Change Coaches
■ Mindset change coaching, not only
practices teaching.
■ Expertise and methodological
approach on organizational transformation.
■ Energy and passion in the change.

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Last “How” recommendations
■ Don’t wait to have the perfect
environment.
■ Bring people to touch the experience.
■ Let this spread like an oil stain and shape
the organization step by step.

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Questions?

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