NOVEMBER 14, 2019
FOR CULTURE CHANGE
AGILE CINCY

Aaron Kopel
CEO, Project Brilliant LLC
Enterprise Transformation Coach

Orgs ranging
from
2 to 85,000
people

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NOTABLE CLIENTS
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HOW DID WE GET HERE - TAYLORISM
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Fredrick Taylor
Scientific Management
Cogs in a machine,
working on cogs in a machine

MANAGEMENT THEORY - MCGREGOR
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Graphic from: http://allhandnote.blogspot.com/2013/05/theory-x-and-theory-y.html

HISTORY OF ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP
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Taylorism
-Command & Control
-Efficiency
Lean
-Empowerment
-quality
Agile
-Team-based
-creativity

Misunderstanding of Agile:
“Let’s get more stuff done faster!”
What Agile actually offers:
“Let’s get the right stuff done, early and often!”
EFFECTIVENESS OVER EFFICIENCY
But the target
is moving...

SEEKING AGILITY
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Thrashing
Agility
Limited Agility
© Trail Ridge Associates

SEEKING AGILITY
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Thrashing
Agility
Limited Agility

LIMITED AGILITY
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BARRIERS TO AGILE ADOPTION
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-VersionOne state of Agile Survey

CAUSES OF FAILURE IN AGILE
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-VersionOne state of Agile Survey

LEADERSHIP AGILITY
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LEADERSHIP AGILITY
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LEADERSHIP AGILITY PROGRESSION
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UNDERSTANDING CULTURE
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Flexible
People
Market
Future
Structured
Things
Internal
Present
Create
Compete
Collab
Control

CULTURE CHANGE TENSION
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Long-Term
Change
Transformational
Change
Fast
Change
Incremental
Change

COMPETING VALUES FRAMEWORK
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COMPETING VALUES FRAMEWORK SURVEY
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EXPERIMENTS
•Structure
•Policy
•Metrics
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STRUCTURES
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STRUCTURES
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ORGANIZING TEAMS FOR VALUE DELIVERY
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UI Team
Messaging Team
Bus Logic Team
Database Team
Application Team
Feature
1
Feature
2
Feature
3
UI
Messaging
Bus Logic
Database
Application
Feature
Team
1
Feature
Team
2
Feature
Team
3
Feature TeamComponent Team

POLICIES
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“T-SHAPED” PEOPLE
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DepthofExpertise Breadth of Skills
JAVA
Doc
Javascript
UI
QA
DBA
iOS

METRICS
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LEADERS MUST LEAD THE WAY
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LEADERSHIP AGILITY IS A CHOICE
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READY TO GO DEEPER?
Join us for a 2-day Agile Leadership Journey® workshop
www.ProjectBrilliant.com/trainings
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We Don’t teach leaders about Agile...
...We help Leaders understand
how to lead in an Agile environment!

AARON KOPEL
CEO
Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST®)
Certified Enterprise Coach® (CEC®)
Aaron@ProjectBrilliant.com
317.253.8500
@aakopel
linkedin.com/in/aaronkopel
Project Brilliant, LLC
450 E. 96th St.
Suite 500
Indianapolis, IN 46240
317.646.4468
Agile@ProjectBrilliant.com
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