Today most Agile teams are trying to achieve predictable, fast delivery. While that’s good, it’s no longer good enough—not if we want to keep up in this highly competitive, rapidly changing world. It’s not just about teams anymore. Next Level Agility is about the ability of entire organizations to quickly adapt to market changes. In his Keep Austin Agile 2018 session, David Hawks shared principles and practices that are the future of Agile organizations. Together, he and the audience reset the bar on how great Agile organizations operate by moving beyond practices like user stories, project plans, stakeholder feedback, continuous integration, and velocity, and towards a new Next Level Agile Manifesto with an emphasis on Discovery over Execution. Learn to identify organizational impediments keeping you from breaking through to the next level. Attendees walked away from this session with concrete practices needed in order to support this new way of working.

1. Next Level Agile
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2. David Hawks
Agile Trainer and Coach
CEO of Agile Velocity
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AgileVelocity.com
Accelerate Agility
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THE PATH TO AGILITY™
Our proven transformation framework

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current state of Agility
Superficial Agility Improving Agility Predictable Agility Fast Agility
• Going through the Motions
• Work is Visible
• Silo Development
• Lots of Carryover
• Not Strong PO/ SM
• Retrospectives have meaning
• ScrumMaster is Coach
• Work is Estimated and
velocity being measured
• Swarming and Cross Training
is starting to happen
• Team Identity is being
created
• Carryover is limited
• Team’s have focus (Limiting
WIP)
• Constant team Backlog
Refinement
• Break work down and swarm
• Whole Team Ownership
embracing cross functional
goals
• Cycle Time has been
significantly reduced
• Able to respond to new high
priority and deliver quickly
• Leadership focus on
optimizing the whole
• Urgently resolve
organizational impediments
• Test Automation, Continuous
Integration, DevOps in place
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CURRENT State of Agile BENEFITS
Team Continuous Improvement
Predictability
Faster Time to Market
Increased Visibility

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What Has Happened Since Agile Was Born?
1995 2001 2007 Now2006 2012

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What has Changed?
Rate of Change/
Disruption
Phones, Cloud, DevOps
Competition/
Choice/Options

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NEXT LEVEL AGILE BENEFITS
Faster Time to Value
Agility in All Parts of the Organization
Faster Response to Market Demands
Quicker (In)Validation of Ideas/ Assumptions

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New Manifesto?
We value ________________ over ________________
We value ________________ over ________________
We value ________________ over ________________
We value ________________ over ________________
What do you think Next Level Agility looks like?

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NEXT Level Agile Values
Discovery over Execution
Validated Market Feedback over Quick Stakeholder Feedback
Whole Org Agility over Team Level Agility
Continuous Delivery over Incremental Development
What impedes your organization’s ability to achieve
these higher levels of Agility?

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Top ImPediments
•Mindset Change from Execute on Assumptions to Learn Faster
•Whole Organization/ Leadership Transformation
•Supporting Tech. Infrastructure (Test Automation, CI/CD,
DevOps) in place
•Analytics Combined with Experiment Platform

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6 practices to Level You Up

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Serve Customers vs Stakeholders

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Hypotheses vs Requirements

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Objective Decision Making vs
Subjective Prioritization
Build
Measure
Learn
Minimize time
through
the loop

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Goal Driven Investment vs
Budget/Plan Driven

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Release Continuously vs
Integrate Continuously

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Measure Value vs Velocity

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Practices
1. Serve Customers vs Stakeholders
2. Hypotheses vs Requirements
3. Objective vs Subjective Decision Making
4. Investment vs Budget
5. Continuously Release vs Integrate
6. Measure Value vs Velocity
NEXT LEVEL AGILE Values & Practices
Values
1. Quicker (In)Validation of Ideas
2. Faster Time to Value
3. Organizational Agility
4. Faster Response to Change
For each Practice determine which Value is most Impacted?

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24. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIALAGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
THE PATH TO AGILITY™
Our proven transformation framework

25. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIALAGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY 25
Align Learn Predict Accelerate Adapt
Alignment around Why
Change
Agile Leadership Mindset
Create Focus and Ability to
Forecast
Optimize the Whole Business Agility
Org Change Plan
Empower Teams - Transfer
Ownership
Reduce Complexity Internal Coaching Capacity
Product Learning over
Delivery
Readiness for the
Transformation
Facilitate the Change
Clear Value Purpose
Establish Foundational
Practices
Establish Predictable
Cadence of Delivery
Release Continuously Customer Centered
Team Agreements
Establish Continuous
Improvement Culture
Shorten Quality Feedback
Loop
Reduce Cycle Time
Experiment Driven
Development
Create Visibility
OrganizationalLevelTeamLevel THE PATH TO AGILITY™
Our proven transformation framework

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MORE GREAT SESSIONS
More Agile Velocity speakers along the Path to Agility™
David Hawks -
Next Level Agile
Reese Schmit - Agile = No
Planning = Bull$h!t
Brian O’Fallon - So You Made
Your Project Managers into
ScrumMasters
Braz Brandt - Growing
Agile Managers

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