Today most Agile teams are trying to achieve predictable, fast delivery. While that may keep your zombie competitors at bay, it’s no longer good enough especially in this highly competitive, rapidly changing playing field. It’s not just about Agile team execution anymore. Next Level Agility is about the ability of the entire organizations to quickly adapt to market changes. In this session at PCS20, 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.

1. Next Level Agile

2. Sponsors
Advocates
In Kind
Supporters

3. David Hawks
Agile Trainer and Coach
CEO of Agile Velocity
@austinagile
david@agilevelocity.com
AgileVelocity.com
Accelerate Agility
Transformation | Training | Coaching

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Assess your 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 Changed?

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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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NEXT Level Agile Values
Discovery over Execution
Validated Market Feedback over Quick Stakeholder Feedback
Business Agility over Team Level Agility
Continuous Delivery over Incremental Development
What impedes your organization 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)
•Analytics Combined with Experiment Platform

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NEXT LEVEL AGILE BENEFITS
Faster Time to Value
Organizational Agility
Faster Response to Change
Quicker (In)Validation of Ideas/ Assumptions

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In Kind
Supporters