This document discusses leveraging Lean and Agile methods to improve organizational culture. It begins with a quick survey about how participants feel about their organization's culture. It then introduces an exercise where participants pair up and explore words or phrases that convey something true about themselves without judgment. The document goes on to define culture and reference models of cultural development. It notes that culture, Lean Kanban, and adoption/transformation are interrelated. The conclusion emphasizes that everyone wants to feel supported, heard, and able to contribute their best in the workplace. Organizational culture impacts adoption of new methods and a hierarchical "follow the book" culture may resist transformation while an empowering culture can create and evolve their own processes.

1. Tearing down the walls :
Leveraging Lean and Agile
methods to create your own

2. About me
Ashish Mahajan
Agile Coach
Ford Motor Company

3. Quick Survey –
How well do you feel about culture in your organization ?
5: Excellent.
4: I think we are doing good, needs a little more..
3: I can live with that and support it.
2: I have some reservations about my org culture
1: I am not very happy with it

4. Explain
Explore
Pick / Write a word or short phrase that
conveys something true about you
•Round 1: Pair up and explain what you wrote.
•Round 2:
•Walk around and trade cards with people,
letting your card mixed up.
•Keep trading until all the cards are really mixed
up.
•Now pair up with someone near you.
•This time, explore what is true about this word
or phrase for you. You will not say “this is not
true”. You will find something true about it and
say that
Explain/Explore Exercise

5. Debrief

6.  Here I am going to talk about culture
What is Culture?

10. Successive stages of human and
organizational consciousness
Ref: http://agilitrix.com/2015/01/laloux-culture-model/

11. Ref: An Agile Adoption and Transformation Survival Guide: Michael Sahota

12. Culture, Lean Kanban and everything
in between

13. Do we want to work in a place where we are supported and
grow?
Do we want to feel like our opinions count?
Do we want a place where we can give our best every day?
The answer for everyone is yes – we would like to contribute and
to feel like we are making a difference.
Why We All Need to Care ?

14. • Adoption
• Hierarchical
• Fear
• Micromanagement
• No Authority
• Risk ? No Way!
• Follow process by book
• Transformation
• Servant Leadership
• Trust
• Empowerment
• Self Managed
• Risk ? Try it!
• Create /Evolve your
own process
Explain
Explore

16. Thank You !