During this presentation you will find the short version of your questions like: Why transition to agile? How to use Values for an agile transition? How to create a fluent transition? When to train, coach or manage? How to manage more transparency? When to stop the transition? You will gain a deeper knowledge of the transition process so that you can either do it yourself or hire and manage agile coaches in an effective, productive manner.

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Short Guideto your
AgileTransformation
Adrian Bolboacă
@adibolb
adrian.bolboaca@mozaicworks.
com

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Thistalk isfor you:
♦ A manager who wants to use agile
♦ A Scrum Master involved in a transition
♦ Need to become an agent of change
♦ Want to reduce time to market of your
product
♦ Need to manage transition agile coaches
♦ Don’t know how to start the agile transition

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Agenda
1 What is agile?
2 Why transition to agile?
3 When to transition to agile?
4 Agile Change Management in brief
5 Measures of transition progress
6 Transparency of change
7 When is the transition over?

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1. What isNOT agile
♦ Methodology
♦ Fixed recipe
♦ Golden standard
♦ Silver bullet
♦ Religion

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1. What isagile
♦ Set of Principles and Values
► Collaboration
► Communication
► Feedback
► High Quality
► Continuous Improvement & more
♦ Mindset of adaptability and fast change
♦ Philosophy of business

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2. Why transition to agile?
♦ Improve time to market of your product
♦ Smaller costs of development
♦ Better relationship with clients and users
♦ Focus your business on added value
♦ Increase the (technical) quality of the product

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3. When NOT to transition to agile?
♦ The management heard it’s cool and that’s all
♦ Your teams are always 100% focused on
delivery
♦ You need to deliver features in the near future
♦ You don’t have the budget for an efficient
change
♦ Nobody knows what agile is

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3. When to transition to agile?
♦ You understand the benefits:
► Faster time to market
► Improved product quality
► Minimize waste from the current process
♦ You understand the risks:
► Not everyone likes agile, ~10-25% of colleagues will
leave
► You will need time and a flexible budget
► The final result is not clear from the beginning

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3. When to transition to agile?
♦ Agile transition works best when you:
► Work for a product development company
► The teams can transition to vertical slices of
development (cross-functional team from front-end
to storage)
► The management and teams understand what
agile is
► Clarify the benefits & risks with all the stakeholders
► Can start transition in small steps, not big-bang

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4. AgileChangeManagement
♦ Ensure you have:
► Transparency
► Clarity
♦ You are an agent of change, not a manager
► Consult with everyone
► Take a decision after everyone was heard
♦ Be neutral, and help everyone
♦ Understand how much change can be absorbed
now

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5. Measuresof progress
♦ Micromanagement Self-organization→
♦ Is business knowledge distributed?
♦ Technical quality is improving
♦ Lead time of features is decreasing
♦ Team happiness is increasing
♦ Clients give better feedback
♦ Management is less involved and trusts the
teams

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6. Transparency of change
♦ Use a visual board for the roadmap with
changes: now, soon, later
♦ Always explain the value of the next actions
♦ Continuously ask if everything is clear
♦ Have 1 on 1 meetings with everyone involved
♦ Regularly explain progress to management
♦ Regularly retrospect: what worked, what
didn’t

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7. When isthetransition over?
♦ Use management by objectives
► What is my business transition objective?
► How can I measure it?
♦ All the teams reached a performing state
♦ Management lets teams self-organize
♦ Requests are about what, and not how

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When agilehasminimal benefits
♦ The business is not dynamic
♦ We know exactly what we need to develop (for real,
not just saying so)
♦ No real feedback on product from customers and
users
♦ Not many colleagues like to work collaboratively
♦ The business doesn’t focus on high quality
♦ Focus on minimizing costs, not on investments

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Anti-Patternsof agiletransition
♦ We are special, it doesn’t work for us
♦ Organization works on horizontal slices (framework
team, front-end team, mobile team)
♦ Transition a whole big organization at once
♦ Business knowledge not distributed in the organization
♦ Everyone expects the manager to takes decisions
♦ Have Transition Manager as a role

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If you want to transition to agile,
understand the whole ecosystem and
do it right, with people who know
how to transition an organization

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What’sNext?
♦ Let’s have a chat about your context during
Open Space
♦ Read more about change management and
agile
♦ Attend a workshop on how to transition to
agile
♦ Contact me when you have any questions at
adrian.bolboaca@mozaicworks.com

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