The document discusses modern practices for managing today's workforce, specifically focusing on agile practices. It summarizes the history of agile, from influences like Deming and Toyota in the 1920s-1980s to the official creation of the Agile Manifesto in 2001. It then discusses why agile is important now and common barriers to agile adoption. The presentation provides an overview of core agile principles and practices and suggests moving away from top-down control toward more distributed, autonomous teams and a focus on organizational agility and co-created change.

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Modern practises for
managing today’s workforce
APICS Peel Chapter
March 4, 2020
What’s your experience
with ‘agile’ vote here:
http://sli.do
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Jason Little | @jasonlittle
About me
Started in manufacturing, moved into IT, became software
developer, project manager, worked for a few startups,
started helping organizations implement Agile in the
mid-2000’s.
agilecoach.ca
leanchange.org

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What is agile?
(don’t forget, you can ask questions at sli.do and enter the code S116)

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Let’s experiment!
I need 14 volunteers please!

5. Rules
❖ 1 point for each ball that passes through the team
❖ Each person must touch the ball
❖ There must be air-time between passes
❖ Cannot pass to the person beside you
❖ For each round:
❖ 1 minute to plan (must give estimate of how many balls your team can pass)
❖ 2 minutes to execute

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As you watch, look for what
looks “agile” about how they
are working

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The History of Agile
2001
“We decided to call it a
manifesto since it was a call to
arms and a statement of our
beliefs”
- Martin Fowler, one of the 17 signatories

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The History of Agile
Today
Agile is much like Disney. It
owns everything you know
and love.

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How did we get here?
Dr William Deming
1920’s 1948
Toyota Production
System
1986
First use of Scrum
in Product Dev
1994
“Official” Scrum
1996
Extreme
Programming
2001
Agile Manifesto
Created
2011
The Lean Startup

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Deploy
The Basic Premise
TestBuildDesignAnalysis
A
1 month
D
B
T
1 month 3 months 0 months 1 week
2 weeks
A
D
B
T
2 weeks
Validation Validation
A
D
B
T
2 weeks
Validation
Deliver working solutions
frequently, validate,
respond to change, repeat

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Why Agile? Why Now?
Version One
State of Agile Survey

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What Barriers Exist?
Version One
State of Agile Survey

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Agile Then, and Now
How do we get teams to improve?
How do we support teams to do their best work?
How can we align priorities?
How can we shift
performance management?How do we manage the “climate?”

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Perspective Matters
Strategy
“Rational View”
Political
“Social View”
Culture
“Irrational View”
Agile = centralized process improvement Agile = emergent improvement Agile = “mindset” shift

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Remember the Plan?
Create 12 layers of management
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
Design 83 new departments
Implement bell curve of performance
Develop 175 page best practice guide for delivery
Develop 254 page best practice guide that
contradicts the 175 page version
Purchase best-of-breed delivery guide
from vendor
Do something agile related
Finalize and implement culture of blame

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That’s Not How We Got Here
Re-organization
Externally visible failures Creation of new departments
Implementation of new centralized processes

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Where to Start?
Values
Principles
Practices
Visualize
work
Lean
Coffee
Lego
Serious
Play
Core
Protocols
Innovation
Games
Small,
autonomous
teams
Servant
leadership
Lead with
purpose
Core Agile Practices
Management
3.0
Co-Creation
of Change
Participatory Change
Organizational
Agility

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Case study and stories at leanchange.org/stories

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How to Become More “Agile”
Away from: Towards:
Micro-managing the people Managing the climate
Top-down change initiatives Co-created change
Centralized control functions Distributed “control”
What to Google:
Management 3.0
Lean Change Management
Organizing for Complexity
Re-inventing organizations
The organization as a machine The organization as a complex system
Ralph Stacy
Dave Snowden - Cynefin
Global LAMP Index