How to Navigate a VUCA World with Personal Agility

1. How to Navigate a WUCA World with Personal Agility Peter Stevens

2. Who is out there? • Please type your name, location, what you do and who you do it for into the chat

3. Meet Peter Stevens “Mr. What Really Matters” HB-DGI photo courtesy of Hervé Girard

4. Where were you when the lockdown order came?

5. I was finishing a workshop on Executive-Led Agile Transformation

6. Uncertainty dominated Image courtesy of seanfoneil-at-flickr CC-BY-ND 2.0

7. How is shopping diﬀerent in a chao2c situa2on? Image courtesy of Richard Burlton/Unsplash

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9. How do you navigate a VUCA world?

10. How do you navigate a VUCA world? VUCA and Agility

11. How do you navigate a VUCA world? Risks And How To Reduce Them VUCA and Agility

12. How do you navigate a VUCA world? How to Apply Agility in Any Context to Master VUCA Risks And How To Reduce Them VUCA and Agility

13. How do you navigate a VUCA world? VUCA and Agility

14. What is VUCA? UncertaintyVolatility Complexity Ambiguity Image credits: unsplash.com

15. What is Agility? Image and metaphor courtesy of Vibhor Chandel

16. IMHO the first sentence represents the Agile mindset

17. IMHO the first sentences represents the Agile mindset Learning Collaboration Purpose

18. Agility is Purpose Learning Collabora1on

19. How do you navigate a VUCA world? Risks And How To Reduce Them VUCA and Agility

28. 2. Reduce the financial commitment Time Out–Money--In

30. Vision Potentially Shippable Product Every sprint, the Scrum Team reviews their progress and direction with stakeholders Maximum 30 days Review: Product with Stakeholders Image © 2009-2019 Peter Stevens Licensed CC-BY-NC-ND

31. Vision Potentially Shippable Product This enables fine-grained decision making about what to do next… Maximum 30 days Review Product with Stakeholders What brings value? Planning: What to do? How to do it? Image © 2009-2019 Peter Stevens Licensed CC-BY-NC-ND

32. Shippable ProductVision Potentially Shippable Product …and virtually eliminates delivery risk at the end of the project Maximum 30 days Review Product with Stakeholders What brings value? Planning: What to do? How to do it? Image © 2009-2019 Peter Stevens Licensed CC-BY-NC-ND

33. How do you navigate a VUCA world? How to Apply Agility in Any Context to Master VUCA Risks And How To Reduce Them VUCA and Agility

34. Five tips for applying agility to anything • You’re the captain of your ship • Coach yourself to do more of what matters • What really matters scales for creating alignment • Focus for speed • Take care of yourself

35. Five tips for applying agility to anything • You’re the captain of your ship

38. What happens if you are caught in storm?

42. Five tips for applying agility to anything • You’re the captain of your ship • Coach yourself to do more of what matters

43. To get the right things done, master three aspects Doing Work QuestioningSetting Priorities

44. To get the right things done, ask yourself six questions regularly 1. What really matters? 2. What did I do last week? 3.What could I do this week? 4.What is important, urgent or makes me happy? 5.What can I expect to get done? 6.Who can help?

45. Personal Agility is a simple coaching framework to help you spend more time doing what matters Stuff done, Closer to who you want to be Celebrate & Choose Who you are, What you did What could I do this week? What can I expect to get done? What really maNers? Do What is important, urgent or happy? Who can help? 6 Questions 1 Recurring Event What did I do last week? 🎉 Choose photo credit: Stockfresh.com

47. Five tips for applying agility to anything • You’re the captain of your ship • Coach yourself to do more of what matters • What really matters scales for creating alignment

48. How to create alignment among 400,000 people • Every member of the Apollo mission knew: • We are going to the moon • It’s not going to fail because of me • If something goes wrong… © 2020 Peter Stevens Apollo 11 Ready for Launch

49. Knowing what really matters enables everyone to take the right decisions • Every member of the Apollo mission knew: • We are going to the moon • It’s not going to fail because of me • If something goes wrong, remember item 1 © 2020 Peter Stevens Chandrayaan 2 Ready for Launch

50. Five tips for applying agility to anything • You’re the captain of your ship • Coach yourself to do more of what matters • What really matters scales for creating alignment • Focus for speed

51. Focus enables speed Capacity Demand “to do’s”

52. By stretching yourself too thinly, you work like crazy, but things slow to a crawl Demand “to do’s” Cap acit y

53. Speed comparison This is you working on one thing at time 1 week

54. 1 week Speed comparison This is you working on five things at once 1 2 3 4 5 20 weeks

55. 1 week Focus enables you to match your planning rhythm to the volatility 1 2 3 4 5 20 weeks

56. By trying to do everything, you don’t focus on what matters Demand “to do’s” Cap acit y Waste Stuff That Matters!

57. Five tips for applying agility to anything • You’re the captain of your ship • Coach yourself to do more of what matters • What really matters scales for creating alignment • Focus for speed • Take care of yourself

58. A “Resource” is something that makes you happy • Breathe • Get enough rest and exercise • Be kind to yourself (and others) • Do things that make you happy

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