6. Quick Survey – What Agile Adoption
Success have you seen?
• 5 = Every time a
success
• ...
• 0 = Every time a
failure
• Raise your hand
when your number
Photo CC
comes up… http://www.flickr.com/photos/lindsey
_catherine/5808320129
7. XP Toronto Mtg 2011
Agile Tour Toronto 2011
Agile New England 2011
11. Why is Culture Important?
“If you do not manage
“The only thing of culture, it manages you,
real importance and you may not even be
that leaders do is to aware of the extent to
create and manage which this is happening.”
culture.”
Edgar Schein
Professor MIT Sloan School of Management
Photo courtesy: http://leadership-tdoerffer.blogspot.com/2010/11/enjoy-interview-with-prof-edgar-schein.html
19. Kanban Principles (Anderson)
First adopt the Then (use the 5 Core
foundational principles Properties)
• Start with what you do 1. Visualize the workflow
now 2. Limit WIP
• Agree to pursue 3. Manage Flow
incremental, 4. Make Process Policies
evolutionary change Explicit
• Respect the current 5. Improve Collaboratively
process, roles, (using models & the
responsibilities & titles scientific method)
http://agilemanagement.net/index.php/Blog/the_principles_of_the_kanban_method/
34. Adoption - Practices Doing Agile
When culture is not compatible with Agile
Incremental Adoption
Look at Context
Pain Practice
Avoid
Scrum
Agile Manifesto
See
“Agile Adoption Patterns: A Roadmap to
Organizational Success” by Amr Elssamadisy
“Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World” provides a
lot of practical advice on adopting Agile [Smith &
Sidky].
47. #2 Incubate Transformational
Leadership
Leaders go
first!
• Live the values
• Lead by example
• Seek to truly understand their culture
• Be as transparent as the teams they lead
See presentation: Agile From the Top Down:
Executives & Leadership Living Agile by Jon Stahl
http://www.slideshare.net/LeanDog/agile-from-the-top-down
48. #3 Develop Transformational Leadership Team
Deep alignment
between leadership
teams’ personal visions
and organizational
compelling shared
vision
Continued commitment
to maintaining
integrity and
sacredness of
leadership team
See Temenos retreau
@Siraju
Ref: http://adaptivecollaboration.com/2012/04/23/temenos-retreat-a-journey-of-change/
