This document discusses why and how organizations adopt agile practices and ensure successful transformations. It explores how adopting agile can provide benefits like reduced time-to-market and increased quality. However, change is difficult and cultural transformations require an evolutionary approach starting from the current process. Frameworks and techniques must suit the specific context, and quality, product management, and testing are essential for sustainable agile adoption. Coaching and a collective journey are needed to evolve business cultures and processes towards agility.

1. Agile Adoptions that
Work…
…and Last
Why, How and What
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2. WHY
DO WE
ADOPT AGILE?
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3. Process Complexity Diagram
Far from
Agreement
Chaos
Requirements
Complex
Close to
Agreement Simple
Close to Technology Far from
Certainty Certainty
“The Stacey Matrix”. Prof Ralph Stacey. 3

4. Organisational Waterfalls
ANALYSE
ANALYSTS
DESIGN ARCHITECTS
FEATURE
BUILD DEVELOPERS
COMPONENT
TEST TESTERS
DEPLOY OPERATIONS
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5. Pass the Bucket
http://catholicstudentleadership.com/2013/01/04/day-7-the-build-day-2/dsc02432/
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7. INDIVIDUALS & INTERACTIONS
OVER PROCESSES AND TOOLS
WORKING SOFTWARE
OVER COMPREHENSIVE DOCUMENTATION
CUSTOMER COLLABORATION
OVER CONTRACT NEGOTIATION
RESPONDING TO CHANGE
OVER FOLLOWING A PLAN
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8. DO YOU HAVE
A COMPELLING
VISION
FOR AGILE?
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9. POSSIBLE BENEFITS
OF AGILE
1. REDUCED TIME-TO-MARKET
2. INCREASED QUALITY
3. REDUCED WASTE
4. BETTER PREDICTABILITY
5. BETTER MORALE
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“The Truth About Agile Processes” Carey Schwaber. Forrester Research Analyst. 2007

10. HOW
DO WE
ADOPT AGILE?
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11. WHAT IS THE MOST
DIFFICULT
THING TO CHANGE
IN YOUR ORGANISATION?
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12. Change is not Easy
http://blogs.interfacett.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/001-PMP-J-curve-Leading-Change.png 12

13. DO YOU HAVE
AN AGILE
CHANGE
PROGRAMME?
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15. ESSENTIAL
TRANSFORMATION
ENABLERS
EVOLUTION, NOT REVOLUTION
PEOPLE & CULTURE
COLLECTIVE JOURNEY
EXPERIENCED COACHING
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16. START FROM
WHERE YOU ARE
NOW
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17. Traditional Approach Agile Approach
Quality - A
known risk to
be actively
managed
Quality of the
solution
agreed and
fixed
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18. Concept-to-Cash Business Flow
IDEA ANALYSE DESIGN BUILD TEST DEPLOY SUPPORT
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19. The Agile Anomaly
IDEA ANALYSE DESIGN BUILD TEST DEPLOY SUPPORT
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20. The Agile Anomaly
IDEA ANALYSE DESIGN BUILD TEST DEPLOY SUPPORT
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22. Distance, Resistance & Fragility
Water-Scrum-Fall. Forrester Report 22

23. NOT AN
ADOPTION,
BUT A DEEP
TRANSFORMATION
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24. PEOPLE
&
CULTURE
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25. Business Culture
“The Reengineering Alternative”. William Schneider 26

26. Agile-Friendly Cultures
“The Reengineering Alternative”. William Schneider 27

27. The Journey Towards Agility
“The Reengineering Alternative”. William Schneider 28

28. The Vehicle for Cultural Change
KANBAN
KANBAN
“The Reengineering Alternative”. William Schneider 29

29. LEAN KANBAN
APPROACH TO CHANGE
START WITH WHAT WE DO NOW
AGREE TO PURSUE INCREMENTAL CHANGE
INITIALLY RESPECT ALL CURRENT ROLES
ENCOURAGE ACTS OF LEADERSHIP AT ALL
LEVELS
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30. WHAT
DO WE USE TO
TRANSFORM TO
AGILE?
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31. USE FRAMEWORKS,
TECHNIQUES &
PRACTICES THAT
SUIT YOUR
CONTEXT
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32. BEWARE THE
SCRUMDAMENTALIST
(...AND EVERY OTHER PROCESS FUNDAMENTALIST)
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33. DO NOT JUST
ADOPT THE PRACTICES,
TRANSFORM
EVERYTHING
ONE SMALL STEP
AT A TIME
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34. ESSENTIAL
DELIVERY
ENABLERS
UNCOMPROMISING QUALITY
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
ROBUST TESTING
SOFTWARE CRAFTSMANSHIP
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35. ESSENTIAL
TRANSFORMATION
ENABLERS
EVOLUTION, NOT REVOLUTION
PEOPLE & CULTURE
COLLECTIVE JOURNEY
EXPERIENCED COACHING
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@jose_casal
@radtacltd
@bcs_agile
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