Agile Isn’t Enough: Revolution over Transformation - Todd Charron
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This document discusses how agile transformations often fail to truly change organizations because they focus on changing practices but not the underlying organizational structure and culture. True change requires a "revolution" that challenges the existing power structures and gives autonomy back to employees. The document outlines a 7-step process for leading such an organizational revolution, including defining the group's identity and values, identifying what is holding the organization back, building solidarity among a committed group, celebrating successes, and gradually increasing employee autonomy and participation in decision-making. The goal is to transition the organization away from functioning like a "dictatorship" and toward greater "liberty" for all members.
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- 1. Agile Revolution Over Transformation Isn’t Enough https://www.flickr.com/photos/pabak/14496866427/
- 2. 8’s Warm Up
- 3. Agile Revolution Over Transformation Isn’t Enough https://www.flickr.com/photos/pabak/14496866427/
- 4. Todd Charron Twitter: @toddcharron Email: todd@toddcharron.com Agile Coach, Improvisor Mentor: Lean Startup Machine Founder: Follow Your Fear Day Who Am I?
- 5. do I do this? Why
- 6. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/13/idUS206536+13-Feb-2012+BW20120 213 At the current churn rate, 75% of the S&P 500 will be replaced by 2027. Year Tenure for average firm on S&P 500 (years) 1958 61 1980 25 2011 18
- 8. Organizations need to be cutting edge thinkers https://www.flickr.com/photos/superde1uxe/3550318988
- 13. Who Do You Work For? Who Are You?
- 14. Or do you relinquish it to leadership? Can you bring your full power, creativity, intelligence to work every day?
- 17. Thou Shalt Be Agile! Top Down https://www.flickr.com/photos/43015643@N05/681200960 4
- 18. Changes practices but rarely changes the organization Bottom Up
- 19. Are we really committed? Pilot Team https://www.flickr.com/photos/eggstudio/4768879192
- 20. Will we ever get there? Do we even have a vision of where we’re going? Gradual Evolution https://www.flickr.com/photos/41428791@N04/4203717138/
- 22. Culture attracts and retains top Talent Culture Wins Over Process
- 23. Need to bake it into your DNA
- 27. This happens whether you want it to or not Rule Through Authority, Suppress Dissent, and Use Fear https://www.flickr.com/photos/pikawil/15243882912/
- 28. - Gene Sharp The population gets turned into a mass of isolated individuals https://www.flickr.com/photos/pikawil/15243882912/
- 29. Cannot do much of their own initiative https://www.flickr.com/photos/pikawil/15243882912/
- 30. - Gene Sharp People are often too frightened to share their hatred of the dictatorship https://www.flickr.com/photos/pikawil/15243882912/
- 32. You only have authority if the people recognize it Authority is an illusion https://www.flickr.com/photos/tinou/133982614
- 33. Authority can make change but only winning hearts and minds can sustain it https://www.flickr.com/photos/tinou/133982614
- 34. We must make change on an emotional level https://www.flickr.com/photos/tinou/133982614
- 36. So if not authority, then what?
- 39. How far can we go creating liberated organizations? Valve, Zappos, Netflix experimenting with increasing liberty https://www.flickr.com/photos/80502454@N00/5555074456/
- 40. We can be more free, more liberated https://www.flickr.com/photos/80502454@N00/5555074456/ We will get better We will be better
- 43. Institutional conflicts and personal rivalries https://www.flickr.com/photos/pikawil/15243882912/
- 44. People may become apathetic, skeptical and even hostile to the regime https://www.flickr.com/photos/pikawil/15243882912/
- 45. How do we defeat a dictator? https://www.flickr.com/photos/birgerking/7080728397
- 46. Rebellions can be put down * Warning: Revolutions start as rebellions
- 47. To remove the dictator we must remove its legitimacy and the rewards that sustain it https://www.flickr.com/photos/birgerking/7080728397
- 48. 7 Steps To Revolution
- 49. 1. Who are you? 2. Have values… and live by them 3. The Dictator 4. Craft our narrative 5. Build our tribe 6. Celebrate our victories 7. Build autonomy
- 50. 1. Who are you?
- 53. As a company As a group of rebels Who are you? Who is the face of this change? Who is your leader? Be intentional. Be polarizing. What’s your point of view? Who wouldn’t fit in here? Who are you not?
- 54. ...and live by them 2. Have Values
- 55. Keep Method Weird What would MacGyver Do? Innovate Don’t Imitate Collaborate, Collaborate, Collaborate Care Like Crazy Method Values:
- 58. 3. The Dictator
- 59. The Dictator is the biggest threat or problem we can unite around solving https://www.flickr.com/photos/birgerking/7080728397
- 60. 4. Craft our narrative
- 62. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.
- 63. Exercise: There was a time
- 64. When _________________ And we could have done ______ or ______ but instead we did ________ because we believe _________ There was a time...
- 65. 5. Build our tribe
- 66. Become More Group’ish Flip Your Hive Switch https://www.flickr.com/photos/siamesepuppy/834924919 2
- 69. Focus on What You Have In Common Focus on similarity not diversity
- 71. Dancing Dissolves Hierarchy Play Poker Lose Yourself In The Group https://www.flickr.com/photos/bantam10/1286612086 5
- 72. How will you keep Method weird? Create Positive Rites Of Passage https://www.flickr.com/photos/aidan_jones/123496988 5
- 73. Tribes, Squads, Chapters, Guilds Sprints, Scrum, Daily Scrum, Retrospectives Create Symbols, Names, Insider Language
- 74. Give your members a name - Beliebers is taken
- 75. Be factual, don’t sugar coat 6. Celebrate our victories
- 76. Provide Immediate Recognition for those living the values
- 78. Empowerment
- 79. Or Go Against The Grain Embrace Ideas That Seem Uncomfortable
- 80. Trust Their Choices Even If They Are Different Than Your Own
- 82. If not, fix THAT rather than remove power Trust that they are competent and have clarity of vision
- 83. Could we solve this problem by increasing freedom instead of reducing it? - Penn Jillett https://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/2868168119 6
- 84. Why Are They There? If you don’t believe they can understand the vision or pick up the skills
- 85. Wrapping Up
- 86. The is THE top priority
- 87. You need to be intentional about who you are
- 88. The is an ongoing long term effort
- 89. This is the thing you have to scale
- 90. You need to lead it and own it Outsiders Can Help
- 91. Reminder...
- 95. Revolution Start a https://www.flickr.com/photos/pabak/14496866427/ Todd Charron Twitter: @toddcharron todd@toddcharron.com