The document discusses adopting an agile mindset for developing products. It defines an agile mindset as valuing people over processes and products, adapting to changes, and delivering value early through customer collaboration. An agile mindset believes people are competent and motivated if supported, customers can provide needed feedback, and plans emerge through work. Products with an agile mindset deliver value frequently through testing and automated deployment, while valuing technical excellence and deferred decisions. True agility requires going beyond processes to a mindset that drives actions and allows evolving plans.

1. Agile Mindset & Culture
by Hithem Ahmed

2. Agenda
• Mindset Big picture
• Our mindset
• Explore your mindset
• Agile mindset
• Products with and without agile mindset
• Logical Levels of Learning and Change
• True agility

3. The Big Picture

4. Our Mindset
• Elements of a Mind-Set
– Values: Most Important
– Beliefs: Contextual Beliefs
– Principles: standards, choices, actions and
decisions

5. What’s your mindset
• Values
– Minimize cost and schedule
– Build the right thing
– Make accurate commitments
– Eliminate the risk of disaster
– Maximize perceived quality
– Be able to change priorities quickly
– Be able to replace the workers easily
– Innovate
– Keep auditors happy
– Build happy teams that work well together
– Get rewarded or promoted

6. What’s your mindset
• Beliefs
– If we sign off on requirements now and the team will finish
developing them six months from now, the requirements will
still be valuable and relevant.
– Customer is engaged frequently.
– Placing workers where their skills are most needed is a good
way to finish projects.
– People really care only for themselves.
– If we do all the design before starting implementation, we
reduce risk and avoid rework.
– The documentation of how a piece is constructed will be
useful to the next team member on the job.
– If we invite certain senior managers to our meetings, we
won’t get in trouble later.
– If we hire great people, we’ll have great performance.
– If we propose a compelling, sensible improvement, people
will naturally want to implement it, and proceed to do that.
– Clear processes and roles should be defined

7. Mindset
• Value (Collaborating with customers,
environment that people thrive together)
– Agile Mindset
• Value (Manfacturing many copies -- Repeatively)
– Lean Mindset
• Value (prove that you are solving the right
problem)
– Lean startup Mindset
• Value (getting the solution right from the first
time)
– WaterFall Mindset

8. Agile Mindset

9. Values
• People come first, before product and before
process
• Adaptation.
• Early and frequent value delivery.
• Customer collaboration.
• Control my cost ?

10. Beliefs
• People: competent, motivated, trusted, and
supported people will do well (self-organizing,
collaborative team)
• The customer. He Can’t pinpoint future needs
and wants, but they have a good handle on
what’s needed now
• The work. emergence, or evolution of plans

11. Principles
• People:

12. Principles
• Work:

13. Agile ?
• Software Development
• Project management
• Processes & methods
• Methodology or framework
• Paradigm, Mindset

14. Agile (Paradigm) Mindset
• Transcends Processes (People, Product,
Customer)
• the thinking that drives your actions
• Agile is a whole package to get its benefits for
people, product and customer.

15. Product With Agile Mindset
• Early and Frequent Delivery
• Value changes over time and context
• People should come first
• Collaborate with customer in trusting
relationship
• Technical Excellence, defer decisions (TDD)
minimize feedback loop by automated (Build,
test, deploy).

16. Product Without Agile Mindset
• Backlogs with detailed difficult specification
• People work in tasks, no collaboration
• Instead of getting feedback, prescribed
meetings
• Instead of servant leadership, task
management

17. Beyond Process (Ingredients)
• Beyond Best Practices (Recipes)
• You should be an Agile Chef

18. Logical Levels of Learning and Change
Robert Dilts’ “Logical Levels”
model

19. (according to the situation and
context)
Shu Ha Ri

20. Q & A
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