Session Title : Session Overview : What does a Lean-Agile delivery process look like? If you had to describe one, where would you start – "from the left", with a backlog of work to plough through, or "from the right", with needs met by working software? And does the difference in perspective matter? The difference does indeed matter; we'll see that learning to describe and introduce Agile and its frameworks "from the right" brings considerable benefits. And it's not hard – we can all do it!

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Mike Burrows
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Right to Left
(2019)

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Backlog items in JIRA*… People collaborating over
working software that is
beginning to meet needs*Other tracking tools are available
Your kind of Agile?

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Two levels of backlog,
planning events, …
Shared objectives pursued
goal by goal…
Your kind of Scrum?

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n levels of backlog,
planning events, …
Shared objectives pursued
goal by goal…
SAFe?

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• Prescribe a process
• Justify it
• Roll it out
• Deal with the
consequences
• Agree on outcomes
• Generate some options
• Test assumptions
• Begin to treat change
as part of the day job
Agile adoption?
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The Agile Industrial Complex
imposing methods on people is
an absolute travesty.
Martin Fowler, The State of Agile Software in 2018
martinfowler.com/articles/agile-aus-2018.html
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Right to Left: Understand, manage, improve

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Right to Left: Understand, manage, improve
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Urgency
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Change
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Validate
Adoption
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Verify
Performance
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Rejected
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speed of decision-making, and alignment of
Elaboration
Actions framed,
our thinking tested
4. Manage
testing
Mapping
Plans & priorities
visualised
3. Keep the
for change
visible
Discovery
Where we’d like
to get to
Exploration
Prospecting for
opportunities
1. Start with
Operation
Change as
real work
impact
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2. Agree on
needs
outcomes
agenda options
assumptions

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5. Organise for clarity of intent,
speed of decision-making, and alignment of
Elaboration
Actions framed,
our thinking tested
4. Manage
testing
Mapping
Plans & priorities
visualised
3. Keep the
for change
visible
Operation
Change as
real work
impact
agenda options
assumptions
Discovery
Where we’d like
to get to
Exploration
Prospecting for
opportunities
1. Start with
2. Agree on
needs
outcomes

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5. Organise for clarity of intent,
speed of decision-making, and alignment of
Elaboration
Actions framed,
our thinking tested
4. Manage
testing
Mapping
Plans & priorities
visualised
3. Keep the
for change
visible
Exploration
Prospecting for
opportunities
Operation
Change as
real work
impact
agenda options
assumptions
Discovery
Where we’d like
to get to
1. Start with
2. Agree on
needs
outcomes

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Imagine…
Everyone able to work consistently at their best:
• Individuals, teams, between teams,
across the organisation and beyond
• Right conversations, right people,
best possible moment
• Needs anticipated, met at just the right time

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Imagine…
Everyone able to work consistently at their best:
• Individuals, teams, between teams,
across the organisation and beyond
• Right conversations, right people,
best possible moment
• Needs anticipated, met at just the right time
Q1: What’s that like? What’s different?

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Imagine…
Everyone able to work consistently at their best:
• Individuals, teams, between teams,
across the organisation and beyond
• Right conversations, right people,
best possible moment
• Needs anticipated, met at just the right time
Q2: What obstacles do you see?

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Imagine…
Everyone able to work consistently at their best:
• Individuals, teams, between teams,
across the organisation and beyond
• Right conversations, right people,
best possible moment
• Needs anticipated, met at just the right time
Q3: What would you like to have happen?

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Imagine…
Everyone able to work consistently at their best:
• Individuals, teams, between teams,
across the organisation and beyond
• Right conversations, right people,
best possible moment
• Needs anticipated, met at just the right time
Q4:Then what happens?

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Is there a relationship between X andY?
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What would you like to have happen?
And your first/next obstacle?
And when X,
then what happens?
What happens
before X?
What kind of X?
Is there anything
else about X?
What is happening
when X?
15-minute FOTO
From ObstaclesTo Outcomes –
as many as you can generate in 15
minutes, using only clean questions
and the client’s own words
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Imagine…
Everyone able to work consistently at their best:
• Individuals, teams, between teams,
across the organisation and beyond
• Right conversations, right people,
best possible moment
• Needs anticipated, met at just the right time
Q5:Then what happens?

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5. Outside in
6. Upside down
1. Lean production
2. Agile & Lean-Agile
3. Patterns & frameworks
4. Viable scaling & change
• Strategy
• Feedback loops
• Servant Leadership
• Organisation
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A thing is whole according to how
free it is of inner contradictions.
When it is at war with itself, and gives
rise to forces which act to tear it down,
it is unwhole. The more free it is of its
own inner contradictions, the more
whole and healthy and wholehearted
it becomes.

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Outside in strategy review, Agendashift-style
2. Organisation
3. Product
4. Platform
5.Team
1. Customer

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Outside in strategy review, Agendashift-style
2. Organisation
3. Product
4. Platform
5.Team
1. Customer

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Outside in service delivery review, Agendashift-style
2. Organisation
3. Product
4. Platform
5.Team
1. Customer

26. Rejected experiments
For each activity (column) in the process, describe a rejected experiment:
“We believed <hypothesis>
but were surprised while <activity>
to discover <insight>
and rejected this idea”
“Had we tried <x>,
we might have discovered this
<sooner &/or more cheaply &/or more safely>”
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Reflecting on
what we learned
Reflecting on
how we learned it

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5. Outside in
6. Upside down
1. Lean production
2. Agile & Lean-Agile
3. Patterns & frameworks
4. Viable scaling & change
• Strategy
• Feedback loops
• Servant Leadership
• Organisation
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Upside down – the inverted pyramid
Capability
(process, adaptability)
Delivery
(product, performance)
Mission
(organisation, fitness)
Customer
CEO

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Right to left, outside in, upside down
Capability
(process, adaptability)
Delivery
(product, performance)
Mission
(organisation, fitness)

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Done (adj) /dʌn/
Someone’s need was met.

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Mike Burrows
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Right to Left
(2019)