We go through some practical ways to help ease organisations and teams into Agile practices without scaring the shit out of them with our ‘Agile Jazz Hands’. Great for people coaching teams or organisations who are new at Agile projects, who have been told they must learn Agile ‘or else’, or have asked to learn but really don’t want to change.

1. HOW TO
AGILE PEOPLE WHO
DON'T WANT TO
BE AGILED
Diana Minnée - Agile Welly - July 2020
@excapeartist

2. Firstly, should
we?
Consent? Invitation? Need? Shear
frustration? How did we get here?

3. Scenarios
Working with an
organisation as a
vendor with different
internal practices
Working with an
internal team who has
been told they need to
be 'Agile'
Consulting in a
'transformation'
programme
'Cultural Lip Service'
to new practices
A B C D

4. Do you
remember how
you were
introduced to
the 'ways of
Agile'?

5. Start where they are
People don't like to feel wrong. Associate what you are about
to do with something they know to work.
01

6. Never let your enthusiasm
brush off things that have
given them safety
02
Risk Management, Change Management, Project Plans, KPIs can exist
at the same time without enraging the Agile Gods

7. Never die on
the Agile Hill
03
Common sense, outcome
focused pragmatism,
no jazz hands required

8. The fastest way
to convince
anybody is to
show them that it
works
04
Whats the smallest thing you
can do next?

9. Why have you REALLY been
bought in?
Don't expect everyone to be
keen to have you succeed in
your mission, and if you do
succeed, don't expect to be
credited for it
05

10. Is it worth it?
You never know what
impact you really have in
someone's life

11. THANKS!
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