Today companies are expected to be flexible, rapidly responsive and resilient to change - which, basically, is asking them to be agile. But doing agile (the mechanics) is different from being agile (the mindset). The mindset lets you apply flexible agile patterns - not only for software development teams, but for the whole organisation. However, implementing company-wide agility isn't straightforward. It means combining principles from the Agile Manifesto (inspecting and adapting), sociocracy (creating equivalence), Beyond Budgeting (flexible budgeting and relative targets), and Open Space (passion bound by responsibility). By showing what such a combination can look like, Jutta will reveal a path toward company-wide agility.

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Company-wide Agility with
Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy

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WHAT? CHALLENGES

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VALUES & PRINCIPLES

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Values for Company-wide Agility?
Self-Organization
Transparency
Constant Customer Focus
Continuous Learning

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Beyond Budgeting
 Beyond command & control
– Toward a management model that is more empowered and
adaptive
 Separate the 3 budget purposes
– (relative) targets
– (rolling) forecast
– (dynamic) resource allocation

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Open Space
 Self-organization
– Everyone is invited to address critical issues
 Passion bound by responsibility
– Self-responsible for learning and helping others learn
– Passion follows the strategy
 Empowerment
– Anything can happen inspired by anyone

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Sociocracy
 Equivalence
– Shared decision-making by consent
– Feedback embedded in the structure: double linking

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Agile
 Continuous learning through feedback:
– Rapidly, regularly, and frequently
– On needs, product, technology, process, quality, …

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INVITATION TO PROBE

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Is Trust Cheaper?
 Background:
– Traditional travel expense procedures are burdensome and
assume people can’t be trusted.
 Hypothesis:
– Such procedures cost more than they save and are
demoralizing.
 Experiment:
– Pre-survey and audit. Try for three months in a few units
with other units as controls. Post-survey and audit.

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Failures are Opportunities

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BOSSA nova for Company-wide Agility
 Never stop…
– …trying
– …learning
– …changing

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Many Thanks!
Jutta Eckstein, @JuttaEckstein
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