The document discusses how agile practices can help organizations quickly deliver value to users in order to learn, adapt and improve. It notes that while many companies have tried agile, some have experienced stress and isolation when processes become too heavy. It advocates balancing agile principles with enough process to guide work without being overly prescriptive. The key is iterative build-deliver-learn cycles that allow for emergence and adaptation.

1. Business
Craftsmanship
Tobias Mayer
CAS2013, Bilbao, Spain
11 October 2013

2. The modern knowledge work organization
must look beyond science,
beyond engineering and beyond logic
We need to engage our right brains
Why Craftsmanship?
Business leaders need to be artists

3. How Does
Agile Help
So...

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In a Nutshell, Agile helps us to

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quickly and frequently
deliver real value to real
users...
In a Nutshell, Agile helps us to

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in order to learn,
adapt, improve,
and...
1
quickly and frequently
deliver real value to real
users...
In a Nutshell, Agile helps us to

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in order to learn,
adapt, improve,
and...
create joy and
engagement in
the workplace
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quickly and frequently
deliver real value to real
users...
In a Nutshell, Agile helps us to

8. 86% of Companies
have tried Agile

9. Joy & Engagement

10. Stress & Isolation

11. What went wrong?

12. It started well

14. How did this...

15. ...become this?

16. NOT
AGILE

17. ...or this?

18. NOT
AGILE

19. ...or even this?

20. NOT
AGILE

21. How much process do we need?

22. make
How much process do we need?

23. , alignmake
How much process do we need?

24. [ ]*, alignmake
How much process do we need?

25. [[make, align]* deliver]*

26. [[make, align]* deliver]*[ deliver]*

27. Knowledge work needs
Visionaries Makers

28. Knowledge work needs
Visionaries Makers

29. Knowledge work needs
Visionaries Makers
Coming together in collaboration

30. Purpose
Focus
Release
Invention
Confrontation
5 Principles
for building new products

31. Purpose
WHERE TO and WHY

32. Release
Let go of control
Lead by vision and goals
Inspire, rather than direct

33. “Maximize the amount of work not done”
Kent Beck
Focus
“Transform scarcity into abundance”
Jeff Sutherland

34. Invention
play, risk, fail

35. Confrontation
for the greater good

36. These principles create fertile
ground for emergence

37. Remember
Build—Deliver—Learn
Repeat
The Essence of
Agility

38. Building new products
is an emergent adventure
and the journey is full of surprises

39. thank you