Many companies have implemented Scrum and are “doing agile.” However, many companies struggle to achieve the expected benefits. The management team has implemented scrum and then expects a miracle to happen. However, often they have failed to embrace the true nature of scrum and especially forgot the part that talks about creating self-organizing autonomous teams. Agility isn’t a gem that can be bought; transforming your operating model to become future-proof is a difficult task. It’s not just a small update, it’s a major overhaul of how your organization operates. Agile is not just a framework used in the IT department; becoming truly agile requires a digital transformation of the business and other departments like HR, finance, and operations. You also have to overcome organizational impediments like anti-agile company culture, top-down leadership behaviour, counter-productive organization structure, and approval processes. Only top management can enable this shift. If we look at some the Silicon Valley-style digital first organizations, we discover that these companies still heavily rely on managers. However these managers do something completely different than the ones we find in traditional enterprises. In my presentation we’ll dive into some of the learnings from how management works in these companies.
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- decision making based on
detailed memo’s
- information is filtered out and is
often wrong or out of date
- not always of impact of
decisions
Management team meetings
as an impediment to agility
46. Can you help us:
• learn what it is to be
agile
• spend more time fixing
impediments
• be more transparent
and accessible
• let go and give more
responsibility to teams
47. Kanban: backlog out in
the open
Agile inbox: get on their
agenda instantaneously
Sprint review: question for
their people, “did we
work on the right things?”
Retrospective
48. Drawing by Henrik Kniberg
A3 management
Helps
management
teams to
prioritise which
areas they want
their company
to improve on,
and delegate.
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Do we still need managers?
The most agile and innovative companies on
the planet still have many many managers,
but they operate very differently.
To move to this new way of management, we
need management to enable the transition.
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“A leader is best when
people barely know
he exists, when his
work is done, his aim
fulfilled, they will say:
we did it ourselves.”
Lao Tzu