2. Meet your Guide
Beth Wong
• Enabler
• Experience: 10 years industry
• Specialties: Agile, Team & Program
& Executive level Coaching and
training
• Practitioner, consultant, trainer,
author, speaker and community
organizer
5. Commercial Success of Agile Methods
Thanks to VersionOne, 2015 9th Annual State of Agile Development Survey
6. 1. Only 13% of all employees are “highly engaged.” 26%
are “actively disengaged.”1
2. Only 54% of employees recommend their company.2
3. In hi-tech, two-thirds of all workers believe they could
find a better job in less than 60 days.3
4. 80% believe their employees are overwhelmed with
information and activity at work.4
5. More than 70% of Millennials expect their employers to
focus on societal or mission-driven problems.5
Gallup 2014, Glassdoor, Dice, Tech Salary Survey, Deloitte Human Capital Trends 2014, Deloitte, The Millennial Survey 2014
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbersin/2014/04/04/the-five-elements-of-a-simply-irresistible-organization/
The Bad News
7. Would leave tomorrow or actively
looking
Old-Fashioned Management Styles
Working Environment
Feeling Disengaged
Uninspiring Work
Image from Huffington Post
Depression, Complaints & Disillusionment
85%
79%
75%
70%
50%
8. An Age of Creative Destruction…
At this rate, 75% of the S&P 500 should be replaced by 2027.
Source: http://www.innosight.com/innovation-resources/strategy-innovation/upload/creative-destruction-whips-
through-corporate-america_final2012.pdf
Average Lifespan on S&P in Years:
13. Exercise – Awesome Island
List forces driving and restraining improvement in
Value Delivery in your team/organization.
1. Draw a sailboat, floating on a waterline
2. Determine the goals for your Awesome Island
3. Determine the Next Target State
4. List Driving Forces as “winds” above the waterline
5. List Restraining Forces as “anchors” below the waterline
6. Discuss ways your team can reduce or eliminate restraints
7. Pick 2-3 Actions to try
16. Upcoming Events 2016
Our team wants to connect with you online!
Find us @LitheSpeed
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Upcoming Houston Classes with
LitheSpeed President Sanjiv Augustine:
June 23-24
July 21-22
August 24-25
Stop by the LitheSpeed booth to learn
more about Agile and Lean training,
coaching, and consulting.
Editor's Notes
Have everyone work in groups of 5-6.
3 minutes to work individually writing down qualities or expectations, starting with TERRIBLE Agile Team2 minutes to post-and-share
3 minutes to work individually writing down qualities or expectations, starting with BEST Agile Team2 minutes to post-and-share
/// INSTRUCTIONS ///---Participants are divided into groups of 5-8.
One person, a "PM," is chosen from each group by the facilitator and sent outside the room to select any object they like (don't need to bring it back).
The team members must then ask "yes" or "no" questions to try and figure out what the object is. Whichever group correctly guesses the object first then absorbs ALL the PM's into their group.
In the next round, the groups may self-select a new PM, or a new PM can be assigned to each group by the facilitator.
The activity is repeated, through 5 rounds.Agile: 1 minute to bring the new person up to speed and a strategy.
Now have the groups pick a client's product or need. Have the group ask good questions to see if they can figure out what it is they are wanting
/// DEBRIEF ///---How was that? What was it like when your group grew/shrunk?===How are these scenarios similar to what you and your teams will be experiencing as you transition to Agile?===How can you use this experience to help your teams adjust?
*Discuss:*===Did you do a retro on what worked?
Did you onboard the new person on your team, to catch them up to speed.• Changes in chemistry based on ppl coming on/leaving the team• Size of team—what's ideal?• Strategy for winning? (having a strategy going into a client meeting is important, but it should be revisited if changes are made to the team or the combination of ppl going to a client meeting is different than usual)• Problem solving• How was it to go from one team to another? Did you feel out of place if you weren't briefed on the team's strategy?
See Team Agile Assessment survey PDF in PMI Houston folder in Dropbox. Be sure to print multiple copies for the table
Ask folks to get into the groups they were in before. Take 3-4 minutes to fill out the sheets and then discuss at their tables