Agile Transformation is broken. It emphasizes development teams, individuals, and organizations moving from one state to another - devoid of the human element that creates the momentum and frictions to change. How might we - engineers, developers, testers, analysts, designers, and other team members - co-facilitate change towards self-organization through experimentation? How do we - Scrum Masters, line managers, and executives - manage the system and not the people? How can the organization build psychological safety within constraints? --- This talk was delivered at Philippine Software Engineering Conference in SMX Convention Center on October 24, 2017.

1. What is the
BIGGEST friction
to agility?

2. LEADING AGILITY
How Might We Co-Facilitate Self-Organization
@ianpestelos | www.agility.ph

3. IAN PESTELOS
MANAGEMENT 3.0 Workshop
February 1-2, 2018
http://bit.ly/m30-manila
TESTCON 2017
November 25, 2017
http://phtestcon.com
Agile Product Development, Software Quality, and
Management 3.0 Coach. Founder at Agility.ph.
ian@agility.ph
http://linkedin.com/in/ianpestelos
MANAGE THE
SYSTEM
NOT THE PEOPLE

4. Oxygen Ventures
Image Credit: http://www.startupdaily.net/2014/06/weteachme-ecal-dual-winners-oxygen-ventures-big-pitch-competition/

5. MANAGEMENT
...is often the main obstacle to
agile software development
- Jurgen Appelo, Management 3.0

8. START WITH
WHY

9. Image credit: https://www.slideshare.net/totango

10. Agile software development
works because of
SELF-ORGANIZING
TEAMS

11. “being Agile” is simply
being fully, consciously,
intentionally self-organizing
Harrison Owen’s Foreword in“Open-Space Agility”

12. DELEGATE
DECISION-MAKING

14. 7 Levels of Delegation

16. “Hand over accountability to
other people, in a controlled
and gradual way.”
- Jurgen Appelo, noop.nl

17. LEARN THROUGH
TEAM EXPERIMENTS

20. Celebration Grid

22. “Agile is a learning
framework based on
frequent experimentation”
- Daniel Mezick, “Open-Space Agility”

23. MAKE
FEEDBACK
THE NORM

24. Organizational
(Rant) Feedback

25. Forget the
Sandwich

27. It’s not the
feedback that
defines you.
It’s what you do
with it.

28. TAKE IT TO
THE TEAM

29. Image credit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikonline

32. GROW A CULTURE OF
APPRECIATION

33. Kudo Box

34. Image credit: https://www.slideshare.net/ElodieAscenci

36. PLAY
GAMES

41. IMPOSITION
...is a typical Agile
transformation
(sad) story

42. Scrum is just 5%
of the change;
culture and management
is the other 95”

43. Your company needs
to stand on solid
ground - no, it’s not
your process or
managers;
it’s your people.

47. When a flower doesn’t bloom,
fix the environment
not the flower
- Alexander den Heijer

49. IAN PESTELOS
MANAGEMENT 3.0 Workshop
February 1-2, 2018
http://bit.ly/m30-manila
TESTCON 2017
November 25, 2017
http://phtestcon.com
Agile Product Development, Software Quality, and
Management 3.0 Coach. Founder at Agility.ph.
I’D APPRECIATE YOUR FEEDBACK AT:
http://bit.ly/ian-softcon2017
MANAGE THE
SYSTEM
NOT THE PEOPLE