Virtual Agile Meetup with David Hawks, Bob Sarni and Michigan Technology Services Michigan Technology Services offers instructor-led Agile and Scrum training and coaching. We collaborate with stellar people – like David Hawks and Bob Sarni, globally recognized Agile trainers and coaches. In a pre-Covid world our training would take place at our location in the Farmington Hills/Novi area, 20 miles outside of Detroit, or at your location anywhere around the world. Our Agile workshops and Agile coaching sessions are now offered online/virtually, reducing your need to travel. We continue to support the local Agile community and sponsor regional Agile conferences and meetups. We have successfully run Agile and Certified ScrumMaster, Product Owner and Agile Leadership courses for multiple teams from globally recognized organizations. We also provide Agile coaching for great companies, helping them with their Agile journey. We are planning a series of free virtual meetups for our Agile friends. Meetup with David Hawks and Bob Sarni – October 27, 2021 Intro to Path to Agility – an Outcome-Driven Agile Transformation Framework About this virtual meetup While many organizations operate in an Agile way, they are still not fully realizing Agile’s benefits. There has been tremendous focus on implementing all of the Agile practices without understanding if and how the various Agile frameworks, tools, and skills are driving results. Path to Agility is the solution to this growing problem. Path to Agility orients your Agile transformation around guiding business outcomes like speed, market responsiveness, and customer satisfaction. The Agile transformation framework then identifies the right Agile outcomes and capabilities that your organization should focus on to help you build your transformation roadmap.

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Path to Agility:
Outcome Driven Transformation
David Hawks
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David Hawks
@austinagile
david@agilevelocity.com
Agile Transformation Coach

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Bob Sarni, Organizational Agility Coach
Founder and Principal – iOnAgility, LLC – www.ionagility.com
More than twenty-five years in project management, portfolio management, program management and
product development – From power plant construction to software development! The last 15+ years
focused on Agile efforts.
Certified Scrum Enterprise Coach (CEC)
Certified Scrum Trainer (CST)
Certified Scrum Professional – ScrumMaster (CSP-SM)
Certified Scrum Professional – Product Owner (CSP-PO)
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Personal Agility Trainer
Certified All Star Teams Trainer
Exceptional Remote Facilitation Licensed Trainer
Experience with many large enterprise Agile adoptions and transformations.
Experience as Scrum Master, Product Owner, Team Coach, Coach of Coaches, Agile Practice Leader,
Enterprise Agile Coach.
Learning Facilitator

5. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
AGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY 5
Superficial Agility Improving Agility Predictable Agility Fast Agility
• Going through the motions
• Work is visible
• Silo development
• Lots of carryover
• Not strong PO/ SM
• Retrospectives have meaning
• ScrumMaster is Coach
• Work is estimated and velocity
being measured
• Swarming and cross training is
starting to happen
• Team identity is being created
• Carryover is limited
• Team’s have focus (Limiting
WIP)
• Constant team Backlog
Refinement
• Break work down and swarm
• Whole team ownership
embracing cross functional
goals
• Cycle Time has been
significantly reduced
• Able to respond to new high
priority and deliver quickly
• Leadership focus on optimizing
the whole
• Urgently resolve organizational
impediments
• Test Automation, Continuous
Integration, DevOps in place
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Current State of Agility?

7. Align
Accelerate
Adapt
Predict
Learn
Chaos & Resistance
Integration
&
Practice
New Status Quo
Status Quo

8. Align
Accelerate
Adapt
Predict
Learn
Chaos & Resistance
Integration
&
Practice
New Status Quo
Status Quo
Why Do So Many
Companies Struggle?
Let’s Explore The Top 3+ Impediments Organizations Face

9. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
AGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
Impediment #1
Implementing Solutions
Without
Clarity in Desired Results

10. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
AGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
CHALLENGE 1
Implementing Solutions Without
Clarity in Desired Results
IMPACT
• Lots of Resistance & Frustration
• Silo Optimization
• No Clear Measure of Success
• Minimal Gains

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AGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY 11

12. Business
Outcomes
Agile
Practices
The Path To Agility®
Transformation
Framework
?

13. Accomplish
Drive
Enable
Business
Outcomes
Agile
Capabilities
Which Are
Achieved Through
Agile
Practices
By Implementing
Agile
Outcomes
“Why” Dictates
Priorities
The Path To Agility®
Transformation
Framework

14. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
AGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
WHAT DEFINES GOOD AGILITY?
What Defines Good Agility?
3
AGILE
OUTCOME
The newly achieved
result of better
agility.
1
AGILE
PRACTICE
Something we
implement
(“the how”).
4
BUSINESS
OUTCOME
Ultimate impact on
the effectiveness of
the organization.
2
AGILE
CAPABILITY
The new ability the
team/ organization
has developed.

15. Employee Engagement
Employees are more satisfied in their work,
willing to go the extra mile, passionate about
the purpose of their jobs and committed to the
organization.
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Customer Satisfaction
Customers are satisfied with the experience,
benefits and outcomes when using your
product or service.
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The product or service meets the expectations
of the market for usability, reliability, etc.
Speed
The time it takes to deliver an idea into the
market
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Predictability
Teams maintain a predictable cadence of
delivery enabling the business to make
informed business decisions.
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Innovation
New ideas, creative thoughts, or novel
imaginations providing better solutions to
meet new requirements, unarticulated
needs, or known market needs.
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Market Responsiveness
The ability of the organization to pivot quickly
to respond to ever-changing market demands.
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Productivity
Increase the business value realized while
maintaining or reducing costs.
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The ability of the organization to
relentlessly pursue optimizations in
all aspects of business functions.

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AGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
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17. Productivity
Predictability
Innovation
Quality
Speed
Employee
Engagement
Customer
Satisfaction
Continuous
Improvement
Market
Responsiveness
The Path To Agility® Transformation Framework
Business Outcomes

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AGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY 19
Where Should We Focus? - Align

21. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
AGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
Impediment #2
Not Approaching As An
Organization-Wide Change

22. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
AGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
CHALLENGE 1
Not Approaching As An
Organization-Wide Change
IMPACT
• Impediments Not Resolved
Quickly
• You Empower The Resistance
• Teams Hit A Ceiling

23. Team
Team 1 Team 2 Team N
Team level Practices
Scrum/Kanban
Code Quality
DevOps
System
Org
Levels of The Path To Agility®
Transformation Framework

24. Insights and organizational
impediments from teams
Transformation
Backlog
Agile Leadership
Team (ALT)
Product of Transformation:
Agile teams working in an
agile organization
Run the Transformation Using Agile

25. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
AGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
DISCUSS IN TRIADS
1. Form a triad with 2 people from 2 other tables
2. Discuss why the following would be good practices for
an Agile Leadership Team (ALT):
Discuss In Triads
Cross
Functional
Leadership
Team
Running
the ALT with
Agile
Having Visible
Huddles Out
in the Open
Tracking
Impediments
on a Visible
Board

27. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
AGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY 27
Where Should We Focus? - Learn

29. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
AGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
Impediment #3
Leaders Not Creating Focus

30. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
AGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
CHALLENGE 1
Leaders Not Creating Focus
IMPACT
• Lots of Interruptions
• No Time to Improve
• No Flow
• No Ability to Forecast
• Slow Time to Value

31. Watch the Baton, NOT the Runners

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AGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY 33
Where Should We Focus? - Predict

35. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
AGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
Impediment #3
No Method To Madness

36. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
AGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
CHALLENGE 1
No Method To Madness
IMPACT
• Everybody doing their own thing
• Pockets of success
• Declaring victory because we are out of
ideas
• No clear roadmap for the transformation
• No way to evaluate current state to
determine clear next steps

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The Path to Agility®
provides...
The Ability to
Measure Progress
Guidance for
Your Agile
Transformation
An Outcome-Based
Assessment
Tangible Next
Steps for Your
Transformation

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Align
Accelerate
Adapt
Predict
Learn
Chaos & Resistance
Integration &
Practice
New Status Quo
Status Quo

40. Who Is This Workshop For?
- change leaders
- leading the transformation initiative
- setting the transformation strategy
Key Learning Outcomes
• Identify common challenges with Agile
transformations
• Explain the advantages of an outcomes
based transformation approach
• Explain the structure of the Path to Agility
framework and how it connects to results
• Use Path to Agility to create a
transformation backlog
• Apply Path to Agility to guide teams and
organizations to be more predictable and
reducing cycle time through common
adoption patterns
Path to Agility Practitioner

41. Who Is This Workshop For?
This workshop is for experienced transformation coaches,
either internal to an organization or external consultants,
who want to provide better guidance from the Team to
Executive Leadership levels.
Key Learning Outcomes
• A brief review of the Path to Agility Framework and how
it affects each level of an organization
• How to lead change at the organizational level using
the Path to Agility Framework
• How to use the Path to Agility Framework to create
leadership agility shifts
• How to set strategy for using the Path to Agility
Framework to coach organizations through optimizing
the flow of value delivery by descaling, reducing
volatility, and optimizing the whole
• How to facilitate Path to Agility sessions, from Teams to
Leadership
• Common objections in change and Agile
transformations, and how to address them
Path to Agility Facilitator – Oct 30th

42. Provide email on the poll
We will send you….
●Full slide deck
●Common Pitfalls of an Agile
Transformation White Paper
●Path to Agility®
Framework Video
Have more questions?
David Hawks
david@agilevelocity.com
@austinagile
Need More?

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44. AGILE VELOCITY
Agile Velocity is a holistic business agility firm that helps
organizations build the capabilities needed to achieve
measurable business results. Results like predictability,
speed, employee engagement, and market
responsiveness.
We do this using our framework, the Path to Agility®
.
Using it, we’ve helped organizations of all sizes and
across many industries avoid standard pitfalls and
realize results more quickly.
As your partner, we promise to...
● Focus 100% on business results
● Prioritize outcomes and capabilities over
process and practices
● Be a true partner and equip you with the skills to
sustain agility
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