This document summarizes an Agile meetup event hosted by Palo IT Hong Kong on July 25, 2017. The meetup focused on self-organizing teams and different levels of delegation within teams. Attendees participated in an exercise to identify key decision areas for a scenario and determine the appropriate delegation level using cards representing different levels of involvement. The meetup facilitator then discussed different styles of management and how Agile practices represent a more modern approach. The document concludes by providing Palo IT contact information for various global offices.

1. 25 July 2017 - Agile HK Meetup
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Facilitator
Herbert LEE, Agile Practitioner
PALO IT Hong Kong

4. 1

5. “A Self-organizing teams empowered to make
their own decisions with their ability to achieve
the goal within boundaries”
– An Agile Principle.

6. A Self - Organizing team empowered to make their own decisions with their ability to
achieve the goal within boundaries.

14. 1. Tell > I will tell them
2. Sell > I will try and sell it to them
3. Consult > I will consult and then decide
4. Agree > We will agree together
5. Advise > I will advice but they decide
6. Inquire > I will inquire after they decide
7. Delegate > I will fully delegate

15. ● The first three levels > the decision is taken by the manager
● The last three levels > the decision is taken by the team
● Level 4 is about consensus > the decision is taken by all of them.

16. Consult is the opposite of Advise.

17. Sell is the mirror of Inquire.

18. 2

20. 1. Identify a Manager within your team
2. Choose one scenario:
a. Develop an IT product
b. Organize a party
c. Organize an off-site event
d. Move out from your current workplace
e. Create your own scenario.
3. List out 7 Key Decision Areas – KDAs (e.g. Budget, Date, Location etc.)

23. 1. One player picks out a key decision area and read it loud to the team
2. Each player chooses one of the 7 Delegation Cards privately, reflecting on how he would
delegate the decision in that particular situation
3. When all players have decided, they show their selected cards to the team
4. People with highest and lowest cards explain their choice
5. The team discusses and agrees on delegation level of the key decision area.

26. Complete the remaining key areas | 30 minutes

30. 3

31. It’s doing the right thing in the wrong way,
with good intentions but old-fashioned top-down
hierarchical initiatives.
It’s simply doing the wrong thing,
by treating people like cogs in a system.
Management 1.0 Management 2.0
It is the future of management, which is all about
doing the right thing for your team,
involving everyone in improving the system
and fostering employee engagement.
Management 3.0

33. Any questions? Feel free to ask!

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