Moving to agile - Bill Gorden
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The document discusses empowering organizations to move to agile. It recommends defining an agile strategy including cross-functional teams, governance processes, and metrics. It also suggests leading the transformation by forming pilot teams, training employees, and coaching teams through multiple sprints. The document emphasizes assessing team capability, providing targeted coaching, and developing sustained artifacts to reinforce the transformation to agile.
Moving to agile - Bill Gorden
- 1. Empowering the Move to Agile Bill Gorden +1-847-219-9501 billgorden1@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/billgorden https://twitter.com/bill_gorden
- 2. Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein (paraphrased), 1933
- 3. Agile Adoption Leaning Towards Agile, 51% Pure Agile, 16%ure Waterfall, 2% Leaning Towards Waterfall, 7% Hybrid, 24% About 77% of organizations across all industries practice agile The majority have been using it for less than 4 years Agile Adoption Experience with Agile
- 4. Define The Strategy • Structure – Cross functional teams – Consistent structure – Build to scale • Governance – Team coordination – Business goals – Scrum, Kanban, TOC blended into PPM framework • Metrics and Tools – Define – Set baseline – Measure – Improve
- 8. Lead the Transformation • Form teams – Develop a pilot – Coordinate upstream and downstream teams – Implement governance, metrics and tools defined in strategy • Train teams – Tailor to job functions and processes • Coach teams – Need expert support: Training isn’t sufficient – Need several sprints of coaching to develop experience
- 9. You The Agile Leader “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power”. Laozi, ~6th Century BCE
- 11. Integrated Customer Engagement “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do”. Henry Ford, 1951
- 12. Prepare to Take It on Alone • Assessment – Assess team capability – Focus on consistency & competency • Targeted coaching – Tailor to individual team needs – Focus on reinforcing competencies at risk – Measure progress • Sustained artifacts – Develop artifacts that support & reinforce the transformation
- 14. Work The Agile Way “Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down”. Ray Bradbury 1995