3 key ingredients-to-enabling-agility
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The 3 key ingredients to enabling agility are: 1. Understanding why agility is needed and assessing readiness for change. 2. Developing a learning agile mindset through understanding stages of learning and agile values and principles. 3. Practicing agility through adopting an agile framework, using common language, and leading by example.
3 key ingredients-to-enabling-agility
- 2. The 3 Key Ingredients to Enabling Agility Salah Elleithy @selleithy
- 3. Salah Elleithy ! Managing Consultant and Trainer at SparkAgility ! Over 15 years of experience; financial analysis, business analysis, project management, team facilitation & development, process improvement and agile coaching ! Bachelors in Business / Accounting and Masters in Information Systems & Financial Management ! Driven by helping individuals and teams reach their full potential ! Passionate about spreading agility to the community (PMI Agile Community of Practice, PMI local chapter and Meetups) ! Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching & Facilitation (ICP-TC), Certified Trainer in Training from the Back of the Room @selleithy salah@sparkagility.com
- 4. “If you want to make Significant improvements, work on paradigms, if you want to make small improvements, work on behaviors and attitudes”. Steven R Covey Living the 7 habits
- 5. Practicing agility Learning agility Why agility? Source: #AgileDC2012. Jim Highsmith. Adaptive leadership: Accelerating Enterprise Agility.
- 6. Why AGILITY?
- 8. Agility is the flexibility to navigate constraints the to get the of your project most value as quickly as possible. - Ahmed Sidky, PhD. (Dr. Agile)
- 15. Learning Agility
- 16. Stages of Learning SHU Follow the Rule “Obey” Source: Alistair Cockburn HA Break the Rule “Detach” RI Be the Rule “Separate”
- 17. Mindset Fixed Inherent and staBc - Avoid failure - Look smart - Stick to what I know - Failure means lack of talent - Criticism is personal Source: Mindset. Carol Dweck. h;p://blogs.hbr.org/2012/01/the-‐right-‐mindset-‐for-‐success/ Agile Mindset. Ahmed Sidky, PhD. Growth Can grow - Not afraid to fail - Exert effort to learn - Continuous learning - Embrace challenges - Ask for feedback - Criticism is about capabilities
- 18. Ownership Community Discuss the “Undiscussables” Courage Commitment Responsibility Source: Peter Bregman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuPfbTAVBP4#t=15 Trust Morale Attitude (Get comfortable with the uncomfortable)
- 19. Understand the Agile Manifesto We are uncovering beHer ways of developing soJware by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: Process and tools Individuals and interactions Working software Customer collaboration Responding to change Comprehensive documentation Contract negotiation Following a plan That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more. Source: www.agilemanifesto.org
- 20. Individuals and interactions Working software Processes & tools Comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration Responding to change Contract negotiation Following a plan Maintain Balance That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more. Source: www.agilemanifesto.org
- 21. Testing Development DevOps Stakeholders Business Analysis End Users Project Management Architecture Sponsorship User experience (UX) Bring ‘Silos’ together TEAM
- 22. Slow down to speed up
- 23. Learn to Unlearn
- 24. Measure “what is measured improves!” Peter Drucker
- 25. Explore knowledge & competency based certifications Accredited training organization
- 27. Guide to Agile Practices Source: Agile Alliance,h;p://guide.agilealliance.org/subway.html
- 28. Adopt a framework then evolve Source: Mike Cohn. Mountain Goat Software
- 29. Lead by Example Guide (Teach, Facilitate, Mentor, Coach) Example (Frameworks/Practices) Relationships (Structure / Incentives)
- 30. Why Agility • Vision (Define purpose, desired outcomes & SMART goals) • Iden)fy Stakeholders • Assess Readiness Learning Agility PracBcing Agility • Stages of Learning (ShuHaRi) • Understanding Agile manifesto (Values & Principles) • Promote a culture openness and trust • Encourage collabora)on and con)nuous improvement • Develop metrics to measure progress • Inspect & Adapt • Adapt a framework then evolve • Use common language • Lead by example