Human Side of Agile (Agile Venture 2019)

HUMANSIDEof Agile
FABIO ARMANI gIULIA ARMANI

first
MOVEMENTAbout the Thesis

BIG
RE-ORGANIZATIONAgile Scaling

BIG
RE-ORGANIZATIONPortfolio Deﬁnition

BIG
RE-ORGANIZATIONDeﬁne Processes

BIG
RE-ORGANIZATION
Manage contracts

BIG
RE-ORGANIZATIONDeﬁne on overall budget

Ok. Wait.
HUMANSIDE AVF 2019 / Fabio armani & GIULIA ARMANIi

HUMANSIDEAGILE

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Hidden Beliefs and Paradigms
INDIVITDUALsINTERACTIONs

PROCESSESTOOLs

workingSoftware

Comprehensivedocumentation

CUSTOMERCOOPERATION

ContractNegotiation

RESPONDINGCHANGE

FOLLOWINGPLAN

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IN the chinese culture yin and
yang are never associated
with moral values
YINYANG

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YIN
EARTH
MOON
NIGHT
WINTER
WET
COLD
INTERNAL
YINYANG
YANG
Sky
sun
day
summer
dry
hot
surface

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YIN
female
contractive
conservative
responsive
cooperative
intuitive
synthetic
YINYANG
YANG
male
expansive
dissipative
aggressive
competitive
rational
analytic

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if you consider this set of values is easy
to see how our society has constantly
favored the yang At the expense of the
yin
OURCULTURE

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if you consider this set of values is easy
to see how our agile community has
constantly favored the yang At the
expense of the yin
1. rational knowledge over intuitive
wisdom
2. competition over cooperation
3. Exploitation of resources with
respect to conservation
AGILECULTURE (?)

HUMANSIDEAGILE
What is the human side to agile?
1. Focus on individuals and
interactions
2. EMphasis on direct “Customer
cooperation”
3. Values “responding to change”
4. Requires environment to support
“motivated individuals and trust
them”
5. recommend “face to face
communication”
7. Envisage self organized teams
8. continuous improvement through
self-reflection and adaptation

Psychological Safety
theBooks

BIG
RE-ORGANIZATIONA recipe for disaster

SECOND
MOVEMENTAbout the Model

Psychologicalsafety

COMMUNICATE

WITHOUTFEAR

SAFETYMODEL

SECURITYSECURITY

SECURITY
Our need for predictability in terms of:
consistency,
commitment,
certainty,
no change.
This element is fundamental for the rest of the
model and it forms the basis of our
relationship and interaction with the world.

AUTONOMY

AUTONOMY
Related to our need to feel we have the
control our environment, and have choices.

FAirness

FAirness
Our need to engage in and experience fair
exchanges, both to us and to others.

esteem

esteem
Related to our need to be regarded highly,
derived by how we:
See ourselves
Compare ourselves to others
Think others see us

TRUST

TRUST
Our social need to belong to and to protect
our “tribe” (team, community of practice,
guild…).

YOU

YOU
Our need for predictability in terms of:
Your personality profile
Your biases
How you are influenced and how you influence the
others
Your context (past, present, future)

BIG
RE-ORGANIZATIONLooking for a solution

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CYNEFINFRAMEWORK

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CompexADAPTIVESYSTEMS

LIVING SYSTEMS
Living systems are complex, in that they consist
of a great many agents interacting with each
other in a great many ways

LIVING SYSTEMS
The richness of the interactions of the agents
allows the system as a whole to undergo
spontaneous self-organization

are autonomous, self-reliant units that
possess a degree of independence and handle
contingencies without asking higher
authorities for instructions.
•  These holons are also simultaneously subject
to control from one or more of these higher
authorities.
HOLONS

•  A is a system (or phenomenon) which is
an evolving self-organizing dissipative
structure, composed of other holons, whose
structures exist at a balance point between
chaos and order.
HOLONS

MISTRUSTCYCLE

MISTRUSTCYCLE
“Low psychological safety is a silent productivity killer
and a diﬃcult problem to solve. You'd do well to pay
attention to your social climate and how to make it far
more psychologically safe. High performance depends
upon it.”
Joshua Kerievsky

MODERNAGILE

A PATH

A Path

A Path
HIQUALITYRELATIONSHIP
1. EMOTIONAL SCOPE: Being able to
express a wide range of emotions in a
relationship, without fear of
producing negative repercussions for
the relationship, generates a sense of
security.
2. TENSILITY: The person feels he can be
himself because the relationship is
solid and can deal with conflict /
tension, without breaking, but
flexing and returning to the previous
state. This also gives psychological
security.
3. CONNECTIVITY: We are open to new
approaches and ideas without fear of
being harmed, so we feel confident in
speaking openly and proposing new
challenges.

A Path
HIQUALITYRELATIONSHIP
1. POSITIVE CONSIDERATION: People in a
good relationship respect each
other, everyone has the feeling of
being respected and appreciated for
what they are. This produces
confidence in expressing oneself
openly and not keeping one's doubts
or ideas to oneself.
2. MUTUALITY: The active participation of
all members characterized by
mutual empathy, promotes security in
exposing each other and also in
admitting the mistakes made.

LearningZONE

AGILELEADERSHIP
What is Agile leadership?
1. Lead with agility (especially in a
“VUCA” world)
2. explore new ideas and pursue
meaningful motivation
3. inspire with vision, and align with
mission
4. shared decisions-making and joint
accountability
5. lifelong learning and developing
people
7. Operating with trust, openness
and empowerment

Human Side of Agile Methodologies
sAFETYMAKESYou

Lean Agile Methodologies
moreAgile
sAFETYMAKESYou

third
MOVEMENTA Sort of Synthesis

HUMANSIDE AVF 2019 / Fabio armani & GIULIA ARMANI
SHIFT!
OLD ORGANIZATION

NEW ORGANIZATION
SHIFT!

SHIFT!
NEW ORGANIZATION

DELIVER FAST
SHIFT!

LEANUX AGILE UX ITALIA 2013 / Fabio armani / Marco Calzolari

PERMISSION TO FAIL
SHIFT!

HUMANSIDE AGILE VENTURE 2019 / Fabio armani & GIULIA ARMANI
What we really need is a shared
accountability model…

a team of people, each of whom work
together as part of the team…

a team of people, each of whom
work together as part of the
team…

SHIFT!
INTEGRATEDTEAM

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COURAGE

COURAGE
SHIFT!

THANKyoU
FABIO ARMANI
@fabioarmani
open-ware.org
GIULIA ARMANI
@giuliaarmani
eirenepsicologia.it
openware

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