Creating Agile Tribes: The secret to succeeding with Agile @ Scale
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The document discusses how to create agile tribes at scale by connecting people to each other, a leader, and an idea. It covers Dunbar's number, moving from individual agile teams to teams of teams, creating a positive tribal culture through shared experiences and rhythms, having chapters act as glue between squads, quantifying culture through employee NPS data, and celebrating as a tribe rather than just a team. The overall message is that tribes are key to succeeding with agile at scale by developing strong emotional bonds between people.
Creating Agile Tribes: The secret to succeeding with Agile @ Scale
- 1. Em Campbell-Pretty Partner, Context Matters @PrettyAgile www.prettyagile.com au.linkedin.com/in/ejcampbellpretty/ em@contextmatters.com.au CREATING AGILE TRIBES: The secret to succeeding with Agile @ Scale RallyON, 9th June 2014
- 2. “Birds flock, fish school, people tribe.” - David Logan
- 4. SCALING AGILE From an agile team….. …..to an agile team of teams
- 5. “Teams create their own realities and control their own destinies to a far greater extent, and far sooner in their lives, than we generally recognize” - J. Richard Hackman, Leading Teams
- 6. Stage 1: Life sucks! Stage 2: My life sucks! Stage 3: I’m great! Stage 4: We’re great! Stage 5: Life’s great! 5 STAGES OF TRIBAL CULTURE Source: Tribal Leadership by David Logan
- 7. “Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.“ – Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos
- 10. A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader and connected to an idea. - Seth Godin
- 11. CONTINUOUS “HUMAN” INTEGRATION 9:00am 9:15am 930am 9:45am When people share rhythms with others they develop stronger emotional bonds and are more likely to pitch in for the common good - Bob Sutton, Scaling Excellence
- 12. CHAPTERS ARE THE GLUE If each squad was fully autonomous and had no communication with other squads, then what is the point of having a company? Spotify might as well be chopped into 30 different small companies. - Kniberg & Ivarsson
- 13. SHARED EXPERIENCE 13 13 “…vulnerability-based trust cannot be achieved overnight. It requires shared experiences over time…” - Patrick Lencioni
- 14. GO TO THE GEMBA "Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're 1,000 miles from the corn field." — Dwight Eisenhower
- 15. AGILE TEAM OF AGILE LEADERS “the only way to systematically ensure that you have great people at every level is to ensure that you have great leaders at every level – leaders who make the people around them better" - James Parker CEO Southwest Airlines
- 16. LEADING THROUGH VULNERABILITY “Vulnerability is the last thing I want you to see in me, and the first thing I look for in you.” - Brene Brown
- 18. VISION Having a compelling direction is a key condition for team effectiveness… - J. Richard Hackman, Leading Teams
- 19. IDENTITY As people begin to act differently, and as their identity evolves, it will reinforce the new way of doing things. - Chip & Dan Heath, Switch
- 20. CELEBRATE AS A TRIBE NOT A TEAM When you’ve celebrated moving from 1 to 2, and then from 2 to 3, you gain confidence that you can make the next advance - Chip & Dan Heath, Switch
- 21. Employee NPS data makes the people side of the business far more transparent and subject to learning and experimentation. Fred Reichheld, The Ultimate Question 2.0 On a scale from 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend working in ______ to a friend or colleague? Why? QUANTIFYING CULTURE
- 22. A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader and connected to an idea. - Seth Godin
- 23. We made it safe for what were already an exceptional group of people to be their exceptional selves at work.” - Em Campbell-Pretty IT’S NOT JUST FORCED FUN
- 24. Em Campbell-Pretty Partner, Context Matters @PrettyAgile www.prettyagile.com au.linkedin.com/in/ejcampbellpretty/ em@contextmatters.com.au QUESTIONS?