2016-12-23 co-learning webinar - re-vers-ify

by Gunther VerheyenScrum. Connector, writer, speaker, humanizer.

re.vers.ifyre.imagining your organisation

“Re-thinking the organisation”Webinar23 December 2016

“The future state of Scrum will no longer be called ‘Scrum’. What we now call Scrum will have become the norm, and

organizations have re-invented themselves around it.”

Source: Gunther Verheyen, “Scrum – A Pocket Guide (A Smart Travel Companion)”, 2013

3Gunther Verheyen – Ullizee-Inc, 2016 - @Ullizee

A brief history of organisational design (the growth trap)

SkillsLeadership

Governance

Functions

Management

Business ITThe cohesive SME1 model (Small & Medium Entrepreneurship) was turned into a loose

collection of Subject Matter Experts (SME2).


The result? The “Big Bang” syndrome.

THE MEDUSA EFFECT

Do NOT touch that system!


Common models to survive the future

Big Fat Emperor

A 1000 Paper Cuts

The Emperor’s Breakfast

The Snake Within

We used to be organised for results.

We then re-organised for functions.

There is a way out.


An act of• Simplicity• Rhythm• Focus

For companies wanting to:• Converge all things Agile• Uplift their Scrum• Grow• Un-grow• Innovate again

What if you would plan for the positive?

re.vers.ifyre.imagining your organisation

(by growing a Scrum Studio)


• Agility is the organizational state of constant flux, evolution, innovation, improvement and re-invention.

• Agility reflects an enterprise’s capability to respond to challenges, to explore and change direction, to take advantage of opportunities; to be quick and nimble.

• Agility is why organisations adopt Scrum.

Agility is the goal

React Explore (options) Lead

(Gunther Verheyen, Agility, actually, 2016)

https://guntherverheyen.com/2016/12/05/agility-actually/


Product=

a software system,

service or application

Common challenges with Scrum

ProductOwner

1

32

4


• Select a meaningful project/product/service

• For the selected project/product/service:– Let one Product Backlog be your plan– Reset accountabilities:

• Product Owner• Scrum Master• Development Team(s)

– Get tools, infrastructure and a (team) space

• Create release candidates every 1-4 weeks

Re.imagine your Scrum


Product=

a software system,

service or application

Growing a Scrum Studio (1): add products

1.Products


Product=

A consumer product or

service

Growing a Scrum Studio (2): expand ‘product’

1.Products

2. Disciplines


Think eco-system


Think nervous system

Product Hubs

(distribution of)

Leadership

Purpose


Predictive Management

• Long-term detailed plans• Assign and control work• Maximize capacity• Keep all on schedule• Meeting and report driven• Step in to fix all problems• Provide external motivators

($, career)

• Purpose, goals, vision• Foster the environment• Remove Impediments• Attend Sprint Reviews• Share incremental feedback• Manage for value• Autonomy, mastery,

purpose

A shift will happen

Empirical Management

‘Management’ is not a collection of people exerting

hierarchical powers.It is an emergent, networked

structure of co-managers.

Source: Gunther Verheyen, “Scrum Master, A Manager”

https://guntherverheyen.com/2014/11/26/scrum-master-a-manager/


About

Gunther VerheyenIndependent Scrum caretaker• eXtreme Programming and Scrum since 2003• Professional Scrum Trainer• Shepherded Professional Scrum at Scrum.org• Co-developed Agility Path, Nexus and the Scaled

Professional Scrum framework at Scrum.org• Author of “Scrum – A Pocket Guide” and “Scrum

Wegwijzer”

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