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A PRANZO CON IL NIC
SIMONA BONGHEZ, PH.D.
MANAGING DIRECTOR @COLORS IN PROJECTS
23 MARZO 2020/ 24 MARZO 2020
THE JOURNEY TOWARDS AGILITYLessons learned from successes and failures
The Journey towards Agility: lessons learned from successes and failures (part I)
2A PRANZO CON IL NIC
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Professional activity:• Managing Director @Colors in
Projects• Senior Trainer and Consultant
(Project Management, Change Management)
• Lecturer at NUPSPA, Faculty of Communication and Public Relations
• International speaker and author
Former:• Trainer and Consultant @Roland
Gareis Consulting (Austria), @Brisk Business (USA).
• Project Manager/ Consulting Manager @SAS Institute
• Lecturer for PMBA Program @WU (Viena)
Few people know about me:
I’m SCI-FI and Fantasy fan, I read with the same pleasure about Intergalactic adventures, sorcery and dragon riding ☺
Experience:
• +20 years in Project Management
• +15 years in Adult Education
• +10 years in Management
Consulting
Volunteering:
• Advisor of PMI, member in Ethics
MAG (2015 - 2021), member in
Leadership Institute Advisory Group
(2012), member in Chapter MAG
(2013)
• President of PMI Romania Chapter
(2007-2011)
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SETTINGTHE STAGE
ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALLSOLUTION
LEARNINGFROM OTHERS
24 MARCH 2020
POLL 1
How familiar are you with the Agile approach?
A. Agile, you mean how fast do I move?!B. I may have heard something about a manifesto ... C. I am familiar with Agile concepts D. My team works according an Agile frameworkE. I know the ins and outs (ie I make a living out of this
stuff)
AGILE A NEW PARADIGME?
THE RIGHT APPROACH FOR THERIGHT PROJECT
THE RIGHT APPROACH FOR THE RIGHT PROJECT
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SATIR
CHANGE
MODEL
SETTINGTHE STAGE
ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALLSOLUTION
LEARNINGFROM OTHERS
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Image by Mario Hofer from Pixabay
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May 7th, 2019 CHALLENGES
EXPERIENCED TO
ADOPTING AND SCALING
AGILE
24 MARCH 2020
POLL 2
What do you think are the biggest impediments to Agile
adoption or transformation?
A. Lack of education/training in Agile concepts
B. People/organization resistance to change
C. Organizational culture in contradiction with Agile mindset
D. Lack of skills and experience in applying Agile concepts
E. Lack of managerial support
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May 7th, 2019
Organizational culture at odds with agile values
General organization resistance to change
Inadequate management support
CHALLENGES
EXPERIENCED TO
ADOPTING AND SCALING
AGILE
IF YOU DO NOT MANAGE
CULTURE, IT MANAGES YOU...
Edgar Schein, MIT Sloan School of Management
WILLIAM
SCHNEIDER
THE
REENGINEERING
ALTERNATIVE
Reality oriented
Possibility oriented
Pe
op
le o
rie
nte
d
Com
pany
oriente
d
COLLABORATIONEgalitarian
Diversity
Involvement
United we stand...
CONTROLOrder
Predictability / Stability
Standardization
Certainty
CULTIVATIONGrowth
Humanism
Values
Purpose / Meaningfulness
Creativity
COMPETENCEProfessionalism
Pursuit of Excellence
Autonomy / Indiv.Freedom
Continuous Improvement
Craftsmanship
SETTINGTHE STAGE
ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALLSOLUTION
LEARNINGFROM OTHERS
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✓ IMPROVED TIME TO MARKET
✓ BOOSTED EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
✓ INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY
Source: www.erinmeyer.com
Source: Henrik Kniberg - Spotify engineering culture
THE NEW MANAGEMENT PARADIGM:
SELF-ORGANIZING TEAMS
Source: www.erinmeyer.com
Heroes
Image by MUHAMAD ZUL AZIMI BIN ABDUL RAZAK from Pixabay
24 MARCH 2020
POLL 3
What do you think it may happen with these strongindividuals?
A. They will strongly resist to the new approachB. They will be promoted to a managerial positionC. They will accept the new way of workingD. They will leave the companyE. They will improve the Agile way of working
Image by Gerhard Gellinger from Pixabay
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LEANPUB
www.leanpub.com
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SETTINGTHE STAGE
ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALLSOLUTION
LEARNINGFROM OTHERS
I prossimi “pranzi” con il NIC
32A PRANZO CON IL NIC
PMO e cultura di project management
Maria Cristina Barbero
20 marzo
The journey towards Agility: lessons learned from successes and failures (part I)
Simona Bonghez
23 marzo
The journey towards Agility: lessons learned from successes and failures (part II)
Simona Bonghez
24 marzo
Knowledge workers come fattore di successo del progetto
Tiziano Villa
27 marzo
How to become a better person... in order to be a successful project leader
Thomas Walenta
30 marzo
Il tempo sospeso
Michela Ruffa
31 marzo
An introduction to program management
Sergio Pellegrinelli
2 aprile
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# Domanda Risposta
1 How the cultures exposed match with change?
If we refer to a change in terms of embracing the agile mindset (agile transformation), there is a better fit with the Collaboration culture (see Schneider’s model). However, this doesn’t mean that companies with a different organizational culture cannot implement agile. The main message here is that you have to consider all the characteristics of your culture and customize your approach to fit with it: a command and control type organization will focus more on the structure, they will require more documentation, etc.
2 At the end of each iteration you should have usable deliverables OR significant results is an acceptable conclusion of the stint?
Precisely 😊. Sometime is not possible to come up with an usable deliverable at the end of each and every iteration, therefore a significant result is also acceptable.
3 Hybrid approach is also used.
Indeed there are several approaches that can be used, depending on the context of the project, its complexity, experience of the team, readiness of the organization, etc: we have predictive (formerly known as waterfall), we have Agile (with several frameworks as Scrum, Kanban, XP, DA, etc), iterative, incremental, hybrid, and, of course, the new emerging practices.
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Are there Construction Companies that use AGILE, is it feasible in this kind of market? So Agile is applicable to construction project with more agile structure, correct?
A friend of mine use to say that you won’t appreciate moving into a 10 stores building
with a foundation designed for two stores 😊. When you have clear and agreed requirements, you know exactly what to do and how, than the predictive approach is the best option, therefore I would recommend that for construction of new buildings to use either the predictive or the incremental approach. But one can apply an agile approach for the refurbishment or modernization of existing buildings, for example.
5 How widespread is the Agile culture in Italy? And in Romania?
I do not have enough information about Italy, I know that there is a group on Linkedin
called Lean Agile@Italy, maybe they have an answer to this question 😊 In Romania, Agile is the way of working in the software development industry, and there are several mature companies in this regard. In the last years, we have experienced an increasing interest for Agile from the non-IT companies who start adopting some of the Agile practices in order to improve some of their results (time to market, stakeholders’ satisfaction, productivity, etc)
# Domanda Risposta
6 Hybrid approaches have more chances to have success toward agile transformation in "tradition oriented" companies?
My experience says yes. I do not believe in big-bang transformation, but in ones that take baby steps. And therefore, you might have teams that started working in an agile way, while the rest of the company did not. In this context, many of your projects will have to incorporate some agile elements in a waterfall-ish approach. And that would be hybrid.
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"If culture is so important for successful Agile implementation, how would you suggest to approach Agile for a company where several of the teams are located on two sites: in Italy and in Sweden with very different cultures?
I would start by raising awareness about the cultural aspects that differentiate them, both for the management and for the teams. This will prepare the appropriate environment for a better communication and collaboration. The next step is to build an understanding about what agile means (short, very practical and interactive training sessions) and to include them in defining the way Agile is to be implemented (next steps). If you want to become Agile, you need to walk the talk: the agile transformation itself has
to respect the agile mindset 😊
8 How fundamental it is to first develop a DevOps culture before implementing Agile?
It depends on the type of projects and priorities. If you are concerned about constantly deploying a ready for release software in a reliable and secure manner, you will probably implement first a DevOps culture. In non-IT industries, you won’t even have DevOps.
9 How can you get an agile coach job in a non-IT environment when most of the postings require a senior experience demonstrated mostly in software development
It is a matter of demand and offer. How many Agile coach do you know with experience
in non-IT? 😊 If you are able to prove that you have an good understanding of that specific industry (even if your agile coaching experience is in software development), you are a good facilitator, than you have enough skills to get the job.
11 How much important is to explain the method of agile work to colleague that collaborate on a project?
Very important if you want to work successfully with him/her. Nut more important is to explain WHY do you want to work this way.
12 What is the average of team size which use an Agile organization?
Jeff Bezos of Amazon was famous for what he called the 2-pizza rule: the team should be
a size that can be fed by 2 pizzas 😊. My experience (and that of the trainers and coaches working with me) is that the smaller the team, better the performance. If you want a number: start with a team of 5, see how it works.
13 In your opinion is possible to use mixed approach like this: in a general view use Waterfall, in a particular activity use Agile approach ?
Yes, I had cases and it worked well. Especially when you don’t have the time and means to educate your client who cannot (or don’t want) to learn new approaches.