agile is not enough revolution over transformation - agile tour montreal
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Todd CharronTwitter: @toddcharron
Email: [email protected]
Agile Coach, ImprovisorMentor: Lean Startup Machine Founder: Follow Your Fear Day
Who Am I?
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At the current churn rate, 75% of the S&P 500 will be replaced by 2027.
Year Tenure for average firm on S&P 500 (years)
1958 61
1980 25
2011 18
Or do you relinquish itto leadership?
Can you bring your full
power, creativity,
intelligence to work every
day?
Will we ever get there? Do we even have a vision of where we’re going?
Gradual Evolution
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This happens whether you want it to or not
Rule Through Authority, Suppress Dissent, and Use Fear
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- Gene Sharp
The population gets turned into a mass of isolated individuals
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- Gene Sharp
People are often too frightened to share their hatred of the dictatorship
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Current Organizational Structures May be Removing Power from People
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You only have authority if the people recognize it
Authority is an illusion
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Authority can make change but only winning hearts and minds can sustain it
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Liberty
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How far can we go creating liberated organizations?
Valve, Zappos, Netflix experimenting with increasing liberty
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We can be more free, more liberated
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We will get better
We will be better
Incompetent Bureaucracy, excess controls, ineffective policies and operations
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People may become apathetic, skeptical and even hostile to the regime
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To remove the dictator we must remove its legitimacy and the rewards that sustain it
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1. Who are you?2. Have values… and live by
them3. The Dictator4. Craft our narrative5. Build our tribe6. Celebrate our victories7. Build autonomy
As a companyAs a group of rebels
Who are you?
Who is the face of this change?
Who is your leader?
Be intentional.Be polarizing.
What’s your point of view?
Who wouldn’t fit in here?
Who are you not?
Keep Method WeirdWhat would MacGyver Do?Innovate Don’t ImitateCollaborate, Collaborate, CollaborateCare Like Crazy
Method Values:
The Dictator is the biggest threat or problem we can unite around solving
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Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
We are uncovering better ways of developingsoftware by doing it and helping others do it.Through this work we have come to value:
That is, while there is value in the items onthe right, we value the items on the left more.
When _________________And we could have done ______ or ______ but instead we did ________ because we believe _________
There was a time...
Dancing Dissolves HierarchyPlay Poker
Lose Yourself In The Group
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How will you keep Method weird?
Create Positive Rites Of Passage
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Tribes, Squads, Chapters, GuildsSprints, Scrum, Daily Scrum, Retrospectives
Create Symbols, Names, Insider Language
Could we solve this problem by increasing freedom instead of reducing it?- Penn Jillett
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RevolutionStart a
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Todd CharronTwitter: @[email protected]