the agile mindset - agility across your organization

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In this talk from the 2014 TriAgile conference, Cory Foy reveals secrets of why innovative techniques to agility are so difficult in our corporations, why that's a bad thing, and what we can learn from Lean Startups and a relentless and ruthless focus on removing delays to make it better.

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The Agile Mindset: Agility Across the

OrganizationCory Foy | foyc@coryfoy.com | @cory_foy

http://www.coryfoy.com http://www.prettykoolapps.com

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Act I: The Case for Agility

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Agile

http://www.flickr.com/photos/b1ue5ky/3621908203

/ˈajəl/1. Doesn’t Exist2. Describes project management that wants to seem “hip”3. May refer to the Agile Manifesto, or one of the myriad of frameworks and methodologies sprung from the manifesto, or a collection of practices and tools which somewhat resemble one of the myriad of frameworks and methodologies under the agile manifesto

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Agility != Agile

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“You don’t want me to tell you what’s feasible, you just want me to tell you if we can do it at all costs”

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The process that companies have optimized for execution inevitably interfere with the search processes needed to

discover a new business modelhttp://steveblank.com/2014/03/26/why-internal-ventures-are-different-from-external-startups/

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“75% of those organizations using Scrum will not succeed in getting

the benefits that they hope for from it”

- Ken Schwaber

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/angeldye/9649741183

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[Agility] happens not by exception, but is integral to all parts of the firm

- (apologies to) Steve Blank

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Corporation - Permanent organization designed to

execute a repeatable, scalable business model

http://steveblank.com/2014/03/04/why-companies-are-not-startups/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lewicki/7631355524 http://www.flickr.com/photos/23065375@N05/2246558373

Startup - Temporary organization in search of a

repeatable, scalable business model

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Visionary Companies distinguish their timeless core values

(which should never change) from their operating practices and business strategies (which

should be changing constantly in response to a changing world)

- Jim Collins, Built to Last

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Realize Business Value Faster

Stop Startingand

Start Finishing

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Act II: Visualizing Agility

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/st3f4n/4370816189

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Low Context; Low Discovery; Needs Strict Guidelines

Individual

Team

Project

Program

Organization

Forces: Need heavy upfront analysis and strict project management, but

don’t need context

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Low Context; Low Discovery; Needs Strict Guidelines

High Context; Discovery of

Value; Intuition w/lightweight risk management

Novice Individual

Forming Team

Fully Defined Project

Value Defined Program

Follow the Plan Organization

Forces: Need heavy upfront analysis and strict project management, but

don’t need context

Forces: Need rapid analysis and discovery with people

who understand the context

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Low Context; Low Discovery; Needs Strict Guidelines

High Context; Discovery of

Value; Intuition w/lightweight risk management

Novice Individual Expert

Forming Team Performing

Fully Defined Project Discovery Based

Value Defined Program Value Discovered

Follow the Plan Organization Respond to Change

Forces: Need heavy upfront analysis and strict project management, but

don’t need context

Forces: Need rapid analysis and discovery with people

who understand the context

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Scope

Cost Schedule

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Scope

Cost Schedule

Level 1

Level 5

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Scope

Cost Schedule

Level 1

Level 5

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Scope

Cost Schedule

Level 1

Level 5

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Scope

Cost Schedule

Level 1

Level 5

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Act III: Moving Towards Agility

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Practices Principles

Low Context; Low Discovery; Needs Strict Guidelines

High Context; Discovery of

Value; Intuition w/lightweight risk management

Novice Individual Expert

Forming Team Performing

Fully Defined Project Discovery Based

Value Defined Program Value Discovered

Follow the Plan Organization Respond to Change

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Sprint Planning

Product Backlog

In Sprint?

Daily Standup

Do WorkSprint Demo

Retrospective

Done?Ship and Party!

Yes

No

Yes

No

RepeatDaily

Scrum

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SAFe

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Kanban

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1 2 3 4 5

Practices Principles

Scrum

SAFeKanban

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Systems Thinking

286.5 / 1592.5

7 weeks of work40 weeks to do the 7 weeks

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Relentless and Ruthless Search for Waste and

Delays

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kt/146500920

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IT/IS

Finance

Facilities PMO

HR

Vendor Mgmt

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• Deliver frequent increments (chunks) of valuable software• Automated Tests• Flexible Software• Cross-Functional Teams

Agility in Delivery

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• Optimize for Collaboration• Open Spaces• Conference Rooms• Big Open Walls

Agility in Facilities

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• Prefer candidates capable of rapid analysis of changing situations• Prefer team builders to individual “rock stars”• Integrate the team into the hiring process• Allow for team-based metrics and performance reviews

Agility in HR

http://www.flickr.com/photos/olathegovnews/6936452113Sunday, May 4, 14

• SOWs align to features• Small increments where possible• Integrated with teams where possible• If part of flow, measure up to the handoff, and after receiving output to track internal cycle time

Agility in Vendor Management

http://www.flickr.com/photos/commissary/5031052250

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• Project decomposed to valuable slices• Managed using flexible units of time• Prioritized by Value• Sequenced by ROI• Just in time decomposition and planning• Focus on “Just Enough” Governance

Agility in Project / Product Management

http://www.flickr.com/photos/number10gov/11997928585

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• Avoid Long-Horizon Cost Estimates• Ignore Project Cost Planning and Variance Analysis• Keep Cost Options Open - Set a Project Budget, and don’t report below that• Enable “Unallocated” capacities - Buffers

Agility in Finance

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These changes enabled our finance and planning function to become truly agile and lean...together with a flexible organization, also enable deferred decision making when

planning the investments.

http://scaledagileframework.com/?wpdmact=process&did=NTUuaG90bGluaw==http://scaledagileframework.com/leanagile-financial-planning-with-safe/

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Deferred decision making or real options here means that based on a feedback, an agile and lean organization

may balance their investment portfolio based on the field feedback simply by reprioritizing the backlog priorities.

http://scaledagileframework.com/?wpdmact=process&did=NTUuaG90bGluaw==http://scaledagileframework.com/leanagile-financial-planning-with-safe/

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A company with multiple agile projects may thus flexibly balance the resources and the investments across the projects based on received feedback and needs, as well

as estimated payback functions.

http://scaledagileframework.com/?wpdmact=process&did=NTUuaG90bGluaw==http://scaledagileframework.com/leanagile-financial-planning-with-safe/

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Deliver inIncrements

Business DrivenFeatures

StakeholderEngagement

Feature Sequencing

Feature Value / ROI

Team-Based Performance Reviews

Governance

Budgeting/Finance

Vision

ContinuousImprovement /

Kaizen

VendorEngagement

Facilities

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Drive From Business Value

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Small Increments

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Make All Work Visible

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Cory Foyfoyc@coryfoy.com

@cory_foy

blog.coryfoy.com

prettykoolapps.com

coryfoy.com

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