just do it
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Slides for our talk at Agile on the Beach: The 'Just Do It' approach to change management. Forget about seeing. Doing is believing. The As-If principle, coined by psychologist William James, tells us that changing behavior will change thinking, not just the other way around. Is that why ‘shock therapy’ Scrum works? Does this Stockholm syndrome approach to change management actually work in practice? And if so, how does that relate to current thinking about complexity and management? Based on real-life experiences, we describe the effectiveness and limitations of decisive leadership as an application of redirecting situations from the Cynefin chaotic domain into the others. We describe steps taken, contexts misinterpreted, other mistakes made, and lessons learned. All this illustrated with a tale of a failed multi-million euro project that was turned into a success, then a failure again caused by the unexpected success, and then… Well, come and listen.TRANSCRIPT
The 'Just Do It' Approach To Change Management
@wouterlaWouter Lagerweij
@C_G_ONeillCiarán ÓNéill
“If you want a quality,act as if you already have it.”
- William James (1842-1910)
sometimes a very directiveJust Do It
approachis the best way to get people
into an agile mindset.
What is an agile mindset?
@wouterlaWouter Lagerweijwww.lagerweij.com
@C_G_ONeillCiarán ÓNéill
nimble-b-jack.blogspot.com
The Project
Automated Testing
Mindset
Execution
MVP
ChangekScrum
TestingAutomated Testing
Continuous DeliveryMVP
KanbanKanban again
Specification by ExampleKanban PO team
One backlog
ReferencesThe As-If Principle - Richard Wiseman (UK, US)‘Pencils’: Strack, F., Martin, L.L., and Stepper, S (1988). ‘Inhibiting and facilitating conditions of the human smile: A nonobstrusive test of the facial feedback hypothesis’. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54, 768-77.‘love and poker’: Wegner, D.M., Lane, J.D., & Dimitri, S. (1994). ‘The allure of secret relationships Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 287-300.J. Sutherland, S. Downey, and B. Granvik, "Shock Therapy: A Bootstrap for a Hyper-Productive Scrum" in Agile 2009, Chicago, 2009.http://scrum.jeffsutherland.com/2012/01/scrum-shock-therapy-how-to-change-teams.htmlA Leader’s Framework for Decision Making: David J. Snowden, Mary E. Boone, Harvard Business Reviewhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin Novice to Expert: the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition, Stan LesterA FIVE-STAGE MODEL OF THE MENTAL ACTIVITIES INVOLVED IN DIRECTED SKILL ACQUISITION, Stuart E. Dreyfus and Hubert L. Dreyfus