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Leading in a Self-Organizing WorldThe Agile Leadership Checkbook
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ABOUT AGILECxOOur mission is to make the world more agile.
Our goal is to help agile leaders adopt, transform, and master agility.
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Agile Performance Holarchy.................................................4Performance Levels.................................................................5The Checkbook........................................................................6Leading........................................................................................8Envisioning................................................................................10Crafting.......................................................................................12Providing....................................................................................14Affirming.....................................................................................16Teaming......................................................................................18Score Card...............................................................................20Results........................................................................................21Next Steps................................................................................22Products....................................................................................23
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The Agile Performance Holarchy is a self-organizing behavioral model for agile leaders who need to grow and maintain a high-performing enterprise agile capability.
The result of collaborative research with hundreds of agile teams, the Agile Performance Holarchy will finally give agile leaders the ability to model, benchmark, and improve agile performance using a clearly defined baseline of best practices.
Agile leaders can now benchmark performance at three performance levels: Adopting, Transforming, and Mastering.
AGILE PERFORMANCE HOLARCHY
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As a Mastering organization, we areconsistently demonstrating agile values, inspecting our work, and adapting our behaviors so we can be a community that delivers great value to our customers.
As a Transforming organization, we areembracing agile values and improving our performance everyday.
As an Adopting organization, we arelearning to adopt agile ceremonies so we can become more self-organizing and successful using agile.
PERFORMANCE LEVELS
Each Performance Circle can be evaluated and certified at
one of three levels of performance: Adopting, Transforming,
or Mastering.
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THE CHECKBOOK
The Agile Leadership Checkbook is a lean self-assessment resource for agile leaders who need to build an enterprise’s agile capability.
There are six performance circles, each with five questions for you to consider, that are used to assess your organization as either Adopting, Transforming, or Mastering Agility.
To use the Checkbook, flip the pages and:
• Read through each description of the Performance Circle and their purpose statements.
• Check each box if your organization demonstrates the behavior that is recommended.
• Record the number of boxes checked in the space provided.
• Tally up your score on the Agile Performance Scorecard, and review Next Steps.
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Agile leaders clearly articulate agile values to teams and customers.
Agile frameworks, ceremonies, and techniques adopted by teams are traced directly to one or more agile values.
Agile leaders enable their teams by empowering them to make decisions about scope and timeline.
Agile leaders engage with their teams daily to observe their adoption of values, ceremonies,and techniques.
Agile leaders focus on continuous improvement, not blaming their team for mistakes.
LEADING
The Leading Performance Circle providesguidance for Agile leaders to demonstrateagile values, to provide an agile environment, and to fully engage as a leader of agile teams.
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LEADING
As an Agile Leader, I am...
Clearly articulating agile values to my team.
Demonstrating agile values and ceremonies in my own work.
Providing teams with the resources they need to be agile.
Observing team ceremonies and behaviors every day.
Encouraging enterprise retrospectives to improve organizational performance.
How many boxes did you check?
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The backlog is owned by product owners from the business.
Technology and business teams participate in product road-mapping.
Business customers participate in prioritization and negotiation of features.
Product owners engage with teams during agile ceremonies such as Backlog Grooming and Sprint Demos.
ENVISIONING
The Envisioning Performance Circle provides guidance for creating a product roadmap, developing a release plan, and building a product backlog.
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ENVISIONING
As an Agile Organization, we are...
Identifying gaps in features and capabilities related to our existing products/services.
Developing product/service roadmaps containing features, capabilities, and high-level timing.
Developing a prioritized product backlog of features/capabilities represented as epics and stories.
Creating and managing release plans which reflect our product roadmap and backlog.
Ensuring that product owners engage with agile teams on a regular basis.
How many boxes did you check?
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Planning is done using frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, and XP using relative sizing methods like Planning Poker.
Visual management systems keep all team members and leaders up-to-date on progress in real-time.
Teams have twice the whiteboard space you think they need, and plenty of cameras to take pictures of designs and drawings.
Design techniques like TDD and BDD help teams design and develop solutions.
Automated test tools free the teams up to focus on what they do best – write great code!
CRAFTING
The Crafting Performance Circle provides guidance for planning, building, and delivering the solution.
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CRAFTING
As an Agile Organization, we are...
Using Agile estimation ceremonies and techniques to plan work.
Using automated unit testing and code review tools.
Always conducting sprint planning.
Using Agile techniques to develop, test, and deliver product in increments.
Ensuring high-quality code through rigorous review and learning.
How many boxes did you check?
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Contracts for suppliers are written to align with iterative and incremental delivery.
A Scrum of Scrums retrospective uncovers best practices not usually shared between teams.
Agile team retrospectives capture best practices and needed improvements.
Best Practices are shared and deployed across the organization.
PROVIDING
The Providing Performance Circle includes guidance for creating an environment for continuous improvement, and partnering with agile providers.
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PROVIDING
Conducting retrospectives after each sprint or iteration.
Deploying agile best practices that are identified by the teams.
Selecting agile partners based on their ability to work within your culture of agility.
Ensuring a contract exists with agile partners that reflects agile values.
Sharing and adopting improvements across teams.
How many boxes did you check?
As an Agile Organization, we are...
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Adoption of agile values, ceremonies, and techniques is verified.
Agile teams use metrics and information radiators to understand their progress and performance.
Teams receive valuable feedback that enables them to improve their performance.
Leaders receive data from teams that helps them make strategic business decisions.
AFFIRMING
The Affirming Performance Circle provides guidance for confirming that teams are demonstrating agile values, and data for understanding the performance of agile ceremonies and techniques.
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AFFIRMING
As an Agile Organization, we are...
Evaluating the adoption of our agile values, ceremonies, and techniques.
Aligning valuable metrics with our values and goals.
Using information radiators to understand progress, performance, and value delivered.
Analyzing and trending metrics so we can identify issues and opportunities for improvement.
Removing impediments and implementing corrective actions.
How many boxes did you check?
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Team agreements help identify roles and accountabilities, as well as accepted behaviors.
Teams adopt a self-subscription model.
Teams are self-organizing and focused on delivering value.
Teams demonstrate discipline in adopting agile ceremonies and techniques.
TEAMING
The Teaming Performance Circle provides guidance for agile teams to learn, achieve self-organization, and master agile ceremonies and techniques.
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TEAMING
As an Agile Organization, we are...
Supporting self-governing team charters.
Investing in real-time training.
Aligning our project culture with our agile values.
Continuously collaborating and improving our approach.
Always learning through mentoring and self-study.
How many boxes did you check?
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AGILE PERFORMANCE SCORE CARD
Performance Circle TotalLeading
EnvisioningCraftingProvidingAffirmingTeaming
Enter the score from each Performance Circle to reveal your organization’s level of Agile Performance.
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5: MasteringAs a Mastering organization, we areconsistently demonstrating agile values, inspecting our work, and apting our behaviors so we can be a community that delivers greatvalue to our customers.
3-4: TransformingAs a Transforming organization, we areembracing agile values and improving our performance everyday.
1-2: AdoptingAs an Adopting organization, we arelearning to adopt agile ceremonies so wecan become more self-organizing andsuccessful using agile.
Adopting
Transforming
Mastering
PERFORMANCE
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NEXT STEPS
Now that you have used the Agile Leadership Checkbook to understand your team’s agile performance, you are ready to make the decision to grow and maintain a high-performing enterprise agile capability.• Assess your Agile Organization against the Agile Performace Holarchy to determine your level
of Agile adoption. Contact AgileCxO.org for more information.• Watch the free Agile Leadership Lightning Lessons from www.AgileCxO.org.
AgileCxO.org is currently accepting applicants to our Pilot Program to define the next generation of Agile leadership. Pilot participants will receive a full set of assessments and training at a heavily discounted rate in exchange for feedback used to improve the Agile Performance Holarchy model.
What value can be realized from participating in the Pilot Program?
• A clear understanding of Agile Performance• A roadmap for a scalable Agile Transformation across the enterprise• Measurable results and benchmarking• A concise definition of organizational roles and accountabilities
Learn more about the Pilot Program. Contact: [email protected]
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The Agile Performance Holarchy (APH)® – A self-organizing behavioral model designed for Agile Leaders needing to grow and maintain a high-performing enterprise Agile capability.
The Agile Leadership Podcast – A series of interviews with Agile CxOs from government and commercial technology organizations that explores their Agile transformation journey.
Agile Leadership Training – Designed to help software and engineering executives guide their organizations to be more Agile, from top to bottom.
Certification for Agile Organizations – Establishes a benchmark of organizational Agile performance against three performance levels: Adopting, Transforming, and Mastering.
Certification for Agile Leaders – An opportunity for executive leadership – CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, Directors, and Vice Presidents – to demonstrate they possess the tools needed to successfully adopt, transform, and master enterprise Agility.
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