Adoption Vs Transformation

Ebin John.

Agenda

• Adoption and Transformation

• Schneider model and organization culture

• Changes we made in our transformation model.

All models are wrong, but some are useful! :George Box

All models are useful, but some fail faster than others :Jurgen Appelo

• Learning how to make a decent cofee is adoption ; Becoming a barista is a transformation.

• Adoption changes only what you do. Transformation changes what you are.

Adoption Vs Transformation

• The Agile community suffers a significant confusion between adoption and transformation.

• Sadly, majority of the change agents talk of adopting Agile and not about transforming the culture of a company to support the Agile mindset.

Why?

• The first step in mitigating a problem is to acknowledge that you have one.

• If you do not manage culture, it manages you.

Where do we start?

Agile is not a Process – it Defines a Culture

• Agile is an idea supported by a set of values and beliefs.

• In other words Agile defines a target culture for successful delivery of software.

Doing Agile isn’t the same as being Agile

• The essential point is that we are “Doing Agile” when we follow practices and we are “Being Agile” when we act with an Agile mindset.

• Adoption is about changing the ‘agile doing’ side of the equation

• Transformation is about changing the ‘agile being’ side of the equation

To be successful, we need to start thinking about Agile as a cultureand not as a product or family of

processes.

The Schneider Culture Model defines four distinct cultures:

• Collaboration culture is about working together

• Control culture is about getting and keeping control

• Competence culture is about being the best• Cultivation culture is about learning and

growing with a sense of purpose.

We changed our transformation Backlog!

Working with Your Culture

Choose your Model

• Schneider Culture Model – an easy-to-use tool for assessing culture in your company.

• You can use the cultural fit model to decide what approach - Agile, Kanban, or Software Craftsmanship - will best fit with your organization if you want to work with the existing culture.

Questions

Thank You

References

• An Agile Adoption and Transformation Survival Guide: Working with Organizational Culture : Michael Sahota

• Anderson, David. The Principles of the Kanban Method. Web. 10 Dec.2010. <http://agilemanagement.net/index.php/Blog/the_principles_of_the_kanban_method>.

• Appelo, Jurgen. How to Change the World (slides). Web. 2011.<http://www.noop.nl/2011/09/how-to-change-the-world.html>

• Appelo, Jurgen. How to Change the World. Lulu. eBook. 2012.