My talk at Scrum India meetup on 3-Mar-2012 at SAP Labs, Bangalore on our journey of enterprise-wide Agile adoption. "ASAP" stands for Agile and Scrum Adoption Program, and also signifies that the change program also needs to show level of urgency commensurate to what is being sought in product development.
15. Our Context
Consumer Internet space
Critical success factors
Innovation
Speed
UX
Agility is more about results
than beliefs, labels or rituals
16. the “ASAP” journey
Self-
Sustaining
Scaling
Up
Common
Program
Establish
Credibility
17. Establish Credibility
Learn from history…but don‟t be enslaved to it
Identify passionate practitioners…and let their voice matter
Learn the “real world” first…don‟t simply forcefit process to it
Don‟t preach from the top…demonstrate proofpoints
Validate ideas externally…but don‟t hardsell them internally
Don‟t try to boil the ocean…rather, establish beachheads
Socialize with key stakeholders…multiple times
18. Common Program
Top-down mandate doesn‟t work – let teams figure own process
Acknowledge the “Change Iceberg” –
10% Visible (Process, Rituals, Artifacts, etc.)
90% Invisible (Feelings, Concerns, Issues, Anxieties, etc.)
No prescriptions. At best, give guidance and offer to facilitate
“ASAP” = Agile and Scrum Adoption Program, started mid-2011
Center-wide program to coordinate agile adoption
Solve common problems like training, dashboard, reporting,…
Create internal community of practitioners and experts
Maintain focus, speed, direction and alignment
19. Scaling Up
Don‟t worry about „charter‟ – earn it based on results
Process change is just a small part of the change – maintain a
focus on intangibles that lead to holistic mindset change –
Training – general, specialized, key stakeholders
Leadership development – collaboration, servant leadership
Org structure – roles, responsibilities, performance, rewards
Tools
“Name and Shame” is short-term shallow tactic – better celebrate
solid success stories
Remember – the goal still is better software, not 100% adoption!
20. Self-Sustaining
We are just entering this phase, so still experimenting
First principles
Establish measures of success – tie-up efforts to “end-results”
Showcase results that highlight success
Reward and recognize individuals and teams for end-results
Celebrate newer ways of accomplishing better results
22. Lastly…
Any change can be
accomplished if we
acknowledge people are
“superheroes” in their own right
Our role is to facilitate change
and enable collaboration
Even the smallest of results
speak louder than noblest of
intents
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Key message for this slide: Our mission is to create deeply personal experiences, which is how we make our vision real for hundreds of millions of consumers. Yahoo! is unique and wonderful to so many people.That advanced technology that learns what our users are interested in serves up 45,000 variations of our homepage every five minutes. So, the Yahoo! homepage you experience is different from the homepage I experience. And over the course of a day we serve up 13 million variations of the homepage.Our mission is to create deeply personal digital experiences. Our mission is how our vision becomes reality.
Share examples of Yahoo! values.Eg. Community- We want to give back to the community as much as possible. YEFI a group that supports the education of underprivileged children in India.