In this workshop at AgileCamp San Francisco 2019, attendees learned common impediments to agility and how implementing Agile develops new capabilities across the organization.

1. Overcome Transformation Impediments
with Outcome-Driven Agility
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Overcome Transformation
Impediments with Outcome-
Driven Agility
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3. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIALAGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
David Hawks
@austinagile
david@agilevelocity.com
Executive Agile Coach

4. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIALAGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY 4
Superficial Agility Improving Agility Predictable Agility Fast Agility
• Going through the motions
• Work is visible
• Silo development
• Lots of carryover
• Not strong PO/ SM
• Retrospectives have meaning
• ScrumMaster is Coach
• Work is estimated and
velocity being measured
• Swarming and cross training
is starting to happen
• Team identity is being created
• Carryover is limited
• Team’s have focus (Limiting
WIP)
• Constant team Backlog
Refinement
• Break work down and swarm
• Whole team ownership
embracing cross functional
goals
• Cycle Time has been
significantly reduced
• Able to respond to new high
priority and deliver quickly
• Leadership focus on
optimizing the whole
• Urgently resolve
organizational impediments
• Test Automation, Continuous
Integration, DevOps in place
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Current State of Agility?

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AGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
The Path To Agility® Transformation Framework
New Status Quo
Status Quo
Integration
& Practice
Chaos &
Resistance

7. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
AGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
The Path To Agility® Transformation Framework
Align
Accelerate
Adapt
Predict
Learn
Chaos &
Resistance
Integration
& Practice
New Status Quo
Status Quo Why Do So Many
Companies Struggle?
Let’s Explore The Top 4 Impediments Organizations Face.

8. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIALAGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
Impediment #1
Implementing Solutions
Without
Clarity in Desired Results

9. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIALAGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
CHALLENGE 1Implementing Solutions Without
Clarity in Desired Results
IMPACT
• Lots of Resistance & Frustration
• Silo Optimization
• No Clear Measure of Success
• Minimal Gains

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Enables
Drives
Accomplish
Business Outcomes
Why Dictates Priorities
Agile Outcomes
Which Are Achieved
Through
Agile Capabilities
By Implementing
Agile Practices
The Path To Agility® Transformation Framework

12. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIALAGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
WHAT DEFINES GOOD AGILITY?What Defines Good Agility?
3
AGILE
OUTCOME
The newly achieved
result of better
agility.
1
AGILE
PRACTICE
Something we
implement
(“the how”).
4
BUSINESS
OUTCOME
Ultimate impact on
the effectiveness of
the organization.
2
AGILE
CAPABILITY
The new ability the
team/ organization
has developed.

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Employee Engagement
Employees are more satisfied in their work,
willing to go the extra mile, passionate about
the purpose of their jobs and committed to
the organization.
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Customer Satisfaction
Customers are satisfied with the experience,
benefits and outcomes when using your
product or service.
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Quality
The product or service meets the
expectations of the market for usability,
reliability, etc.
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Speed
The time it takes to deliver an idea into the
market
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Predictability
Teams maintain a predictable cadence of
delivery enabling the business to make
informed business decisions.
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Innovation
New ideas, creative thoughts, or novel
imaginations providing better solutions to
meet new requirements, unarticulated
needs, or known market needs.
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Market Responsiveness
The ability of the organization to pivot
quickly to respond to ever-changing market
demands.
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Productivity
Increase the business value realized while
maintaining or reducing costs.
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Continuous Improvement
The ability of the organization to relentlessly
pursue optimizations in all aspects of
business functions.
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Productivity
Predictability
Innovation
Quality
Speed
Employee
Engagement
Customer
Satisfaction
Continuous
Improvement
Market
Responsiveness
The Path To Agility® Transformation Framework
Business Outcomes

16. OrgSystemTeam
Align
Compelling Purpose
Rollout Strategy
Teams Aligned to Value
Team Formed
The Path To Agility® Transformation Framework

17. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIALAGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY 17
1. Form groups of 4+ at a table
2. Spread out the Stack of P2A
Outcome Cards (4x6/Big cards)
3. Sort the Cards with the area your
organization’s are weakest in at the
top and the strongest at the bottom
WEAKEST
STRONGEST
Where Should We Focus? - Align

19. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIALAGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
Impediment #2
Not Approaching As An
Organization-Wide Change

20. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIALAGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
CHALLENGE 1Not Approaching As An
Organization-Wide Change
IMPACT
• Impediments Not Resolved Quickly
• You Empower The Resistance
• Teams Hit A Ceiling

21. Team
Team 1 Team 2 Team N
LEVELS OF PATH TO AGILITY® TRANSFORMATION FRAMEWORK
Team level Practices
Scrum/Kanban
Code Quality
DevOps
System
System 1 System 2
System of Value Delivery
Flow of Work
Scaling
Cross Team Coord.
Org
Organization
Leadership
Culture/ Mindset
Strategy
Organizational Structure
HR/Finance Practices

22. Insights and organizational
impediments from teams
Transformation
Backlog
Agile Leadership
Team (ALT)
Product of Transformation:
Agile teams working in an
agile organization
Run the Transformation Using Agile

23. OrgSystemTeam
Align Learn
Compelling Purpose
Rollout Strategy
Teams Aligned to Value
Team Formed
Team Empowerment
Action Enabled
Ability to Measure
Cross-Team
Coordination
Visibility Created
Team Ownership
The Path To Agility® Transformation Framework

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1. Form groups of 4+ at a table
2. Spread out the Stack of P2A
Outcome Cards (4x6/Big cards)
3. Sort the Cards with the area your
organization’s are weakest in at the
top and the strongest at the bottom
WEAKEST
STRONGEST
Where Should We Focus? - Learn

26. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIALAGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
CHALLENGE 1Leaders Not Creating Focus
IMPACT
• Lots of Interruptions
• No Time to Improve
• No Flow
• No Ability to Forecast
• Slow Time to Value

27. Watch the Baton, NOT the Runners

28. OrgSystemTeam
Align Learn Predict
Compelling Purpose
Rollout Strategy
Teams Aligned to Value
Team Formed
Team Empowerment
Action Enabled
Ability to Measure
Cross-Team
Coordination
Visibility Created
Team Ownership
Agile Leadership
Ability to Focus
Multi-Team
Predictability
Ability to Forecast
Complexity Reduced
Predictable Delivery
Cadence
Quality Feedback
Loop Shortened
The Path To Agility® Transformation Framework

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1. Form groups of 4+ at a table
2. Spread out the Stack of P2A
Outcome Cards (4x6/Big cards)
3. Sort the Cards with the area your
organization’s are weakest in at the
top and the strongest at the bottom
WEAKEST
STRONGEST
Where Should We Focus? - Predict

31. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIALAGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
Impediment #3
No Method To Madness

32. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIALAGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
CHALLENGE 1No Method To Madness
IMPACT
• Everybody doing their own thing
• Pockets of success
• Declaring victory because we are out of
ideas
• No clear roadmap for the transformation
• No way to evaluate current state to
determine clear next steps

33. OrgSystemTeam
Align Learn Predict Accelerate Adapt
Purpose Driven
Leadership
Whole Org Agility
Financial Agility
Customer Centered
Market
Responsiveness
Experiment Driven
Development
Objective Data-Driven
Decisions
Compelling Purpose
Rollout Strategy
Teams Aligned to Value
Team Formed
Team Empowerment
Action Enabled
Ability to Measure
Cross-Team
Coordination
Visibility Created
Team Ownership
Agile Leadership
Ability to Focus
Multi-Team
Predictability
Ability to Forecast
Complexity Reduced
Predictable Delivery
Cadence
Quality Feedback
Loop Shortened
Faster Time to Value
Reduced Cycle Time
Release Continuously
Sustaining
Improvement
Decision Agility
The Path To Agility® Transformation Framework
Network of Teams

34. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIALAGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
The Path To Agility™ Transformation Framework

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Whole Organizational Agility
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We’ll guide the teams to not only become self-sufficient, but also
to become empowered to reach full agility.
OUTCOME DRIVEN
It’s not about dictating what to do or prescribing solutions, but
focusing on achieving key business results.
DISCIPLINED APPROACH
Our Path to Agility™ is an Agile Transformation Framework created
after decades of helping organizations accelerate agility.
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