1.
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Do we still need
managers?

2.
FUTURE-PROOF YOUR
ORGANIZATION
ORGANIZE RESPONSIVENESS
by
Jurriaan Kamer

3.
“Insanity: doing the
same thing over and
over again and
expecting different
results”
Albert Einstein

4.
“Insanity:
implementing scrum
and expecting a
miracle”
Jurriaan Kamer

5.
AGENDA
- management in agile orgs
- how to apply these insights?
- agile management team
transformation

6.
How many
managers in the
audience?

7.
“Management, like the
combustion engine, is a
mature technology that
must now be reinvented
for a new age.”
Gary Hamel
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8.
Do companies
like Spotify still
have managers?

9.
How does management
operate in agile
organisations?

10.
photo by Giuseppe Milophoto by Techcrunch

11.
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Spotify

12.
At Spotify, a manager
has a maximum of 5
direct reports
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13.
“As a leader, always
blame yourself first”
Photo by Heartwork.com

14.
“I was used to people
telling me ‘shut up and do
your job’”

15.
“Now they say: my job is to
make you successful, what
do you need?”

16.
Agile à la
Spotify

17.
At Spotify managers are
focused on coaching,
mentorship, and solving
impediments rather than
telling people what to do.

18.
With 60 teams,
do you get 60
bricks or a
nice castle?

19.
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Airbnb

20.
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“We simply
give the
team a clear
purpose”

21.
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“Our tech
managers are
engineers”

22.
photo by Steve Jurvetson
What drives your people to
work for your company?
A powerful purpose drives the
company.

23.
Facebook

24.
“No manager will tell
you what to do”

25.
“I don’t want people
asking me for
permission. In almost
every case, if someone
asks me for permission,
something’s wrong”

26.
“When people ask
you for permission,
they don’t bring
any of their own
responsibility to the
request”

27.
AGENDA
- management in agile orgs
- how to apply these insights?
- agile management team
transformation

28.
How to apply these
insights?

29.
Simply following
the checklist
won’t work

30.
(c) Jurgen Appelo
From boss
to leader

31.
“We need to have
a shorter time to
market, be able to
faster respond to
change, and have
more innovation.”
Find the executive
who feels the pain

32.
Provide a clear transition
path: start small

33.
Bring the
challenge
to the team
€
What do they need
to make more
impact?

34.
Managers get
coaching to be
able to let go
of the old ways

35.
“On higher management
levels, it feels like losing
control”

36.
Continuously communicate
about the necessary change
and the challenges. €

37.
Executive
sponsorship
Consistent example
behaviour
Communication
Management
enables the
transition

38.
Management team
agile transformation
EXPERIMENT

39.
Photo tiarescott
- decision making based on
detailed memo’s
- information is filtered out and is
often wrong or out of date
- not always of impact of
decisions
Management team meetings
as an impediment to agility

40.
Can you help us:
• learn what it is to be
agile
• spend more time fixing
impediments
• be more transparent
and accessible
• let go and give more
responsibility to teams

41.
Kanban: backlog out in
the open
Agile inbox: get on their
agenda instantaneously
Sprint review: question for
their people, “did we
work on the right things?”
Retrospective

42.
Drawing by Henrik Kniberg
A3 management
Helps
management
teams to
prioritise which
areas they want
their company
to improve on,
and delegate.

43.
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ANWB has an agile CIO

44.
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Do we still need managers?
The most agile and innovative companies on
the planet still have many many managers,
but they operate very differently.
To move to this new way of management, we
need management to enable the transition.

45.
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“A leader is best when
people barely know
he exists, when his
work is done, his aim
fulfilled, they will say:
we did it ourselves.”
Lao Tzu

46.
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