1.
AGILE TOP DOWN
How to lead an Agile Organization

2.
AGILE
TRANSFORMATION
DRIVER

3.
AUTONOMY
01

4.
Trafalgar Square, London

5.
United Kingdom
27 ships of the line
4 frigates
1 schooner
1 cutter
TOT 33
33 ships of the line
5 frigates
2 brigs
TOT 40
France - Spain
Cape Trafalgar, 1805

6.
United Kingdom
458 killed
1.208 wounded
TOT 1666
4.395 killed
2.541 wounded
8.000~ captured
TOT 15.000~
21 ships of the line captured
1 ship of the line destroyed
France - Spain

7.
Admiral Horatio Nelson
29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805

8.
COMMAND
CHAIN

9.
RE-APPROVAL
CHAIN

10.
OWNERSHIP
CONFLICTS

11.
SOLUTION
AUTONOMOUS
TEAMS

12.
PRODUCT
BACKLOG
PRIORITIZATION

13.
INNOVATION
02

14.
Allow failures
- Innovation comes with higher risks
- Fail to learn
- Fail fast to learn fast
- Learn fast to pivot
- Autonomy multiplies innovation chances

15.
HACK DAY
2019

16.
ALIGNMENT
03

17.
CO-CREATE
THE PLAN

18.
ALIGNMENT
TOOLS
OKR Objectives Key Results

19.
KNOWLEDGE
WORKERS
04

20.
Frederick W. Taylor
- Workers negligence
- Low safety standard which led to numerous injuries
- Poor work organization
- Soldiering (workers working below their abilities)
1900 Attempts to resolve:

21.
MANAGEMENT DUTY
“Replace the rule-of-thumb (empirical
process) by Scientific methods, selecting,
training, teaching and developing the
workman”
BEST WAY

22.
THINKER
DOERS

23.
THINKER
DOERS

24.
THINKER
DOERS

25.
TEAM OF TEAMS
05

26.
Operators VS Intelligence
On the intel side, analysts were frustrated
by the poor quality of materials and the
delays in receiving them.
[...]
Many saw operators as arrogant and
ignorant of intelligence analysis: tools for
breaking down doors who had no
appreciation for the intelligence war.

27.
General McChrystal
Commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC)
in Iraq.
Army as a perfect example of Taylor local optimization where
thinkers are separated from doers.
An organization that couldn’t face the complexity of a new
generation war.

28.
AL-QAEDA IN IRAQ

29.
SHARED CONSCIOUSNESS

30.
TEAMS OF TEAMS
Navy SEALs
CIA
Army Special Forces

31.
TECHNOLOGY
FUNCTIONAL
TEAMS

32.
TECHNOLOGY
CROSS
FUNCTIONAL
TEAMS

33.
Reed Hasting
Netflix CEO

34.
RECAP
06

35.
AUTONOMOUS
TEAMS
CLEAR PRODUCT
OWNERSHIP
ALIGNED VISION
THINKER = DOERS
CROSS FUNCTIONAL
TEAMS