My keynote at Scaling Agile India in Bangalore on Dec 7. In this talk, I have discussed the aspects around scaling agility across the organization and not just in software teams.
4. LEARNINGS FROM CAS 2018
• SCALING AGILE CONTINUES TO REMAIN A SIGNIFICANT
CHALLENGE PER OUR PARTICIPANTS IN CHANGE
AGENT SUMMIT 2018 (NCR) AND 2019 (BANGALORE).
• MAJOR CHALLENGES AND REASONS BEHIND FAILURE:
• CREATING A SHARED VISION
• RE-ALIGNING THE ORGANIZATION
• ESTABLISHING CONSISTENCY
6. SCALING “UP” VS. SCALING “OUT”
Scale “Up” Scale “Out”
Vertical Scaling Horizontal Scaling
Across Product Across Organization
Subset of Value Stream Entire Value Stream
Cycle Time, Efficiency,
Outputs
Lead Time, Effectiveness,
Outcomes
Agile Fractals ???
My 2014 talk on Scaling Out Agility: https://www.slideshare.net/Managewell/scalingout-agility
10. VISION: KEEPS PEOPLE FOCUSED
“If Coca-Cola can sell billions of sodas and
McDonald’s can sell billions of burgers, why
can’t Aravind sell millions of sight-restoring
operations, and, eventually the belief in
human perfection? With sight, people
could be freed from hunger, fear, and
poverty. You could perfect the body, then
perfect the mind and the soul, and raise
people’s level of thinking and acting”. –
Dr. G. Venkataswamy
Vision: To eliminate needless blindness......
13. CULTURE: THE SECRET SAUCE
Source: Seeking Alpha
Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/02/here-are-the-top-10-airlines-in-the-world-as-ranked-by-tripadvisor.html
4% voluntary turnover
44 consecutive years of profitability
#1 lowest number of customer complaints
85% employees say they’re proud to work for Southwest
No layoffs, no furloughs ever
https://www.humansynergistics.com/blog/culture-university/details/culture-university/2018/05/29/southwest-airlines-reveals-5-culture-lessons