Agility as a movement started with software developers uncovering better ways of doing what they do. Today that movement is driving even business leaders to rethink how they lead their organizations. What does it mean to "be" agile? How can agility be applied to leading organizations? Where do successful agile leaders start? Three stories, three secrets and three tips to apply agility to your life and work.
3. Who is in the room? Would you consider yourself …
• Developer – you design, create, test or deploy a product or service
• Project Manager – you lead people to deliver something specific
• Scrum Leader – you serve as a Scrum Master or Product Owner
• Team Manager – you have developers reporting to you
• Group Manager or higher – you have team managers reporting to you
4. Who is in the room? Would you consider yourself …
• A Startup Founder – the company is your baby?
• Working in a startup - you are living off investors’ money?
• Working in a successful startup - you are living off customers’
money?
• to be in an “Agile” company?
• to be in a company that is transforming to be more Agile
8. Pop Agility Quiz! Ask you neighbor…
What is the first sentence
of the Agile Manifesto?
9. How many of you…
• Are hoping I don’t ask for a show of hands?
• Went to your phone to find the answer?
• Had no idea?
• Talked about
“Individual and Interactions over Processes and Tools”?
• Kind of, sort of knew?
• Are confident, you have the right answer?
22. I’d like to share three examples of successful leaders and
reveal their secrets of agile leadership
We wanted to
change,
but we
couldn’t,
until…
To save my
company, I first
needed to…
How I lost 10kg
26. “Many solutions were suggested
for this problem, but most of these
were largely concerned with the
movements of small green pieces
of paper...”
-- Douglas Adams
27. I don’t like how sugar makes me feel.
So I want to avoid sugar and carbohydrates.
30. Christmas represented a severe thunderstorm!
“They are good,
they are really good”
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32. If you want to go there,
you’ll get back on course
33. You are the captain of your ship!
Make Values & Goals Actionable
Tie desired actions to wants and feelings
34. Tip #1: Know your “Jamaica” & why you want to go there
Secrets
• Change is easy
if you want to do it
Tips
• Know your “Jamaica” and why
you want to go there
• Start with yourself
37. 6 Questions of Personal Agility
Stuff done,
Closer to who
you want to be
Celebrate & Choose
Who you are,
What you did
3. What
could I do
this week?
5. What do
I want to
get done?
1. What
really
matters?
Do
4. What is
important,
urgent or 😀?
6. Who
can help?
2. What
did I do
last week?
🎉
40. Get Clarity on What Really Matters
Communicate it right away
Your people will notice the difference right away
41. Tip #2: Communicate right away
Secrets
• Change is easy
if you want to do it
• Getting clear on what really
matters can change everything!
Tips
• Know your “Jamaica” and why
you want to go there
• Communicate it!
• Start with yourself
49. Six months later…
• “We accomplished everything needed
to achieve our initial goals.
• “Half of our initial ideas proved unnecessary, so we didn't do them.
• “We were able to achieve all our goals with ½ the work & ¼ of the time
• “And the the results are already visible in our finances!”
-- Walter Stultzer, Executive Director, Futureworks AG
52. What are the top agile practices used in Development?
• Daily standup
• Sprint/iteration planning
• Retrospectives
• Sprint/iteration review
• Short iterations
Source: VersionOne, 12th Annual State of Agile Report, 2018
53. As part of their job to improve your organization,
does you manager…?
Practice
• Daily standup
• Sprint/iteration planning
• Retrospectives
• Sprint/iteration review
• Short iterations
% of development teams that use
• 90%
• 88%
• 85%
• 80%
• 69%
Source: VersionOne, 12th Annual State of Agile Report, 2018
54. How they did it
• “I committed to making this a
success
• “Every three weeks or so, my
management and I got
together…
• “Personal Agility was the most
important part of all
55. Start dancing! Apply personal agility yourself
Reduce multitasking
Apply the top agile practices to management
56. There is a huge potential
to improve company performance
by eliminating multitasking in management.
57. Tip #3: Apply Scrum or Agile to your own work
Secrets
• Change is easy
if you want to do it
• Getting clear on what really
matters can change everything!
• Developers have solved the
multitasking problem
Tips
• Know your “Jamaica” and why
you want to go there
• Communicate right away
• Apply Scrum or Agile to your
own work
• Start with yourself
60. As a Certified Scrum Trainer, I inspire hope
• Peter Stevens
• peter@saat-network.ch
• @peterstev
• I am here for the rest of the
conference
Notes de l'éditeur
It’s really quite simple,
Every week, celebrate what you’ve accomplished, and choose what you want to do next week.
Of all the things you could do, what’s important, and what’s urgent?
Of all those things, what can you expect to get done?
That’s your choice!