Keynote delivered by Craig Smith and Tony Ponton at LAST Conference Brisbane, Australia on 27 September 2019. FailAgility; we have all seen it and let’s face it, we are all guilty of letting it happen in our organisations. So why is it that so many businesses fail to see the outcomes that the Agile values and principles promise? This presentation looks at what FailAgility is and the three levels in organisations where it stems from: Organisation, Leadership and the Coaching / Personal level. We will discuss the types of FailAgility that we see at these different levels, the approaches that cause FailAgility and most importantly what we can do to recognise and fix it.

1. CRAIG SMITH
@smithcdau
TONY PONTON
@svennotnop

2. WELCOME BACK BRISBANE…
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3. CRAIG & TONY
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4. WORLD LEADING
PODCAST…
(PLEASE LISTEN!)
SHAMELESS
PLUG

5. WHAT IS FAILURE?
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6. TO FAIL…
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7. WHY DO WE FEEL LIKE WE ARE
FAILING?
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8. FEAR OF FAILURE
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9. TIP OF THE HAT

10. HOW IS YOUR AGILE, REALLY?

11. IT’S
OK…
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12. WE NEED TO EMBRACE CHANGE
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13. ORGANISATIONAL
FAIL AGILITY
LEADERSHIP
FAIL AGILITY
COACHING / PRACTIONER
FAIL AGILITY
THREE LEVELS

14. ORGANISATIONAL
FAIL AGILITY
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15. ORGANISATIONS
ARE ON THEIR N’TH
TRANSFORMATION

16. WE TRADITIONALLY
STARTED IN IT…
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17. WE TRADITIONALLY WERE
REPLACING OUTDATED
PROCESSES…
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18. …NOW IT’S BUSINESS AGILITY
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19. …NOW AGILE
IS USED TO
PUT RIGOUR
AROUND
AD-HOC
PROCESSES
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20. UNFORTUNATELY WE ARE ALSO
FIXING PREVIOUS AGILE ATTEMPTS
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21. RACCOON!
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22. FAUX AGILE
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23. CULTURE IS HARD
TO CHANGE
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24. THWADI

25. TACKLING THE BIG ISSUES
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26. RECOGNISE DISRUPTION
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27. LEVEL UP
ORGANISATIONAL
AGILITY
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28. BACK TO BASICS –
THE HEART OF
MODERN AGILE

29. A FULLY AGILE
ORGANISATION
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30. HIGH PERFORMANCE CULTURE
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31. OKR – OBJECTIVES
& KEY RESULTS
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32. BUSINESS
AGILITY –
LOOK
LEFT &
RIGHT
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33. ORGANISATIONAL
AGILITY
PILLARS
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34. ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
REINVENTING ORGANIZATIONS
CONWAY’S LAW
HOLACRACY

35. LEADERSHIP
FAIL AGILITY
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36. LEADERSHIP IS KEY
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SENIOR
LEADERS…

38. CONTROL OF
INFORMATION…
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39. THE MARSHMALLOW LAYER?
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40. MUST DELIVER
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41. TOO HARD BASKET
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42. DELIVERY AGENTS
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43. LEVEL UP LEADERSHIP AGILITY
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44. INTENT BASED LEADERSHIP
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45. THE RESPONSIBILITY PROCESS
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46. BREAKING SILOS
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47. SELF ORGANISING TEAMS
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48. MANAGEMENT 3.0
COMPETENCY MATRIX
DELEGATION BOARD
CELEBRATION GRID
MOVING MOTIVATORS
https://management30.com/

49. RADICAL MANAGEMENT
THREE LAWS OF
AGILE:
1. THE LAW OF THE
SMALL TEAM
2. THE LAW OF THE
CUSTOMER
3. THE LAW OF THE
NETWORK
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50. FIVE DYSFUNCTIONS OF A TEAM
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51. COACHING / PRACTITONER
FAIL AGILITY
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52. TRUST ME…
I’M AN
EXPERT
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53. 16 GOING ON 17…
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54. SCRUM IS 21 YEARS OLD…
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55. …NOW EVERYBODY IS AN EXPERT
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56. PURE AGILE
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57. AGILE
DOES NOT
COME IN
A BOX
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58. THE RELIGION
OF AGILE
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59. SAFE TO FAIL – HAVE TOLERANCE
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60. STATUS QUO
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61. LEVEL UP
COACHING
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62. AgileCoachingInstitureCoachingCompetencyFramework
COACHING COMPETENCIES

63. PROFESSIONAL
COACHING &
MENTORING
PRACTICES
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64. STAND UP, DON’T SETTLE
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65. PRACTICE
WHAT
YOU
PREACH

66. LOOK
OUTSIDE
THE BOX
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67. IS YOUR
COACHING STICKY
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68. I promise not to exclude from
consideration any idea based on
its source, but to consider ideas
across schools and heritages in
order to find the ones that best
suit the current situation.
“
“
OATH OF NON-ALLEGIANCE

69. FINAL FAIL WRAP LEVEL UP…...

70. BE HONEST AND
TRANSPARENT ABOUT YOUR
AREAS OF FAIL AGILITY
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71. TOP DOWN AND BOTTOM UP
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72. STOP RUNNING…
START MAKING CHANGES
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73. DO
SOMETHING…

74. GO FORTH…
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75. JOIN US ON THE
COUNT OF 3…
“VIVA LA
REVOLUTION!”

76. CRAIG SMITH
@smithcdau
TONY PONTON
@svennotnop
THANK
YOU!