This presentation was presented to the students of MS in Business Management who were industry professionals working in public & public sector to help them changing their culture for successful Agile adoption.

1. Developing Agile Mindset
SUMARA DILPAZIR
Founder Embracing Agile | Agile Transformation Coach | Certified ScrumMaster®
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3. Mindset
“The way things are done around here”.
(Deal & Kennedy, 2000).

4. Reinventing Organization

9. Activity 01
The mind game

10. Traditional mindset
(Command & Control)
Agile mindset
(Co-Creation)

14. Planting the seeds of Agile Transformation
A. Change the organizational culture at all levels
B. Individuals' Personal Awakening & Transformation

16. 1- Change your Leadership Style
▪ Be ready for PERSONAL transformation
▪ Be a ROLE model
▪ Be a STORYTELER
▪ INSPIRE your people
▪ Use small words of encouragement and
appreciation
▪ Do not exercise POWER, FEAR, CONTROL over
your employees
▪ Ability to ZOOM IN & ZOOM OUT
▪ Give your employees a VOICE

17. 2- Use the Co-create approach
▪ WORK WIITH your employees for change
▪ Share your WHY with your employees
▪ Share the marketplace information about change
▪ Giving employees DECISION AUTHORITY about the
change
▪ Employees are more closed to actions and they
receive the warning signs earlier than leadership, so
take their INPUT about vision & direction of change
▪ Give employees a clear structure and process for
reporting information and issues
▪ This is how they will emotionally OWN the change
▪ A co-creative leader will listen to the MESSAGE

19. 3- Remove the Management hierarchies
▪ Let go of STATUS and POSITION
▪ Flip the hierarchies, there is no such thing as MANAGEMENT
There are no departments. Those fancy job titles, like VP,
executive, and manager are gone.
▪ Invert your organizational chart, CUSTOMERS at the top,
employees makes up TEAMS in the middle and higher-ups
are TEAM SUPPORTS
▪ Leader improve engagement, while managers assign
tasks, correct employees
▪ Be a LEADER, don’t act like a MANAGER
▪ Get rid of MICROMANAGEMENT
▪ Client or customer satisfaction as the top priority, when
problem rise, everyone is on the same page

20. 4- Shift the Power structure
When given clear responsibility and authority, people will be highly engaged, will
take care of each other, will figure out solutions, and will deliver exceptional results.

21. 5-Create a team culture
▪ Know each other as people, not just
professionals
▪ When the individuals work as a team, the
team gains confidence and trust in each
other that crease a sense of belonging
▪ Expose a problem to the team, and together,
they have to solve it.
▪ Do some group activities
▪ Play team binding GAMES: In my shoes, SWOT,
Peer introduction, candy Love, The roles we
plays
▪ . When problems occur, the team responds.
Team members hold each other accountable
for team results and side agreements.

22. 6- There is no failure, only feedback.
▪ Positive attitude
▪ Thirst for knowledge
▪ Goal of team success
▪ Willingness to fail

23. 7-Remove your barriers
▪ Communications : Clear and efficient communication is appreciated. What is
not valued are less direct approaches such as gossiping, stonewalling or
politicising.
▪ TRUST : You can speak openly and freely about your team. Team members can
count on each other and are reliable. We should tell the truth even if it´s
uncomfortable.
▪ Respect: The team members are empowered to contribute their best. There
are a mutual respect and real concern.
▪ Conflict Resolution: Conflict can arise as a mean of opportunity for discovery,
creativity and growth. The team should avoid defensiveness, criticizing and
finger pointing. A team should give and receive feedback on timely manners.
▪ Proactive: The team takes the initiative. The team is flexible in addressing
opportunities, responding positively and creatively. Change is core to the
team, and it is crucial for the rest of the organization too

24. 8- Invest on your teams emotionally
▪ Motivation
▪ Active Listening
▪ Empathy
▪ Honesty
▪ Fairness
▪ Meditation
▪ Resilience
▪ Trust & Respect
▪ Autonomy
▪ Transparency
▪ Compensation
▪ Encouragement
▪ Promotions
▪ HR Policy

25. 9- Hire more professionals
▶ Agile coach
▶ Agile Consultant
▶ Scrum Master

26. 10- Combining the two
▶ Include the personal transformation
▶ change leadership Style
▶ Adopt CULTURE OVER STRATEGY

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