👉 Join 36,000-plus peers: Stay up-to-date by subscribing to the Food for Agile Thought newsletter: https://age-of-product.com/subscribe/ On October 12, 2022, agile innovator Diana Larsen delved into the Agile Fluency® Model. After a short introduction to the model, we shifted to an Ask-Me-Anything-style discussion of the groundbreaking view of agile and teams.

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© 2022 Diana Larsen & James Shore, Agile Fluency Project LLC
Engage the Agile Fluency Model
Diana Larsen
Hands-On Agile Meetup
October 2022

2. ONE SIZE
(SOLUTION, FRAMEWORK, PACKAGE,
PLATFORM, OR METHOD)
SELDOM FITS ALL

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SKILLED Teams = Fit for BUSINESS purpose
Our Vision for Prospering:
Teams’ work is done well in
every organization.
All teams practice in a zone
of fluent, skilled proficiency
that meets the business’
needs.

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What is TEAM Fluency?
Understanding the business value of TEAM
LEARNING…
Skilled actions that teams
apply automatically without
stretching or thinking.
Routine, smooth, skillful,
ease enables flow.
Praxis - deliberate
practical team application
of skills+theory Return on an Investment
in Learning
Performance persists
even under stress &
distraction.

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Discovering Opportunities:
IT STARTS WITH A CONVERSATION
ABOUT BENEFITS AND DESIRED
OUTCOMES

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CONVERSATION STARTERS:
• Current Ideas: When you consider how to gain more effective
teamwork, what might need to shift in your business/org?
• Visible results: If your [teams, org, leaders] accomplished a shift,
how could you tell? What differences would you perceive?
• ROI: If your org achieved success with those shifts, how would it
affect your top or bottom line and other outcomes of value?

8. AGILE
FLUENCY
PROJECT
agilefluency.org
What Benefits do You seek?
Delivering?
Focusing?
Optimizing?
Core Metric: At least once per month the team shows what it’s
working on and how it’s progressing from a business value
perspective
Core Metric: The team can release their latest work, at minimal
risk and cost, whenever the business desires.
Core Metric: The team describes where their product stands in
their market and how they’ll improve (or secure) their position.

9. AGILE
FLUENCY
PROJECT
agilefluency.org
Moving toward performance & agility…
How do we prepare leaders
and teams to produce the
benefits our business
needs?
What do we have to build
on?

10. FOCUSING
See progress from biz perspective
Redirect teams when needed
Work on most valuable thing
Investments
• Remove impediments to teamwork
• Ensure 100% allocation to team
• Keep teams together and provide business representation
• Create shared workspaces
• Train managers to manage the system

11. DELIVERING
Release at will
Capture value frequently
Reveal obstructions early
Investments
• Provide time for lowered productivity
• Create slack for refactoring
• Integrate technical disciplines into team
• Provide training in technical practices
• Hire skilled practitioner-coaches

12. OPTIMIZING
Excellent product decisions
Eliminate hand-offs and wait time
Innovation/disruption
Investments
• Disruptive—may need to build trust with Delivering fluency first
• Incorporate business experts full-time in whole autonomous team
• Dedicate teams to specific products or markets
• Give teams responsibility for budgets and plans
• Judge based on results, not adherence to plans

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AGILE FLUENCY™
PROJECT
Copyright 2017, 2019 James Shore and Diana Larsen for the Agile Fluency Project

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The Agile Fluency Suite
AGILE FLUENCY MODEL

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AGILE FLUENCY DIAGNOSTIC
The Agile Fluency Suite
AGILE FLUENCY MODEL

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AGILE FLUENCY DIAGNOSTIC
The Agile Fluency Suite
AGILE FLUENCY MODEL
AGILE FLUENCY IMPROVEMENT
CYCLE

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The Agile Fluency Improvement Cycle
Continue Improving with Feedback Loops

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AGILE FLUENCY™
PROJECT
Copyright 2017, 2019 James Shore and Diana Larsen for the Agile Fluency Project
Contact Us for Bonus Material pdf:
https://www.agilefluency.org/contact.php

19. AMA
Questions?
Comments?

20. To learn more:
https://www.agilefluency.org
http://www.jamesshore.com/v2/books/aoad2
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Agile-Development-James-Shore/dp/1492080691

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