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Agile @Scale 7 #Fail Patterns!Please don’t do this at home!

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Look to your left; then look to your right!


One of you will fail in your

Agile adoption!


33% of Scrum Adoptions Fail & !Revert to Form in

Some Way* !*Scrum Alliance 2013 “State of Scrum Report”


Agile doesn’t fail

How we adopt Agile is what fails!

— Jean Tabaka, Agile Fellow @Rally Software


I don’t want you to fail!


So, Look Out!

Danger Ahead!


7 #Fail Patterns of

Agile@Scale!


Avoid the sinkholes!


Create high performing

teams

Benefit from

larger insight pools

Decrease time to market

See real time data not just projections

Deliver Customer

Value


Ready?!


#Fail1

Don’t create great teams or, even

individual performance


Reliance on traditional

performance appraisals


Are heroics rewarded?


Learned Helplessness!


Autonomy Mastery Purpose!


We need to share frequent team guidance and mentorship


Contributions to team success are valued and rewarded


#Fail2

Don’t really invest with team level

Agile


VICTORY! !


Be careful of your message!


Bull$*!# Detector


“Yuval”!


#Fail3

Don’t learn anything


What?

There is absolutely nothing wrong!


Who? Me?


communicating” or, too busy for “all the


Get wisdom—it’s worth more than money !

---Proverbs 16:16!


#Fail4

Don’t See the Whole


Roles that remain in functional silos


The organization �still values �

departmental efficiencies over the effectiveness of �

whole system.�


Vision!

Roadmap !

Release !

Iteration !

Daily !

Expanding the Horizons of Agile: !5 Levels of Agile Planning!


#Fail5

Don’t start


“One small step…”


“Miriam”!


#Fail6

Don’t focus on cultural change


Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch --Peter Drucker, Management Guru


33% of Scrum Adoptions Fail & Revert to Form in Some Way* !

Culture is king in the Agile world—and according to a majority of respondents, organizations must create cultures that encourage collaboration in order to deliver value to their customers. This includes fostering self-organized teams and active support from management.

*Scrum Alliance 2013 “State of Scrum Report”


ENFORCED Standard of Work

Governance = Conformance

Standard of Work is static

Cross-organizational uniform

Detailed documentation

PMO as enforcers


as a GUIDE:

Standard of Work must work

Governance = Guidance

Standard of Work is dynamic

Cross-organizational learning Documentation in support of knowledge flow

PMO as evangelists of knowledge flow


Empowered teams amplify learning and are powerful cultural change

agents�


#Fail7

Don’t get your execs onboard


checkbook commitments


unengaged

JUST DO IT!


immediate RESULTS


same metrics

targets not feedback


Agile doesn’t fail

How we adopt Agile is what fails!

— Jean Tabaka, Agile Fellow @Rally Software


Think about these 7#Fails!

• Which #Fail might you be headed toward?




• How can you avoid it?




• How can you avoid it? • Create your plan now!


James!


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Agile @Scale 7 #Fail Patterns!

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