short guide to you agile transformation

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Short Guide to your

Agile Transformation Adrian Bolboacă

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http://blog.adrianbolboaca.ro/

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This talk is for you:

♦ A manager who wants to use agile

♦ A Scrum Master involved in a transition

♦ Need to become an agent of change

♦ Want to reduce time to market of your product

♦ Need to manage transition agile coaches

♦ Don’t know how to start the agile transition




Agenda

1 What is agile?

2 Why transition to agile?

3 When to transition to agile?

4 Agile Change Management in brief

5 Measures of transition progress

6 Transparency of change

7 When is the transition over?




1. What is NOT agile

♦ Methodology

♦ Fixed recipe

♦ Golden standard

♦ Silver bullet

♦ Religion




1. What is agile

♦ Set of Principles and Values

►Collaboration

►Communication

►Feedback

►High Quality

►Continuous Improvement & more

♦ Mindset of adaptability and fast change

♦ Philosophy of business




2. Why transition to agile?

♦ Improve time to market of your product

♦ Smaller costs of development

♦ Better relationship with clients and users

♦ Focus your business on added value

♦ Increase the (technical) quality of the product




3. When NOT to transition to agile?

♦ The management heard it’s cool and that’s all

♦ Your teams are always 100% focused on delivery

♦ You need to deliver features in the near future

♦ You don’t have the budget for an efficient change

♦ Nobody knows what agile is




3. When to transition to agile?

♦ You understand the benefits:

►Faster time to market

► Improved product quality

►Minimize waste from the current process

♦ You understand the risks:

►Not everyone likes agile, ~10-25% of colleagues will leave

►You will need time and a flexible budget

►The final result is not clear from the beginning




3. When to transition to agile?

♦ Agile transition works best when you:

►Work for a product development company

►The teams can transition to vertical slices of development (cross-functional team from front-end to storage)

►The management and teams understand what agile is

►Clarify the benefits & risks with all the stakeholders

►Can start transition in small steps, not big-bang




4. Agile Change Management

♦ Ensure you have:

► Transparency

► Clarity

♦ You are an agent of change, not a manager

► Consult with everyone

► Take a decision after everyone was heard

♦ Be neutral, and help everyone

♦ Understand how much change can be absorbed now




5. Measures of progress

♦ Micromanagement Self-organization→

♦ Is business knowledge distributed?

♦ Technical quality is improving

♦ Lead time of features is decreasing

♦ Team happiness is increasing

♦ Clients give better feedback

♦ Management is less involved and trusts the teams




6. Transparency of change

♦ Use a visual board for the roadmap with changes: now, soon, later

♦ Always explain the value of the next actions

♦ Continuously ask if everything is clear

♦ Have 1 on 1 meetings with everyone involved

♦ Regularly explain progress to management

♦ Regularly retrospect: what worked, what didn’t




7. When is the transition over?

♦ Use management by objectives

►What is my business transition objective?

►How can I measure it?

♦ All the teams reached a performing state

♦ Management lets teams self-organize

♦ Requests are about what, and not how




When agile has minimal benefits

♦ The business is not dynamic

♦ We know exactly what we need to develop (for real, not just saying so)

♦ No real feedback on product from customers and users

♦ Not many colleagues like to work collaboratively

♦ The business doesn’t focus on high quality

♦ Focus on minimizing costs, not on investments




Anti-Patterns of agile transition

♦ We are special, it doesn’t work for us

♦ Organization works on horizontal slices (framework team, front-end team, mobile team)

♦ Transition a whole big organization at once

♦ Business knowledge not distributed in the organization

♦ Everyone expects the manager to takes decisions

♦ Have Transition Manager as a role




If you want to transition to agile, understand the whole ecosystem and do it right, with people who know how to transition an organization




What’s Next?

♦ Let’s have a chat about your context during Open Space

♦ Read more about change management and agile

♦ Attend a workshop on how to transition to agile

♦ Contact me when you have any questions at [email protected]



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