What do you want to improve?

Being/doing/scaling Agile isn’t the point

@neil_killick

Improve

I’m gonna have to

Agile the shit out of

this!

– feelings of anxiety and discomfort resulting from simultaneously holding contradictory or otherwise incompatible attitudes, beliefs, or sets of assumptions”

Source: https://flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/the-nine-principles-of-organisational-psychotherapy/Photo: Contradiction by wornish

“Many organisations, particularly in times of stress or change, suffer acutely from ‘organisational cognitive dissonance’

How does your work work?

Where we are

Collective Mindset Sliders

Collective Mindset Sliders

Where we should be

Vision

Synchronise

Capability 3

Capability 4

Capability 5

Capability 6

Capability 7

Capability 8

Capability 9

Capability 10

Backlog Doing

Capability 2Capability 1

Next

Team 1

Team 2

DONE

No. 1 priority capability - which teams are required to deliver it end-to end?

Teams 1 and 2, in this case

Capability 11

Capability 12

Backlog of customer capabilities, ordered by value

Capability 1Team 1

Team 2Capability 2

Team 1

Team 3

Capability 3

Capability 4

Capability 5

Capability 6

Capability 7

Capability 8

Capability 9

Capability 10

Capability 11

Capability 12

Backlog DoingNext DONE

Next priority capability also requires Team 1, but Team 1 is focused on a higher priority capability - leave them alone!

If Team 3 starts without Team 1, they may end up either having

to interrupt Team 1 (who are working on a higher priority feature), or leaving Capability 2 unfinished to start another

Let’s put a blocked sign on the capability to signify that a lower priority capability is being selected

Capability 1Team 1

Team 2Capability 2

Team 1

Team 3

Capability 3 Team 3

Capability 4

Capability 5

Capability 6

Capability 7

Capability 8

Capability 9

Capability 10

Capability 11

Capability 12

Backlog DoingNext DONE

Team 3, and every team in fact, should pull in the highest priority capability for which they have no dependency on a

team working on a higher priority capability

Capability 1Team 1

Team 2Capability 2

Team 1

Team 3

Capability 3 Team 3

Capability 4Team 4

Capability 5 Team 6

Team 5

Capability 6

Capability 7

Capability 8

Capability 9

Capability 10

Capability 11

Capability 12

Backlog DoingNext DONE

Capability 4Team 4

Capability 5 Team 6

Team 5

Capability 3 Team 3

Teams pull in work

Capability 3

Capability 1

Capability 4

Capability 5

Capability 6

Team 4

Team 5

Team 6

Capability 1 is “Done”, so teams 1 and 2 are available to pull in the next highest priority capability that they have the

ability to work on

Team 3

Capability 2Team 1

Team 3

Capability 7 Team 2

Capability 8

Capability 9

Capability 10

Capability 11

Capability 12

Backlog DoingNext DONE

Team 1 should work on top priority (blocked) capability

Teams 1 and 3 should now co-ordinate to put focus on the higher

priority capability

Capability 3

Capability 1

Capability 4

Capability 5

Capability 6

Team 4

Team 5

Team 6

Team 3

Capability 2 Team 1

Capability 7 Team 2

Capability 8Team 1

Team 4

Capability 9Team 2

Team 6

Capability 10 Team 3

Capability 11 Team 5

Capability 12

Backlog DoingNext DONE

Iterate

Focus on the goal

★ Company vision★ Customer capabilities★ “How the work works”★ Synchronise as a company★ Iterate as a company

Improve= Get better at meeting the goal