who needs leadership agility?
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Joseph Flahiff Lean|Agile Organizational Catalyst
Author: Being Agile in a Waterfall World: A practical
guide for complex organizations
www.whitewaterprojects.com
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WHO NEEDS
AGILE
Agile has become a bloated
conceptual vortex
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Agile is…
Agile is the ability to adapt to changes as fast or
faster than changes occur.
Adapt
or
DIE
An Adjective
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Agile is NOT
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What People
Really Mean
AGILE
Nimble
21st Century
Management
Thinking
Agility
Enabling
Practices
The Agile
Movement
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Management
Innovation
1911-Fredick W. Taylor
Scientific Management
Industrial Revolution
Pivot
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Pivot Again
1911-Fredick W. Taylor
Scientific Management
Industrial Revolution
Pivot
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Mental Shifts
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Types of Work
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Part or Art
Part work Art Work
Predictable
Assembly
Focus on Conformance
Low change rate
Variation is bad
Coordinate & Control
End is CLEAR
Purpose is to deliver
Unpredictable
Discovery
Focus on Creativity
High change rate
Variation is good
Inspect & Adapt
End is Ambiguous
Purpose is to discover
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Part or Art
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Control Focus >>> Autonomy Focus
Hero Focus >>> Team Focus
Efficiency Focus >>> Value Flow Focus
Isolation Focus >>> Collaboration Focus
Command Focus >>> Service Focus
Other Shifts
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What do you
need?
AGILE
Nimble
21st Century
Management
Thinking
Agility
Enabling
Practices
The Agile
Movement
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1. Servant Leadership
2. Teamwork
3. Retrospectives
4. Value Stream Mapping
4 Things
Everyone MustDo in 2015
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Simply Put
Do to others, as you would have them do to you.
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Leaders
Set Vision and
Parameters
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Vision and
Implementation
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1. Servant Leadership
2. Teamwork
3. Retrospectives
4. Value Stream Mapping
4 Things
Everyone MustDo in 2015
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Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned
Post Mortem
Results are Project Specific
Team Specific
Domain Specific
Useful LL Requirements
Communication
Resources (people)
DON’TWORK
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Retrospective
Frequent
Whole Team
Must be interesting
Project Specific
Team Specific
Domain Specific
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Retro Process
• Set the Stage1
• Collect Data2
• Root Cause Analysis3
• Experiment Design4
• Close 5
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Open Q&A
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Pivot Again
?Pivot
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Joseph Flahiff Lean|Agile Organizational Catalyst
Author: Being Agile in a Waterfall World: A practical
guide for complex organizations
www.whitewaterprojects.com
Intro
PMI
ACP