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How to enable agility in the whole organization

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Luis Gonçalves

http://lmsgoncalves.com

@lgoncalves1979

Esther Derby

Founder

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Some of the people that are involved

Diana LarsenJason LittleAngel MedinillaJohanna RothmannNiels PflaegingVasco DuarteAnd many more…

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What Is An Agile Organization?

An agile organization is the one that can learn by itself and adapt to the market conditions

faster than competitors, producing constantly value to their customers

Luis Gonçalves

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How To Become An Agile Company?

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Learning Organization

Peter Senge

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Fifth Discipline

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1. Personal Mastery

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2. Team Learning

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3. System Thinking

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4. Mental Models

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5. Shared Vision

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First Step - Communities of Practice

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Book Club

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Lunch Talks

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Coaching - Coding Dojos - MOB Programming

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Internal Open Space – Skills Marketplace

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How can you start this in your organization?

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Find A Group Of People That Share The Same Vision

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Team Level

• Sprint Learning Sessions

• Book Club

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Organization Level

• Open Spaces

• Innovation Sprints

• Launch Talks

• Chapters and Guilds

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External Level

• Internal MeetUps

• External MeetUps and Conferences

• Skype calls with Speakers

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Second Step - Institute training on the job

6th Principle of Management

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Software Academy

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Crucial Conversations

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Feedback

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Experimentation Training

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Training about Intrinsic Motivation

• Purpose• Autonomy• Mastery

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System Thinking – For Example CLD

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How can you start this in your organization?

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Baby Steps

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Third Step - Work On The System

“95% of the problems in business are system driven and only 5% are people

driven”

by Edwards Deming

WHAT CAN WE DO?

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Start Doing Agile Retrospectives on the System Level (Organization Level)

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What to Do with those Impediments?

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Organization Improvement Board

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Organization Improvement Board

We hypothesize by <implementing this change>

We will <solve this problem>

Which will have <these benefits>

as measured by <this measurement>

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Organization Improvement Board

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Organization Improvement Board

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How can you start this in your organization?

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Fourth Step – Connect Strategy To Daily Operations

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Make the Goals (Teams) aligned with company Vision

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But How can we keep track of this?

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Objectives Key Results (OKRs)

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Agile Portfolio Management

Business Stream 1

Business Stream 2

Business Stream 3

Portfolio Management (Very Simple Version)

1 Epic = 1 Objective

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Agile Portfolio Management

3 Months: Pick up max. 3 topics from the backlog

4 Weeks: Select 1 Topic to be run as experiment

2 Weeks: Check the status, outcomes will bePresented to the whole company

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Strategy to Day To Day Work

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How can you start this in your organization?

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So… How to put everything together?

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THANK YOU

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