Structuring for Business Agility

Phil Abernathy

Purple candor

BA conference

Sydney 24-Sep-18

Structure

StyleThe Org

The Work

Lean

Six Sigma

CustomerCenteredDesign

Agile

Teale

Scrum

BusinessAgility

XP

DevOps

DesignThinking

ComplexityTheory

Kanban

Journeys

Values

Principles

Practices

BizAgility

The Maze&

The Madness

The Madness

And then we automate madness

Cynefin Complexity

KPI

Dashboards Targets

GoalsOutcomes

The dark dimension

Values

Principles

Practices

BizAgility

The Madness

The Maze

Structure the Org

Traditional Functional Hierarchy

DEV

Projects

BA Tester UX/UI PMArch

Small cross functional teams

DEV

BA

Tester

UX/UI

Squad

DEV

BA

Tester

UX/UI

DEV

BA

Tester

UX/UI

DEV

BA

Tester

UX/UI

Tribe

PM

Arch

UX

Who is the Customer?What is the service?

What are the skills needed?

Small

X-Funct.

Dedicated

Co-located

Stable

SquadsTribes

Chapters Guilds

The Managers?

DEV

BA

Tester

UX/UI

Squad

DEV

BA

Tester

UX/UI

DEV

BA

Tester

UX/UI

DEV

BA

Tester

UX/UI

Tribe

PM

Arch

UX

Organisational BMI

Organization BMI

Awesome <10%

Great 10% – 15%

Over weight 15% – 20%

Obese > 20%

ENABLER : DOER %

10-20 people / 2-3 squads per First Line Manager

10-12 FLMs to 1 Second Line Manager

10- 12 SLMs to 1 Domain Executive

Department of 2000!

Structure the Work

Hold the leaders are accountable!

DOING THE RIGHT WORK

DOING THE WORK RIGHT SQUAD

Ditch the PMO

Distribute work

Pull from a single, customer prioritised,

funnel and work on one thing at a time

Are you struggling with prioritization?Are you drowning in work?

Cascading Agile StrategyWe have a clear strategy!

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Cascading OKRs

Group level

Business Unit/Profit Centre level

Support functionsHR/Fin/IT/etc

OperationalTeam level

Vision/

MissionObjectives Key Results Plan

Vision/

MissionObjectives Key Results Plan

Vision/M

issionObjectives Key Results Plan

Vision/

MissionObjectives Key Results Plan

Stop Starting

Start Stopping!

STRUCTURE SMELLS

We’realready

Agile

The kiss of YES Great

idea,but

not now

It’sall

GREENYou don’t

understand …We’re different

We’re hybrid

It’s optional!

Business Agility implementation tips

Invest and insist on learning

Make it a strategic decision

HoldLeaders

Accountable

Org. BMI=10! Thank you!

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