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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