Changing Culture - what does it take to become Agile by Melanie Franklin

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Changing culture – what does it take to become agile?

[email protected]

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What does agile mean?• Organisational agility

• Flexible• Responds quickly to customer demand• Fast to market • Great at managing change

• Development agility• Using Scrum• Not writing anything down• Power of teams• Processes within groups

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Adoption of agile…• Is shaped by the prevailing culture of your

organisation• Shapes the prevailing culture of your organisation to

create a new reality

“The more successfully you use a way of working, the stronger your culture is, which

is a great strength right up to the time when you need to change.”

Professor Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School

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My agile is not your agile!• Agile is shaped by culture• Different priorities depending on what your

organisation values, and what it already does well or badly

• 3 examples:

Roles PrioritisationCommercial Awareness

Roles

BusinessSponsor

TechnicalCoordinator

ProjectManager

BusinessVisionary

TechnicalAdvisor

BusinessAdvisor

BusinessAnalyst

BusinessAmbassador

TeamLeader

SolutionDeveloper

SolutionTester

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Commercial Awareness

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PrioritisationWith out this requirement …no point on this date or not legal or unsafe or not a viable solution

Important but not vitalMay be painful to leave out but solution still viable May need workaround, which may be temporary

Wanted or desirable but less importantLess impact if left out (compared with a Should)

Will not be delivered in this timeframe

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Agile is a mindset change• Agile shapes culture• Threatens known ways of working• 3 examples:

Evolving Solution

EmpoweringTeamsGood enough

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Components of culture


Basic Assumptions

Norms and Values

Visible Artefacts

• Project team are solution providers

• Routinely involved in early stage meetings

• Business Ambassador responsibilities included in job descriptions

• Feedback is business intelligence• Walk throughs willingly and well attended• Time allocated for involvement in projects

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Golden rules of agile cultural change• Know your starting point – have a good understanding

of how we do things around here using the 3 elements to perform a quick As Is/To Be analysis

• Align adoption of agile to your organisations mission and strategic direction

• Pick your battles, recognising that an environment of ‘agile good; waterfall bad’ is naïve – sometimes agile is not the best approach

• Use an emergent approach, piloting its adoption and using small successes to build momentum for more agile


Twitter: @AgileMelanie

Linkedin: Melanie Franklin YouTube: AgileCM

[email protected] 995262

www.agilechangemanagement.co.uk

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