Authentic Scrum PETER agileforall.com Making Agile a Reality

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1 Authentic Scrum PETER GREEN agileforall.com Making Agile a Reality

2 What is the Biggest Challenge of adopting Scrum in your organization?

3 What is the Primary Benefit of Scrum?

4 Which was closest? A. Consistent Process and High Predictability B. Fast Time to Market and High Productivity C. Customer Delight and Culture of Empowerment

5 Your Management/Leadership? A. Consistent Process and High Predictability B. Fast Time to Market and High Productivity C. Customer Delight and Culture of Empowerment

6 The Values Lens Confirmation Bias: The tendency to search for, interpret, focus on, and remember information that supports what you already believe (or value).

7 The Values Gap X Y

8 Doesn t Work: Evolve!

9 My Story Agile

10 The problem

11 A model that helped

12 Value Sets Values: Stability, Structure, Clear Processes Likely to say: We want people who are loyal to the company AMBER Downside: Slow moving

13 Value Sets Values: Competition, Innovation, Meritocracy Likely to say: We want people who are go-getters ORANGE Downside: Winners and Losers

14 Value Sets Values: Inclusive, Empowerment, Collaboration Likely to say: We want people who have big hearts GREEN Downside: Indecisive

15 Common Value Sets A. Consistent Process and High Predictability AMBER B. Fast Time to Market and High Productivity ORANGE GREEN C. Customer Delight and Culture of Empowerment

16 An Emerging Value Set Values: Transcend and Include, Personal Purpose Likely to say: We want people to be fulfilled TEAL Downside: Too soon to tell not enough data

17 A Teal Example + + = AMBER ORANGE GREEN No late deliveries in 25 years 50% market share, no outsourcing No managers Cross-functional customer teams TEAL Transcend and Include

18 I ve got an idea for how to improve this process

19 I want to make sure everyone agrees with that idea before we make anything final. Seems like an interesting idea - let s dig in to how others might be impacted by a change and see what we can come up with. We don t have time to work on that. Show me how it would impact the bottom line and I might be interested. We ve built this process based on years of experience; we re not going to make a bunch of changes that aren t proven to work.

20 Agile Values - Color Match individuals and interactions over processes and tools working software over comprehensive documentation customer collaboration over contract negotiation responding to change over following a plan

21 Biasing Scrum Scrum is beautifully empty -Alistair Cockburn Fill it with what the organization values: Consistent approach across the organization Focus on improving predictability Focus on quality

22 Biasing Scrum Scrum is beautifully empty -Alistair Cockburn Fill it with what the organization values: Twice the work in half the time PO ROI accountability Focus on innovation

23 Biasing Scrum Scrum is beautifully empty -Alistair Cockburn Fill it with what the organization values: Autonomous teams Culture over Strategy Focus on delight

24 Practice Time! In a moment, you will practice with a partner. Scenario: you are having a discussion with a leader that asked you to tell them about Scrum. Your experience tells you that they have some strong values that are different from yours. You will take turns practicing describing the benefits of Scrum for that value set. But first, some tips

25 Tips for discussions: AMBER Focus On Appeal to authority (HBR, Gartner, etc.) Clear Role Definitions Stable Teams forecasting with Velocity Common, Proven Agile Practices Not Yet Self-organization Cultural Change Innovation Experiment to Learn

26 Tips for discussions: Focus On Not Yet Appeal to Science Culture Faster Time to Market Empowerment ORANGE Increased Productivity Innovation Happiness Metric Agile HR

27 Tips for discussions: Focus On Not Yet Appeal to Team Autonomy Amber Values Orange Values GREEN Culture Customer Delight

28 Practice: Describe the benefits of Scrum: AMBER ORANGE GREEN

29 A Few Key Points Transcend and include One value set is not better than another While people have a dominant value set, different colors show up in different contexts It is not our job to change others we can only change ourselves

30 You only get this + + = AMBER ORANGE GREEN No late deliveries in 25 years 50% market share, no outsourcing No managers Cross-functional customer teams TEAL Transcend and Include

31 With one of these + + = AMBER ORANGE GREEN No late deliveries in 25 years 50% market share, no outsourcing No managers Cross-functional customer teams TEAL Transcend and Include

32 Zeal for Teal

33 Reminder: Evolve!