Agile
RevolutionOver Transformation
Isn’t Enough
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Agile
RevolutionOver Transformation
Isn’t Enough
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Todd CharronTwitter: @toddcharron
Email: todd@toddcharron.com
Agile Coach, ImprovisorMentor: Lean Startup Machine Founder: Follow Your Fear Day
Who Am I?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/13/idUS206536+13-Feb-2012+BW20120213
At the current churn rate, 75% of the S&P 500 will be replaced by 2027.
Year Tenure for average firm on S&P 500 (years)
1958 61
1980 25
2011 18
Of Your
Use TheWHOLE
Organization
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Organizations need to be cutting edge thinkers
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Leaders Not Followers
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BUT
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Organization
WORKS
IS
AGILEDoesn’t
CHANGE
OrganizationWho The
AREWe Need To
Change
WHOOrganizations
Who Do YouWork For?
Who Are You?
Or do you relinquish itto leadership?
Can you bring your full
power, creativity,
intelligence to work every
day?
Why Revolutions?
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Agile Transformation
Styles
Thou Shalt Be Agile!Top Down
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Changes practices but rarely changes the organization
Bottom Up
Are we really committed?
Pilot Team
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Will we ever get there? Do we even have a vision of where we’re going?
Gradual Evolution
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DOOMED!
Culture attracts and retains top Talent
Culture Wins Over Process
Need tobake it
into yourDNA
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Dictatorships
Organizations Operate Like Dictatorships
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This happens whether you want it to or not
Rule Through Authority, Suppress Dissent, and Use Fear
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- Gene Sharp
The population gets turned into a mass of isolated individuals
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Cannot do much of their own initiative
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- Gene Sharp
People are often too frightened to share their hatred of the dictatorship
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Current Organizational Structures May be Removing Power from People
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You only have authority if the people recognize it
Authority is an illusion
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Authority can make change but only winning hearts and minds can sustain it
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We must make change on an emotional level
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Authority: DirectionForceCoercion
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So if not authority, then what?
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Liberty
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Liberty: FreedomAutonomyOpportunity
How far can we go creating liberated organizations?
Valve, Zappos, Netflix experimenting with increasing liberty
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We can be more free, more liberated
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We will get better
We will be better
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Symptoms of a dictatorship
Incompetent Bureaucracy, excess controls, ineffective policies and operations
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Institutional conflicts and personal rivalries
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People may become apathetic, skeptical and even hostile to the regime
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How do we defeat a dictator?
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Rebellions can be put down
* Warning: Revolutions start as rebellions
To remove the dictator we must remove its legitimacy and the rewards that sustain it
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7 Steps To Revolution
1. Who are you?2. Have values… and live by
them3. The Dictator4. Craft our narrative5. Build our tribe6. Celebrate our victories7. Build autonomy
Organizational Identity Quadrants
As a companyAs a group of rebels
Who are you?
Who is the face of this change?
Who is your leader?
Be intentional.Be polarizing.
What’s your point of view?
Who wouldn’t fit in here?
Who are you not?
...and live by them
2. Have Values
Keep Method WeirdWhat would MacGyver Do?Innovate Don’t ImitateCollaborate, Collaborate, CollaborateCare Like Crazy
Method Values:
The Dictator is the biggest threat or problem we can unite around solving
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4. Craft our narrative
Organizational Declaration of Independence
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Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
We are uncovering better ways of developingsoftware by doing it and helping others do it.Through this work we have come to value:
That is, while there is value in the items onthe right, we value the items on the left more.
Exercise: There was a time
When _________________And we could have done ______ or ______ but instead we did ________ because we believe _________
There was a time...
5. Build our tribe
Become More Group’ish
Flip Your Hive Switch
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Warm Ups and Other Rituals
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Synchrony Builds Trust
Focus on What You Have In Common
Focus on similarity not diversity
Membership Rather Than Followership
Dancing Dissolves HierarchyPlay Poker
Lose Yourself In The Group
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How will you keep Method weird?
Create Positive Rites Of Passage
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Tribes, Squads, Chapters, GuildsSprints, Scrum, Daily Scrum, Retrospectives
Create Symbols, Names, Insider Language
Give your members a name- Beliebers is taken
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Be factual, don’t sugar coat
6. Celebrate our victories
Provide Immediate Recognition for those living the values
7. Build Autonomy
Or Go Against The Grain
Embrace Ideas That Seem Uncomfortable
Trust Their Choices Even If They Are Different Than Your Own
Autonomy requires Clarityand Competence
If not, fix THAT rather than remove power
Trust that they are competent and have clarity of vision
Could we solve this problem by increasing freedom instead of reducing it?- Penn Jillett
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Why Are They There?
If you don’t believe they can understand the vision or pick up the skills
The is THE top priority
You need to be intentional about who you are
The is an ongoing long term effort
This is the thing you have to scale
You need to lead it and own it
Outsiders Can Help
BUT
AGILEChangesHow The
Organization
WORKS
IS
AGILEDoesn’t
CHANGE
OrganizationWho The
AREWe Need To
Change
WHOOrganizations
RevolutionStart a
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Todd CharronTwitter: @toddcharrontodd@toddcharron.com