culture  follows  structure@jasonlittle #darefest

are  you  ready?

here  we  go…

get  off  your  seat!uno!dos!tres!

don’t  be  shy!I  dare  you  to  get  up!join  me  on  stage?my  wife  is  way  better  at  this  than  me…

Give  yourself  a  round  of  applause!

Benjamin  Franklin  said:There  are  three  types  of  people  in  this  world…  

those  that  do  agile  

those  that  be  agile  

those  who  think  SAFe  is  a  good  idea

Benjamin  Franklin  said:There  are  three  types  of  people  in  this  world…  

those  that  do  agile  

those  that  be  agile  

those  who  think  SAFe  is  a  good  idea

MOVERS

MOVEABLES

IMMOVEABLES

MOVERS

MOVABLES

IMMOVABLESTHERE WILL BE NO AGILE,

BOY. I SHALL ENJOY WATCHING YOU QUIT.

Movers

Lone  Nut1st  and  2nd  followers

MovablesImmoveables

change  happens

change  happens

change  happens

change  happens

change  happens

we  wanna  be  spotify!

a  fool  proof  plan…

Spotify

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Spotify Installation Process

Please wait while the system copies the DNA of all Spotify employees, and invents a way to replicate how people think and interact from a companythat is completely different from the utterly fucked company that is yours.

Renaming Communities of Practices to Guilds…

Purchasing enterprise JIRA because stickies don’t work here…

Implementing punishment scheme for squads that underperform…

Installing mandatory innovation time at 1pm every tuesday…

Renaming functional departments to Chapters…

done

Critical Error: Tried Doing Agile instead of Being Agile. Installation will now revert.

done

done

done

Firing Agile Coaches…

Preparing bad performance reviews for managers and staff…

Preparing year end bonuses for executive team…

Unable to un-install Agile. Teams have gone rogue. Run for your life.

Spotify Un-Installation Process

Please wait while the system exercises the demons…

Agile

An error has occurred. To continue:

Press Enter to download SAFe, or

Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to restart your organization. Your movers will quit, and your immovables will say ‘I TOLD YOU SO’

Press any key to continue _

you  cannotcopy  any  organization’s  culture

you  cancopy  their  structures…and  see  what  happens

you  cannotchange  your  culture

you  canhelp  culture  emerge  by  changing  structure

Culture  is  shaped  by  the  worst  behaviour  the  leader  is  willing  

to  tolerate.

or…

Gruenter  and  Whitaker

Culture  is  shaped  by  the  best  behaviour  the  leader  is  willing  

to  amplify.

Jurgen  Appelo

Fighting specialization with more specialization

HR Change AgileAgile  Pilot  Team

Organizational  Debt

@jasonlittle

Structure  guides  our  behaviour

We  *know*  organizations    are  complex.  

But  normal  people  DON’T  CARE  about    complex  adaptive    

systems  

and  they  DON’T  CARE  about  cynefin  either  

DEV

QA

PM

BA

Agile  Pilot  Team  ‘agile  stuff’  gets  added,  organizational  debt  and  ‘old’  policies  are  kept  in  

place

MGR

MGR

MGR

MGR

Exec

Exec

Exec

Meet  BobIn  1981…

Rumour  Mill

Jane  carpools  with  3  other  people  and  sits  within  an  earshot  of  the  CEO’s  office.

Barriers  to  Agility

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15

30

45

60

2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Lack of Management SupportLack of SkillGeneral Resistance to ChangeFailure to Change Culture

change  fails  often1995  –  Kotter:  30%  

1998  –  Turner  and  Crawford:    33%  2005  –  Procsi:  29%  

2008  –  Mckinsey:  30%  2011  –  Standish  Group:  34%  

Hammer  and  Champy  –  1993  Beer  and  Nohria  –  2000  

Senturia  –  2008or  does  it?

change  is  hard

Succeeds  ~30%  of  the  time  Partially  succeeds  ~56%  of  the  time  

outright  fails  ~18%  of  the  time

Change  fails  70%  of    the  time!

stop  perpetuating  that  lie!!

please take a moment to take a picture and tweet.

Without  deviations  from  the  norm,  progress  isn’t  possible.  

Frank  Zappa

Emerging  Trends2-­‐speed  IT  

dual  operating  systems  

company  inside  a  company  

off-­‐brand  strategies  

Horizon  thinking  

Stop  ImmediatelyAgile  pilot  teams  and  value  streams  

VP  of  Agile,  or  VP  of  Innovation  

Forcing  managers  to  manage  agile  and  traditional  teams  

budgeting  and  scheduling  transformation  

@jasonlittle

but what can I do?

@jasonlittle

Some  IdeasStalking  

Social  Media  

Lead  by  Example  

Take  one  for  the  team  

Have  a  conversation

Thank  youhttp://leanchange.org

@jasonlittleDarefest  Lean  Change  Agent  Course  

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