Culture is critical for understanding how to succeed with Agile. We will explore culture and how Agile impacts organizations. In this session, you will learn the Schneider culture model and how it can be applied to make changes that align with your organization's culture. We will also explore Agile adoption and transformation approaches in the context of culture. Please contact me if you would like PPT.

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2. About Michael
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3. Session Outline

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5. Quick Survey – What Agile Adoption
Success have you seen?
• 5 = Every time a
success
• ...
• 0 = Every time a
failure
• Raise your hand
when your number
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Agile Tour Toronto 2011

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10. Why is Culture Important?
“If you do not manage
“The only thing of culture, it manages you,
real importance and you may not even be
that leaders do is to aware of the extent to
create and manage which this is happening.”
culture.”
Edgar Schein
Professor MIT Sloan School of Management
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14. Example Survey Question
When all is said and done, the way we
accomplish success in this organization is to:
1. Create an organization that has the highest possible
level of competence and capitalize on that
competence.
2. Get and keep control.
3. Provide the conditions whereby the people within
the organization can develop and make valuable
accomplishments.
4. Put a collection of people together, build them into
a team, and charge them with fully utilizing one
another as resources.

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Jurgen
Appelo

19. Kanban Principles (Anderson)
First adopt the Then (use the 5 Core
foundational principles Properties)
• Start with what you do 1. Visualize the workflow
now 2. Limit WIP
• Agree to pursue 3. Manage Flow
incremental, evolution 4. Make Process Policies
ary change Explicit
• Respect the current 5. Improve Collaboratively
process, roles, responsi (using models & the
bilities & titles scientific method)
http://agilemanagement.net/index.php/Blog/the_principles_of_the_kanban_method/

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23. Kanban is Like an Oreo Cookie!
Outside:
Crunchy
Control
Inside: Sweet White
Agile Goodness
(collaboration,
cultivation and
craftsmanship)

24. Craftsmanship as a starting place

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32. Adoption - Practices  Doing Agile
When culture is not compatible with Agile
 Incremental Adoption
 Look at Context
 Pain  Practice
 Avoid
 Scrum
 Agile Manifesto
 See “Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World”

33. What are your goals?
My main focus is
to stop companies
from doing Agile.
Pascal Van Cauwenberghe
Namiya.be
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34. Adoption – Mindset  Being Agile
When culture is compatible
Prefer Scrum + XP
Pick adoption model:
 ADAPT
 Fearless Change
 Scum Transition Backlog
Top-down & bottom-up simultaneously.

35. Plan for Hard Conversations
Agile is about people,
and as such they will
tend to be largest
obstacles, we will need
to have serious
conversations at some
point if we really want
to go Agile.
Johnny Scarborough
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37. Agile Is Not Enough
Agile Skills Project!

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42. #2 Incubate Transformational
Leadership
Leaders go
first!
• Live the values
• Lead by example
• Seek to truly understand their culture
• Be as transparent as the teams they lead
See presentation: Agile From the Top Down:
Executives & Leadership Living Agile by Jon Stahl
http://www.slideshare.net/LeanDog/agile-from-the-top-down

43. #3 Build Transformational Leadership
Team
“We focus on improving leadership and team
performance by helping people increase their
ability to be situationally aware. This helps
people increase the quality of their
conversations and other relational
interactions, which in turn improves flow.”
http://growthpl.us

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45. Transforming the World of Work

47. What’s your game plan?
Open your notebook
Write down:
Biggest ah-ha moment
Actions for next week

48. Resources
• Videos, Blog Posts, Presentations
– http://agilitrix.com/2011/04/agile-culture-
series-reading-guide/
• InfoQ eBook Coming

49. Session Outline