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Ag

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ag e m en t Agile Management

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Build an Agile/Lean

organization culture!

• Management is important in an Agile organization

• Management is needed in order to support and house the “Agile machinery”

• But management functions do not necessarily need to be carried out by managers! – Involve or delegate power to teams, coaches and other

functions

Agile Management

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Adopting Agile

Practices, how to do it - Agile methods and tools

Vision, benefits and why - The wanted business effects!

Agile values and principles - To govern the wanted effects

- Creates context and alignment

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Preach visions and the wanted

business effects

• Communicate the wanted business effects, such as

‒ The importance of satisfied customers and that we need to

create short feed-back loops with our customers

‒ The importance of cutting lead-time and having processes

that favors short Time-To-Market

‒ The importance of responding to changes, seen from a

business/market perspective

‒ The importance of first-time quality

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Manager Manager

Manager

Avoid top-management

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issues/questions

Command and Control !!!

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Development Team Development Team

Agile values and principles

• Individuals and Interaction!

• Direct communication! Create trust!

Boost collaboration and direct

communication (no handovers)

Organization structures?

• Management and organization structures must

encourage and empower teams and team structures

to evolve and self-organize

Might be hard in traditional organization hierarchies…

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Leadership

• Empower people and teams

• Coaching / servant leadership

– Delegate responsibility and power

– Do not top-manage! Control by goals, guiding principles,

open questions (not how-to details)

– Motivate, challenge and energize people and team members

– Create trust, a No-Blame-Culture!

– Let the teams reflect on mistakes, learn and improve

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Leadership

• Remove impediments for progress

• Support improvement suggestions from the team

‒ Be present and close to the teams

‒ Listen, support and act!

• Embrace change!

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Delegation board, Management 3.0

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Be present

• Go to the real place and see for yourself (Gemba)

‒ Do not sit in your office and ”guess”!

‒ In order to really understand the situation

• To the customers to understand what they need

• To the teams to understand their challenges

‒ Visit stand-up meetings

o Listen but do not interfere

o Help to resolve impediments

‒ Visit reviews and demonstrations

• Support improvement suggestions

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Continuous Improvements (Kaizen)

• We want to create a reflecting, learning and

improving organization (culture)

• People must be motivated to suggest improvements

• The organization must welcome improvements

suggestions and support changes

• Not only on team level, but also for the organization

as a whole

Create an “improvement machinery” where the

organization can evolve

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Align supporting routines with Agile

• Budgeting and reporting

‒ Routines that enable ”responding to changes” ,seen from

a business perspective

‒ Keep options open (as far as possible)

‒ Delegate responsibility to Product Owners (Scrum) or to

similar roles/functions

‒ Make sure that the teams have really have freedom to

decide how to work (no impeding administrative routines)

‒ Use Agile tools and session to follow up progress

(eliminate additional/unnecessary routines and meetings)

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Align supporting routines with Agile

• Human Resources

‒ New roles and functions to consider

‒ New type of leadership needed

‒ Involve the teams in the recruitment processes

‒ What incitements to use to motivate, promote and reward

individuals, teams, managers and other functions?

‒ How to make “career” in an agile organization?

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Align supporting routines with Agile

• Other administrational routines …

• Other supporting processes …

• Procurement

‒ Suppliers, Vendors, Sub-contractor, …

• Office space and seating

• …

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• Communicate the vision and the wanted business effects

• Human Resources

– Resource management, collaborate with the teams

– Develop and grow competence, collaborate with the teams

• Servant leadership

– Create trust, delegate power, motivate and empower people/teams

– Be present, listen and support

• Support the “development machinery” (holistic view)

– See to the whole, the overall organization perspective

– Let efficient team and team structures form and self-organize

– Provide infrastructure and tools (listen to the actual needs)

• Continuous Improvements

– Grow and support a reflecting and learning culture (Kaizen)

– Support and sponsor improvement suggestions

– Help out to remove waste

Manager role, example

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Product Owner Scrum Master

Management

Coaching how and

boost performance What to do and why,

Business perspective

Resources, competence

Motivation, empowerment

Support, Infrastructure

Development Team

The producing unit …

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Example, “Extended Scrum Team”