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Short Guide to your
Agile Transformation Adrian Bolboacă
@adibolbadrian.bolboaca@mozaicworks.
com
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This talk is for you:
♦ A manager who wants to use agile
♦ A Scrum Master involved in a transition
♦ Need to become an agent of change
♦ Want to reduce time to market of your product
♦ Need to manage transition agile coaches
♦ Don’t know how to start the agile transition
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Agenda
1 What is agile?
2 Why transition to agile?
3 When to transition to agile?
4 Agile Change Management in brief
5 Measures of transition progress
6 Transparency of change
7 When is the transition over?
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1. What is NOT agile
♦ Methodology
♦ Fixed recipe
♦ Golden standard
♦ Silver bullet
♦ Religion
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1. What is agile
♦ Set of Principles and Values
►Collaboration
►Communication
►Feedback
►High Quality
►Continuous Improvement & more
♦ Mindset of adaptability and fast change
♦ Philosophy of business
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2. Why transition to agile?
♦ Improve time to market of your product
♦ Smaller costs of development
♦ Better relationship with clients and users
♦ Focus your business on added value
♦ Increase the (technical) quality of the product
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3. When NOT to transition to agile?
♦ The management heard it’s cool and that’s all
♦ Your teams are always 100% focused on delivery
♦ You need to deliver features in the near future
♦ You don’t have the budget for an efficient change
♦ Nobody knows what agile is
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3. When to transition to agile?
♦ You understand the benefits:
►Faster time to market
► Improved product quality
►Minimize waste from the current process
♦ You understand the risks:
►Not everyone likes agile, ~10-25% of colleagues will leave
►You will need time and a flexible budget
►The final result is not clear from the beginning
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3. When to transition to agile?
♦ Agile transition works best when you:
►Work for a product development company
►The teams can transition to vertical slices of development (cross-functional team from front-end to storage)
►The management and teams understand what agile is
►Clarify the benefits & risks with all the stakeholders
►Can start transition in small steps, not big-bang
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4. Agile Change Management
♦ Ensure you have:
► Transparency
► Clarity
♦ You are an agent of change, not a manager
► Consult with everyone
► Take a decision after everyone was heard
♦ Be neutral, and help everyone
♦ Understand how much change can be absorbed now
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5. Measures of progress
♦ Micromanagement Self-organization→
♦ Is business knowledge distributed?
♦ Technical quality is improving
♦ Lead time of features is decreasing
♦ Team happiness is increasing
♦ Clients give better feedback
♦ Management is less involved and trusts the teams
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6. Transparency of change
♦ Use a visual board for the roadmap with changes: now, soon, later
♦ Always explain the value of the next actions
♦ Continuously ask if everything is clear
♦ Have 1 on 1 meetings with everyone involved
♦ Regularly explain progress to management
♦ Regularly retrospect: what worked, what didn’t
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7. When is the transition over?
♦ Use management by objectives
►What is my business transition objective?
►How can I measure it?
♦ All the teams reached a performing state
♦ Management lets teams self-organize
♦ Requests are about what, and not how
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When agile has minimal benefits
♦ The business is not dynamic
♦ We know exactly what we need to develop (for real, not just saying so)
♦ No real feedback on product from customers and users
♦ Not many colleagues like to work collaboratively
♦ The business doesn’t focus on high quality
♦ Focus on minimizing costs, not on investments
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Anti-Patterns of agile transition
♦ We are special, it doesn’t work for us
♦ Organization works on horizontal slices (framework team, front-end team, mobile team)
♦ Transition a whole big organization at once
♦ Business knowledge not distributed in the organization
♦ Everyone expects the manager to takes decisions
♦ Have Transition Manager as a role
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If you want to transition to agile, understand the whole ecosystem and do it right, with people who know how to transition an organization
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What’s Next?
♦ Let’s have a chat about your context during Open Space
♦ Read more about change management and agile
♦ Attend a workshop on how to transition to agile
♦ Contact me when you have any questions at adrian.bolboaca@mozaicworks.com
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