Why is there so much bad Agile out there?

Betsy Kauffman and Oscar Rodriquez

Look and Sound Familiar?

ScrumBUT….ScrumBUT….

ScrumerfallScrumerfall

WAGILEWAGILE

IterativeIterative

Barriers to Agile Adoption (Top 7 Answers on The Board)

23%Business/User/Customer Availability

24%Management Concerns About Upfront Planning

29%Management Support

32%Pre-Existing Rigid/Waterfall Framework

34%General Organizational Resistance to Change

35%Not Enough Personnel with Agile Experience

44%Ability to Change Organizational Culture

Version One 9th Annual State of Agile Survey

Agile is a Grassroots

effort

Agile is a Grassroots

effort

Organizations

underestimate the

commitment

Organizations

underestimate the

commitment

Training is the be all

and end all

Training is the be all

and end all

Change is HARD…

compromise is easy

Change is HARD…

compromise is easy

“Middle Management

”

“Middle Management

”

In our HUMBLE Opinion……In our HUMBLE Opinion……

Grassroots Effort-Agile is started as a grassroots effort-Enables teams and organizations to DO AGILE not BE AGILE-While gallant in effort….it will only take you so far

Organizational Commitment-”All-In” (HR, Facilities, Operations)-Funding Models-Fundamental Shift in Thinking

Training-We have sent our people to training….so they should have the knowledge to implement….they are all “certified”-Individuals only retain 10% of what they learn in training

American Society for Training and Development

Don’t Compromise -Change is HARD….

-Scrum teams will be 10-15 people-We can’t implement (DevOps, TDD, CI, etc.) here day one

-We need to live within the confines of our SDLC (or PMO)

-We’d like to BUT we are regulated

Managers have a new purpose… to remove the organizational impediments these are the BIG ROCKS which teams cannot handle by themselves

Management-They hold the keys to enabling the organizations agile transformation-Break down the silo’s and build centers of competencies-Build partnerships not kingdom’s-Servant leadership

VIDEO (Weave throughout….)

Where do we go from here?

Implementing GOOD

Agile

Implementing GOOD

Agile

Commitmen

t

Commitmen

t

Training and Workshops

Training and Workshops

Create and Communicat

e a Vision

Create and Communicat

e a Vision

Build a Transformati

on Team

Build a Transformati

on Team

Pick a Project/Progr

am

Pick a Project/Progr

am

Incubate (SHU HA RI)Incubate (SHU HA RI)

Extend the Transformati

on

Extend the Transformati

on

Enable the OrganizationEnable the

Organization

Inspect and Adapt

Communicate