Being successful with agile requires tackling three parts: the process itself, building strong teams, and using better technical practices. Yet, most organisations focus a lot on the process and ignore teams and technical practices. This leads to 1/3 agile. There are a number of reasons why the other two-thirds are difficult -- cultural challenges, and inability to drive change. The presentation looks are three vital skills that agile scrummasters / coaches should focus on, which are they often ignore: leadership, relationship building and influencing. More explanation of the slides is available here - http://toolsforagile.com/blog/archives/1090/one-third-agile-being-change-agent

1. Siddharta Govindaraj
ToolsForAgile.com
siddharta@silverstripesoftware.com
@toolsforagile
Beyond Agile: Tales of
Continuous Improvement
http://amzn.to/beyond_agile

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Siddharta
GovindarajAgile

3. What does it take to be agile?

4. What does it take to be agile?
Process
Deliver working software frequently, from a
couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a
preference to the shorter timescale.

5. What does it take to be agile?
Team
Build projects
around motivated
individuals.
Give them the
environment and
support they
need,
and trust them to
get the job done.

6. What does it take to be agile?
Technical
Continuous
attention to
technical
excellence
and good design
enhances agility.

7. What stops us?

8. What stops us?
Culture
Self organisation is great in theory, but it
wont work in our corporate culture

9. What stops us?
Authority
This is a great
idea, and I really
want to do it, but
people won't
listen and I don't
have the
authority to make
this happen

10. What stops us?
Skillset
I believe in
motivated, self
organised teams
that write
beautiful code,
but I don't know
how to make it
happen

11. Is this how you want to be
remembered?
"She would have done great things, but her
organisation didn't allow her"

12. The change agent
THE
SHAPE
FUTURE

13. 3 Essential Skills
Showing
Leadership
Exerting
Influence
Building
Relationships

14. Leading without authority

15. Sources of power
"Role power can give you compliance, but
relationship power gives commitment"

16. Sources of influence
Personal
SocialStructural

17. Alignment

18. The role of culture

19. Run the pirate ship

20. Networking

21. Power of community

22. What is YOUR vision?

23. YOU can make the difference

24. Siddharta Govindaraj
ToolsForAgile.com
siddharta@silverstripesoftware.com
@toolsforagile
Beyond Agile: Tales of
Continuous Improvement
http://amzn.to/beyond_agile