This is what I shared with SP Jain students when they invited me to deliver lecture to their Post Graduate Certificate in Advanced Project Management (PGC-APM) Batch 19 on 15th February 2014.
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Analysis
50% done?
Design
i
m
Develop
e
Test
1970, Dr Winston Royce published “Managing the Development of Large
Software Systems”, where the waterfall is first documented! he said “I
believe in this concept, but the implementation described above is risky
and invites failure”
5. T i m e
End to end small slices of work
30% Done =
100% Usable
6.
7. ž Wait
is the biggest waste
ž Agile helps eliminate waste
ž Agile makes everyone working all the time
ž Parallelism is the key
ž Smaller the batch size lesser the waste
ž Timebox helps limit batch size
ž Agile = X % done, 100% usable
ž Time to market is reduced drastically
ž Total time of the project has reduced to less
than half
8. Agile is not a process or framework. It is a value system.
26. Changes in the new economic environment are
large-scale, substantial and drastically different
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
More volatile
More uncertain
Source: IBM—Capitalizing on Complexity:
Insights from the Global Chief Executive Officer Study (2010)
More complex
Structurally
different
27. ž The life expectancy of firms on the Fortune
500 has rapidly declined to around 15 years
and is headed for 5 years
ž Business model life cycle is down to 7 years
ž 80% of new products and services fail
within 3 years
ž 95% of CEO’s agree on the increased need
for enterprise innovation, yet half
acknowledge they have no team or process
for this. Of those that do have a team/
process, how many are satisfied with it?
28. “Without exception, all of
my biggest mistakes
occurred because I moved
too slowly.”
--John Chambers, Cisco CEO,
“He [Chambers] also radically changed
the way he managed, turning a
command-and-control hierarchy into a
more democratic organizational
structure.”
29. Agility is the
ability to create
and respond to
change in order to
profit in a
turbulent business
environment.
30. “88% of executives cite organizational agility as
key to global success.”
“50% say that agility is not only important, but a
core differentiator.”
41. Systems
of
Record
Themes:
• Inward focus
• Efficiency/cost reduction
• Highly structured
• Slow to change
Systems
of
Engagement
Themes:
• Outward focus
• Fundamentally social
• Loosely structured
• Dynamic/in flux
49. ž Employees
acting as
partners and
associates make their
own decision
ž They evaluate their
managers every six
months
ž Potential managers
are interviewed by
their subordinates.
50. ž Small
teams
ž Belief in the
individual
ž No titles
ž People choose their
own work
ž All in the same boat
ž Focus on long term
value based view
rather than short term
benefits
51. ž No
managers
ž Personal mission
ž “Collaborative letters
of understanding”
ž Conflict resolved by
jury
53. ž No
positions
ž No support functions
ž Decide your own time
ž Self-managing teams
who owns their P&L
54.
55. ž I
haven’t created images in this PPT.
References and credits provided at the
end
ž Ideas and words in the presentation are
referred and inspired from various
sources listed at the end
ž Does this have to do anything with agile?
ž Are we ready? What does it take? When
do we start?
56. ž John
Kotter: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/
archive/3294.html
ž Bas Vodde: http://www.odd-e.com/
material/2012/06_shanghai/
management_and_adoption.pdf
ž Jim Highsmith: http://
www.thoughtworks.com/sites/
www.thoughtworks.com/files/files/
adaptive-leadership-wp-us-singlepages.pdf