In this live, online session, David Hawks explored how change agents can help their organizations bypass 5 common transformation pitfalls and accelerate their momentum towards true organizational agility.

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Path to Agility:
Outcome Driven
TransformationDavid Hawks
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2. AGILE VELOCITY
David Hawks
@austinagile
david@agilevelocity.com
Agile Transformation Coach

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Superficial Agility Improving Agility Predictable Agility Fast Agility
• Going through the motions
• Work is visible
• Silo development
• Lots of carryover
• Not strong PO/ SM
• Retrospectives have meaning
• ScrumMaster is Coach
• Work is estimated and velocity
being measured
• Swarming and cross training is
starting to happen
• Team identity is being created
• Carryover is limited
• Team’s have focus (Limiting
WIP)
• Constant team Backlog
Refinement
• Break work down and swarm
• Whole team ownership
embracing cross functional
goals
• Cycle Time has been
significantly reduced
• Able to respond to new high
priority and deliver quickly
• Leadership focus on optimizing
the whole
• Urgently resolve organizational
impediments
• Test Automation, Continuous
Integration, DevOps in place
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Current State of Agility?

5. Align
Accelerate
Adapt
Predict
Learn
Chaos & Resistance
Integration
&
Practice
New Status Quo
Status Quo

6. Align
Accelerate
Adapt
Predict
Learn
Chaos & Resistance
Integration &
Practice
New Status Quo
Status Quo
Why Do So Many
Companies Struggle?
Let’s Explore The Top 3+ Impediments Organizations Face

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Impediment #1
Implementing Solutions
Without
Clarity in Desired Results

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CHALLENGE 1Implementing Solutions Without
Clarity in Desired Results
IMPACT
• Lots of Resistance & Frustration
• Silo Optimization
• No Clear Measure of Success
• Minimal Gains

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10. Business
Outcomes
Agile
Practices
The Path To
Agility®
Transformation
Framework
?

11. Accomplish
Drive
Enable
Business
Outcomes
Agile
Capabilities
Which Are
Achieved Through
Agile
Practices
By Implementing
Agile
Outcomes
“Why” Dictates
Priorities
The Path To
Agility®
Transformation
Framework

12. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIALAGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
WHAT DEFINES GOOD AGILITY?What Defines Good Agility?
3
AGILE
OUTCOME
The newly achieved
result of better
agility.
1
AGILE
PRACTICE
Something we
implement
(“the how”).
4
BUSINESS
OUTCOME
Ultimate impact on
the effectiveness of
the organization.
2
AGILE
CAPABILITY
The new ability the
team/ organization
has developed.

13. Employee Engagement
Employees are more satisfied in their work,
willing to go the extra mile, passionate about
the purpose of their jobs and committed to the
organization.
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Customer Satisfaction
Customers are satisfied with the experience,
benefits and outcomes when using your
product or service.
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Quality
The product or service meets the expectations
of the market for usability, reliability, etc.
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Speed
The time it takes to deliver an idea into the
market
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Predictability
Teams maintain a predictable cadence of
delivery enabling the business to make
informed business decisions.
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Innovation
New ideas, creative thoughts, or novel
imaginations providing better solutions to
meet new requirements, unarticulated
needs, or known market needs.
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Market Responsiveness
The ability of the organization to pivot quickly
to respond to ever-changing market demands.
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Productivity
Increase the business value realized while
maintaining or reducing costs.
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The ability of the organization to
relentlessly pursue optimizations in
all aspects of business functions.
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Continuous Improvement

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15. Productivity
Predictability
Innovation
Quality
Speed
Employee
Engagement
Customer
Satisfaction
Continuous
Improvement
Market
Responsivenes
s
The Path To Agility® Transformation Framework
Business Outcomes

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Where Should We Focus? - Align

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Impediment #2
Not Approaching As An
Organization-Wide Change

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CHALLENGE 1Not Approaching As An
Organization-Wide Change
IMPACT
• Impediments Not Resolved Quickly
• You Empower The Resistance
• Teams Hit A Ceiling

21. Team
Team 1 Team 2 Team N
Team level Practices
Scrum/Kanban
Code Quality
DevOps
System
System 1 System 2
System of Value Delivery
Flow of Work
Scaling
Cross Team Coord.
Org
Organization
Leadership
Culture/ Mindset
Strategy
Organizational Structure
HR/Finance Practices
Levels of The Path To Agility® Transformation Framework

22. Insights and organizational
impediments from teams
Transformation
Backlog
Agile Leadership
Team (ALT)
Product of Transformation:
Agile teams working in an
agile organization
Run the Transformation Using Agile

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Where Should We Focus? - Learn

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Impediment #3
No Method To Madness

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CHALLENGE 1No Method To Madness
IMPACT
• Everybody doing their own thing
• Pockets of success
• Declaring victory because we are out of
ideas
• No clear roadmap for the transformation
• No way to evaluate current state to
determine clear next steps

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The Path to Agility® provides...
The Ability to
Measure Progress
Guidance for
Your Agile
Transformation
An Outcome-Based
Assessment
Tangible Next
Steps for Your
Transformation

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Align
Accelerate
Adapt
Predict
Learn
Chaos & Resistance
Integration &
Practice
New Status Quo
Status Quo

31. Key Learning Outcomes
• Identify common challenges with Agile
transformations
• Explain the advantages of an outcomes
based transformation approach
• Explain the structure of the Path to Agility
framework and how it connects to
results
• Use Path to Agility to create a
transformation backlog
• Apply Path to Agility to guide teams and
organizations to be more predictable
and reducing cycle time through
common adoption patterns
Path to Agility Practitioner
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Next Class: October 22nd
Who Is This Workshop For?
- change leaders
- leading the transformation initiative
- setting the transformation strategy

32. Key Learning Outcomes
• A brief review of the Path to Agility Framework and how it
affects each level of an organization
• How to lead change at the organizational level using the
Path to Agility Framework
• How to use the Path to Agility Framework to create
leadership agility shifts
• How to set strategy for using the Path to Agility Framework
to coach organizations through optimizing the flow of value
delivery by descaling, reducing volatility, and optimizing the
whole
• How to facilitate Path to Agility sessions, from Teams to
Leadership
• Common objections in change and Agile transformations,
and how to address them
Path to Agility Practitioner
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20% off the class
Next Class: October 30th
Who Is This Workshop For?
- Experienced transformation coaches, either internal to
an organization or external consultants, who want to
provide better guidance from the Team to Executive
Leadership levels.

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We will send you….
●Full slide deck
●Common Pitfalls of an Agile
Transformation White Paper
●Path to Agility® Framework Video
Have more questions?
David Hawks
david@agilevelocity.com
@austinagile
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34. AGILE VELOCITY
Agile Velocity is a holistic business agility firm that helps
organizations build the capabilities needed to achieve
measurable business results. Results like predictability,
speed, employee engagement, and market
responsiveness.
We do this using our framework, the Path to Agility®.
Using it, we’ve helped organizations of all sizes and
across many industries avoid standard pitfalls and
realize results more quickly.
As your partner, we promise to...
● Focus 100% on business results
● Prioritize outcomes and capabilities over
process and practices
● Be a true partner and equip you with the skills to
sustain agility
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