1) The document outlines an agile transformation journey within the IT management team at Decathlon Spain. 2) It describes establishing a guiding coalition and using retrospectives to identify pain points, then experimenting through small iterative changes to gradually extend agile principles throughout the organization. 3) The goal is to increase the organization's capacity for change and innovation by adapting agile to their culture and making processes more transparent, collaborative, and self-organizing.

1. Learning to dance
“We can’t control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them”
- Donella H. Medows
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with lean startup
@antoniolopezg
An agile journey with a management team at Decathlon Spain

2. Searching for an alternative
I've been there.
youreallydon't
wannagotherE
Sometimes the
point is how you
work

3. Antonio López
Twitter: @antoniolopezg
Decathlon Sport Meeting
https://sportmeeting.decathlon.com/perfil/10003/LinkedIn: antoniolopezgonzalez
Physicist
Innovation product owner at Decathlon
Spain
Agile instigator ;)
Scrum Alliance CSM
emergence
Self-organizing
Complex systems
Scrumagile

4. I found a nice place to be
Things work better
You feel better. I'd like to tell
to others!

5. Lot of uncertainty
ahead
A lot of things to learn.
We need to remove uncertainty

6. I looked around
NoDEVHERE
Responsability
Autonomy
..values based culture
Whole system matters
Organization + Service
providers + Communities of
knowledge , all influencing
each other.
Both senses

7. transformation is doing
something that nobody wants
The biggest risk for an agile

8. Is there any urgency?
INNOVATORS
We need to be
Asking our CIO and the rest of the
team
This contains
value

9. A guiding coalition
You need good friends in this journey ..
We start here.
We share a vision, we work together trying Agile.
IT Teams (Operations, support, helpdesk ...)
IT Management team

10. The framework
Use retrospectives to identify
pain
1Plant the seed
Collaboration to elaborate
hypothesis and experiments
Learn with Lean startup loop
Use agile principles in the
team
Are these experiments fixing
pain?
Increase
Trust
Use retrospectives to identify
pain
With Guiding coalition 2
React , now to the whole
system
Loop (1) + Manage risks
The whole system
Extend the guiding coalition
Verify you increase global
competence
Inspect&Adapt
A framework to learn and
to remove uncertainty
This should be organic!
Adaptive
A machine to detect and kill pain
A machine to learn and spread

11. IT management team
Planting the seed
1
Collaboration and focus : truly discussion on the problems
we want to solve.
Think critically, give honest feedback, prioritize ..

12. The loop
Start delivering small islands
1 Small steps ,maybe naive at first. Quick wins to
gain trust, as vision could be seen so far

13. Extending principles
2Adding risks
Think of the impacted
population
We start dancing.
This is adaptive , organic

14. Who stole my user story map
All our internal
clients
IT Teams
Increase our capacity to
change & adapt
Adapted to our culture
Allow us to deliver value
faster
The day Human resources people decided to
take away their user story map ; )

15. Contracts
Yes, I Know ; )
Service providers
Legal department
Increase our capacity to
change & adapt (more
flexible contracts)
Increase our capacity to
innovate (new mindset for our
legal department,new
opportunities)
Ifyou'vetosign
Acontract,
DOITAGILE
Even if this is time-consuming, doing it you
contribute to the transformation in legal
departments too
(wheneveryoucan)

16. Providers collaboration
CEO of one of our providers trying a
block to his agile coach during our
match
HR manager of one of our
providers teaching us to play
padel
Increase our capacity to
change & adapt
Adapted to our culture
Providers
Increase our capacity to
innovate (knowledge transfer)
We want to be one only team !

17. Spreading agile practices
Our low-tech intro to
WIP limits
Marketing team Agile
workshop
Accounting and
treasury team
Agile workshop
More and more Spain
teams
HQteams

18. Self-organizing
IT teams playing
and sharing
knowledge
Our first Open space !
(there were more)
Increase our capacity to
change & adapt
Adapted to our culture
Increase our capacity to
innovate
IT Teams
Communities
A muscle we
have to train

19. Devops team
The new development skill is
completely integrated in one only
team with operations . They share
work in every project
IT Teams Providers
Increase our capacity to
change & adapt (more
flexible contracts)
Increase our capacity to
innovate (new mindset for our
legal department,new
opportunities)
The application they decided to
create in the last innovation week
(Kaleidos.net piweek) is now a
product
Multicompetence and
entrepreneurship spirit

20. Transparency & Visibility
Increase our capacity to
change & adapt
Adapted to our culture
Increase our capacity to
innovate
Transparency and Visibility. All projects state and metrics are
visible. All teams priorities are updated in a Kanban once a
week.
FIrst version of our low-tech governance tool
All internal
teams

21. The journey
This is an ongoing work , we're sometimes
wrong, we're learning a lot and there are
still many things to discover ...

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http://www.scribd.com/doc/84799747/El-espiritu-de-Scrum
Fowler, Martin. Your Path through Agile Fluency.A Brief Guide to Success with
Agile - http://martinfowler.com/articles/agileFluency.html
H. Medows, Donella. Dancing with systems -
http://www.wholeearth.com/issue/2106/article/2/dancing.with.systems
Little, Jason. [2014]. Lean Change Management
http://leanchange.org/
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http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Adoption-Transformation-Survival-Guide/dp/
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Doodles by Antonio López