Have you wondered how to design an Agile Enablement Organization in a company with diverse levels of interest/aversion to Agility and products that have varying levels of Business Value. How can a small Agile Enablement Organization, cater to the needs of such diverse organizations and still deliver incremental, measurable, business value? View this presentation for 10 Questions that might help you offer Agility-As-A-Service.

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AGILITY AS A SERVICE
10 QUESTIONS FOR CHOICE-BASED AGILE ENABLEMENT
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Ravi Verma – The Org Whisperer
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•You have just been hired to build an Agility Enablement
Organization for your company
•Constraints…
• There are 100+ teams with varying levels of interest in Agile
• You only have a small team of enablers
• You would like to deliver incremental, measurable business value
•Where would you begin…?
IMAGINE…
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1. School of Hard Knocks
2. Thought leaders at Scrum.org
3. Inspiring CXO – Michael Dunn
LESSONS FROM 3 TEACHERS
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1. School of Hard Knocks:
• Agile transformations from 10 to 350 teams (150 4,500 team members)
• Wide spectrum of agile hunger / aversion
• Never enough people or time
• Temptation to start thinking like B.B.Watts:
• Big-Bang, Waterfall Agile Transformations
• Blog: Enterprise Agile Transformation – The Story of B.B. Watt’s Lawn Service
LESSONS FROM 3 TEACHERS: #1
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1. School of Hard Knocks:
2. Thought leaders at Scrum.org
• What if we de-scaled?
• What if we were selective?
• Could Agility be offered as a service?
LESSONS FROM 3 TEACHERS: #2
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1. School of Hard Knocks:
2. Thought leaders at Scrum.org
3. Inspiring CXO – Michael Dunn
• Agility as a choice
• Introduce tools, make them available
• Allow people to step-forward, explore
• Be ready to serve when requested
LESSONS FROM 3 TEACHERS: #3
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1. SEGMENT:
2. FOCUS:
3. BE AGILE:
4. DIVERSIFY:
5. BE SELECTABLE:
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Agile Interest + Business Value
Intentional + Surgical
Measurable + Incremental
Services + Packages
Allow Choice
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We hate Agile! Will do what it takesWe are indifferent
Not Strategic to Business Value
Strategic to Business
Will Do What it Takes
Not Strategic to Business
Will Do What it Takes
Not Strategic to Business
Hate Agile
Strategic to Business
Hate Agile
Strategic to Business Value
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AGILITY AS A SERVICE: 10 QUESTIONS FOR CHOICE-BASED AGILE ENABLEMENT
WHERE
ARE YOU
TODAY?
WHERE
WOULD
YOU LIKE
TO BE?
AGILITYSERVICES
BUSINESS OUTCOME & MEASUREMENT SERVICES1
STRATEGY & PORTOFLIO MANAGEMENT SERVICES2
DELIVERY FRAMEWORK SERVICES3
CRAFTSMANSHIP SERVICES4
CULTURE & ENABLIEMENT SERVICES5
TIME
SELF-
HELP
•••
GETTING
TRAINED
GETTING
COACHED
ADAPTING
BUSINESS
ADAPTING
TECHNOLOGY
ADAPTING
CULTURE
BEING
CHALLENGED
USING
EMPIRICISM
REDUCING
WASTE
MANAING
RISK
HONORING
AGREEMENTS
ASSESSMENTS TRAINING WORKSHOPS COACHING CONSULTING PARTNERSHIPS
WILL YOU USE AS-IS / CUSTOMIZE / COMPLEMENT / HYBRID…?
WHAT’S
AVAILABLE
TO HELP
YOU?
TRAINING
•••
QUICK-
LAUNCH
•••
BUILD
YOUR
OWN
•••
ON-
REQUEST
•••
EMBEDDED
•••
TRANS-
FORMATION
•••
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What are you willing to invest?
1 2
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What services can the Agile Enablement Organization offer?5
By when would you like to get here?
What packages are available? Which package would you like to choose?76
How might we reflect on our progress?8
10
3
FRAMEWORKS
MEASURE
-MENT
•••
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1. SEGMENT:
2. FOCUS:
3. BE AGILE:
4. DIVERSIFY:
5. BE SELECTABLE:
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Agile Interest + Business Value
Intentional + Surgical
Measurable + Incremental
Services + Packages
Allow Choice
1. School of Hard Knocks
2. Thought leaders at Scrum.org
3. Inspiring CXO – Michael Dunn
5 LESSONS
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•Which package would you recommend to each segment?
EXPERIMENTS
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1 Where are you today?
2 Where would you like to be?
3 By when would you like to get there?
4 What are you willing to invest?
5 What services can the Agile Enablement Organization offer?
6 What packages are available?
7 Which package would you like to choose?
8 How might we reflect on our progress?
9 What’s available to help you?
10 Will you use what’s available as-is / customize / complement / hybrid?
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