I spoke about Business Agility 8 years ago at Silicon Halton, glad they decided to have me back!

1. AGILE: 18 YEARS LATER
WHAT’S CHANGED?
While we’re waiting, please visit http://sli.do and enter the code 9417
1) Answer the ‘what does agile mean to you’ poll
2) Ask questions throughout and vote for your favourites

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ABOUT ME
Started with Agile in the early 2000’s
Ex-Developer, tester, scrum master, product owner, internal and external agile
coach
Worked with over 30 organizations in all industries and hundreds of teams
Author of Lean Change Management (leanchange.org 2014)
Author of Agile Transformation: A Guide to Organizational Change
(agiletransformation.ca 2011)
Designed, and teach, Agile Methodologies for Sheridan College
Today? I don’t even know what Agile is anymore….

3. Top Teams
Top Movies
Top Songs
RIP Clippy
Top Tech
Top Companies
2001

4. We decided to call it a
manifesto since it was a call to arms
and a statement of our beliefs
- Martin Fowler

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WHY AGILE?
From the 12th annual Version One State of Agile Report. Get the 12
Year Summary report at leanintuit.com

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WHAT METHODS?

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WHAT BENEFITS?

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WHAT BARRIERS?

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WHAT PRACTISES?

10. 8 Years Ago
https://www.slideshare.net/agilecoach/business-agility

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AGILE HAS BECOME A RACKET…
We’re here
7000+ ‘agile’ books on
Amazon
Too many agile certifications
to count
12+ agile related meetups in
the GTA alone
At least 6 annual “State of
Agile/Scrum etc etc” reports
Gazillions of Agile tools
vendors
Trend of Agile + Function
Name

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…BUT THAT’S NORMAL
New idea
Momentum
Mainstream
Over-saturation
New idea
2 things will never change. Competition and innovation. An idea is in decline
when mainstream consultants start using the terms, then the same idea is
reinvented with different language
Larry Smith, U of Waterloo
Intrapreneur Conference 2015

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TODAY’S MAINSTREAM TRENDS
Scaling methods and organizational design models
Continuous deliver and DevOps
Business Agility

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TODAY’S TRENDS
On the rise: Agile + Function Name:
(Agile Marketing, Agile Strategy Development, Agile HR, Agile Change, Agile Lean Dev
Ops, Agile Testing, Agile Operations, Agile Leadership, Agile Management, Personal
Agility, Business Agility)
Courtesy of Klaus Leopold
On the decline: Myth that Agile is an IT Thing:

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TODAY’S TRENDS
Take Agile Back
https://www.infoq.com/articles/taking-back-agile
http://agileuprising.com/

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TODAY’S TRENDS
Modern Agile
http://modernagile.org/
https://heartofagile.com/

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SO WHAT’S REALLY DIFFERENT?
Baby Duck Syndrome
What ‘agile’ means to you will
be limited by who you are, your
past experiences, and who you
learn agile from.

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IT’S A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE
Methodology
Camps
Pragmatists
Tool/Training
Vendors
Fluffy Agile
People
We all see the world through the lens
we choose to put on.

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WHAT I’VE LEARNED
Start with intent
(Why agile, why now?)
Create clarity
(what does it mean to us? Our context?)
Learn the Mechanics
(How do the practises work?)
Take a Stance
(Culture? Process?)
Experiment
(where to start, why to start there, what expectations exist?)
Diagnose
(what’s working, why? Why not?)
Adapt
(what’s next?)

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FROM TWITTER

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FROM TWITTER

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REFERENCES
Organizing for Complexity - Niels Pflaeging
The Art of Agile - James Shore
Any book by Johanna Rothman, Esther Derby, Jerry Weinberg
Coaching Agile Teams - Lyssa Adkins
Top 50 Tools for Coaching - Ro Gorell, Gillian Jones
Talk to Me - Sue Johnston
Reinventing Organizations - Fredrick Laloux
Integral Agile Framework - Michael Spayd, Michele Madore
Discover to Deliver - Ellen Gottesdiener
Agile Alliance (agilealliance.org)