The slides of my keynote at the Mini Italian Agile Day in Trento in July 2015

1. Growing Agile
Organisations
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Pierluigi Pugliese

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3. The Quests for
Modern Companies
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4. Quest: Optimisation
and efficiency - ehm… efficacy!
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5. Quest:Adaptability
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6. Quest: Reduce Waste
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7. Quest: Scalability for Growth
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8. Quest: Innovation
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9. Quest:
Continuous
Improvement
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10. What about scrum, kanban, agile,
lean, …?
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Very important
aspects, but…

11. The Learning
Organisation
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Is where
innovation happens!

12. Growing Agile Organisations
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ScrumMaster and
Product Owner
Organisation
Team
Individuals
Perfecting
AgilityInstalling
Agility
Stabilising
Processes +
Initiating
Agility
Time

13. Growing Organisations
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Teams

15. Agile Culture
• Agile knowledge
=> Agile values
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16. Communication, Collaboration => Cohesion
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17. Intrinsic Motivation
• This is an effect, not a cause!
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18. Promote cohesion & enable motivation
• Qualified feedback!
• Share big picture & vision!
• Feedback culture!
• Team building!
• Deal with hygiene factors (Herzberg)!
• Deal with bad apples!
• Coaching for individual blockers
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Herzberg’s Two-Factors theory
Felps et al. - How, when and why bad apples spoil the barrel

19. Reflection Skills
=> Continuous improvement
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20. Learn to reflect
• Time available!
• Facilitation!
• Environment: Failure
=> Learning opportunity
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21. Team:Typical Plan
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Initiating Agility Installing Agility Perfecting Agility
Basic Agile Training
Team Coaching
1-to-1 Coaching (where needed)
Team
Individuals
Technical Trainings
Project Meetings Facilitation:
Retrospectives, Planning, ...
Building Communities of Practice
Team Building, Hackatons, Open Spaces, ...
Engineering practices mentoring
Advanced Agility
Topics
ScrumMaster and
Product Owner
Organisation
Team
Individuals
Perfecting
AgilityInstalling
Agility
Stabilising
Processes +
Initiating
Agility
Time
Training
Coaching
Facilitating
Mentoring

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ScrumMasters and Product Owners

23. Executors => Distributed brain
• Enable, empower
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24. Leadership: Organisational Trait
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O’Toole & Pasternak,“When Leadership is an organisational trait”
Wimmer,“Führung und Organisation - zwei Seiten ein und
derselben Medaille”!

25. Connect
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26. Enable & Empower & Connect: how to?
• Knowledge: product, process,
organisation!
• Co-operative attitude!
• Non-heroic attitude!
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• Training
+ [business] coaching
+ mentoring
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Greenleaf - Servant Leadership + post-heroic leadership

27. Co-create
and
promote
vision
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28. SMs and POs:Typical Plan
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ScrumMaster and Product Owner individual coaching
ScrumMaster and
Product Owner
Leadership Training
Individual Mentoring
Basic Agile Training
Advanced Agility
Topics
Soft Skills Training
Initiating Agility Installing Agility Perfecting Agility
ScrumMaster and
Product Owner
Organisation
Team
Individuals
Perfecting
AgilityInstalling
Agility
Stabilising
Processes +
Initiating
Agility
Time
Training
Coaching
Facilitating
Mentoring

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Organisations

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Agile Team Other Teams
IT Manager
Manager
VP Division
Manager
Manager
CEO
Shareholders
Customer
Manager
Customer
StaffCustomer
Support
Organisational Agility
Stress Line
Mount
Corporate Dates!
Plans!
Revenue forecasts!
Dates!
Deliverables!
Emergent processes
Agile Values

31. Vision and Sensemaking
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32. Foster alignment
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Peter Drucker - The task of
leadership is to create an
alignment of strengths

33. Post-heroic leadership
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McKergow - Host Leadership

34. New leadership: how to?
• Coaching, coaching, coaching!!
• Reflection!
• Feedback “from below”
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35. Leadership:Typical Plan
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Agile 101
Agile for Managers
Organisational coaching
Leadership Team
Workshop Facilitation
Management Consulting on agile topics
Leadership Training
TBD
Initiating Agility Installing Agility Perfecting Agility
ScrumMaster and
Product Owner
Organisation
Team
Individuals
Perfecting
AgilityInstalling
Agility
Stabilising
Processes +
Initiating
Agility
Time
Training
Coaching
Facilitating
Mentoring
Consulting

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Coaching Skills

37. Growing
coaching
skills
• Ask the right & difficult
questions!
• Support reflection &
innovation processes!
• Support people’s growth
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Bateson - Difference that makes a difference

38. Summary…
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39. Questions?
Now or per email pierluigi [dot] pugliese: [at] agilereloaded [dot] it

40. Pierluigi Pugliese
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