There is a lot of confusion when people are talking about agile. Last year, I started to gather such information. This presentation highlights mostly the expectations from non agile people.

1. WHAT´S AGILE? Scaling Agile and DevOps Scotland
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2. what is agile?
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what do you think what agile is?

3. EWAN
psychiatrist
ESTEBAN
creative designer
ERIC
COO
MINA
therapist
LET’S SEE WHAT OTHERS ARE TELLING US
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4. WHAT KIND OF AGILE IS YOUR AGILE?
This question has been asked to most of the team (around 200
people) before explaining what agile means
• quantitative means that agile is seen as results
• behaviour means that agile is how people are interacting
together
• process, agile is understood like a process or a methodology
• bypass, people didn’t answered the question due to
communication issues or lack of focus
17 %
17 %
behaviour
47 %
19 %
quantitative behaviour process bypass the question
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5. QUANTITATIVE
• fast visible results
• quick wins
• deliver quickly
• quality
• technical excellence
• workable software
• rapid customer satisfaction
• understanding that agile is more time
consuming than previous
methodologies
• seeing results and not just work in
progress
• opportunities instead of limitations
• working on topic which produce value
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6. BEHAVIOUR
• flexibility
• pragmatic
• mindset
• adaptability
• No
• responsibility
• multiple competences
• client oriented
• putting me in the shoes of my
customer to gain clear vision of his
needs
• have interaction with customers or
users
• better collaboration
• business & development working
together
• team work
• close collaboration
• will empower us to work and share
experiences
• trustful collaboration with project
members
• fully dedicated, I have the feeling that I
am moving with
• motivation
• happy and satisfied
• consistency of projects
• working on topics which fit my skills
• simplicity
• meetings not hat often
• sustainability
• welcome change
• challenges instead of problems
• challenging and exciting tasks with
own responsibility and decision power
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7. PROCESS
• methodology
• DevOps
• feedback
• daily statuses
• time to market
• individual and interactions over
processes and tools
• workable functionalities over extended
documentation
• collaboration with the customer over
contract based relations
• incremental product
• well defined roles within the agile team
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8. BYPASSING THE QUESTION
• needs to be appropriated and
adapted
• still at the beginning
• somehow agile
• good to see that SAP is putting focus
and hoping in agile
• what is the agile best practice?
• currently more ad-hoc instead of
agile
• missing flexibility in daily work
• lot of meetings with "wrong" people
• additional projects
• status meetings needed
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9. Gallup
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do we have other sources?

10. Gallup 2018 study of employees in France, Germany, Spain and the UK
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In operational terms, the concept of agility can be
defined as employees’ capacity to gather
and disseminate information about changes
in the environment, and respond to that
information quickly and expediently.

11. Gallup 2018 study of employees in France, Germany, Spain and the UK
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From a strategic perspective, this combination of
speed and data-driven innovation is
increasingly important for many businesses to
maintain a competitive advantage.

12. AGILITY
THE PATH TO AGILITY
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SPEED & EFFICIENCY
• constantly make every job and process as simple as possible
• use technology to get more done in less time
• remove unnecessary bureaucracy to decision making
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FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT
• determine necessary risks and acceptable failures
• help every person feel they should contribute to innovation
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COMMUNICATION & COLLABORATION
• breakdown silos between teams and departments
• create opportunity to innovate
In my company, we have
the right tools and
processes to respond
quickly to business needs.
In my company, we have
the right mindset to
respond quickly to
business needs.
SOURCE: GALLUP 2018 STUDY OF EMPLOYEES IN FRANCE, GERMANY, SPAIN AND THE UK
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13. Deborah Soule, MIT Emeritus
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do we have other sources?

14. POINTS OF ATTENTION
Learn to be wrong
Make working together expected and
easy
“Matrixed” does not
equal “agile”
Agile
organisations are
grounded in
strong, customer-
centric cultures
one of the most powerful advantages
fo agile companies is ability to give
employees a sense of optimism about
the organisation´s capacity to survive
- and thrive - amid disruptive
marketplace conditions.
mindset
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15. WHAT DISTINGUISHES AGILE ORGANISATIONS?
1. speed over perfection
2. data over intuition
3. talent over title
4. having an impact
5. constant improvement
6. customer obsession
7. autonomy
8. transparency
Values Values in practice
1. rapid experimentation
2. fluid collaboration
3. intense customer orientation
4. data driven decision making
5. building for scalability
6. fast hiring and firing
7. results orientation
Artifacts
1. clean platform
2. metrics
3. casual clothes and spaces
4. collaborative tools
5. flexible org. boundaries
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16. CULTURAL VALUES AND PRACTICES WITH REAL IMPACT
organisation performance
innovation & growth
customer satisfaction & reputation
profitability
iterating rapidly
collaborating fluidly
decisions taken with
data
moving fast
obsession over
customers
quickly taking advance of
opportunities
working seamlessly cross
boundaries
Deborah Soule, MIT Emeritus
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17. WHAT´S AGILE? Scaling Agile and DevOps Scotland
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18. PIERRE E. NEIS
Heidelberg
ALEXANDRE CUVA
Geneva | Da Nang
ULISES AGUILLA
Mexico City
VIRGINIA ANDERSON
Luxembourg
AGILE² TEAM
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19. pierre.neis@agilesqr.com
“Thanks
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