In this session I'm showing a model that organizations can use to foster the adoption of agile. This model is "locally" based on lean startup, understandig Agile initiatives from different countries as startups, and "globally" it uses the validated learning cycles of every organization to create a validated learning knowledge base with the performed experiments of agile practices in diferent environments. This "validated learning knowledge base" is co-created by the members of the internal international Agile community and shared through A3 report sheets. Lean Start up principles as foundations for a change strategy, A3 thinking and problem solving as a support for lean continuous improvement, Agile Journey mapping as a strategy designing tool and Validated Learning Knowledge Base as a support for effective sharing, compose a complete and easy to use framework that can help communities, multisite organisations and groups of Agile leaders to boost Agile adoption in their business units.

1. Angel Diaz-Maroto
@adiazmaroto
www.agilar.org
Combining lean startup
and A3 thinking to foster
cultural change in
distributed organizations

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HOLA!

3. What do I do for living?
IT Methodology specialist, Agile & Lean coach, Agile
& Lean champion, Agile & Lean consultant, Agile &
Lean Mentor, Agile & Lean big brother, A necessary
waste because there are some people whose job is to
generate waste.
Let’s go Agile
being Lean!!

4. I am an entrepreneur!
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Running a Start-Up that hopefully can scale!!
*Please visit Lean Startup 4 Change (Jeff Anderson)

5. I am an entrepreneur!
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Running a Start-Up that hopefully can scale!!
*Please visit Lean Startup 4 Change (Jeff Anderson)
It may be human
life out there!

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What’s the Lean
Startup approach ?

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What’s lean change?

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What’s A3 problem
solving?

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Can we “Scale”
change?

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Sure! As we do in
Agile communities!!

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Let’s “Scale”
change, fostering
knowledge sharing

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Let’s play!

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Form a team

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Draw your journey

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Define your next
experiment in an A3

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Share your learning

23. P5. Innovation accounting
Analyze pulled cultural switches.
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Hypothesis/
Assumption
Build
Experiment
*MVI
Measure
behaviors
Pulled
cultural
switch
Learn
Pivot or
persevere
*Minimum Viable
Implementation
Don’t focus on
practices but in
pulling cultural
switches.

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25. A3 problem solving
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Please share your work …

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… and give it a try in
your organization!!

29. Thanks!
Angel Diaz-Maroto
@adiazmaroto
www.agilar.org
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