Values-based Lean/Agile transformation

1. Mike Burrows
mike@agendashift.com
Twitter: @asplake, @agendashift & @KanbanInside
Introducing
Agendashift
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Values-based Lean-Agile
transformation

2. Challenges to successful Lean/Agile transformation:
• Someone Else’s Process
• Inadequate alignment to wider needs & goals – team,
customer & organisation
• Lack of respect for what exists already
• Poor understanding of the intent of new process and practice
• Resistance to change (often provoked unnecessarily)
• Poor tools for change management – lazy, practice-based
checklists, emailed spreadsheets, etc
• Confusion around the role of leadership
What problems does Agendashift seek to address?

3. Sources, integrated through values
• Kanban: pull systems, service orientation, fitness for purpose
• Agile: collaborative, sustainable delivery; fast feedback
• Lean: validated, hypothesis-driven change; the pursuit of flow
• Servant Leadership: meeting needs, aligning to purpose,
finding meaning in work
• Systems thinking, complexity, Cynefin: longevity, safety,
leverage, narrative, context
Values-based
Delivery
Values-based
Change
Values-based
Leadership

4. Values-based
Delivery
Values-based
Change
Values-based
Leadership
Discovery
Alignment
Action
Agendashift: strategies for Lean-Agile
transformation

5. Strategy 1: A needs-first path
Get serious about discovering needs;
evolve delivery & learning capabilities to match
Values-based
Delivery
Values-based
Change
Values-based
Leadership
Discovery
of
Needs
Alignment
on
Outcomes
Action
through
Service
orientation

6. Strategy 2: A team-first path
Scale out team by team and service by service; shorten
customer feedback loops; control WIP across the organisation
Values-based
Delivery
Values-based
Change
Values-based
Leadership
Discovery
of
Needs
Alignment
on
Outcomes
Action
through
Service
orientation

7. Strategy 3: A skills-first path
Build from a platform of common understanding
Values-based
Delivery
Values-based
Change
Values-based
Leadership
Discovery
of
Needs
Alignment
on
Outcomes
Action
through
Service
orientation
Hypothesis-
driven change
Servant
Leadership

8. Strategy 4: A guided, improvement-driven path
Start with (and iterate on) a values-based delivery
assessment; aim to make it your own
Values-based
Delivery
Values-based
Change
Values-based
Leadership
Discovery
of
Needs
Better ways of
working
Purpose,
values
Alignment
on
Outcomes
Agenda,
capability
Action
through
Service
orientation
Hypothesis-driven
change
Servant
Leadership

9. Strategy 5: A middle-out, alignment-driven path
Establish effective feedback loops as drivers for change
Values-based
Delivery
Values-based
Change
Values-based
Leadership
Discovery
of
Needs
Better ways of
working
Purpose,
values
Alignment
on
Outcomes
Agenda,
capability
Fitness,
meaning
Action
through
Service
orientation
Hypothesis-driven
change
Servant
Leadership

10. Strategy 6: A purpose-driven path
Seek to evolve shared purpose & values, with behaviours &
leadership culture to match
Values-based
Delivery
Values-based
Change
Values-based
Leadership
Discovery
of
Needs
Better ways of
working
Purpose,
values
Alignment
on
Outcomes
Agenda,
capability
Fitness,
meaning
Action
through
Service
orientation
Hypothesis-driven
change
Servant
Leadership

11. Summary: strategies for Lean-Agile transformation
Addressing gaps:
1. Needs first
2. Team first
3. Skills first
Sustaining:
4. Improvement-driven
5. Alignment-driven
6. Purpose-driven
Meta-strategy: make your transformation strategy explicit!
• Contextualise it, socialise it, track it, evolve it

12. Agendashift online tools (1) : Values-based Assessment
• Free public survey available now
• Team assessments in private beta

13. Agendashift online tools (2) : Change management
Coming soon:
Hypothesis-driven framing
Pull-based change process
Linkage to assessment
categories (values) and
prompts (behaviours)

14. “Practical teaching which will be easily implemented
in my business. Thank you”
• 1-day Agendashift workshop: Values-based change
with Agendashift and Kanban
– Hypothesis-driven change with Kanban
• 2-day Agendashift workshop: Values-based leadership
– Essential models and tools for the Lean-Agile leader
• Coming soon, working title “Not just for startups”
– Focusing on user needs and customer outcomes
Agendashift training workshops

15. Agendashift
Find us at www.agendashift.com, blog.agendashift.com, and
the Agendashift LinkedIn group
Values-based
Delivery
Values-based
Change
Values-based
Leadership
Discovery
of
Needs
Better ways of
working
Purpose,
values
Alignment
on
Outcomes
Agenda,
capability
Fitness,
meaning
Action
through
Service
orientation
Hypothesis-driven
change
Servant
Leadership