The document summarizes a webinar on three secrets of agile leadership. It begins with housekeeping details for the webinar and then introduces the speaker, Peter Stevens. The webinar will cover what it means to be agile according to Steve Denning's three laws of agile organizations, and then reveal three secrets of agile leadership based on case studies of successful leaders. Attendees are encouraged to ask questions during the webinar.
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Three secrets of leading like an Agile leader
1. Three secrets of Agile Leaders:
Leading others by leading yourself
Peter Stevens
BU Agile
Innovation Lab
May 8, 2020
2. Welcome to the Webinar Series
Spring 2020
info@buagileinnovationlab.com
www.buagileinnovationlab.com
3. The Agile Innovation Lab @BU
• We advocate for authentic agile
• The lab provides educational events , community of practice,
yearly conference, research and consulting
• We have 1 more webinar in May–see
https://www.buagileinnovationlab.com/webinar-schedule
• Our CoP starts in the week of 5-26 Eventbrite id=102719045430
• More events coming in June !! (Joe Justice and others )
4. Some Housekeeping
• We have invited each of you to a specific slack channel. We will also be sharing the
slides there.
• Questions: Please send questions before and during the webinar to:
• https://tinyurl.com/ybp3g9yv
• Please do not use your video, as we have a very large audience. All will be muted
during the webinar
• We will have 45 minutes of the presentation and 10 minutes of questions
• The slack channel will remain open for participant networking after the webinar
• This is one in a three part series of webinars on agile and complex projects-the other
two will be scheduled
5. Some Housekeeping
• We have invited each of you to a specific slack channel. We will also be sharing the
slides there.
• Questions: Please send questions before and during the webinar to:
• The chat window in Zoom during the webinar/The slack channel, we will bring them up
during the webinar
• Please do not use your video, as we have a very large audience. All will be muted
during the webinar
• We will have 45 minutes of the presentation and 10 minutes of questions
• The slack channel will remain open for participant networking after the webinar
• This is one in a three part series of webinars on agile and complex projects-the other
two will be scheduled
7. Three secrets of Agile Leaders:
Leading others by leading yourself
Peter Stevens
BU Agile
Innovation Lab
May 8, 2020
8. Who is in the room? Would you consider yourself a…
• Developer – you design, create, test or deploy a product or service
• Agilist – you subscribe to the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto
• Anti-Agile – you’re one of those people who hate “Agile”
• Agile Leadership role – you serve as Agile Coach, Scrum Master or Product Owner
• Project Manager
• Line Manager – Team or Group Manager
• C-Level Manager – You have overall responsibility for your company or business unit
• Anyone else?
• https://tinyurl.com/y89tw8cu
10. Ask me a question!
https://tinyurl.com/ybp3g9yv
11. What do executives ask about agility?
• What are the buzzwords about?
• How can we innovate faster?
• How can we get business and technology to talk to each other?
• How can we develop better products?
• How can we educate our clients?
• How can agile make us better at delighting the customer?
• How can I make it a success?
• What does it mean for me?
12. This introduction represents the start of a conversation
Behavior
PerspectiveMindset
Source: Barry O’Reilly, Unlearning
13. Today’s Program
What does it
mean to be
agile?
Three Secrets
(Why get
involved with
Personal
Agility?)
15. What is agility?
User Stories
SAFe
Sprint
Scrum
Planning
Poker
Story Points
Product
Backlog
Scrum Master
CI/CD
Pair
Programming
Kanban
LeSS
Product
Owner
21. Fake Agility - 2
User
Stories
SAFe
Sprint
Scrum
Planning
Poker
Story
Points
Product
Backlog
Scrum
Master
CI/CD
Pair
Programming
Kanban
Product
Owner
LeSSDo Scrum!
22.
23. What does it mean to be agile?
Steve Denning’s Three “Laws” of Agile Organizations
• Law of the Customer
• Focus on customer needs, both existing customers, and even more importantly, new
customers and new markets
• Law of the Network
• Information flows without friction through the organization to seize opportunities or fix
problems
• Law of Small Teams
• Get business and technology working together efficiently to create customer-centric
products
27. Agility has become a topic for leadership
https://www.wsj.com/articles/are-you-agile-enough-for-agile-management-11565607600https://hbr.org/2016/05/embracing-agile
32. “Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but
most of these were largely concerned with the movements
of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on
the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that
were unhappy.”
-- Douglas Adams
33. I don’t like how sugar makes me feel.
So I want to avoid sugar and carbohydrates.
36. Christmas represented a severe thunderstorm!
“They are good,
they are really good”
SugarPressure.com: Trader Joe's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
https://www.sugarpressure.com/2010/12/trader-joes-milk-chocolate-peanut-butter-cups.html
43. How to create alignment among 400,000 people
Every member of the Apollo
mission knew:
1. We are going to the moon
2. It’s not going to fail because of
me
3. If something goes wrong…
Apollo 11 Ready for Launch
44. How to create alignment among 400,000 people
Every member of the Apollo
mission knew:
1. We are going to the moon
2. It’s not going to fail because of
me
3. If something goes wrong,
remember item 1
Chandrayaan 2 Ready for Launch
46. To get the right things done,
master three basic skills
Doing Work
QuestioningSetting Priorities
47. Scrum defines a role to address each aspect
Solves the Problem – Development Team
Voice of Common Sense
Scrum Master
Voice of the Customer
Product Owner
48. For individuals, Head, Body and Heart
must cover all three Doing Work
Body
Questioning
Heart
Setting Priorities
Head
60. Six months later…
• “We accomplished everything needed
to achieve our initial goals.
• “Half of our initial ideas proved unnecessary, so we didn't do them.
• “We were able to achieve all our goals with ½ the work & ¼ of the time
• “And the the results are already visible in our finances!”
-- Walter Stultzer, Executive Director, Futureworks AG
61. How Walter and his team did it
• “I committed to making this a
success
• “I communicated WHY, then WHAT
• “We applied Scrum to improving
the company
• “Every three weeks or so, my
management and I got together…
• “Personal Agility was the most
important part of all
63. What are the top agile practices used in Development?
• Daily standup
• Sprint/iteration planning
• Retrospectives
• Sprint/iteration review
• Short iterations
Source: VersionOne, 12th Annual State of Agile Report, 2018
64. As part of their job to improve your organization,
does you manager…?
Practice
• Daily standup
• Sprint/iteration planning
• Retrospectives
• Sprint/iteration review
• Short iterations
% of development teams that use
• 90%
• 88%
• 85%
• 80%
• 69%
Source: VersionOne, 12th Annual State of Agile Report, 2018
66. 1 week
20 weeks
Speed comparison
This is you working on five things at once
1
2
3
4
5
67. There is a huge potential
to improve company performance
by eliminating excessive multitasking in management.
68. Tip: Start with Yourself
Apply Techniques from your Dev Teams
Apply Agility to Leadership
69. How to apply these three secrets of agile leadership
Apply Agility to
Leadership
Create clarity
on
what really
matters
Change is easy
if you want to
do it
70. Would you like to be the next Futureworks?
Walter Stulzer, Executive Director
74. Would you like to be like Walter?
• Peter Stevens
• Co-Founder
Personal Agility Institute
• peter@saat-network.ch
• @peterstev
Walter Stulzer, Executive Director
75. Why would you want to do personal agility?
Because it works!
Because you can transform your life or your company
76. Case Studies
From Surviving to Thriving
Starting Your Career
Ambitious Entrepreneurs
Leading And Coaching Organizations
On to the Next Level!
Photo courtesy of Rajani
77. Leading and Coaching
Walter Stulzer
Executive Director, Futureworks | Zurich, Switzerland
Goal
• Company Turn-Around. Create value for the customer.
Each individual needs to know why they come to work
for us
Challenge
• The company was no longer profitable. I needed to
change basic things fast to save the company.
Achieved
• Disaster averted.
• Virtually eliminated employee turn-over.
Path to success
• “Personal Agility (WRM, PAS Priorities Map) was
essential to avoiding disaster. It enabled me to prioritize,
focus and learn.”
• “The PAS Stakeholder Canvas is a great analysis tool
for understand our customers. We could focus on
customer value to return to profitability.”
Photo courtesy Walter Stulzer
78. Leading and Coaching
Larry Pakieser
Operations Consultant | Denver, Colorado, USA
Goal
• Solve the kinds of operational and organizational
problems that affect engagement, satisfaction, and
sustainability.
Challenge
• Most of my projects were not finishing on time. The
day’s first customer call totally disrupts my plans for the
day.
Achieved
• Improved own on-time performance from 24% to > 75%.
Path to success
• “With PAS, I have a management system that is better
than anything I have encountered in 30 years of
searching. It’s producing completed results at an
unprecedented rate.”
• “The magic of the PAS Stakeholder Canvas is getting
people to think deeply about their challenges. I can see
interconnections that the customer is not aware of.”
Photo courtesy Larry Pakieser
79. Starting Your Career
Tuhan Sapumanage
BSc (Hons) Computing (UK) Colombo, Sri Lanka
Goal
• Finish university
Challenge
• Too many plates on my table. High workload and many
activities to keep track of
Achieved
• Allocate my time systematically. Be successful and have
time for friends & family. Compete degree and CIMA
Management level. Discovered compere as a hobby.
Now a recurring guest on national TV format.
Path to success
• Celebrate and Choose event was most important
element.
• Appreciating what I did lowered my stress and enabled
me to take breaks without feeling guilty
80. From Surviving to Thriving
Sharon Guerin
“The Culinary Queen” | St Petersburg, Florida USA
Goal
• Wanted to start a business and a YouTube channel
Challenge
• Life gets in the way
Achieved
• Thriving business, In control of her life. Now taking
herself and her business to the next level.
Path to success
• Personal Agility (WRM, PAS Priorities Map)
• Coaching
• Microcredits
Potential
• 100 Million people in a similar situation
Photo courtesy Sharon Guerin
87. If you don’t where you are,
how can you know where you are going
88. Six questions and one recurring event help you
navigate and focus
Celebrate & Choose
What could
I do this
week?
What can I
expect to
get done?
What really
matters?
Do
What is
important,
urgent or
happy?
Who can
help?
What did I
do last
week?
🎉
Choose photo credit: Stockfresh.com
89. Six questions and one recurring event help you
feel good about yourself
Celebrate & Choose
Stuff done,
Closer to who
you want to be
Who you are,
What you did
What could
I do this
week?
What can I
expect to
get done?
What really
matters?
Do
What is
important,
urgent or
happy?
Who can
help?
What did I
do last
week?
🎉
Choose photo credit: Stockfresh.com
90. Image courtesy of Peter Stevens
Visualize your progress on your
PAS Priorities Map and PAS Breadcrumb Trail
91. The Personal Agility System is:
• A Simple Coaching Framework
• to help you (or others) become who
you want to be
• A Navigation Metaphor
• “Life is an ocean – it’s your boat!”
• Six Powerful Questions
• So know where you are and where
you are going
• One Weekly Event
• Helps you stay on course
• A collection of tools and
techniques to understand
yourself and others
• PAS Priorities Map
• PAS Breadcrumb Trail
• PAS Alignment Compass
• PAS Forces Map
• PAS Stakeholder Canvas
92. The Personal Agility System is a GPS Navigator
for your life, project or company
95. What is the certification path in Personal Agility?
• Read PA Guide or Book
• Take an approved class
8 contact hours or more
• Apply Personal Agility
for 1 month or more
• Apply for Recognition
• Pass a coaching call
• Be a PARP
• Have a recognized coaching
or training certification
• Speak and write about the
Personal Agility System
• Apply Agree to work with PAI
• Read PA Guide or Book
• Apply Personal Agility
for 1 month or more
• Apply for Recognition
• Pass a coaching call
96. Why become a
Certified
PARE or PARP
How to
become a
Certified
PARE or PARP?
What is The
Personal Agility
System?
97. Why would an employer want a Certified
Personal Agility Recognized Practitioner?
• You can use all the tools & techniques
• You use coaching and powerful
questions to achieve optimal outcomes
• You can focus on business goals
• You can overcome fears and obstacles
to achieve long-term goals
• You can apply servant leadership to
build alignment & influence
• You are skilled at working with people
to solve problems
• You are authorized to train and certify
Personal Agility System practitioners
• You are a recognized expert and
member of your community
• You have an international network and
body of knowledge at your disposal
• You are good at getting things done
• You can focus on the right things
• Scrum other Agile frameworks will be
natural for you
98. Who benefits from PARE certification?
Students
Self-Teachers
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99. Who benefits from PARP certification?
• Executives and Other Leaders in
an Agile Transition
• Team Leaders and Managers
• Scrum Masters & Agile Coaches
• Product Owners, Project
Managers and Business Analysts
• Job Hunters
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