Here are the slides I presented at AgilePrague 2014

1. Growing Agile
Organisations
Pierluigi Pugliese
ConneX Xo
http://blog.connexxo.com

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

10. The Learning
Organisation
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Is where
innovation happens!

11. Growing Agile Organisations
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Organisation
ScrumMaster and
Product Owner
Team
Individuals
Perfecting
Agilit Installing y
Agility
Stabilising
Processes +
Initiating
Agility
Time

12. Growing Agile Organisations
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13. 13
Teams

14. Agile Culture
• from
Agile knowledge
to
Living the agile values
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15. Communication, Collaboration => Cohesion
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16. Intrinsic Motivation
• This is an effect, not a cause!
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17. Promote cohesion & enable motivation
• Give and receive qualified feedback!
• Share & co-develop big picture & vision!
• Team building!
• Deal with hygiene factors (Herzberg)!
• Deal with bad apples (Felps)!
• 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

18. Reflection Skills
=> Continuous improvement
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19. Learn to reflect
• Time available!
• Facilitation!
• Environment: Failure
=> Learning opportunity
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20. ScrumMasters and Product Owners
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21. Executors => Distributed brain
• Enable, empower!
!
!
!
!
!
• BUT:!
• Learning takes
time! => Slack
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Tom DeMarco - “The key role of
middle management is reinvention”

22. Leadership: Organisational Trait
O’Toole & Pasternak, “When Leadership is an organisational trait”
Wimmer, “Führung und Organisation - zwei Seiten ein und
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derselben Medaille”!

23. Enable & Empower & Connect: how to?
• Knowledge: product, process,
organisation!
• Co-operative attitude!
• Non-heroic attitude(*)!
• Communities of Practice
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(*) Greenleaf - Servant Leadership + post-heroic leadership

24. Co-create
and
promote
vision
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25. 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
Training
Coaching
Facilitating
Mentoring
Organisation
ScrumMaster and
Product Owner
Team
Individuals
Perfecting
Agilit Installing y
Agility
Stabilising
Processes +
Initiating
Agility
Time

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Organisations

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

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

30. Post-heroic leadership style
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McKergow - Host Leadership

31. Agile leadership: how to?
• Coaching, coaching, coaching!!
• Learn to reflect!
• Feedback “from everywhere”!
• Systemic thinking (tech.+human!)
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32. Leadership: Typical Plan
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Organisation
ScrumMaster and
Product Owner
Team
Individuals
Soft Skills Training
Perfecting
Agilit Installing y
Agility
Stabilising
Processes +
Initiating
Agility
Time
Training
Coaching
Facilitating
Mentoring
Consulting
Agile 101
Agile for Managers
Leadership Training
TBD
Organisational & 1-1 coaching
Leadership Team
Workshop Facilitation
Management Consulting on agile topics
Initiating Agility Installing Agility Perfecting Agility

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Coaching Skills

34. Growing coaching
(and mentoring)
skills
• Learn to ask the right &
difficult questions!
• Support reflection &
innovation processes!
• Support people’s growth
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Bateson - The difference that makes a difference

35. Summary…
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36. Questions?
Now or per email ppugliese: [at] connexxo [dot] com

37. Pierluigi Pugliese
ConneX Xo
http://blog.connexxo.com