This is the presentation I have at XP Days where I discussed the reasons for the gap between organizational leaders and agile coaches / consultants. I also address actions that the agile community & coaches could take to bridge this gap.
52. what’s life like on the upper-right?
no bosses
define your own salary
experimentation is encouraged
transparency
democratic
teams
freedom as part of company’s DNA
responsibility
55. best practices adopted at team level: sprints, backlogs,
taskboards, CI, ...
hierarchical gap: no support from senior management
no significant organizational change: but best practices remain
58. application teams: entire application teams working full-time in Scrum
good start: initiative supported at the director level
resistance to change: once we moved beyond development teams,
resistance to change starting creeping up
Source: Forrester
104. Peter Senge
David Hume
on the
shoulders
of giants
Adam Smith
(2,000 years of western philosophy)
Henry Ford
Karl Marx
Taichi Ohno
Bruce
Henderson
Friedrich
Hayek
Edward
Tufte
Henri Poincaré
Fred Brooks
Richard Sennett
William
Deming
Frederick Taylor
Max Weber Emile
Durkheim
Socrates
Isaac Newton
Henry
Mintzberg
105. Peter Senge
David Hume
Adam Smith
(2,000 years of philosophy)
Henry Ford
Karl Marx
Taichi Ohno
Bruce
Henderson
Friedrich
Hayek
Edward
Tufte
Henri Poincaré
Fred Brooks
Richard Sennett
William
Deming
Frederick Taylor
Max Weber Emile
Durkheim
Socrates
Isaac Newton
Henry
Mintzberg
on the
shoulders of
confirmation bias
110. mis-aligned vision: manufacturing vs. knowledge paradigm
pimping: lone gun-slingers vs. professional services
ikea agile: there are no silver bullets
missing big-picture: we need to reach outside of our comfort zone
125. challenge ourselves with bigger questions
how do we educate a workforce for this new paradigm?
is agile the best approach for every company?
can agile work outside of software?
what does an agile enterprise look like?
what is the role of management in the knowledge paradigm?
agile in different cultures?
127. aligned vision: understand the context
consulting: no more pimping, rise of the agile consultancies
understand problem: listen to our clients’ needs, no ikea agile
think big: think beyond software and reaching out