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AGILE WAYS OF WORKING

CHRIS FERGUSON, DIRECTOR

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AGILE WAYS OF WORKING (WOW)

• Agile Manifesto

• Agile Philosophy

• Agile Principles

• Client Case Study

• Agile Culture

• Questions and Answers


TODAY’S CHALLENGES?


HOW DO WE MANAGE IN A VUCA WORLD?


CYNEFIN FRAMEWORK: DAVID SNOWDEN (1999)

• The Cynefin framework (/ˈkʌnɪvɪn/ KUN-iv-in) is a conceptual framework used to aid decision-making. Cynefin is Welsh for “habitat”

• It has been described as a "sense-making device"

• Cynefin offers decision-makers a "sense of place" from which to view their perceptions

• It tells us how to approach a set of different situations, and also helps us to recognize the situation we are in

• You can have great solutions, but if they are applied in the incorrect context, they will be worthless or worse, harmful


AGILE MANIFESTO (2001)

Agile v Traditional

People and

InteractionsOver Processes and Tools

Working Solutions OverComprehensive

Documentation

Customer

CollaborationOver Contract Negotiation

Responding to

ChangeOver Following a Plan

There is value in the items in the right-hand column but

in Agile we value the left-hand column more


SO, AGILE MEANS……

• Generic description of a style

of working

• Flexibility

• Working closely with

customer throughout

• Ensuring final solution

actually meets business need

• Empower decision-making to

the lowest possible

organisational level

• Deferring decisions about

detail as late as possible

How can we use these ideas outside of projects?


8 AGILE PRINCIPLES - DSDM

Principles that can be applied across the organisation


AGILE HAS BECOME COMPLEX!

Over 30 techniques, frameworks

and agile based ways of working

can be grouped as shown

Sets out the

underpinning values of

all agile approaches

together with key

principles which make

any agile approach work

Agile Manifesto

Agile Principles

Agile Methods – e.g. DSDM

Development Techniques –e.g. DevOps

People and Culture – e.g.

Cynefin

Agile Scaling for business –

e.g SAFe

Extensions to Agile – e.g.

Extreme

Leadership –e.g.

Empowerment


Along with the agile frameworks there are a variety of behaviours,

concepts and techniques that are seen as being part of the agile

way of working

AGILE BEHAVIOURS, CONCEPTS AND

TECHNIQUES

A few illustrative examplesTerm Agile Traditional

Behaviours

Being collaborative, self-organising,

customer focussed, empowered,

trusting not blaming

Principles,

Values & Mind

Set

Concepts

Prioritising what is delivered, working

iteratively & incrementally, not

delivering everything, time focussed,

inspect & adapt, Kaizen, limiting WIP

Fundamentals

Techniques

Burn charts, User Stories,

Retrospectives, Timeboxing,

Measuring flow

Practices &

Tools


AGILE BUSINESS FRAMEWORK

• The future is volatile, with growing uncertainty for business

• An Agile Business is an organisation that embraces the Agile philosophy and values, which means that it is customer centric

• Agile businesses can respond quickly and effectively to both opportunities and threats


CLIENT CASE STUDY EXAMPLE

• A traditional, hierarchic, global multi-

national realised that they would need

different qualities from their leaders of the

future

• The global digitisation strategy also

demanded that change

• They embarked on an ambitious

development programme to empower

their leaders of the future

• The candidates were selected globally

“You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness

that created it.

You MUST learn to see anew” (Einstein)


Shift in current thinking

Step 1

New perspectives

Step 2

Inspirational venues

Step 3

Company visits

Step 4

Unfamiliar environments

CHALLENGE THE CURRENT APPROACH


WHAT DID THEY LEARN?


HOW DID WE HELP?

• Digitisation Business Challenges

• Teams “bid for” each Challenge

• All the challenges were international,

strategic and centred on digitisation

• Stakeholders and environments were

complex

• To support the successful delivery of the

challenges, we coached the Teams in:

– Programme Management

– Agile Programme Management

– Agile Business Change

The digitisation programmes are still progressing on track


BUSINESS AGILITY PROCESS

Innovation is the hub of the framework, meaning that people

not processes are at the heart of making things happen


AGILE CULTURE DEFINITION

Agile Business Consortium Definition

“Agile Culture is about creating an environment that is underpinned

by values, behaviours and practices which enable organisations,

teams and individuals to be more adaptive, flexible, innovative and

resilient when dealing with complexity, uncertainty and change”

(Based on the works of Ed Schein, Frederick

Laloux, Vlatka Hlupic, Peter Senge and Alan Furlong)


AGILE CULTURAL DNA

The deep, underlying assumptions, beliefs, and ways of working that

permeate all levels of an organisation


9 LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES


CONCLUSION

• Agile techniques can be used at all levels

in organisations

• Understand the environment

• Prioritisation around risk reduction or

benefits realisation

• Apply agile principles

• User stories extended to all stakeholders

• Innovation fostered at all levels

• Select the agile techniques that work well

for your organisation

• Culture drives behaviours


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