Keeping  the  Dream  Alive Keys to Agile Sustainability

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We  are  

Agile! WERE

Sustainability beyond the transition.

©2012 Susan DiFabio and Dan Neumann

©2012 Susan DiFabio and Dan Neumann

Metrics

Management

Culture

Organizational  Culture  or  

“How  we  do  things  ‘round  here”

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Organizational  Cultures

Collaboration Control

Cultivation Competence

From  The  Reengineering  Alternative  by  William  E.  Schneider ©2012 Susan DiFabio and Dan Neumann

Control -­‐‑Authoritative -­‐‑Prescriptive -­‐‑Hierarchical

-­‐‑Standards  Oriented

Collaboration -­‐‑Team  Focused -­‐‑Participative -­‐‑Trusting -­‐‑Diverse

Cultivation -­‐‑Personal -­‐‑Nurturing

-­‐‑Inspirational -­‐‑Subjective

Competence -­‐‑Standard  SeMing -­‐‑Task  Driven -­‐‑Efficient -­‐‑Objective

Unit  Testing

Mandate it

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Professional Pride

Work  With  The  Culture

Collaboration Control

Cultivation Competence

Easy:  prescribing  Agile  processes Hard:  team  empowerment

Personal                                                  Impersonal

Potentiality                                                A

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Schneider  Culture  Model ©2012 Susan DiFabio and Dan Neumann

Easy:  customer  collaboration Hard:  imposing  new  practices  

Easy:  valuing  people Hard:  Focus,  time-­‐‑boxes

Easy:  valuing  quality Hard:  humility;  simplicity

Other  Cultures

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 Breakout  Session  

Each culture has its strengths. In this breakout, explore how to use the culture’s strengths to sustain the Agile transition. 1.  What is your organization’s culture? 2.  What are its strengths? 3.  What Agile sustainability tactics fit the culture? 4.  What Agile sustainability tactics clash with the

culture?

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Set  Teams  Up  For  Success

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All  In Executives

Managers

Teams

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Courtesy of Esther Derby: http://www.estherderby.com/2011/11/miss-the-start-miss-the-end.html

©2012 Susan DiFabio and Dan Neumann

Breakout  Session  

Managers and executives are key in Agile sustainability. In this breakout, explore how management creates real team and real purpose. Consider the teams you work with. 1.  What has management done to ensure “Real Teams”? 2.  What could be improved? 3.  What has management one to ensure “Real Purpose”? 4.  What could be improved?

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Measure  For  Information

©2012 Susan DiFabio and Dan Neumann

©2012 Susan DiFabio and Dan Neumann

Information vs. Evaluation

People know they are being

monitored

Outcome vs. Process Balance

Trends vs. Targets

Who is the right audience?

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Metrics

Breakout  Session    

Measurement can lead to unintended consequences. In this breakout, explore the effect of measurement in your organization. Consider a metric you use. •  What is its intended purpose? •  What potential unintended behaviors could it

foster? •  How else might you realize the original purpose?

©2012 Susan DiFabio and Dan Neumann

©2012 Susan DiFabio and Dan Neumann

Metrics

Management

Culture