Business Agility
Scaling the Organization to Agile!
Phil Abernathy
Business Agility ConferenceNY 23-24 Feb 2017 www.purplecandor.com
Organization, Enterprise, Company…
Economic Value
Business
a·gil·i·ty
noun
ability to move quickly and easily.
ability to think and understand quickly.
Biz
Agility
Culture
Agile Values
Agile Principles
Agile / Lean / Design
Practices
How can I get better?
The growth of Agile!
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Program
Execution
Strategy and
Governance
Operations
Execution
and then Agile jumped the fence!
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WOW…It’s my competitive advantage!
“When the world is ready,
the solution will appear”~ fake Buddha
It will be ‘yuge’!
Better Faster
Cheaper Happier
WOW
Leadership talent
SLOW ; COSTLY ; COMPLEX
Sym
pto
ms
Ro
ot
cau
ses Lack of trust & transparency ; Culture at work
Unhappy Customers
Unhappy Employees
Imp
actsUnhappy Shareholders
Complex organisation structures
Values
Principles
Practices
BizAgility
“If you must travel the path you must become the path”
~ Buddha
And then we automate madness
Cynefin Complexity
KPI
Dashboards Targets
GoalsOutcomes
The second dimension
Values
Principles
Practices
BizAgility
TheMetrics
The Madness
The Maze
The second dimension
Values
Principles
Practices
BizAgility
MeasureWhat
Matters
DistributeWork
Form Teams
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Form Teams
Distribute work
Measure what
matters
Designing for Agility
Form Teams
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Outcome / Service based design
Bottom up design
Small
X-Funct.
Dedicated
Co-located
Stable
SquadsTribes
Chapters Guilds
Form Teams - Leaders
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FLAT
BAT
ROTATE
Agile Leaders ….
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1.Learning/growth mindset
2. Energizing
3. Passionate about their craft
4. Clarity and Edge
5. Collaborative
6. Empowering
7. Empathy and Caring
8. Open & Authentic
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Form Teams
Distribute work
Measure what
matters
Designing for Agility
Distribute work
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Pull from a single, customer prioritised,
funnel
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Hold the leaders are accountable!
DOING THE RIGHT WORK
DOING THE WORK RIGHT SQUAD
Embedd transformation specialistsin the Tribes as shared experts
Ditch the PMO
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Form Teams
Distribute work
Measure what
matters
Designing for Agility
Measure what matters
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Customer Process
People
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Enablers
(sum of enablers + doers)Org.BMI =
Organizational BMI
x 100
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Organizational BMI
Organization BMI
Awesome <10%
Great 10% – 15%
Over weight 15% – 20%
Obese > 20%
Business Agility is a strategic choice!
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Understand/
Explore/ Design
Build/Test/
Implement
Manage/
Evolve
Commit /
Mobilize
Cost neutral year 1 at the minimum
Agile Accelerate
Business Agility implementation tips
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EmergentDesign
Sports coaching vs
Life coaching
Talenttrumpsprocess
Innovatevs
Standardize
Data based decisions
Key impact areas
OrganisationStructure
Operating Model
Working
Culture
Leadership Capability
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Thank you !
Phil Abernathy
phil@purplecandor.com
Scaling the Organization to Agile
It can be done!