Agile corporate adoption – Key Success Factors Xavier Albaladejo

CAS2014 - Agile Spain Conference

December 2014

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Speaker Bio & Company Information

Xavier Albaladejo is Agile-Lean Coach of organizational

transformation and member of everis Agile Excellence

Center. He helps large organizations to bring more value,

faster and efficiently, using Agile and Lean principles.

Xavier Albaladejo coordinates a Postgraduate on Agile

methods in La Salle, he is Certified Scrum Practitioner,

founder of proyectosagiles.org, Agile Barcelona and

member of Agile Spain Board of Directors.

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AGILE EXCELLENCE CENTER

IT Government – Technology BU

PMA

Postgrado en

Métodos Ágiles

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CEO

Corporate Agile adoption ■ Still silos, little alignment

and collaboration, lack of

business value focus.

■ Low motivation.

■ No retrospectives with

bottom-up improvement.

■ Agile = iterations.

■ Agile = change whatever

whenever.

■ …

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■ Faster (Time To Market )

■ More flexible (to quickly incorporate market feedback)

■ More efficient and more quality

■ More people motivation

You want to be Agile

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■ End user value focus.

■ Teamwork (Business & IT).

■ Break silos to create cross-

functional stable cells.

■ Self organized teams.

■ Regular reflection.

■ Bottom-up improvement.

Agile means…

■ Discipline.

■ Sustainable pace.

■ Technical excellence.

■ Simplicity.

■ Motivating people.

■ …

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■ End user value focus

■ Teamwork (Business & IT).

■ Break silos to create cross-

functional stable cells.

■ Self organized teams.

■ Regular reflection.

■ Bottom-up improvement.

Agile means…

■ Discipline.

■ Sustainable pace.

■ Technical excellence.

■ Simplicity.

■ Motivating people.

■ …

More changes in

people and interactions

than in processes

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BTW…

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How is your corporate culture?

I can’t bear

these horrible

histories

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XXX

XXX

Wait! My organization already works

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Ufff, what a

challenge.

Am I really

sure of

launching

this??

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XXX

XXX

Yes, I want my organization out-perform

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3 questions and 1 order

1. Why?

2. How?

3. Who?

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1. Why? We need a powerful reason

in order to align people

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1. Why? We need a powerful reason

in order to align people

What’s yours?

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So, how much

do you must

change…?

… to be there?

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The most powerful reason

Do you have

any choice?

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3 questions and 1 order

Why?

2. How?

3. Who?

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3 questions and 1 order

Why?

2. How?

3. Who?

!

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■Who sponsors the change?

■Who wants the change? Are they really committed?

■Who have the needed culture?

■Who will fight for the change to make it real?

How Who =

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How Who =

Find the right people to start with Agile

is not

for all

people

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High Level Manager

Agile Champion

How Who =

■ Change agent – Make things happen at an

organizational level, sells the concept so everybody wins.

■ Leader – Do changes, people ask him for guiding,

aligns high and (specially) middle management.

■ Evangelist – Showing more than telling.

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How Who =

Business commitment.

Agile is for them !!!

■ Stakeholders involvement.

■ Product Owner dedication

and role recognition –

Responsibility and authority.

■ They will be your

ambassadors and do

traction in the organization.

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How Who =

■ Acceleration and avoid falling in typical

mistakes.

Experienced

Agile & Change Coaches

■ Mindset change coaching, not only

practices teaching.

■ Expertise and methodological

approach on organizational transformation.

■ Energy and passion in the change.

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Last “How” recommendations

■ Don’t wait to have the perfect

environment.

■ Bring people to touch the experience.

■ Let this spread like an oil stain and shape

the organization step by step.

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Questions?

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