This document discusses scaling agility using pipe cleaners. It provides exercises to build individual pipe cleaner people, combine them into teams, and then combine the teams into an organizational pyramid. It includes quotes about change being a feature of the current age and how epics focus on the grandiose.

1. Len Lagestee
@lagestee
Scaling Agility
Midwest Agile Community
@midwestagile

3. https://medium.com/p/597cde9ee9d4

4. Expanding trust
Introducing change in a world of chaos
Executing within a hierarchy

5. Expanding trust
Introducing change in a world of chaos
Executing within a hierarchy

6. Conscious Agility
Source: Conscious Agility (www.ConsciousAgility.com)
Copyright (c) 2013 Si Alhir, Brad Barton, Mark Ferraro. All rights reserved.
Awareness
Intuition
Orientation
Improvisation
Gain from
Disorder
+
=

7. Conscious Agility
Source: Conscious Agility (www.ConsciousAgility.com)
Copyright (c) 2013 Si Alhir, Brad Barton, Mark Ferraro. All rights reserved.

9. Expanding trust
Introducing change in a world of chaos
Executing within a hierarchy

10. A motive of caring
Establish values and
allow for localization
Don’t put up with
bad behavior
An agenda of seeking
mutual benefit
Acting in the best interest
of others

11. Co-create

12. Expanding trust
Introducing change in a world of chaos
Executing within a hierarchy

13. Source: Illustrated Agile (www.illustratedagile.com) Agile Leadership Engagement Model

14. Por$olio
Program
Team
Source: Illustrated Agile (www.illustratedagile.com) Agile Leadership Engagement Model

15. Source: Illustrated Agile (www.illustratedagile.com) Agile Leadership Engagement Model

16. Visioning
Planning
Building
Radiating
Relating
Source: Illustrated Agile (www.illustratedagile.com) Agile Leadership Engagement Model
Conversing
Co-­‐crea3ng
Connec3ng
Si Alhir - Conversational Intelligence
http://salhir.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/conversational-intelligence-the-human-factor/

17. Visioning
Planning
Building
Radiating
Relating
Source: Illustrated Agile (www.illustratedagile.com) Agile Leadership Engagement Model
Conversing
Co-­‐crea3ng
Connec3ng
Si Alhir - Conversational Intelligence
http://salhir.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/conversational-intelligence-the-human-factor/

19. Len Lagestee
@lagestee
len@illustratedagile.com

20. Scaling
Agile
with
Pipe
Cleaners
Loosely
adapted
from
‘TDD
and
Refactoring
with
Lego’
exercise
by
Bryan
Beecham

21. Exercise
1
• Build
a
person
out
of
pipe
cleaners.

22. Admire
your
work
• Take
a
photo.
Upload
to
TwiKer.
Brag
to
your
friends.
#midwestagile

23. Exercise
2
• Combine
your
pipe
cleaner
people
into
a
team
pyramid.

24. Scaling
Feature
• “Change
is
the
principal
feature
of
our
age”
–
David
Brin

25. Exercise
3
• Combine
your
team
pyramid
with
the
other
teams
to
make
an
organiza3onal
pyramid.

26. Scaling
EPIC
• “The
ode
lives
upon
the
ideal,
the
epic
upon
the
grandiose,
the
drama
upon
the
real.”
-­‐
Victor
Hugo

27. Mark Des Biens
mark.desbiens@gmail.com
@MidwestAgile