Most Agile transitions fail. Apparently something devours the benefits for breakfast … it’s culture. Instead of facing that beast head-on, we will guide you on a path to tame it and let it work with you. We will start with simple frames to help you understand what you are dealing with and choose to aim high and transform your organization’s culture together. You will learn how to tame your own beast with five different approaches for transforming it into a new culture. Two will be experienced in practice: You will learn how your community can create a persona for the organizational identity. This helps everyone as an aspirational model for your transformation. Finally, you will create and share a personal vision, as each of us knowing what we want is key to be able to get it.

1. Seeding
Organisational
Culture
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2. @IvanaGancheva
Steve @zurcherart Holyer
@OlafLewitz
with help from @MichaelSahota
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Workshop facilitated 3 June 2013 by Olaf Lewitz and Steve Holyer
as part of XP2013 in Vienna, Austria.
Workshop developed by Ivan Gancheva, Steve Holyer, and Olaf
Lewitz with help from Michael Sahota.
This presentation has been updated since 3 June to include photos
of the workshop and to reflect additional information.
If you are pictured in one of the workshop photos and do not want
to be included, please email Steve Holyer (sholyer@gmail.com).
(c) June 2013. All Rights Reserved.
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4. Take a Stand:
How Do You Want To Live At Work?
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5. Another Stand:
How Do You Live At Work?
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6. New Stand: What you tell a Friend,
How Do We Live At Work?
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7. Last Stand: How Will You Live At
Work in 6 Months?
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8. • I feel ...
any of:
<mad, sad, glad,
afraid>
(optional: reason)
OR
• I pass.
• I’m in.
• Reply: Welcome!
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Check-In
• Groups of 4
5 min
Check-in is part of the Core Protocols created by Jim and Michelle McCarthy. Please obtain the
full The Core Protocols and more information about them from http://www.livingreatness.com.
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9. Focus on:
• Impact
• Outcome
• Output
What Do I Want from This Workshop
• In small groups:
• List what you
want
• Select 3 most
important wants
• Share with the
room
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10. Company Culture
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lokner/4164251472
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18. Your Turn to Play
Agile Tour Toronto 2011
Agile New England 2011
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19. Working with Existing Culture
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20. Table Discussion:
Correlation of Culture and Agile
Adoption
• What’s the correlation between
corporate culture and Agile adoption?
– use the Schneider model
– bring in other models
– create models
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26. Agile Mindset
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tza/3214197147
Doing
Agile
Being
Agile
Agile Practices
Thanks, Bob Hartman
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27. Take a Stand:
What Kind of Agile Are You Doing?
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28. Plan for Hard Conversations
Photos©http://www.flickr.com/photos/pascalvancauwenberghe/3053517274 and The Innovation Games Company
Johnny Scarborough
Agile is about
people, and as such
they will tend to be
largest obstacles, we
will need to have
serious
conversations at
some point if we
really want to go
Agile.
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29. Adoption Transformation
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34. Pain
Context
Fluency
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35. Adoption Transformation
Not well understood?
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38. Culture Shift Patterns
• KrisMap
• Story Telling, Collection and Sharing
• Values / Simple Rules
• Vision / Alignment
• Temenos
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40. • Name her!
• Write each
personality quirk
on one post-it
• Share together
after five minutes
KrisMap - Organisational Persona
• Think of your
dream
organisation
• Think of her as a
person
• What would she
be like?
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41. • What’s essential?
Move it up.
• What’s nice?
Move it down.
KrisMap - Organisational Persona
• What is missing?
Add it.
• Anything there you
don’t like? Discuss
and decide.
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42. KrisMap - Organisational Persona
Ask yourself:
• Would you want to meet her?
• Would you want to work with her?
• Would you want to hire her?
• Would you want to date her?
• Would you want to be her?
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44. KrisMap - Organisational Persona
Think about your organisation.
A ‘Want’ is a baby ‘Have’.
—Jim McCarthy
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46. Explore Culture Shift Patterns
• Story Telling, Collection and Sharing
• Values / Simple Rules
• Vision / Alignment
• Your way ...
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47. Explore Culture Shift Patterns
• Form groups
• Explore pattern
• Prepare
presentation
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10 min
• Story Telling,
Collection and Sharing
• Values / Simple Rules
• Vision / Alignment
• Temenos
• Your way ...
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Create / Share Personal Vision
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59. To Go ...
What will you do differently starting
next Monday?
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60. Resources
• These slides are available on slideshare
• Free eBook: http://www.infoq.com/
minibooks/agile-adoption-transformation
• Videos, Blog Postshttp://agilitrix.com/
2011/04/agile-culture-series-reading-
guide/
• Olaf Lewitz http://hhgttg.de/blog
• Steve Holyer http://steveholyer.com
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61. Wanna Get Fit?
• Contact us for two days of Culture
Fitness Training
(culture.fitness.training@gmail.com)
• For More information: http://
culturefitnesstraining@eventbrite.de
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62. THANK YOU!
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@IvanaGancheva
Steve @zurcherart Holyer
@OlafLewitz
with help from @MichaelSahota
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