Session Title : Agile Culture for High Performance
Session Overview : Many companies in today's VUCA world are planning to bring enterprise agility. While many frameworks are available in market, what is missing is the mindset, culture and organizational design that is needed to bring enterprise agility. It also demands coordination across entire value chain and various business process that are part of, or impact the software development life cycle. This session will focus on larger context of enterprise agility and what is needed to bring life to agile enterprises.
1. Enterprise agility with
#noframeworks
NILESH KULKARNI,
Enterprise Agile Coach and Trainer
Certified PSM I,PSM II, CSM, CSPO, CSP-SM, CSP-PO, PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFE
Program Consultant (SPC4), Certified LeSS Practitioner (CLP), TKP, ICF Aspiring
Coach.
2. Agenda
★What Is Enterprise Agility, Business Context
★Flow Of Value And Constraints
★Business Processes
★Organization Design
★Lean And Agile Mindset
4. Reality
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Finance
HR
Sales
IT
Support
Business
5. WHAT IS ENTERPRISE AGILITY?
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6. WHAT IS “ENTERPRISE AGILITY?”
❖Respond Rapidly, Deliberately And
Appropriately To Changes In Market
Conditions
❖Responding To Competitive Threats
And New Opportunities
❖Create Opportunities For Growth
❖other?
10. Size of products/ services/ teams
Interdependencies
Can you descale the product / service?
Org structure
Other factors?
Do we need a framework? Factors?
16. Business Process
❖ series of repeatable steps
taken to achieve some sort
of business goal.
❖ The key aspect of a business
process is repeatability
❖ improve and evolve over
time.
18. How agile is your business process?
recruitment
process
Software
capitalization
purchase order
support and
services
IT service
management
marketing pre-sales other?
19. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES
❖ How to design agile organization?
Simple answer - you don’t.
❖ Let the structure emerge.
❖ Organize teams around value.
❖ It will evolve and change.
❖ Journey towards Teal organization?
20. Lean Mindset
❖Developing a mindset is not about copying
practices.
❖It’s about developing the expertise
➢to ask the right questions,
➢to solve the right problems,
➢do the right thing in the situation at hand.
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22. The need for Enterprise agility
❖Agility isn’t just for coding Cowboys
❖Lean Agile paradigms are at root of enterprise agility
❖Enterprise agility is not a means of putting lipstick on a pig
❖The key to agility is to make the entire organization agile
❖Applies to Strategy, culture, products, technologies,
facilities
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26. Conclusion
❖ Org design, structure, mindset are as important as any process and
methodology.
❖ One size fits all approach may not work.
❖ Implementing enterprise/business agility needs system thinking and
optimizing all business processes and how work flows.
❖ Inspect and adapt during agile transformation to lead the change
❖ Knowledge of frameworks is good but apply your own thinking and fit
for purpose.