Agile implementations are rarely a green field, and most organizations will try to map existing roles to new agile roles. Project managers become scrum masters. Business analysts become product owners. Or perhaps product managers should be the product owners instead? Technical delivery managers should become what exactly? In his Keep Austin Agile 2018 session, Brian O'Fallon shares some common patterns of role transitions, including pitfalls to avoid and strategies to employ that smooth the transition to your new agile organization.

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So You Made Your Project Managers Into
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5/24/18 | Keep Austin Agile

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ABOUT ME
Brian O’Fallon
•Enterprise Agile Coach
•Seattle, WA
•When I am not coaching, I am annoying
my his three children with “fun”
applications of Scrum and Kanban to do
homework and chores at home.
brian.ofallon@agilevelocity.com

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AGENDA
• Context (15 Minutes)
• Pre-Transformation Activities and Roles (15 Minutes)
• Agile Activities and Roles (15 Minutes)
• Individual Roles in Transition (15 Minutes)

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WHAT DO WE DO WITH BOB?
• Bob is a Project Manager, do we just make him a ScrumMaster?

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WHAT USUALLY HAPPENS…
•Project Managers to Scrum Masters
•Business Analysts to Product Owners, or
•Product Managers to Product Owners
•Delivery Managers to Agile Engineering Managers

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PRE-TRANSFORMATION ACTIVITIES AND ROLES
•Set up each slice of the ring with a role.
•Dev Manager
•Product Manager
•Project Manager
•Last slice is table’s choice, BA, Program Mgr, or Dev Team?
•Other Roles can be added
•Center is Everyone (shared by all)
•Outside is “Not Emphasized” or no one

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PRE-TRANSFORMATION ACTIVITIES AND ROLES
• How have we been trying to get things done?
• Take one activity off the top of the deck and place it on a role, or on
boarder if it’s shared
• Proceed in turn until all activities are placed
• Do one round of “moves” – give it a tick mark if it’s moved
• Do one round of “missing activities” and place the missing activity
on a role

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POST-TRANSFORMATION ACTIVITIES AND ROLES
• Set up each slice of the ring with a role.
• Dev Team
• Product Owner
• Scrum Master
• Center is Everyone (shared by all)
• Outside is “Not Emphasized” or no one

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POST-TRANSFORMATION ACTIVITIES AND ROLES
• How do we want to get things done?
• Take one activity from the old way of doing things and
place it in a section in the new chart, or on boarder
• Proceed in turn until all activities are re-placed
• Do one round of “moves” – give it a tick mark if it’s moved
• Do one round of “missing activities”

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TRANSITION ANALYSIS
• Who has a significantly different number of
activities?
• Who has more than half of their activities on-
the-line, signifying collaboration?
• Have many things migrated to “not
emphasized”?

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INDIVIDUAL ROLES IN TRANSITION
•Role Transition at top
•Fill in with post-its
•Bring to the front
Start Doing Stop Doing
Skills that may get lost
in the transition
Skills that individuals
may have to acquire

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FINAL TAKEAWAY:
Personal Backlog
•Decide on one thing you're going to do to ease your
transition, or support others in their transition.
•Share that with a neighbor

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