The document discusses challenges with adopting lean agile transformations, including not fitting the company culture, micromanagement, late problem discovery, overloaded employees, and technical debt. It advocates for delivering work iteratively in small increments to provide continuous value to customers. Key aspects of the proposed approach include using cross-functional teams to fully develop requirements before handoff, building in quality, and transparency through visualization. The document outlines analyzing the current situation, setting goals, creating a step-by-step plan, taking steps and evaluating, and repeating to drive change through motivation and communication.

1. Lean Agile Transformation
A new start
Sept. 2019
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Challenges we meet
• Agile Lean thinking does not fit into our company
• Managers need to know who is doing what all the time/Micromanage
• Budget and deliveries are already contracted
• DevOps is impossible in our environment
• Problems are discovered late in the project lifecycle
• People are overloaded with work
• Systems are buggy and tech debt is growing
• Dependencies are underestimated
• Estimates are never met
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If you do not have a destination you will never get there!
•Employee
satisfaction
•Predictability
•Quality
•Customer
satisfaction
•Productivity
•Responsiveness
Do it
fast
Do it
right
Keep
doing it
Do it
on time
Leadership must seek a balance between these elements
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What is the goal?
• The ultimate goal for any business, product, project or action is to
exchange value
• A business delivers valuable product for the money paid by the customers
• A gamer delivers valuable stream for the likes by followers
• To succeed in this value exchange
• Clear mission
• Time
• Technology
• Materials
• To excel in what you do
• Motivation: The reason to act in a certain way
• Communication: exchange of information using some medium
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We deliver iteratively and in increments
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Incremental value delivery
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Effective complete delivery & communication in a development team
• Experience shows that information gets lost in the process of hand-over
• We implement therefore cross functional teams
• Coordination of whole requirement happens locally in the team
• No handing off before a complete requirement is DONE
• Broader skills and system knowledge
Developer
ArchitectTester
Developer
Developer
Business analyst
Product owner
Potentially shippable product
Customer specific
function
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How we do it? The three corner stones in how we do it
• Alignment
• Relevant briefing during the Product Increment planning
• Establish backlog visibility and grooming routines
• Adjust to match the vision and mission periodically
• Built in quality
• Refuse releasing undone work
• Reduce tech debt
• Integrate UX, Architecture and Operations in the flow
• Transparency
• Visualize everything
• Ownership for success & failures
• Allow failing & Learning (Coaching Kata, Coding Dojos,
Community of Practice)
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How to move forward?
• Analyze current situation
• Where are you today
• Capacity, quality, availability, cost
• Decide on target/goal
• Capacity, quality, availability, cost
Goals
Current situation Current results
What to
change?
What to
change
to?
Remember: Motivation and communication
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What is your plan?
• Create a stepwise plan for how to reach the target
• Plan should only details the closest steps
Goals
? ?
Next step ?
Current situation Current results
What to
change?
What to
change
to?
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Start going the way!
• Go the way
• Take a step
• Evaluate
• Inspect & adapt
• Take next step and repeat
Goals
? ?
Next step ?
Current situation Current results
What to
change?
What to
change
to?
How to cause the
change?
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8 steps to successful change
1. Establish a sense of urgency
2. Create the guiding coalition
3. Develop the vision and strategy for change
4. Communicate the change vision
5. Empower employees for broad-based action
6. Generate short-term wins
7. Consolidate gains and produce more change
8. Anchor new approaches in the culture
Source: Leading a change by John Kotter
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