Agile & Agile
Mindset, what does
this mean?
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what kind of agile is your
agile?
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• this question has been asked to most of the team
(around 70 people) before explaining what agile
means
• quantitative means that agile is seen as results
• behaviour means that agile is how people are
interacting together
• process, agile is understood like a process or a
methodology
• bypass, people didn´t answered the question due
to communication issues or lack of focus
17 %
17 %
behaviour
47 %
19 %
quantitative
behaviour
process
bypass the question

quantitative
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• fast visible results
• quick wins
• deliver quickly
• quality
• technical excellence
• workable software
• rapid customer satisfaction
• understanding that agile is more time
consuming than previous
methodologies
• seeing results and not just work in
progress
• opportunities instead of limitations
• working on topic which produce value

behaviour
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• flexibility
• pragmatic
• mindset
• adaptability
• No
• responsibility
• multiple competences
• client oriented
• putting me in the shoes of my
customer to gain clear vision of
his needs
• have interaction with customers
or users
• better collaboration
• business & development working
together
• team work
• close collaboration
• will empower us to work and
share experiences
• trustful collaboration with project
members
• fully dedicated, I have the feeling
that I am moving with
• motivation
• happy and satisfied
• consistency of projects
• working on topics which fit my
skills
• simplicity
• meetings not hat often
• sustainability
• welcome change
• challenges instead of problems
• challenging and exciting tasks
with own responsibility and
decision power

process
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• methodology
• DevOps
• feedback
• daily statuses
• time to market
• individual and interactions over
processes and tools
• workable functionalities over extended
documentation
• collaboration with the customer over
contract based relations
• incremental product
• well defined roles within the agile team

bypassing the question
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• needs to be appropriated and
adapted
• still at the beginning
• somehow agile
• good to see that SAP is putting focus
and hoping in agile
• what is the agile best practice?
• currently more ad-hoc instead of
agile
• missing flexibility in daily work
• lot of meetings with "wrong" people
• additional projects
• status meetings needed

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from Gallup
2018 study of employees in France,
Germany, Spain and the UK
In operational terms, the concept of agility can be defined as employees’
capacity to gather and disseminate information about changes in the
environment, and respond to that information quickly and
expediently.
From a strategic perspective, this combination of speed and data-driven
innovation is increasingly important for many businesses to maintain a
competitive advantage.

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points of attention
Learn to be wrong Make working together
expected and easy
“Matrixed” does
not equal “agile”
Agile
organisations are
grounded in
strong, customer-
centric cultures
one of the most powerful advantages fo agile
companies is ability to give employees a sense of
optimism about the organisation´organisations
capacity to survive - and thrive - amid disruptive
marketplace conditions.
mindset

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what distinguishes agile
organisations?
1. speed over perfection
2. data over intuition
3. talent over title
4. having an impact
5. constant improvement
6. customer obsession
7. autonomy
8. transparency
Values Values in practice
1. rapid experimentation
2. fluid collaboration
3. intense customer orientation
4. data driven decision making
5. building for scalability
6. fast hiring and firing
7. results orientation
Artifacts
1. clean platform
2. metrics
3. casual clothes and
spaces
4. collaborative tools
5. flexible org.
boundaries
Deborah Soule, MIT Emeritus
mindset

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cultural values and practices
with real impact
organisation performance
innovation & growth
customer satisfaction & reputation
profitability
iterating
rapidly
collaborating
fluidly
decisions
taken with data
moving fast
obsession
over customers
quickly
taking advance of
opportunities
working
seamlessly cross
boundaries
Deborah Soule, MIT Emeritus
mindset

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Pierre E. NEIS,
pierre.neis@agilesqr.com

What?
proposal of minimal agile
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find out
where you
are
make a small step
towards your goal
adjust your
understanding
based on what
you learned
repeat
when faced with two
and more alternatives
that delivers roughly
the same value, take
the path that makes
future change easier.
How?