Getting started with Agile can be confusing and it can also be difficult to move forward when you feel stuck. Learn how to understand the reasons for adopting Agile in the first place and how your Organization parameters (size, structure and culture) affect how you shape your adoption path.

1. Agile FTW! How To Get Started With Agile When You Don’t Know Where to Start Before you get too settled in, we’re going to do an exercise so you might end up at a different table!

3. “ Everybody wants to be Agile, too few actually want to do it” - Ron Jeffries

4. I dunno what it’s called but it’s working!

5. should we do scrum? are we doing Agile right? scrum-but? what the heck is that? Is it bad? should our PM’s get certified?

6. ! WARNING!

7. Where is your company? bigger company smaller company rigid process/politics flexible/collaborative

8. Text Where are you headed?

10. The Model Understand Educate Execute

11. Understand Organization Size Bigger Organizations: more complexity processes are harder to change slower adoption pace complex politics difficult to cross boundaries “ Agile can’t work here” Syndrome

12. Understand Organization Structure Crossing Boundaries: difficult to create cross functional teams departmental incentives business vs development vs IT How to understand it? map it out on the wall note your sphere of influence separate response from resistance

13. Understand Organization Culture Choose Process wisely: control cultures like process and metrics collaborative cultures can use ‘blackbox’ processes cultivation cultures invest in people competence culture strive to be the best How to Understand Culture? Schneider Culture Model

14. Understand People are Different People are not linear: “ people go through changes at different rates and intensities” (Gerry Weinberg) How to Understand People? Myers Briggs (MBTI)

15. Example conflict! Challenges: ‘ scrum team’ forced to follow existing processes Dev vs QA vs IT vs PMO vs Business PMO called projects “agile” to bypass bureaucracy

16. Educate Certification isn’t all THAT bad but...

17. Educate Local User groups, Peer Support Groups, workplace book study groups can be more effective

18. Educate Certain processes are better for certain types of work....and cultures

19. Execute Based on your understanding and what you’ve learned, give’er!

20. Execute - Be visible with your plan - Be visible with your progress

21. Execute what’s working? what’s not working? how can we adjust?

25. Thank You and Next Steps Jason Little @jasonlittle http://www.agilecoach.ca Online Peer Support Community: http://www.getagile.ca Download Materials htt p://www.agilecoach.ca What did you think? Please fill out a feedback sheet! Join me in the Coach’s Corner Area!