It’s not too easy have agility at individual level especially when that person has a lot ot unlearn, it’s then very hard to scale that out to a team, and extremely hard for larger groups such as a business department or entire organisation. And yet when you do unleash that, the upside is definitely unproportional to the effort and hardship, and surprisingly, it’s actually not THAT hard.
You might have heard self-organising / managerless teams, but it’s less likely you’ve actually experienced one. You may have experienced Agile in the most form of Scrum, but it’s not likely you’ve even heard of a Scrum team who doesn’t even need daily standups. In this talk you’ll see how a radical thought of organisational structure turned into reality, and what it is like to witness a team of teams transformed from brokenness to approaching the realm of organisational nirvana in just a year.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8331/an-extraordinary-story-of-deeply-troubled-department-turning-into-a-true-self-organising-team-of-teams
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
11. ➢ Put people’s personal welfare above the work
➢ Do not give up a person easily for ‘productivity’ gain
➢ Set expectation that we’re going to know each other,
deeply, and really do it
➢ Be courageous to have courageous conversations
1. Genuine, deep, care of people
12. Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever
loses their life will preserve it.
- Luke 17:33
Whoever tries to keep productivity at all cost will lose it, and
whoever keeps people first will gain productivity naturally
- William Feng
1. Genuine, deep, care of people
13. People is the problem,
people is also the solution!
1. Genuine, deep, care of people
14. ➢ Training is not always necessary
➢ Teach and show when faced with a problem
2. Bring Agile to life via problem solving
15. ➢ Teach and show when faced with a problem
■ Problem example 1 - a total slacker in the team
■ Problem example 2 - not enough creative solutions and ownership
■ Problem example 3 - may build things on wrong assumptions
■ Problem example 4 - team conflicts
2. Bring Agile to life via problem solving
16. ➢ Training is not always necessary
➢ Teach and show when faced with a challenge
➢ Let go, one at a time
2. Bring Agile to life via problem solving
17. Tell me and I forget, teach me and I
remember, involve me and I learn
- Benjamin Franklin
Give them fish vs. teach them fishing
My job is to get myself out of job
2. Bring Agile to life via problem solving
18. 3. Fuel delivery with culture
Skillset
Decision
Making
Clear
purpose and
success
criteria
Team
ownership
40. Choose people
over work,
everytime, care to
their soul
Don’t do it for
them; show,
involve, make
them better than
yourself
Relentlessly hunt
the culture DNA
and transform
from there!