Leadership Success Recipes for Agile in the 21st Century
, chris louvion
Agile was originally based on a simple recipe for success: a small team, co-located, self-organizing applying engineering practices. As a leader of such an adoption, you might think of your role as similar to a restauranteur/owner/head chef of a small restaurant: small staff, some simple recipes, able to quickly address the problems/challenges that might arise.
But now we are in the 21st Century and moving into more complex and demanding recipes for Agile. We still need success but we have moved the Agile recipe into a much bigger menu and venue. And, despite these complexities in our restaurant and recipes, we still need to be able to address the problems/challenges that might (will?) arise in this much more complex environment. Now, in your role as Executive Chef of this high-end operation, what will your recipe for success be?
Christophe Louvion of Gorilla Nation and Jean Tabaka of Rally Software present you with their cookbook of Agile for the 21st century Executive Chef. In this upbeat real-life experiences presentation, we offer the recipes that succeed; how they succeeded; and, what the amazing results were. Additionally, we intend to arm you with warning signs that your recipes for agile adoption may produce very unsatisfactory results and even flop. Think of it this way: do you want your large, resort-level operation to succeed with greater and greater complexity of Agile recipes and more demanding clientele? And, will you be prepared to face the challenges that could sabotage your efforts even before you get started? Or are you going to stay stuck in your little cafe and small staff as the only way to succeed?
A. Welcome — Introductions and format of the presentation
B. What was the original set of recipes and venues for Agile success?—overview and level-setting for Agile of the early 21st Century
C. As leaders in more complex organizations of the 21st Century, what are the challenges we face with applying the orignial recipe?—Q&A about current challenges
D. What were the challenges and audacious results of one 21st Century Agile adoption?—Christophe Louvion presenting his use of Agile to bring about 400% improvement in productivity.
E. What were the challenges and adoption failures of another 21st Century Agile adoption?—Jean Tabaka presenting her 12 Agile Adoption Failure modes.
F. Given these results of success and failure what tools must you be prepared to bring into your organization?—development infrastructure, testing infrastructure, reporting and tracking infrastructure
G. Additionally, what organizational changes must you be prepared to make?—scaling agile throughout your organization, outside of IT and around IT? New roles for scaling, Scrum of Scrums, Meta Scrum, Organizational Implementation Backlog
H. Given these successes and failures, what recipes for success are you prepared to embrace?—Q&A with the group about what they have experienced and how we can make successful recipes going forward.
I. Close—Final Q&A