7 Transformational Sparks for Business Agility
Agile transformations typically fail to deliver true business agility because organizational power structures, norms, and culture remain locked into legacy models that oppose Agile. Similarly, companies fail because their organizations remain tuned to their traditional markets, even as disruption creates new dangers and innovation new opportunities. The failure to change hidebound bureaucracy and rigid organization structures leads to eventual disruption, and often dissolution.
Agile methods can serve as a foundation for organizational “sparks” that are adaptable and resilient in the face of disruption and relentless change. Those looking to leverage investment in Agile as a business differentiator must heed Conway’s Rule, and adapt organizational elements to support and enable true business agility. Join Sanjiv and Audrey to explore essential organizational sparks for business agility, including Lean Discovery, Agile PMO, Agile Budgeting, Dynamic Strategy, and Portfolio Kanban.
Outline/Structure of the Talk
Introduction and Agenda
Industry Snapshot
We'll present a lightning snapshot of the "State of Agile in 2018," including statistics from the VersionOne State of Agile survey. This will serve as a broad baseline of understanding where agile methods have been successful in the industry, and establish challenges to adopting agile end-to-end in our organizations. For instance, the "Ability to Change Culture" has been the leading obstacle in this survey for the past several years. Here, we will stress the critical importance of transformational leadership and organizational change management to overcoming these obstacles.
What is Business Agility?
We'll demystify and "de-jargonify" the concepts behind Business Agility, including the very popular Conway's Rule. We'll employ a video from Harvard Business Review to quickly convey the essential concepts of market disruption and disruptive innovation in an appealing and captivating way. We'll then link to agile methods as a critical driver of digital transformation and thereby business agility in today's turbulent business environment and hypercompetitive world.
7 Transformational Sparks for Business Agility
We'll bring to bear "lessons learned" from a decade-and-a-half of agile management consulting and training to communicate some essential patterns including: Standing Teams, Three Amigos and Value Teams, Lean Portfolio Management and Program Alignment Wall (PAW). Next, we'll cover 7 transformational sparks, including: Lean Discovery, Agile PMO, Agile Budgeting, Dynamic Strategy, and Portfolio Kanban.
I'll share case studies with significantly impactful business outcomes like 67% reduction in time-to-market reduction, 25% rise in employee engagement, and 35% improvement in customer satisfaction.
Learning Outcome
Understand Disruptive Innovation
Understand Conway’s Rule and organizational barriers to business agility
Collaboratively explore basic and advanced transformational sparks that drive business agility
Leave with a practical toolkit of transformational sparks for organizational design that drive business agility.
Target Audience
team leaders, managers, executives, program managers, product managers
Prerequisites for Attendees
Basic knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS or other agile method(s).
Video
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Detailed history:
2018:
o PMI Baltimore Frederick Chapter, Frederick, MD, 5 Steps to Disruptive Innovation, January 2018
o Scrum Alliance Webinar, Transformational Leadership for Business Agility, February 2018
o KEYNOTE: PMI Baltimore PDD, 5 Steps to Disruptive Innovation, April 2018
o Keep Austin Agile, Transformational Leadership for Business Agility, May 2018
2017:
o ScrumAlliance Global Webinar: The Lean-Agile PMO: From Process Police to Adaptive Governance, February 2017
o Scrum Gathering, San Diego: 5 Steps to Disruptive Innovation, April 2017
o Heart of Agile Conference, Pittsburgh: 5 Steps to Disruptive Innovation, April 2017
o Keep Austin Agile, Austin: 5 Steps to Disruptive Innovation, May 2017
o Agile 2017 Executive Breakfast: Transformational Leadership for Business Agility, August 2017
o Agile DC Executive Summit: 5 Steps to Disruptive Innovation, September 2017
o Agile DC: 5 Steps to Disruptive Innovation, October 2017
o Agile Mexico: 5 Steps to Disruptive Innovation, November 2017
2016:
o March 2016, Agile India, KEYNOTE: The Joy of Agile Work - Managing Performance and Sparking Innovation
o April 2016, Scrum Gathering Executive Breakfast, Agile Leadership for Executives
o May 2016, Keep Austin Agile, Scaling Agile - A Guide for the Perplexed
o June 2016, Agile Development Conference West, Leading with Purpose
o July 2016, Harrisburg University, The Lean-Agile PMO: From Process Police to Adaptive Governance
o September 2016, Agile Alliance's Agile Executive Forum, Chairman's Keys - Resilience and Innovation in Organizations
o October 2016, Agile DC, Leading with Purpose
2015
o May 2015, Keep Austin Agile, Leading with Purpose
o June 2015, Agile Development Conference West, The Joy of Agile Work
o October 2015, Agile DC, The Joy of Agile Work
o November 2015, Agile Development Conference East: KEYNOTE: Scaling Agile - A Guide for the Perplexed
2014:
o February 2014, PMI Houston Expo, The Promise of Agile Methods
o March 2014, South Florida Agile Association, Driving Lean Innovation on Agile Teams
o March 2014, PMI Baltimore, The Promise of Agile
o April 2014, Ohio State University, Driving Lean Innovation on Agile Teams
o April 2014, PMI LEAD, Scaling Agile - A Vital Role for the Agile PMO
o May 2014, ASQ Houston, The Promise of Agile
o June 2014, Agile Development Conference West, Lean Innovation on Agile Teams
o July 2014, PMI Baltimore, Lean Innovation on Agile Teams
o September 2014, PMI Baltimore, The Agile PMO
o November 2014, Lean Into Agile Conference, Lean Innovation on Agile Teams
2013:
o January 2013, Agile Leadership Network DC, Is Lean Management Timeless
o March 2013, Agile Charlottesville, The Timelessness of Lean Management
o March 2013, Agile Palooza, The Timelessness of Lean Management
o April 2013, Agile Leadership Network DC, The Timelessness of Lean Management
o April 2013, PMI South Florida, Is Lean Management Timeless?
o May 2013, PMI Atlanta, The Lean Agile PMO
o May 2013, PMI Baltimore, The Lean Agile PMO
o June 2013, Agile Development Conference West, The Timelessness of Lean Management
o July 2013, PMI Houston Expo, The Timelessness of Lean Management
o August 2013, Agile DC, Lean Innovation on Agile Teams
o September 2013, PMI Houston, The Lean Agile PMO
o October 2013, Philips Brazil, Lean Innovation on Agile Teams
o October 2013, PMI South Florida, The Promise of Agile
o October 2013, PMI Washington DC, The Promise of Agile
2012:
o January 2012, Agile Richmond, The Promise of Agile
o May 2012, PMI South Florida, The Agile PMO
o May 2012, Agile DC, the Agile PMO
o June 2012, Agile Development Conference West, The Promise of Agile
o June 2012, Ohio State University, Is Lean Management Timeless
o June 2012, PMI Houston Expo, The Case for Agile Methods
o August 2012, Agile Dot Net, The Case for Agile Methods
o October 2012, Agile DC, Is Lean Management Timeless
o November 2012, Agile Development Conference East, Is Lean Management Timeless?
2011:
o December 2011: KEYNOTE: The Promise of Agile Development, PMI Northern Italy Chapter, Milan, Italy
o November 2011: The Agile PMO: From Process Police to Adaptive Governance, Agile Development Practices East, Orlando, FL
o October 2011: KEYNOTE: The Promise of Agile Development, Agile DC Conference, Washington, DC
o September 2011: KEYNOTE: The Promise of Agile Development, Agile Palooza Conference, Washington, DC
o August 2011: The Joy of Work: Managing Performance and Innovation AND 3 Months from Idea to Implementation: Jumpstarting Agile in Nuclear Power, Agile 2011
o July 2011: Towards True Scrum Mastery, Agile Leadership Network, Houston TX
o April 2011, KEYNOTE: The Promise of Agile Development, National Defense Industrial Association Information Systems Summit, Baltimore, MD
o February 2011: KEYNOTE: Toward True Scrum Master, Agile NCR, Gurgaon, India
o January 2011: The Case for Agile Methods, PMI Houston, Houston, TX
2010
o November 2010: Agile Development East Practices Conference
o August 2010: BizConf 2010
o June 2010: Agile Palooza
o June 2010: Agile Roots
o March 2010: Scrum Gathering
o January 2010: APLN DC, Tysons, VA
2009:
o November 2009: Agile Boston, Boston, MA
o November 2009: Agile Development Practices Conference, Orlando, FL
o October 2009: PMI Washington DC, Falls Church, VA
o September 2009: University of Virginia, CMIT, Charlottesville, VA
o April 2009: Agile Metrics for Senior Executives Version One Webinar
o March 2009: Scrum Gathering, Orlando, FL
2008:
o November 2008: Agile Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada
o September 2008: JavaZone, Oslo, Norway
o September 2008: PMI Greater New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
o February 2008: Small is Beautiful Workshop, Chennai, Bangalore and Mumbai, India.
2007:
o December 2007: Transitioning to APM Webinar, Cutter Consortium
o September 2007: Keynote - PMI Northern Italy Chapter, Milan, Italy
o August 2007: Agile 2007, Washington, DC
o August 2007: APLN Seattle, Seattle, WA
o May 2007: APLN DC, Washington, DC
o April 2007: Project Summit, Washington, DC
o April 2007: APLN New York, New York, NY
o March 2007: APLN Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
2006:
o October 2006: PMI Keystone Chapter, Hershey, PA
o October 2006: Agile Philly User Group, King of Prussia, PA
o September 2006: APLN Washington DC Chapter , Tysons Corner, VA
o July 2006: Agile 2006 , Minneapolis, MN
o July 2006: Chennai Agile User Group , Chennai, India
o June 2006: Project Summit and Business Analyst World, Tysons Corner, VA
2005:
o November 2005: Project World and World Congress for Business Analysts, Orlando, Florida
o October 2005: Project Summit and Business Analyst World, Tysons Corner, VA and Boston, MA
o September 2005: Agile Atlanta User Group, Atlanta, Georgia
o May 2005: Lean-Agile Summit, Fairfax, Virginia
2003:
o Software Development Conference 2003, Australia/NZ
o Agile Development Conference 2003, Salt Lake City
o Project World 2003, Chicago
2002:
o Software Development Conference 2002, Australia/NZ
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