Engaging Executive leaders in agile transformation – build am agile leader scrum team
Eight step framework (from Kotter)
- Increase urgency
- Increase the urgency that already exists, don’t manufacture one
- Not panic – the need to do something
- Build guiding teams
- Agile teams focused on bringing value to the customer
- In this case, the org is the customer
- PO has content authority over the backlog
- SM removes impediments
- At least one exec member
- Modified structure
- Regular stand ups
- Monthly planning
- Monthly grooming
- Backlog includes
- Impediments to agile adoption
- Focus area
- Some major thing (pain point) in the portfolio like…
- Quality
- Timelines
- Process
- Communication
- Get the vision right
- Team creates it at the first meeting
- Not delivering software, but delivering value by process improvements
- Revise change management
- Introduce devops and continuous integration
- Communication for buy-in
- Teams see execs doing it and it boosts morale and their own buy in to the process
- Enable action
- Create short term wins
- Don’t let up
- Press harder and faster.Don’t let it die
- Decrease sprints to two weeks
- Use metrics to demonstrate value
- Share metrics for Transparency
- They can feel some of the same pain other teams feel
- Make it stick
- Coach
- Communicate
- Continuous improvement
- One month sprints to start
- Hold sprint reviews and retrospective
- Demo completed stories
- Same issues arise as any other team starting up
- Stories too big or not groomed
- Lofty expectations
- Team needs to include one or more people with a passion for agile
- Remind of values from agile manifesto
- The agile manifesto is crystal clear and shines a spotlight on problems, organizational and cultural.