When it comes to success in Agile, there is certainly no single formula for success but there are two basic principles that go hand in hand: the right Mindset and Empowerment

Here I present, a case study of two teams (that I led at different points in my career), both of whom followed the Agile methodologies. One team was efficient and focussed while the other was sluggish and unpredictable. There were a few fundamental differences, between these teams that led to completely different outcomes, although both teams comprised of talented and committed individuals. This session, gives you more insights to enable your teams for success. For more details, click the link to the slides.

This is a new talk and the case studies are based on my experience in the industry over the past 20 years having worked as a developer, scrum master, and development leader in companies like Alcatel, Siemens, Nokia and now Ericsson.

 
 

Outline/Structure of the Case Study

Outline and Structure:

  • Introduction on this session and the motivation of this topic (5 min)
  • Comparitive case study of 2 software development teams (10 min)
  • What did one team do differently as compared to the other? (10 min)
  • Summary:
    • Empowerment of teams is an absolutely necessity while practicing Agile? (5 min)
    • We really need an Agile mindset? (5 min)
  • Learnings (5 min)
  • Q&A: (10 min)

Learning Outcome

The learning outcome of this case study is that it is important not to just follow Agile "ceremonies" but to understand that in order to be successful, an open mindset and a sense of empowerment is absolutely essential, not just from the teams working on a project but also from the leaders of these teams. Enable to succeed!

Target Audience

Anyone practicing Agile methodologies, but could benefit also leaders to make some key decisions

Prerequisites for Attendees

Working knowledge of Agile methodologies.

Slides


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    Hendrik Esser - Organize for business agility - creating organizations, that thrive in a complex business world

    Hendrik Esser
    Hendrik Esser
    Special Projects
    Ericsson
    schedule 4 years ago
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    480 Mins
    Workshop
    Advanced

    One of the challenges when driving business agility is the question of how a company should structure its organization to make it fit for the modern, complex business world.

    There are many opinions about this - but what is the right thing to do for you? How can you find a structure, that empowers people and teams? How can you keep your business "on track" at the same time?

    This workshop will empower you to answer that question for yourself:

    You will learn about different organizational models and structural approaches, their philosophies, advantages and disadvantages.

    You will learn about several concepts, that are key to increasing business agility in your company and you will learn about how the implementation of needed changes can be driven practically.

    The workshop consists of some conceptual/theoretical lectures, group work for experience exchange and exercises to experience and try out concepts and approaches.

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    Hendrik Esser - 10 years of transforming mindset

    Hendrik Esser
    Hendrik Esser
    Special Projects
    Ericsson
    schedule 4 years ago
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    45 Mins
    Talk
    Intermediate

    In 2008 I was member of a leadership team at Ericsson starting the transformation towards agility for a 2000 people organization. Soon we heard, that agile is a mindset and somehow that sounded right. But it was so hard to get: for me that full mindset change journey took about a year. Through it, I have become one of the transformation drivers at enterprise level. Today I am driving the transformation of a 15000 people business unit as organizational coach/inhouse consultant. Having worked with all kinds of people in all kinds of roles on all levels in the hierarchy across the company gave me a lot of experience with how to get the mindset across. One key learning is, that there is no one-size-fits all approach to it. People are different and different groups of people react in different ways through the group dynamics.

    In this talk I will share my 10-year-experience with facilitating mindset change. I will share several examples of different kinds of people and groups of people I encountered and what I found working to facilitate the mindset change.

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    Hendrik Esser - Agile finance enabling business agility

    Hendrik Esser
    Hendrik Esser
    Special Projects
    Ericsson
    schedule 4 years ago
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    45 Mins
    Talk
    Beginner

    Adaptive handling and flow of financials are an important ingredient to business agility. Essentially what we want to achieve is, to have the money in a company flow to where it creates most value. In the modern dynamic business environment this is an increasing challenge as we on one side see the need to be very adaptive throughout the year to cope with the changes in the business and on the other side people in enterprises as well as suppliers and partners would like to have sufficient financial stability to plan their work. On top of that come regulatory requirements.

    For ICAgile I led an international team of professionals in 2018 to create a learning curriculum outlining the most important things you need to know about finance in an agile enterprise. This curriculum is published under creative commons license. In this talk you will get an overview of finance agility based on the professional knowledge of this team.

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