From Dogma to Pragma - helping 500 squads on the road to agile maturity
What a joy to be in a key leadership position in one of the largest-ever corporate experiments - the transition to new ways of working. I'm accountable for establishing and operating the Centre of Expertise, New Ways of Delivering - how we uplift culture, delivery & technical capability. We're doing this through consulting, coaching, educating, facilitating & mentoring.
The scope - 5000 people, 500 squads, 6 regions.
The process - Think systemically, optimise locally.
The result - it's a process...
Outline/Structure of the Talk
5 min: Context - The case for change
10 min: The Challenge - the set up
- Creating a Centre of Expertise to uplift capability for 5000 people, in 500 squads across, 6 regions
10 min: The People
- Recruiting 75 coaches and creating guardrails to deliver consistent experience in which individual expertise is enabled
10 min: The Processes
- Envisioining an experience and developing the collateral to underpin success based on Shu Ha Ri
5 min: Current Progress
- Win or Learn
- Early successes, learning opportunities & what we'd do differently
Learning Outcome
Participants in this session will gain insights into current and very recent challenges, approaches and outcomes on the journey to maturity.
My approach is overwhelmingly pragmatic so I'd hope that some of the lessons learned may help others save time or money in considering their path
Target Audience
Anyone who works at the enterprise level
Prerequisites for Attendees
Transformations are complicated, complex and unique
New ways of working refers to the cultural change, operating model change, delivery process change, methodology and technical changes, rather than purely and agile change
Video
Links
Presented at:
Agile Australia, Activate Agile - Everyday Experimentation 18 & 19 June 2018
Embedding Lean Start-up in Enterprises - 1 day course - 18 May 2018
Academy Xi - A Design-Led Approach to Everyday Life - 10 May 2018
LAST Conf - 'Putting the Lean into Lean Portfolio Management' - 19 & 20 July 2018
Digital Marketing Innovation Summit - 'Getting to MVP (r)- Minimum Validated Problem' -14 & 15 March 2018 - https://ieondemand.com/presentations/getting-to-mvp-minimum-validated-problem
1st Conf - 'Getting to MVP - Minimum Viable Problem - MVP (r)' - 26 &27 February 2018
LAST Conf - 'Experimenting with GOLEAN Technique in a Corporate Enterprise' - 23 July 2017
https://www.linkedin.com/in/penelopebarr/
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