Agile for leaders
What leaders have to do to enable, promote and support an Agile way of working-
and to ensure that teams are 'doing the right work'.
Challenges of today
1. Too much work
2. Pressure to deliver
3. Stressed and/or disengaged teams
4. Missed targets
5. Sub optimal results
''Growth is controlled not by the total of resources available but by the scarcest resource'' - Dr. Liebig
''Every Organization has at any given point in time at least one constraint which limits the system's performance relative to its goal''- Dr. Eliyahu M.Goldratt
You can only deliver as fast as the slowest part of your process
Little's Law
Increase throughput by demand and production leveling
Work in progress (Reduce WIP)/ Average Completion rate (Increase completion time)= Total Cycle time (Managing the on-ramp / remove constraints/ Don't overburden
Minimize WIP- Backlog, In Progress and Done
Switching loss- productivity reduces when focus is shifted in multi tasking
Doing the right work:
1. Mission and Value
2. Strategic initiatives
3. Objectives and Goals
4. Manage the funnel of work
5. Visualize the work in progress
6. Program Delivery practices/ Strategic practices and Operations Practices
7. small, stable cross functional teams
Work and team structure fundamentals:
1. Small batch size
2. Single prioritized funnel of work
3. Pull work to match WIP limit
4. Small, stable cross functional team
5. Multiple teams are loosely coupled and tightly aligned
Work: enhancements, new project work, bug fixes, 3rd line support
PM - Product Owner
Team : IM, BA, Designer, Customer SME, Dev, Tester, Cross functional core team
Work smarter than harder! To do more and have fun while doing it..it gets better
Customer-facing, end to end teams, as far as possible
1. Front end/ Bankend infrastruture
2. Analysts/ Designers/Developers/ Testers/ Compliance
3. Content Designers, Actuaries and Delivery support
Loosely coupled, tightly aligned!
Leaders or Managers:-
Organizing a group of people to achieve a common goal - Definition of leadership - wikipedia
1. Clarity of purpose - clear strategy
2. Inspire purpose - Mission, Vision and Goals
3. Strategy is about choice. Best choice comes with colloboration
Set up for Success:
1. Structure teams
Right Resources/ Right Place and Right time
2. Small and empowered teams
3. Optimize value flow
Remove bottlenecks
Eliminate Waste
4. Leaders -visit the teams, see the walls and visualize the value stream mapping
5. Stop watermellon projects- Green outside and Red inside.
6. Govern for greatness
Doing the work right
People management and guidance
7. Drive innovation
Sharing/ Learning / Innovate/ Improving
Create exciting work environment
Summarizing Agile leadership
1. Inspire purpose
2. Set up for success
3. Optimize value flow
4. Govern for greatness
5. Innovation
Source: IBM Agile Academy
What leaders have to do to enable, promote and support an Agile way of working-
and to ensure that teams are 'doing the right work'.
Challenges of today
1. Too much work
2. Pressure to deliver
3. Stressed and/or disengaged teams
4. Missed targets
5. Sub optimal results
''Growth is controlled not by the total of resources available but by the scarcest resource'' - Dr. Liebig
''Every Organization has at any given point in time at least one constraint which limits the system's performance relative to its goal''- Dr. Eliyahu M.Goldratt
You can only deliver as fast as the slowest part of your process
Little's Law
Increase throughput by demand and production leveling
Work in progress (Reduce WIP)/ Average Completion rate (Increase completion time)= Total Cycle time (Managing the on-ramp / remove constraints/ Don't overburden
Minimize WIP- Backlog, In Progress and Done
Switching loss- productivity reduces when focus is shifted in multi tasking
Doing the right work:
1. Mission and Value
2. Strategic initiatives
3. Objectives and Goals
4. Manage the funnel of work
5. Visualize the work in progress
6. Program Delivery practices/ Strategic practices and Operations Practices
7. small, stable cross functional teams
Work and team structure fundamentals:
1. Small batch size
2. Single prioritized funnel of work
3. Pull work to match WIP limit
4. Small, stable cross functional team
5. Multiple teams are loosely coupled and tightly aligned
Work: enhancements, new project work, bug fixes, 3rd line support
PM - Product Owner
Team : IM, BA, Designer, Customer SME, Dev, Tester, Cross functional core team
Work smarter than harder! To do more and have fun while doing it..it gets better
Customer-facing, end to end teams, as far as possible
1. Front end/ Bankend infrastruture
2. Analysts/ Designers/Developers/ Testers/ Compliance
3. Content Designers, Actuaries and Delivery support
Loosely coupled, tightly aligned!
Leaders or Managers:-
Organizing a group of people to achieve a common goal - Definition of leadership - wikipedia
1. Clarity of purpose - clear strategy
2. Inspire purpose - Mission, Vision and Goals
3. Strategy is about choice. Best choice comes with colloboration
Set up for Success:
1. Structure teams
Right Resources/ Right Place and Right time
2. Small and empowered teams
3. Optimize value flow
Remove bottlenecks
Eliminate Waste
4. Leaders -visit the teams, see the walls and visualize the value stream mapping
5. Stop watermellon projects- Green outside and Red inside.
6. Govern for greatness
Doing the work right
People management and guidance
7. Drive innovation
Sharing/ Learning / Innovate/ Improving
Create exciting work environment
Summarizing Agile leadership
1. Inspire purpose
2. Set up for success
3. Optimize value flow
4. Govern for greatness
5. Innovation
Source: IBM Agile Academy
