Beyond Copy Paste Agile

Beyond Copy Paste Agile
Presented @ Smidig Meetup - Oslo Norway - 6 May 2024

After 5 years coaching Leaders at Spotify, I grew weary of companies claiming they were copying us.

My problem is most companies wanting agility, start at the team level and ignoring the opportunities and problems across their org, and leadership that would improve their business results, and not merely a teams output.

This talk is my take on what to be aware of when taking inspiration from the approaches of others, how to go understanding your situation well enough to be sure you aren't solving a problem you don't have. Finally how to engage leadership in designing around their biases and defaults, to create the habits need to sustain the momentum of improvement.

I explore this through three lenses.

Systems - Looking beyond the team level to create focus across all flight levels
Science - How to avoid missing out, find your highest leverage opportunities
Sapiens - How to build habits that consistently design around your Bias

Check out - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cliffhazell/ for more info :)

Transcript

1. @cli ff hazell cli ff hazell.com Smidig Meetup - Oslo 6 May 2024 Beyond Copy Paste Agile Cliff Hazell Becoming a leader worth following CLIFFHAZELL.COM
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5. CLIFFHAZELL.COM Perception?
6. CLIFFHAZELL.COM Perception? CLIFFHAZELL.COM
7. CLIFFHAZELL.COM What if…
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9. Why is our perception important? CLIFFHAZELL.COM
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11. How do we go beyond copy paste agile? CLIFFHAZELL.COM
12. 1. Create Focus beyond the team 2. Find Leverage, be smart not work hard 3. Build Habits that design around your bias CLIFFHAZELL.COM Three Take Aways
13. Three Lenses: CLIFFHAZELL.COM Systems Science Sapiens
14. Systems CLIFFHAZELL.COM Where and what to focus on?
15. CLIFFHAZELL.COM Be e n her e? (Credit: Flight Levels Academy)
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17. CLIFFHAZELL.COM team 1 team 2 team 3 team 4 customer wish: write a love letter (Credit: Flight Levels Academy)
18. CLIFFHAZELL.COM customer wish: write a love letter (Credit: Flight Levels Academy, Klaus Leopold)
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20. CLIFFHAZELL.COM NEXT DONE DEVELOP BACKLOG a typical team board EXTERNAL WAITING
21. CLIFFHAZELL.COM NEXT DONE DEVELOP BACKLOG WAITING 4 INTEGRATION EXTERNAL WAITING
22. CLIFFHAZELL.COM NEXT DONE DEVELOP BACKLOG WAITING 4 INTEGRATION WAITING 4 ACCEPTANCE EXTERNAL WAITING
23. CLIFFHAZELL.COM NEXT DONE DEVELOP BACKLOG WAITING 4 INTEGRATION WAITING 4 ACCEPTANCE WAITING 4 RELEASE quarterly monthly EXTERNAL WAITING
24. CLIFFHAZELL.COM NEXT DONE DEVELOP BACKLOG WAITING 4 INTEGRATION WAITING 4 ACCEPTANCE WAITING 4 RELEASE quarterly monthly EXTERNAL WAITING
25. CLIFFHAZELL.COM NEXT DON DEVELOP WAITING BACKLOG WAITING 4 INTEGRATION WAITING 4 ACCEPTANCE WAITING 4 RELEASE ANALYZE DEVELOPMENT PRODUCT BACKLOG WAITING
26. CLIFFHAZELL.COM NEXT BACKLOG ANALYZE DEVELOPMENT PRODUCT BACKLOG WAITING DETAIL CONCEPT ROUGH CONCEPT WAITING 4 APPROVAL WAITING 4 STEERING COMMITTEE WAITING WAITING IDEA TRIAGE POOL OF NEW IDEAS
27. CLIFFHAZELL.COM NEXT DONE DEVELOP BACKLOG WAITING 4 INTEGRATION WAITING 4 ACCEPTANCE WAITING 4 RELEASE ANALYZE DEVELOPMENT PRODUCT BACKLOG DETAIL CONCEPT ROUGH CONCEPT WAITING 4 APPROVAL WAITING 4 STEERING COMMITTEE WAITING IDEA TRIAGE POOL OF NEW IDEAS WAITING WAITING WAITING we are so f&%#ing AGILE, yay!! monthly quarterly yearly quarterly monthly (Credit: Flight Levels Academy, Klaus Leopold)
28. CLIFFHAZELL.COM Yet another reorg? CLIFFHAZELL.COM CLIFFHAZELL.COM
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30. “Decentralising control requires decentralising both authority to make decisions and the information to make them correctly” Don Reinertsen CLIFFHAZELL.COM
31. CLIFFHAZELL.COM Flight Level 2 coordination level Flight Level 3 strategic level Flight Level 1 operational level Fli gh t Lev els (Credit: Flight Levels Academy)
32. Go beyond the team CLIFFHAZELL.COM Zoom out, focus on interactions between teams
33. CLIFFHAZELL.COM But there is still space! (Despite the evidence) CLIFFHAZELL.COM
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35. Don’t let your #17 block your #1 CLIFFHAZELL.COM Avoid making traffic jams
36. CLIFFHAZELL.COM Flight Level 2 coordination level Flight Level 3 strategic level Flight Level 1 operational level (Credit: Flight Levels Academy) Fli gh t Lev els
37. Good reads CLIFFHAZELL.COM
38. Go Beyond the Team Focus on interactions between teams Don’t let #17 block #1 Avoid traffic jams CLIFFHAZELL.COM
39. Science How to find your high leverage opportunities CLIFFHAZELL.COM
40. CLIFFHAZELL.COM Jus t w o r k h a r d e r ? (Credit: Flight Levels Academy)
41. What you work on, matters more than how hard you work CLIFFHAZELL.COM
42. CLIFFHAZELL.COM Project Lolipop
43. What was the result of your last delivery? CLIFFHAZELL.COM
44. Why do we so rarely know the outcome? CLIFFHAZELL.COM
45. We’re so busy: Rarely make time to check results Seldom look for, or work on, the highest leverage. CLIFFHAZELL.COM
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48. CLIFFHAZELL.COM @cli ff hazell Credit: xkcd.com
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50. CLIFFHAZELL.COM “The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.” “In t u it i on s co m e fi r s t, st ra tegi c r e as o ni ng se c on d.”
51. CLIFFHAZELL.COM “What makes a decision great is not that it has a great outcome. A great decision is the result of a good process, and that process must include an attempt to accurately represent our own state of knowledge”
52. So what do we do about this? CLIFFHAZELL.COM
53. If we had this today, what would the benefit be? CLIFFHAZELL.COM
54. Write your Hypothesis. Before you start. Reflect as you go CLIFFHAZELL.COM
55. What (assumptions) would need to be true for this to work? CLIFFHAZELL.COM
56. Quantify your Hypothesis CLIFFHAZELL.COM Before you start, reflect as you go
57. Look for your Leverage CLIFFHAZELL.COM
58. CLIFFHAZELL.COM Leverage
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61. CLIFFHAZELL.COM Project Lolipop
62. Find your Leverage CLIFFHAZELL.COM What you work on, matters more than how hard you work
63. Good reads CLIFFHAZELL.COM
64. Quantify Hypothesis. Write first, then reflect and learn from outcomes. Look for Leverage Don’t work hard, be smart. CLIFFHAZELL.COM
65. Sapiens. CLIFFHAZELL.COM How to build habits that consistently design around your Bias
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67. “Won’t work unless we tell them” CLIFFHAZELL.COM “People resist change”
68. If you have dead wood in your company, either you hired dead wood. Or you hired live wood, and killed it CLIFFHAZELL.COM paraphrasing Peter Scholtes
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73. Exclusion, hides vital perspective and information. CLIFFHAZELL.COM
74. Perspective matters. CLIFFHAZELL.COM
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76. CLIFFHAZELL.COM Meeting a Leader? cli ff hazell.com CLIFFHAZELL.COM
77. CLIFFHAZELL.COM Making Suggestions? CLIFFHAZELL.COM
78. CLIFFHAZELL.COM Restructure? CLIFFHAZELL.COM
79. CLIFFHAZELL.COM Performance Review? CLIFFHAZELL.COM
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81. Intentionally design around our Bias CLIFFHAZELL.COM
82. CLIFFHAZELL.COM When you’re all … Invite some… CLIFFHAZELL.COM
83. Diversity is being invited to the party. CLIFFHAZELL.COM Inclusion is choosing the music.
84. 1 Achieved + Learned 2 Planned next 3 On our minds 4 Stressed by 5 Need help CLIFFHAZELL.COM
85. Written vs Verbal CLIFFHAZELL.COM Pre-reading. Time to Think. Follow up.
86. Good reads CLIFFHAZELL.COM
87. Acknowledge Bias Notice who’s missing Design around your Bias Build the habits that create coherent understanding CLIFFHAZELL.COM
88. When you want to move beyond copy paste Remember… CLIFFHAZELL.COM
89. 1. Create Focus beyond the team 2. Find Leverage, be smart not work hard 3. Build Habits that design around your bias CLIFFHAZELL.COM Three Take Aways
90. “Coaching, teaching and investing in our people is too expensive!” CLIFFHAZELL.COM
91. What if you don’t and they stay. CLIFFHAZELL.COM “What if we invest in them and they leave!”
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