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Lyssa Adkins : Agilists Superpower and Challenge

Lyssa Adkins : Agilists Superpower and Challenge

Yasunobu Kawaguchi
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January 12, 2023
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  1. @LyssaAdkins
    LyssaAdkins.com
    AND OUR PLANETARY CHALLENGE
    Regional Scrum Gathering Japan 2023
    THE AGILISTS’ EMERGING SUPERPOWER
    Image by Oberholster
    Venita from Pixabay

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  2. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
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    We are in a huge shift all over the world.
    From the conception of organizations as machines…
    Image generated by DALL·E

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  3. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
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    …to the dawning realization that organizations
    are complex, like ecosystems, like rainforests.

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  4. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
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    Perpetual – occurring all the time
    Pervasive – unfolding in multiple areas of life at once
    Exponential – accelerating at an increasingly rapid rate
    Source: Harvard Business Review
    Volatile ⚡ Uncertain ⚡ Complex ⚡ Ambiguous
    +

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  5. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    Source: InspireMe! card deck
    Design by Deborah Hartmann Preuss
    ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins

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  6. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    Agility &
    Leadership
    Coach
    2nd Gen.
    Certified
    Scrum
    Trainers
    Developed 10,000 Agilists
    PMP
    in 2000
    PMO
    Leader
    (twice)
    Project
    Manager
    Oil & Gas
    Municipal Water
    Defense Systems
    Credit Cards
    MayoClinic.com
    Legal & Compliance
    Loyalty Platforms
    Many many IT Systems

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  7. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    sprint
    minimum viable product
    product increment
    retrospective
    backlog
    standup
    burndown
    user story
    release
    big room planning
    UNLIMITED NUMBER OF
    PRACTICES

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  8. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    Visualization attributed to Ahmed Sidky, ICAgile and Riot Games
    AGILE IS A
    MINDSET
    DESCRIBED BY
    A FEW VALUES
    DEFINED BY
    12 PRINCIPLES
    MANIFESTED THROUGH AN
    UNLIMITED NUMBER OF
    PRACTICES
    Scrum
    Kanban
    XP
    SAFe

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  9. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    Agile frameworks are
    They need practices and behaviors from other disciplines
    You are meant to inspect & adapt into a
    way of working for your situation
    without capitulating
    to limiting beliefs and structures that no longer serve

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  10. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    Agile frameworks are
    for metabolizing change
    again, and again, and again, and again, and again,
    and again, and again, and again, and again, and again,
    and again, and again, and again, and again, and again,
    and again, and again, and again, and again, and again,
    and again, and again, and again, and again, and again,
    and again, and again, and again, and again, and again,
    and again, and again, and again, and again, and again,

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  11. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
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    Agility makes it safe to change
    Regularly deliver business value so you
    Fast feedback loops to
    Inspect & adapt to
    Built-in cadence to pause, reconsider and
    Plan again to deliver a

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  12. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    Backlog
    Sprint
    Backlog
    Standup
    Daily
    < 4 weeks
    Sprint
    Retrospective
    Delivered
    Value
    🎉
    Sprint
    Review
    SCRUM
    FRAMEWORK
    Sprint
    Planning

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  13. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    Backlog
    Sprint
    Backlog
    Standup
    Daily
    < 4 weeks
    Sprint
    Retrospective
    Delivered
    Value
    🎉
    Sprint
    Review
    Sprint
    Planning
    Regularly deliver
    business value so you

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  14. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    Backlog
    Sprint
    Backlog
    Standup
    Daily
    < 4 weeks
    Sprint
    Retrospective
    Delivered
    Value
    🎉
    Sprint
    Review
    Sprint
    Planning
    Fast feedback loops to

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  15. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    Backlog
    Sprint
    Backlog
    Standup
    Daily
    < 4 weeks
    Sprint
    Retrospective
    Delivered
    Value
    🎉
    Sprint
    Review
    Sprint
    Planning
    Inspect & adapt to

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  16. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    Backlog
    Sprint
    Backlog
    Standup
    Daily
    < 4 weeks
    Sprint
    Retrospective
    Delivered
    Value
    🎉
    Sprint
    Review
    Sprint
    Planning
    Built-in cadence to
    pause, reconsider and

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  17. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    Backlog
    Sprint
    Backlog
    Standup
    Daily
    < 4 weeks
    Sprint
    Retrospective
    Delivered
    Value
    🎉
    Sprint
    Review
    Sprint
    Planning
    Plan again to deliver a

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  18. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    Focus
    Let the team
    focus &
    deliver…
    minimize
    distractions.
    Done Done
    Get to
    Done Done
    each sprint...
    don’t carry
    work over to
    the next
    sprint.
    Change
    Bring in
    change at
    start of a
    new sprint…
    not in the
    middle.
    Courage
    Be
    courageous
    when
    inspecting
    and
    adapting…
    hide nothing.
    Events
    Get good at
    the recurring
    events…
    don’t let them
    become
    meaningless
    rituals.
    FOR USING AGILE WELL TO METABOLIZE CHANGE
    Top 5 Tips

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  19. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    “Implement Scrum and
    all of the reasons that an
    organization has
    trouble delivering
    quality [product]
    on schedule are
    thrown up in your face
    day after day,
    month after month.”
    Ken Schwaber
    Co-creator of
    Scrum
    “The only thing
    Agility is
    guaranteed to
    deliver
    100% of the time
    is impediments.”
    Lyssa Adkins
    ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    Agility is a
    relentless
    impediment
    revealer

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  20. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    Jonathan Smart
    Impediments are not IN the path;
    impediments ARE the path.
    @LyssaAdkins
    ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins

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  21. GET AN IMPEDIMENT IN
    MIND RIGHT NOW
    (write it down)
    An impediment
    is anything that
    slows or stops
    your ability
    to deliver.
    ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins

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  22. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
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    the power to
    metabolize change
    for good
    We have an emerging superpower…

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  23. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    What’s the
    current reality?
    (the primary)
    What’s trying
    to emerge?
    (the secondary)
    Change
    Edge
    LIFE PUTS US AT
    CHANGE EDGES
    Being a couple… …to being parents
    Having horrible stage fright… …to playing guitar in bars
    Enjoying unrestricted mobility… …to being in lockdown
    Sources: Edge Theory of Change by Arnold Mindell,
    Application to Coaching by CRR Global: Organization
    & Relationship Systems Coaching ™

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  24. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    Edge
    Behaviors
    AGILE PUTS
    US AT EDGES
    Being told what to do… …to volunteering for tasks
    Deciding for the team… …to letting the team decide
    Avoiding failure at all costs… …to embracing “fail fast” to learn
    Sources: Edge Theory of Change by Arnold Mindell,
    Application to Coaching by CRR Global: Organization
    & Relationship Systems Coaching ™

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  25. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    Change
    Edge
    COMMON CHANGE
    EDGES FOR ORGS
    Inflexible plans that resist change
    because they deliver at the end…
    …to flexible plans that welcome
    change because they deliver frequently
    Specifying the product and
    waiting for delivery at the end…
    …to guiding the product and getting
    incremental delivery all the time
    Bottom-up, annual budgeting to
    fund disconnected projects…
    Sources: Edge Theory of Change by Arnold Mindell,
    Application to Coaching by CRR Global: Organization
    & Relationship Systems Coaching ™
    …to continuous budgeting of long-lived
    products linked to team delivery capacity

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  26. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    Change
    Edge
    COMMON CHANGE
    EDGES FOR YOU
    Alleviating discomfort as
    fast as possible…
    …to experiencing discomfort
    as a positive indicator of growth
    Waiting for change to
    happen from above…
    …to being an agent of
    change from where I sit
    Doing what I'm told…
    Sources: Edge Theory of Change by Arnold Mindell,
    Application to Coaching by CRR Global: Organization
    & Relationship Systems Coaching ™
    …to asking questions and
    voicing opinions so we can all
    discover what's better

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  27. A main reason
    change edges are not crossed and
    impediments continue to exist is Remember that
    impediment you thought
    about a little while ago?
    To address it, what
    conversation do you
    need to have?
    @LyssaAdkins
    ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    CONVERSATIONS
    WE ARE NOT
    HAVING

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  28. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
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    GET READY TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION
    Inner work
    PAUSE.
    Get clarity, alignment and integrity within yourself.
    Get to the essence of what you need to assert or ask for.
    Outer work
    Practice key moments of the conversation then…
    Go Do It!

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  29. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
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    GET CLARITY, ALIGNMENT, INTEGRITY WITHIN YOURSELF
    Inner work
    What is your intention in having this conversation?
    What is the positive difference that could happen if this
    conversation goes really well?
    How much better could it get if the change edge is crossed or
    the impediment is alleviated?
    What do you need to ask for? What do you need to assert?

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  30. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    Practice key moments of the conversation with a friendly
    colleague.
    Pro tip: Start the conversation with the answers from your Step 1
    questions before diving into “what’s wrong.”
    Just prior: Connect to your intention for having the conversation.
    Keep it in mind throughout. Let your intention guide you.
    GO DO IT!
    PRACTICE LEY MOMENTS, THEN GO DO IT!
    Outer work

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  31. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
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    Image generated by DALL·E
    @LyssaAdkins
    ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins

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  32. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    Instead of thinking of agility as
    something to “do”
    or even as something to “be”,
    think of it instead as a
    brilliant, emergent response
    that helps us thrive in
    constant change and disruption.
    @LyssaAdkins
    ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins

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  33. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins

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  34. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
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    TODAY
    THE AGE OF
    REGENERATION
    OUR PLANETARY CHALLENGES HAVE THEIR ROOTS IN
    4 MAIN AREAS OF SEPARATION

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  35. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
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    FULL EXPRESSION OF ALL QUALITIES IS NEEDED
    MASCULINE QUALITIES
    Competitive
    Assertive
    Protective
    Goal-oriented
    Rational thinking
    Independent
    Mono-task
    Bias for action
    FEMININE QUALITIES
    Collaborative
    Receptive
    Nurturing
    Relationship-oriented
    Intuitive feeling
    Interdependence
    Multi-task
    Bias for flow
    Source: Hutchins and Storm

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  36. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
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    Image generated by DALL·E
    @LyssaAdkins
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    What are you applying agile to that is worthy of you?

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  37. ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins
    @LyssaAdkins
    ありがとうございます

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