Lyssa Adkins : Agilists Superpower and Challenge

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@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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©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins @LyssaAdkins @LyssaAdkins ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins 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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©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins @LyssaAdkins @LyssaAdkins ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins Image generated by DALL·E …to the dawning realization that organizations are complex, like ecosystems, like rainforests.

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©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins @LyssaAdkins @LyssaAdkins ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins 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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©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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©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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©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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©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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©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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©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins @LyssaAdkins ©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins 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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©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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©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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©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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©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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©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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©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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©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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©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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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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©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins @LyssaAdkins 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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©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins @LyssaAdkins 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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©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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©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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©2023 Cricketwing Consulting @LyssaAdkins @LyssaAdkins 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