ExecutivesAndAgile

Challenge of Traditional Thinking vs Agile Thinking:

Taylor	Deming
"Core Group Theory"	Good to Great
Accountability	Responsibility
Waterfall	Agile
Hierarchy (Pyramid)	Turn the pyramid upside down
Management	Leadership
Manager	Knowledge Worker
Study / Deterministic	Emergent / Contextual
PMO	Strive for Perfection
Power	Servant Leader
Denial	Achievement

How Help them "get it"?

• Give them management practices that help them internalize the values.
• Show them results so they want to try something.
• Find a pain point.
  • Satir Change Model
  • denial, CYA, etc.
• Manager Sprints
• Emotional Levers
  • Share Dan Pink TED talk - Extrinsic motivation does not work
• Run Experiments with manager - "Trial Run"
• Book: Made to Stick (how get ideas to stick)
  • Simple, Concrete, Unexpected, Emotional
• Open Space Discussion, crowd source ideas
• Draw their organization in front of them, then rip it off the wall and turn upside down to show them what it looks like with Agile.
• Create innovation verses IT cutting costs
• Create backlog for management team

How get execs to pain safely?

• graph Applied Innovation ($) vs. Lean Operations Model
  • show how introducing practices improve results over time
• Brainstorm with postits and dot voting to show management what the organization really needs
  • what is really going on

How tell if worth it?

• Not everyone wants this.
• If they don't, find someone else who does.