What do you want to improve?
Being/doing/scaling Agile isn’t the point @neil_killick
Improve
I’m gonna have to
Agile the shit out of this!
– feelings of anxiety and discomfort resulting from simultaneously holding contradictory or otherwise incompatible attitudes, beliefs, or sets of assumptions”
Source: https://flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/the-nine-principles-of-organisational-psychotherapy/Photo: Contradiction by wornish
“Many organisations, particularly in times of stress or change, suffer acutely from ‘organisational cognitive dissonance’
Vision
Where we are
Collective Mindset Sliders
Collective Mindset Sliders
Where we should be
Capability 3
Capability 4
Capability 5
Capability 6
Capability 7
Capability 8
Capability 9
Capability 10
Backlog Doing
Capability 2Capability 1
Next
Team 1
Team 2
DONE
No. 1 priority capability - which teams are required to deliver it end-to end?
Teams 1 and 2, in this case
Capability 11
Capability 12
Backlog of customer capabilities, ordered by value
Capability 1Team 1
Team 2Capability 2
Team 1
Team 3
Capability 3
Capability 4
Capability 5
Capability 6
Capability 7
Capability 8
Capability 9
Capability 10
Capability 11
Capability 12
Backlog DoingNext DONE
Next priority capability also requires Team 1, but Team 1 is focused on a higher priority capability - leave them alone!
If Team 3 starts without Team 1, they may end up either having
to interrupt Team 1 (who are working on a higher priority feature), or leaving Capability 2 unfinished to start another
Let’s put a blocked sign on the capability to signify that a lower priority capability is being selected
Capability 1Team 1
Team 2Capability 2
Team 1
Team 3
Capability 3 Team 3
Capability 4
Capability 5
Capability 6
Capability 7
Capability 8
Capability 9
Capability 10
Capability 11
Capability 12
Backlog DoingNext DONE
Team 3, and every team in fact, should pull in the highest priority capability for which they have no dependency on a
team working on a higher priority capability
Capability 1Team 1
Team 2Capability 2
Team 1
Team 3
Capability 3 Team 3
Capability 4Team 4
Capability 5 Team 6
Team 5
Capability 6
Capability 7
Capability 8
Capability 9
Capability 10
Capability 11
Capability 12
Backlog DoingNext DONE
Capability 4Team 4
Capability 5 Team 6
Team 5
Capability 3 Team 3
Teams pull in work
Capability 3
Capability 1
Capability 4
Capability 5
Capability 6
Team 4
Team 5
Team 6
Capability 1 is “Done”, so teams 1 and 2 are available to pull in the next highest priority capability that they have the
ability to work on
Team 3
Capability 2Team 1
Team 3
Capability 7 Team 2
Capability 8
Capability 9
Capability 10
Capability 11
Capability 12
Backlog DoingNext DONE
Team 1 should work on top priority (blocked) capability
Teams 1 and 3 should now co-ordinate to put focus on the higher
priority capability
Capability 3
Capability 1
Capability 4
Capability 5
Capability 6
Team 4
Team 5
Team 6
Team 3
Capability 2 Team 1
Capability 7 Team 2
Capability 8Team 1
Team 4
Capability 9Team 2
Team 6
Capability 10 Team 3
Capability 11 Team 5
Capability 12
Backlog DoingNext DONE
Iterate
Survive
★ Company vision★ Customer capabilities★ “How the work
works”★ Synchronise as a
company★ Iterate as a company
So, what is the point?