Executive success through agility
John Anthony Coleman
Executive guide, product leader, creator of Kanplexity? & Xagility?, co-author of Kanban Guide (also a Flight Levels Coach, ProKanban trainer, Scrum.org trainer, LeSS-Friendly Scrum Trainer, Agile Kata trainer etc. )
Executive success through agility Guide
The latest draft of the executive agility guide was restructured this week to be the executive success through agility guide.
I'm trying to be fair; I included links to enagement models, some of which I don't like. And the document describes change agent types.
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If executive success through agility was done well, what would it look like?
Enlightened executives and board members:
The document refers to about thirty engagement models. One engagement model, Xagility, captures the expected behaviors; executives and board members can choose their own path through it.
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What good does not look like
Exhibit A
Basil: Good morning, sir. Welcome to Fawlty Towers. How may I help you?
Guest: I’m here for the executive agility workshop. I have a reservation under the name of Smith. Basil: Ah, yes. Mr. Smith. The workshop is on the second floor, room 12. You’ll find it very enlightening, I’m sure.
Guest: Thank you very much.
Basil: Not at all. And if you need anything else, just let me know.
Guest: Actually, there is one thing. Do you have any tips on how to be more agile as an executive?
Basil: Well, sir, I’m afraid I don’t know much about that. But if you ask me, the best way to be agile is to avoid any contact with your customers, your staff and your competitors. That way, you can always change your mind without anyone noticing or complaining.
Guest: Really? That sounds rather unorthodox. Basil: Trust me, sir. It works wonders for me.
Exhibit B
Basil: Hello, madam. Welcome to Fawlty Towers. I hope you had a pleasant journey.
Guest: Thank you, yes. I'm here for the executive agility workshop. It's supposed to help me improve my leadership skills and adapt to changing situations.
Basil: Oh, how nice. And what do you do, madam?
Guest: I'm the CEO of a large multinational corporation.
Basil: Really? How impressive. And how do you manage to be agile in such a complex and competitive environment?
Guest: Well, I try to keep an open mind and learn from my mistakes.
Basil: Do you now? And how often do you make mistakes?
Guest: Well, not very often, of course.
Basil: Of course not. You're perfect, aren't you? You never make any errors or blunders or gaffes or faux pas or bloopers or boo-boos or slip-ups or flubs or fumbles or miscalculations or misjudgments or oversights or misunderstandings or mix-ups or snafus...
Guest: All right, all right. I get the point.
Basil: Do you? Do you really? Because it seems to me that you're not very agile at all. You're just a pompous and arrogant and overconfident and self-righteous and smug and conceited and pretentious and haughty and supercilious and patronizing and...
Guest: That's enough! How dare you insult me like that? I demand to speak to your manager!
Basil: Oh, I'm sorry madam. But I am the manager.
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On the Xagility podcast this week
Welcome back to the Xagility Podcast. In this episode, I am delighted to be joined by Darren Linden to discuss change, development, and transformation within an organization.
02:12 Recognizing that you're not the only expert in the room
06:58 Inflicting help when help is needed
15:05 Managing expectations about uncertainty
20:14 Is change ever finished?
About Darren Linden and his company, Modu.
Digital Rethinking Everything about the way consulting, product, technology and delivery is done by leading hyper growth consulting firm modu, as CEO. Over 20 years of unique client side and service side leadership, delivery and technology experience with AOL, T-Mobile, O2, Sky, Barclays, Equal Experts and Sullivan & Stanley. We believe uncertainty and volatility defines much of the dynamics of business in the 21st century. Our expertise lies in enabling companies to turn this volatility from a challenge into an opportunity, creating and delivering industry defining products and experiences. It’s time for a different choice of consulting.
A little taste of Xagility
Partnership
The #agilemanifesto was created in 2001 by a group of talented, skilled and experienced software engineers with the intention of shifting from process management to product development. The concept lay in creating products, features and opportunities that truly delight customers rather than following a rigid, predetermined framework of rules and requirements. Some of the top companies in the world such as spotify and netflix bear testimony to what can be achieved when organizations transform from 20th century style management to 21st century style #businessagility.
So, how does that happen? How do companies transform how they work and create environments that are receptive to #agile frameworks, values and principles?
Truth is, it requires a partnership.
In this short video, John Coleman talks about the value of partnership when considering an #agile adoption.
On YouTube this week
How has Agile evolved since 2001
How has #agile evolved since it's formal inception in 2001? How has the philosophy and industry evolved, based on everything that has been learned in the past 21 years, and where will it lead to next? In this short video, I provides some insights into how #agile has evolved and where I imagine it will go to next.
Action Replay - Klaus Leopold on the value of Flight Levels and his book Rethinking Agile
John Coleman speaks to Klaus Leopold about the concept of #flightlevels and his book, Rethinking Agile.
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Thank you for reading. Have a lovely week.