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Beyond Copy Paste Agile

Beyond Copy Paste Agile

Beyond Copy Paste Agile
Presented @ Smidig Meetup - Oslo Norway - 6 May 2024

After 5 years coaching Leaders at Spotify, I grew weary of companies claiming they were copying us.

My problem is most companies wanting agility, start at the team level and ignoring the opportunities and problems across their org, and leadership that would improve their business results, and not merely a teams output.

This talk is my take on what to be aware of when taking inspiration from the approaches of others, how to go understanding your situation well enough to be sure you aren't solving a problem you don't have. Finally how to engage leadership in designing around their biases and defaults, to create the habits need to sustain the momentum of improvement.

I explore this through three lenses.

Systems - Looking beyond the team level to create focus across all flight levels
Science - How to avoid missing out, find your highest leverage opportunities
Sapiens - How to build habits that consistently design around your Bias

Check out - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cliffhazell/ for more info :)

Cliff Hazell

May 06, 2024
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  1. @cli ff hazell cli ff hazell.com Smidig Meetup - Oslo

    6 May 2024 Beyond Copy Paste Agile Cliff Hazell Becoming a leader worth following CLIFFHAZELL.COM
  2. 1. Create Focus beyond the team 2. Find Leverage, be

    smart not work hard 3. Build Habits that design around your bias CLIFFHAZELL.COM Three Take Aways
  3. CLIFFHAZELL.COM team 1 team 2 team 3 team 4 customer

    wish: write a love letter (Credit: Flight Levels Academy)
  4. CLIFFHAZELL.COM NEXT DONE DEVELOP BACKLOG WAITING 4 INTEGRATION WAITING 4

    ACCEPTANCE WAITING 4 RELEASE quarterly monthly EXTERNAL WAITING
  5. CLIFFHAZELL.COM NEXT DONE DEVELOP BACKLOG WAITING 4 INTEGRATION WAITING 4

    ACCEPTANCE WAITING 4 RELEASE quarterly monthly EXTERNAL WAITING
  6. CLIFFHAZELL.COM NEXT DON DEVELOP WAITING BACKLOG WAITING 4 INTEGRATION WAITING

    4 ACCEPTANCE WAITING 4 RELEASE ANALYZE DEVELOPMENT PRODUCT BACKLOG WAITING
  7. CLIFFHAZELL.COM NEXT BACKLOG ANALYZE DEVELOPMENT PRODUCT BACKLOG WAITING DETAIL CONCEPT

    ROUGH CONCEPT WAITING 4 APPROVAL WAITING 4 STEERING COMMITTEE WAITING WAITING IDEA TRIAGE POOL OF NEW IDEAS
  8. CLIFFHAZELL.COM NEXT DONE DEVELOP BACKLOG WAITING 4 INTEGRATION WAITING 4

    ACCEPTANCE WAITING 4 RELEASE ANALYZE DEVELOPMENT PRODUCT BACKLOG DETAIL CONCEPT ROUGH CONCEPT WAITING 4 APPROVAL WAITING 4 STEERING COMMITTEE WAITING IDEA TRIAGE POOL OF NEW IDEAS WAITING WAITING WAITING we are so f&%#ing AGILE, yay!! monthly quarterly yearly quarterly monthly (Credit: Flight Levels Academy, Klaus Leopold)
  9. “Decentralising control requires decentralising both authority to make decisions and

    the information to make them correctly” Don Reinertsen CLIFFHAZELL.COM
  10. CLIFFHAZELL.COM Flight Level 2 coordination level Flight Level 3 strategic

    level Flight Level 1 operational level Fli gh t Lev els (Credit: Flight Levels Academy)
  11. CLIFFHAZELL.COM Flight Level 2 coordination level Flight Level 3 strategic

    level Flight Level 1 operational level (Credit: Flight Levels Academy) Fli gh t Lev els
  12. Go Beyond the Team Focus on interactions between teams Don’t

    let #17 block #1 Avoid traffic jams CLIFFHAZELL.COM
  13. CLIFFHAZELL.COM Jus t w o r k h a r

    d e r ? (Credit: Flight Levels Academy)
  14. We’re so busy: Rarely make time to check results Seldom

    look for, or work on, the highest leverage. CLIFFHAZELL.COM
  15. CLIFFHAZELL.COM “The human mind is a story processor, not a

    logic processor.” “In t u it i on s co m e fi r s t, st ra tegi c r e as o ni ng se c on d.”
  16. CLIFFHAZELL.COM “What makes a decision great is not that it

    has a great outcome. A great decision is the result of a good process, and that process must include an attempt to accurately represent our own state of knowledge”
  17. Quantify Hypothesis. Write first, then reflect and learn from outcomes.

    Look for Leverage Don’t work hard, be smart. CLIFFHAZELL.COM
  18. If you have dead wood in your company, either you

    hired dead wood. Or you hired live wood, and killed it CLIFFHAZELL.COM paraphrasing Peter Scholtes
  19. 1 Achieved + Learned 2 Planned next 3 On our

    minds 4 Stressed by 5 Need help CLIFFHAZELL.COM
  20. Acknowledge Bias Notice who’s missing Design around your Bias Build

    the habits that create coherent understanding CLIFFHAZELL.COM
  21. 1. Create Focus beyond the team 2. Find Leverage, be

    smart not work hard 3. Build Habits that design around your bias CLIFFHAZELL.COM Three Take Aways
  22. @cli ff hazell cli ff hazell.com Smidig Meetup - Oslo

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