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Pull Transformation: How-To and 2 Case Studies

February 28, 2021 By Anurag Shrivastava

Pull Transformation is the only kind of change that actually works. Pull tailors a tiny but uncompromised end-to-end proof of concept capability – business, design, delivery and devops – then matures it into a “Steel Thread” and grows the capability at an exponential rate without ever pushing change into any existing teams and streams.

In this session the founder of the XSCALE Alliance will share the gory details of two highly successful Pull-transformations we strategized and coached over a five year period, 2009-2014. The first transformed a portfolio of 330 people at Australia’s largest insurer, Insurance Australia Group. The second transformed a whole corporate group of 50,000 people at Australia’s largest banking group, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Both organizations have experienced many waves of agile and “Agile” since those days. The value they’ve received thereby varies depending on what you mean by value and when and who you ask about it. Still both organizations generally conform to what you may think of as Agile Manifesto values and principles where many (most?) Push transformations of similar scope leave nothing but an AINO bureaucracy – Agile In Name Only …

Tagged With: Agile, Australia, business-agility, case-study, descaling, English, gandhi, how-to, pull, transformation, xscale

The Camelot Model: self-Management for Agile programs in Covid lockdown

February 15, 2021 By Anurag Shrivastava

The Camelot Model

How do we get an agile organization to self-manage online in the VUCA world of 2021? Command and control doesn’t work over zoom. Teal models like Spotify and Holacracy don’t either. But Camelot provides an easy solution we can get working in just a couple of hours with an absolute minimum of overhead to empower descaling autonomy-in-alignment across large organizations even when all our staff are trapped in Zoom rooms.

In a way, these are problems real world tribal societies have already solved. Up to a million people collaborated like this over a period of over eight centuries in the North American “Haudenosaunee Confederacy” through its “Great Law of Peace”. Their problems were different to ours, but the disconnects caused by the decentralization of their villages and tribes were much the same as the ones we experience in Zoom. There are important practical lessons we can draw from their experience.

The XSCALE Alliance of agile coaches ran a series of experiments with these ideas around the world over the past five years. The result is a simple but powerful self-management toolkit we call “The Camelot Model”. Why Camelot? Because “it’s only a model”. It’s not a one-size-fits-all framework but a pattern language we can apply in many different configurations to solve the specific organizational problems we’re actually experiencing today.

Tagged With: alignment, Autonomy, Business Agility, descaling, ecosystems thinking, leadership as a service, quality circles, round councils, self-management, tribes

The Descaling Manifesto

February 2, 2021 By Anurag Shrivastava

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Scaling destroys business agility – meaning the ability to respond to changing market conditions. In 2018 only 4% of State Of Agile respondents reported that Agile helped their business respond to changing market conditions. In 2019 it was 6%. In 2020, the survey stopped asking that question.

Responding to change is one of the four manifesto values, so that’s a massively expensive failure across the whole world. Ignoring that failure in the VUCA world of 2021 is suicidal for any organization. So this session is about the values and principles of a new movement that inherits the whole Agile manifesto, and repurposes it to help organizations continuously, intelligently adapt to changing market conditions.

We’ll learn 5 critical descaling metrics and how to measure them across your organization; understand why we need to supplement the Agile values with 4 more if were going to accelerate learning flow across the organization, and explore 12 simple but extremely powerful ecosystem-thinking principles that distinguish agile businesses from hidebound, self-defeating bureaucracies.

 

Tagged With: Business Agility, descaling, ecossystem, English, learning, Manifesto, Metrics, principles, Values, xscale

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