Structured Freedom with Rules & Strategies

Prabhakar Karve

In Our Session Today..

Your expectations

Help meet challenges of agile leadership

Simple generic solutions - not tips & tricks

Outline

Introduce rules & strategies

Agile success factors - Leadership challenges

Manage rules - support strategies

Organizational structures & effect on freedom

Q&A

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Rules and Strategies

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Rules and Strategies

Rules

Created by few – Followed by many

Follow – or face the consequences

Purpose or reason of creating any specific rule

Welcome – or oppose

Beliefs/ Preconceived notions

Strategies

Created by all – For themselves

No direct consequences

Specific situation or context

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Rules and Strategies

Rules -> Strategies

To subvert rules

To replace rules

Can co-exist with rules

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Priorities For This Decade

Key success factors for agile movement

Demand technical excellence

Promote individual change and lead organizational change

Organize knowledge and encourage education

Maximize value creation across the entire process

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Enhanced quality

“Done” within short iterations

Specific roles & responsibilities

Significantly different vis-à-vis traditional methodology

Self-organizing Culture

Supported by self disciplined teams

Leadership Challenges

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How are we doing so far?

Manage Rules

Support Strategies

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Quality

“Done” within short iterations

Scrum as a container for best practices

Requirement readiness

Change in code - test sequence

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Roles & Responsibility

Clear-cut responsibilities and authority

As rules for incumbents

Who support each other

Need strategies for all others

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Self-organizing Culture

Needs self-disciplined Teams

“Can do” belief

Progressive empowerment

Collaborate, learn and share

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General Guidelines

Rules

Avoid too many rules

Scrum rules & org rules

Periodically review for relevance

Strategies

Document the context

Build a good repository

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Structures and Freedom

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Structures

Assumption - What works today will work in the future

Structures evolve by repeated use

Habit forming

Once formed difficult to change

Useful structures help streamline work

Harmful structures create roadblocks

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Structure Types

Hierarchical Structures

Power structures

Communication channels

Legal Structures

Policies procedures & standards

Automation & tools

Cultural Structures

Traditions and conventions

Peer pressure

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Freedom

Agile teams need greater freedom

Structures help as well as hinder freedom

Mature self-disciplined individuals

Need and handle greater freedom

Progressive empowerment

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Agile leadership

Scrum teams

Work closely with Scrum masters

Progressively transfer control to the teams

Strategies to integrate other stakeholders

Organization

Repeat strategies to create processes

Watch structures - calibrate rules

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Questions

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Thank you