Leading in the Agile World How ' ' '

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Leading in the Agile WorldHow . . . ?
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L e a d i n g C h a n g e T h r o u g h C o l
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Pollyanna Pixton Founding Partner,
Accelinnova Director Institute of Collaborative
Leadership
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Agile Leadership Challenges
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Leadership Challenges

• Its no longer enough to respond to change
• today organizations must lead change
• or be left behind.
• - Pollyanna Pixton

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Leadership Challenges

• Get more done by doing less
• Lead change and embrace change
• Deliver the Right product
• Meet customers changing needs
• Deliver to rapidly moving market windows
• Innovate on both sides of your business model

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Leadership Challenges

• The way you will thrive in this environment is
  by innovating innovating in technologies,
  innovating strategies, innovating business
  models.
• - IBM CEO Samuel J. Palmisano
  BusinessWeek,
  April 24, 2006

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Features and Functions

Always or Often Used 20
Always 7
Often 13
Never Used 45
Sometimes 16
Rarely Used 19
Never or Rarely Used 64
Standish Group Study, reported by CEO Jim
Johnson, XP2002
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Agile Leaders Must

• Deliver business value
• Increase productivity
• Lead change andembrace change
• Innovate

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How Do We Lead Agile?
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Leadership Models

• Agile Leadership
• Embraces or creates change
• Collaborates and gives ownership
• Influential
• Fosters new ideas

• Non-Agile
• Controls or responds to change
• Authoritarian with leader deciding
• Bureaucratic
• Knows the answers

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Leadership Models

Strategy
Collaboration
Business Value
Embrace Change
Real Options
Cultivate Innovation
Project Governance
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Leadership Models

Strategy
Collaboration
Business Value
Embrace Change
Real Options
Cultivate Innovation
Project Governance
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Purpose Based AlignmentEveryone inline with
company goals

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Strategic Development

Mission
Vision
Values
Strategic Intent Strategy Purpose
Strategic
Long-Range Goals
Start Here
SCO / 5Q
Annual Objectives
Action Plans (what, who, when)
Tactical
Individual Business Objectives
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Purpose-Based Alignment

High
Innovate
Do We Take This On?
Market Differentiating
Achieve and Maintain Parity
Who Cares?
Low
High
Low
Mission Critical
- Niel Nickolaisen Model
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Leadership Models

Strategy
Collaboration
Business Value
Embrace Change
Real Options
Cultivate Innovation
Project Governance
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Projects
Balancing Project Portfolios Doing the Right
Things Right

• Why Projects Are Different

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Project Differences

High
Bulls
Colts
Simple, young projects.
Agility to handle uncertainty
Process definition to cope with complexity
Need agility
Tight Teams
Skunks
Uncertainty
Cows
laissez faire
Complex, mature market
Dogs
Need defined interfaces
Dogs
Low
Low
High
Project Complexity
- Todd Little Model
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Partitioning

Colt Project
Bull Program
Dog Project
Cow Project
Remember Loose Coupling and Strong Cohesion
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Leadership Models

Strategy
Collaboration
Business Value
Embrace Change
Real Options
Cultivate Innovation
Project Governance
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Collaboration
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Collaboration Process

• None of us are as smart as all of us.
  Japanese Proverb

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Implement and Review

• Unleashing Innovation

The answers are in your organization.
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Leading Agile

• Collaboration Model
• Collaboration Process

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Unleashing Innovation
Collaboration Model

• Collaboration Model

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Collaboration Model

• Create an Open Environment

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Collaboration Model

• Convene the Right People From the Entire
  Enterprise!
• Customers
• Marketing
• Sales
• Finance
• Technology
• Manufacturing
• Stakeholders

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Collaboration Model

• Foster
• Creativity
• Innovation
• via
• Collaboration Process

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Collaboration Model

• Stand back,
• Let
• Them
• Work.

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Unleashing Innovation

• Collaboration Process

Collaboration Process
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Collaboration Process

• 1. Agree to
• Goals
• Objectives
• Purpose

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Collaboration Process

• 2. Brainstorm
• 3. Group
• 4. Prioritize
• Based on Business Value

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Collaboration Process

• 5. Individuals
• Volunteer
• For What
• And
• By When

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Lead Agile ThroughCollaborative Leadership
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Collaborative Leadership

• The
• Right
• People

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The Right People

• Hire and promote
• First on the basis of integrity
• Second, motivation
• Third, capacity
• Fourth, understanding
• Fifth, knowledge
• Last and least, experience
• - Dee Hock, CEO Emeritus VISA International

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The Right People

• Authenticity
• Attitude
• Intelligence
• Talent

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The Right People

Passionate About
Best At
Organizational Fit
All team members operate within the intersection
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Collaborative Leadership

• Trust First!

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Collaborative Leadership

• They tell you
• what needs
• to happen
• for success
• and results.

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Collaborative Leadership

• Step Aside,
• Let
• Them
• Work!

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Collaborative Leadership

• Leadership Tipping Point
• When to lead
• When to step back
• Where is your Tipping Point?
• How can you step up and still be collaborative?

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Project Management

• Remove Obstacles

Remove Obstacles Leadership Tips
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Leading Collaboration

• Ricardo Semler, CEO of Semco, believes that all
  people desire to achieve excellence and that
  autocracy dampens peoples creativity and
  motivation.
• - The Seven-Day Weekend

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Leading Collaboration

• Influence Not Authority

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Leading Collaboration

• Keep
• the
• Purpose
• Alive

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Leading Collaboration

• Everyone
• Sees the
• Big Picture

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Leading Collaboration

• Fix
• Processes
• Not
• People

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Leading Collaboration

• No Such Thing
• As
• Constructive
• Criticism

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Collaboration For Quality

• Feedback
• That Honors the Relationship

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Leading Innovation

• Fail Early Fail Fast!

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Project Management
Communicate!

• Focus, Communication, and Expectation Management

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Communication

• Collaborative
• Communication
• Teams Collaborate
• On All Decisions
• And
• Solutions

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Collaboration

• Organizations change in the directionin which
  they inquire.
• Inquire.
• Question.
• Listen.

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Leading Collaboration

• Free Team to Question, Analyze and Investigate

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Leading Collaboration

• The Opposite of Control is Discovery

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• Create a place where people want to be not have
  to be
• Make sure everyone has what they need to
  succeed.

Great Leadership
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Leadership Models

Strategy
Collaboration
Business Value
Embrace Change
Real Options
Cultivate Innovation
Project Governance
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Definitions
Business Value Models Get More Done by Doing Less
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Business Value Models

Purpose
Value Model
Benefits
Business Value
Considerations
- Kent McDonald Model
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Real Options

• Add activities to reduce risk to plan
• Revisit riskprocessfrequently

- Chris Matts Model
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Leading Agile Summary

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Leadership Models

Strategy
Collaboration
Business Value
Embrace Change
Real Options
Cultivate Innovation
Project Governance
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Summary

• Collaborate to
• Focus on Strategic Alignment Identify your
  Decision Filters
• Deliver the Right product Right Balance your
  portfolios
• Create Business Value Build models and exercise
  them as inputs change

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• Your Questions?

Agile Leadership
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References

• The Seven-Day Weekend, Ricardo Semler
• Good to Great Why Some Companies Make the
• Orbiting the Giant Hairball A Corporate Fool's
  Guide to Surviving with Grace, Gordon MacKenzie
• Organizing Genius, The Secrets of Creative
  Collaboration, Warren Bennis

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Contact

• Pollyanna Pixton
• www.accelinnova.com
• www.evolutionarysystems.net
• www.collaborativeleadership.com
• 1 . 801 . 209 . 0195
• p2_at_ppixton.com