1. Business Agility – beyond Agile
JanDeBaere,Franky Redant–Sr.AgileTransformationcoachesatCegeka.
24-11-2016

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Agile Manifesto
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:

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Black Swans exist
BLACK SWANS EXIST

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What if …
We brought together some concepts and practical tools
Which brings us from Agile to Business Agility?

6. “Business Agility
is the ability to gain from
continuous change”
(2016, Jan De Baere & Franky Redant)

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Complex Complicated
ObviousChaotic
sense-analyse-respond
sense-categorise-respond
probe-sense-respond
act-sense-respond
Cognitive Edge, Dave Snowden

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Complexity Heuristics
Reduce granularity
Distribute cognition
Disintermediate decision taking

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On Leadership & complexity
About bees
and sheep

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Radical new leadership
Seven principles of Radical management(*)
1. The goal of work is to delight clients.
2. Work is conducted in self-organizing teams.
3. Teams operate in client-driven iterations.
4. Each iteration delivers value to clients.
5. Managers foster radical transparency.
6. Managers nurture continuous self-improvement.
7. Managers communicating interactively through stories, questions and conversations.
means
(*) The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management, Stephen Denning

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Agile
Animals.

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Agile =
FAST
FLEXIBLE
FOCUS
FORWARD
Adapt
Align
Anticipate
Accelerate

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ANTIFRAGILE

14. Fragile Robust Antifragile

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Barbell strategy

16. HORMESIS
is a biological phenomenon whereby a beneficial
effect (improved health, stress tolerance, growth or
longevity) results from exposure to low doses of an
agent that is otherwise toxic or lethal when given at
higher doses.

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To become antifragile,… …it is better to develop ability for
agilty instead of investing in better
prediction systems

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Developing agility is
transforming the organization
to gain from complexity.

19. AgileTransformationApproach(*)
Care
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Team of
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TEAM
TEAM of TEAMS
ORGANISATION
Mindset, method, tools
Structures, systems
Culture, Leadership
Strategy
* ( cc - 2015, the Agile Transformation Approach (ATAp) designed by Franky Redant)
Foundations, goals, principles
Legend:
Teal Team = Transformation Team
Blue teams = management teams
Green teams = operational teams (dev-ops)
Transformation Team
Assessment of Agility
Assessment, readiness criteria
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AgileValues&principles

20. “Business Agility
is the ability to gain from
continuous change”

21. (Thank you)