University School of Agility SAFe Leadership Presented by: Berkana Enterprise Consulting Mac Felsing, SPC/CSM The College of William & Mary Mason School of Business Center for Corporate Education Williamsburg, Virginia

Mac Felsing Certification history:  SPC – SAFe Program Consultant  CSM - Certified Scrum Master  Author Agile Community Involvement: NYC, Virginia, SoCal, Denver; speaker at conferences and community events, including: InnovateVirginia.com Instructor Fun or Unique Fact: Performed with 3 professional opera companies and a regional symphony. Also builds scale models.

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Lean Thinking

SAFE Leadership – the Lean View House of Lean – Foundation is Lean Agile Leaders Responsibility for success lies with existing leaders, managers, executives – not the agile champions, practitioners, teams, consultants. The leaders must be trained in these new ways of thinking and exhibit and teach them. Characteristics Understand Lean-Agile Principles, long term philosophy guides day-to-day decisions, understand and teach the behaviors Trained in practices, roles, activities, and artifacts of SAFe and other effective Agile practices Trained in tools and practices of continuous improvement and teach problem solving and corrective action skills Engaged in new process adoption, remove impediments, facilitate OCM Take personal responsibility for Lean-Agile success

Discussion 1) How does this differ from “traditional” Agile views on leadership? 2) What do we expect from management in a “traditional” Agile environment? 3) Where does this type of Lean-Agile attitude usually reside?

SAFE Leadership – Lean Agile Leaders Lifelong learners and teachers. Build better teams by demonstrating the values, principles and practices of Lean, Product Development Flow, and Agile Development Lean Agile Leadership Principles 1.Take a Systems View 2.Embrace the Agile Manifesto 3.Implement Product Development Flow 4.Unlock the Intrinsic Motivation of Knowledge workers

Take a Systems View  Understand the economics, value chain and the Cost of Delay.  Optimize the whole not the parts – organization and systems.  Own the system. Take responsibility for Systemic Change.  Align everyone to a common mission  Implement Lean-Agile budgeting

Embrace the Agile Manifesto  Support the its values and principles.  Know how to use the tools and practices  Foster excellence in software engineering, craftsmanship, collaborative system design  Empower teams. Exhibit Kaizen mind and a bias towards doing (action).

Implement Product Development Flow  Visualize the work, expose WIP and bottlenecks, reduce queues and backlogs.  Smaller batches.  Accelerated feedback.  Exploit and manage variability using cadence and synchronization.  Limit WIP and match demand to capacity

Unlock Intrinsic Motivation of Knowledge Workers  Build a learning organization – emphasize it  Create an environment of mutual influence  Encourage decentralized decision making  Provide vision with minimal requirements – what not how  Eliminate policies that cause bad behavior (MBO’s etc) and suck the life out of an organization  Align evaluations and measures to reflect lean values and principles

Discussion – Making it Real 1) For each of the 4 Lean-Agile Principles talk about when you have seen it in your organization? 2) What are some of the barriers to achieving 3) Are these behaviors for each of the principles only for management? Think about defending your answer. 4) Do you have any opportunities to practice any of these behaviors at your work

The Challenge… Ask yourself, What can I do to start exhibiting Agile-Lean Leadership in my organization? Write down 3 things to actively change Start working on them when you leave today!

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