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It means killing your org to live again. This resonates with me. I've experienced a few "agile transformations". They almost never stuck. The thing that mostl
by JackMcMack 7y ago
It means killing your org to live again.
This resonates with me.
I've experienced a few "agile transformations". They almost never stuck. The thing that mostly worked was creating teams with a majority of experienced agile devs, people willing to self improve and execute. And when the job is over, it all starts falling apart. Some team members might be believers now, they become disillusioned and leave. Some might have been good followers, but quickly conform to the old ways. You only have a temporary influence on a single team or project. You can't change a company's culture like that, without it hitting rock bottom first. This is very similar to overcoming addiction.
I've long wondered why NUMMI worked where others failed, something I believe is largely ignored in most literature: the factory closed. All the workers were out of a job for several weeks. And in comes Toyota with jobs for many workers, with the hopes of giving every single worker their job back.
- williamdclt 7y agoI saw an interesting talk by Alistair Cockburn (one of the Agile Manifesto guys), where he said he never once saw a succesful "agile transformation". Just too much resistance to change to have any chance to succeed. What did succeed, is to create what he called a "new building", meaning a new subcompany (sometimes literally in a new building) with a different (agile) culture, and only letting in people that are interested in making it work. Slowly let the old company die, the new one grow. It takes years and years.
- joshuacc 7y agoHappen to have a link to a video of this talk?
- williamdclt 7y agoSadly not, I was a question-answer format in a small group at the Paris Digital Lean Summit. It wasn't filmed
- di4na 7y agoRegarding Nummi: the same workers work, but it was obvious and well known from the beginning that it was a different way to do things. It was not a change from the previous one. It was a different organisation altogether