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Upon retrospective
Agility and a Board
v1.4 @Agile Alliance, Christchurch | Feb 2020 | sandra@theproductspace.com
Alan Kirkland Chief Executive Officer Sandra Davey Chair of the Board
Upon retrospective Agility and a Board v1.4 @Agile Alliance, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Upon retrospective Agility and a Board v1.4 @Agile Alliance, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Upon retrospective Agility and a Board v1.4 @Agile Alliance, Christchurch | Feb 2020 | sandra@theproductspace.com Sandra Davey Alan Kirkland Chair of the Board Chief Executive Officer COMPANY BOARD / PROBLEMS INGREDIENTS WHOS WE HAD
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STUFF FOR YOU THINGS I LEARNED
Vestibulum congue
INGREDIENTS FOR CHANGE PROBLEMS WE HAD COMPANY BOARD / WHO’S CHOICE MORE TO DO AGILITY HELPED
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Directors play an oversight role
- Strategy & performance
- Legal & financial
- CEO
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We have problems
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- 1 mag, 1 website
- 0 product, 0 UX
- Dev & core platforms outsourced
Flat-lining revenue, members declining
- 1 view of members
- Monthly publishing mindset
- No investment: shitloads $$
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- Projects, activities and features
- What, how and when
- No Why
- No outcomes or goals
Busy work
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- New tech, new players
- Faster, better funded
- Disruption
- VUCA
Inevitable kraken of doom
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Our old ways aren’t working
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Ingredients for change at Board and LT
Being + diversity + flat power structures
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Other ingredients for change @Board
- Diversity at Board level
- Gender, capability, age and cognitive behaviour
- Product, tech, agile
- Growing focus: product + innovation + insourcing our core IP
- New Things
○ Radical lean incubator ○ Attitude shift with risk and experimentation
- Appetite for investment
- Spare cash reserves
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Reflect & learn: Retro’s Organise & eliminate waste:
Self-selection & No Objection Decision Making
Invest, plan, focus: OKRs
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Doing is Great OKRs liberated us from outputs, reclaiming
- utcomes and the
Why
Rain Forest Reports
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It’s way better :)
= better decisions Better discussions = more open about the real challenges Transparency = faster learning cycles Speed = more responsive to user needs Focus on outcomes = more time on stuff that matters
- Max. work not done
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More to learn and do
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WA Tourism
Being is Better
Recruit Directors for mindset + diversity
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Upon reflection Agility helps us, as a Board, with problems we have
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Leaders and Boards … It’s YOU Believe it, practise it, role model it
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Directors with a predisposition
- Research them
- Approach them
- Invite us to coffee
- Give us ideas
- Ask us what we are doing
Something for you
For those that haven’t woken up
- Find where they hang. Go and
present
- Invite them to come see
- Show what’s different: explain
benefits for customers AND staff
- Give the cynical evidence
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Directors with a predisposition
- Research them
- Approach them
- Invite us to coffee
- Give us ideas
- Ask us what we are doing
Something for you
For those that haven’t woken up
- Find where they hang. Go and
present
- Invite them to come see
- Show what’s different: explain
benefits for customers AND staff
- Give the cynical evidence
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