Agile Transformation Using the Integral Agile Transformation Framework to Think and Lead Differently

by Spayd, Michael K.; Madore, Michele

• ISBN13: 9780321885319
• ISBN10: 0321885317
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780133137378
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2020-12-16
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
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Summary

Lead Agile Transformations that Scale and Succeed across the Entire Organization

Most organizational leaders know agility is paramount to survival in a world of unprecedented volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA). This is why so many keep attempting Agile transformations even after previous initiatives have failed. But the truth is, both organizations and leaders need new ways of thinking--they need to upgrade their organizational “operating system.”

Built on the proven Integral Agile Transformation Framework™ (IATF), Agile Transformation offers a fresh perspective and systemic approach that can operate on all levels, from individual to enterprise. Learn how to use IATF to combine what you know subjectively (“heart”) with what you can measure objectively (“data”). Even if you are already using leadership or culture models, scaled frameworks, or other techniques, IATF helps you place them in context, overcome their limitations, and gain more value from them. As it has in many other organizations, IATF can help you become an authentic Transformational Leader and finally build an organization that is truly Agile.

• Gain crucial new perspective for leading your Agile transformation: insight into your world, organization, work, and yourself
• Understand what your current Agile methods do and don’t do, how they interact or conflict, and where you need something more
• Structure existing models and frameworks into an understandable meta-framework
• Master a unified and practical system for mapping what’s going on and what needs to change
• Discover practical ways to successfully lead both human and organizational aspects of change

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Author Biography

Michael Spayd has specialized in large-scale Agile transformations since 2001. Training as an Organizational Systems Coach created a foundation for his approach, along with experience in executive coaching, organizational change, systems methods, and consciousness transformation. In 2010, Michael co-founded the Agile Coaching Institute with Lyssa Adkins, where he was CEO until 2017 when they sold the company. In 2016, he co-founded Trans4mation with Michele Madore. His formal credentials include Certified Organization and Relationship Systems Coach (ORSCC), Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF), ICAgile Expert in Agile Coaching (ICE-AC), SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), and Certified Scrum Master (CSM). He has been an organizational change coach and consultant for more than 25 years, working in Fortune 1000 to small businesses.

Michele Madore is co-founder and Managing Partner of Trans4mation where her focus is conscious integral leadership development and organizational agility. Her formal credentials include Leadership Circle™ and Leadership System™ Certified Practitioner, 4Sight Conscious Change Consultant Practitioner, Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), and SAFe Agilist (SA), ICAgile Professional. She founded the Agile Richmond user group, and studied in the Organizational Behavior program at Ashford University. Michelle’s executive coaching has included clients such as Women in the Press, Capital One, Morgan Stanley, and dozens of others. In 2005, she discovered Agile and began working with her first large-scale Agile transformation. For the last 11 years, she has dedicated herself to being an architect of change.  

Table of Contents

0. Systems Everywhere. Why the Systems Perspective Makes All the Difference

 

Part I. The Team Foundation
1. Coaching People
2. Understanding Teams
3. Coaching Teams
4. Coaching the Manager
5. Coaching the Team-Manager System

 

Part II. Organizational Agility in the Business Unit
6. Systems Entry and Contracting
7. Understanding Change. Essential Models and Tools
8. Coaching the (Agile) PMO
9. Understanding Leadership and the Executive Mindset
10. Coaching the Agile Leader
11. Coaching Alignment. Integrating the Business Unit

 

Part III. Can An Enterprise Really Be Agile?
12. Understanding Organizations. Community, Culture and Development
13. Coaching the Agile Transition. Aligning Culture, Community and What is Trying to Happen
14. Zen and the Agile Enterprise. What Might It Look Like to Put It All Together?
15. Coaching Presence. Inner Path of Service