Renee and Craig are at Agile 2019 in Washington, DC and talk to Gil Broza, Agile Mindset and Leadership Coach / Trainer at 3P Vantage and author of “The Agile Mind-Set“, “The Human Side of Agile” and “Agile for Non-Software Teams” and they talk about:

• Agile 2019 talk – “How to Help your Non-Software Colleagues Adopt Agile“
• Outside of software, they notice Agile and want what they have – a different team experience and doing things better
• Focus on a principle based transformation rather than practices – have conversations early and often on how we want to be and how we want to operate
• The Agile Manifesto principles are partial and software heavy, the values and beliefs are the root and leadership should keep these alive
• 26 principles in “The Agile Mind-Set” book and includes transparency (which is harder in areas like HR and Finance)
• Craig’s Agile 2010 talk “I’m The Business & Agile Was My Idea” (and we were before our time!)
• The practices really don’t matter and there aren’t really equivalents outside of software
• We are obsessed with the how in Agile (the implementation), Lean has always been about principles
• We have crossed the chasm of Agile at team level but not at scale – or have we? Nail it before you scale it!
• Ceremonies mean people turn up and go through the motions (The Scrum Guide says events), use workflow instead of process (which means I do work and send it in for approval), work item or task instead of user story (Scrum calls them backlog items)
• The common denominator between software and the rest of the organisation is the principles
• If you don’t think differently, doing differently won’t matter
• Renee recommends “The Human Side of Agile” as well as “Coaching Agile Teams” for new Scrum Masters
• Heart of Agile (Gil is not familiar with it so Renee and Craig channel their inner Tony to explain it!)
• Oath of Non Allegiance
• Are you coaching around values, principles and mindset or practices?

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