Renee and Craig are at Agile2019 in Washington, DC and catch up with Sanjiv Augustine, author of “Managing Agile Projects” and “Scaling Agile” and founder and CEO of Lithespeed:

• Craig’s InfoQ interview with Sanjiv
• “Leadership is about managing change while management is about managing complexity… you need to be both”
• Lithespeed = flexible speed
• “Reinventing Organisations” by Frederick Laloux and the Morningstar model
• The Agile community is excited about the benefits of the teal level but not the responsibility
• Business Agility Sparks – need to shift left from IT to the business and shift right to DevOps and shift up into leadership
• What makes you successful at the executive level is working with others
• Agile Value Management Office (VMO) is a cross functional leadership team that manages the flow of work from end to end
• PMO is more oriented towards best practices process, whereas the Agile VMO is more about flow of work to a business outcome (rather than output)
• Collaborate with external auditors to determine what documentation is really needed and the controls required
• Basic agile transformation model – build a true end to end value stream team, implement lean discovery and dual track discovery / delivery and an Agile VMO
• Agile VMO is needed when there are obstructions to the flow of value
• Dynamic strategy (top down, bottom up and outside in) and decision making velocity (speed to make a decision) and ensuring leadership is not a bottleneck to decisions
• We still have work to go in taking Agile to other parts of the organisation and taking it to the executive and the board room
• “Only the paranoid survive” – Andy Grove
• “If we are in danger of being disrupted, why don’t we disrupt ourselves” – Andy Grove

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