How to kickstart an Agile mindset in a HUGE organisation

Presenters: @PascalMestdach, @DidierDurinck

Size of the company: 4K (2.5K not involved , 1.5K more or less involved)

Company name: eandis

This year change

Goal: create more value for the company

Building

An open space create the env that will helps creativity

Poster everywhere to inspire people

Introduction

The sponsor pitch the goals and gives the rules

Workshops

rules clear and available Market place where you can find the schedule of the day 8 rooms no chair no projector no break finger food Flip chart with goals ready to be filled A designer (to summarize the day and prepare the solutions)

Celebration

The sponsor read all the results

Why did we change?

Earlier:

Steps

Get support

Ask 5 senior manager to become the Agile Driving Team

Good thing: you can’t kill the agile change because it’s spread accros 5 dept.

Hack 1: Include influencial people (use their connections + protection)

Communicate and involve people

No e-mail communication, plain poster

In the poster you put all the information + registration (via QR code for instance) including the number of person subscribed (changed daily)

Hack 2: simple paper communication

Compute and analyse

Gather all the data and analyse them

Hack 3: Use your own analytics skills

Actions instead of power point

They used a video (no change possible too late), people get borred with powerpoints, a video once it’s done, it’s done no rollback.

Hack 4: Let people pay for their remarks

Communicate back to people

Hack 5: Take no action = approbation approach

Work in project and keep timing

Once you start people shows up and then not anymore, at that tiem the managment pull back, you have to continue

Hack 6: be persistent in what you do

Communication

Via sharepoint Via Yammer internal and closed facebook group Via trello to follow up on action No e-mail

Communication channels are open by default (no question asked) Communicate fast

Hack 7: Make communication transparent

Experiments

Topic of the week

Goal: Grew our agile community and get more people inside

Continuously do it

Create new open space and continue to improve, use the community