collaborative leadership

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collaborative leadership
a secret to agile success
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• Founder, Accelinnova
• President, Evolutionary Systems
• Director, Institute of Collaborative Leadership

Pollyanna PIXTON
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• Self-organizing, self-managing
• Do we need leaders?
• What kind of Leadership?

leadership for agile? what is that?
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successful business?
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sustain a competitive advantage

• Sustainable
• Competitive advantage

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consistently delivers business
value
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business challenges
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deliver the right
product

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in the optimal market windows
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• At the lowest cost

lowest cost
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agile teams
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meet customers changing needs

• Protect Team Boundaries

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develop great solutions
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innovate!

• Leadership Influence

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How can leaders help ?
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• Old school
• manages change
• knows the answers
• bureaucratic
• leader decides
• authoritarian

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• New school
• embraces change
• fosters new ideas
• collaborates
• gives ownership
• influential

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Leadership Challenges
the answers are in your organization

• Get More Done by Doing Less
• Lead Change
• Deliver the Right Product
• Meet Customers Changing Needs
• Meet Market Windows

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Project Management
None of us are as smart as all of us. - Japanese
Proverb

• How Do We Deliver?

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collaborate
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open environment
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Project Management

• Quality Management

create an open environment
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fosters creativity and innovation, team
commitment and ownership encourages ideas
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Trust
trust honesty respect
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communication
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listening
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non-judgmental
fair
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supportive
and empowering
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open environment right
people
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bring the right people together from the
entire enterprise

customers marketing
sales finance technology
manufacturing stakeholders
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open environment right
people foster innovation
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Trustworthiness
stimulate creativity through
collaboration process
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open environment right
people foster innovation step
back
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and let them work
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open environment right
people foster innovation step
back
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Project Management
collaboration process

• Dependency Management

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agree to goals and objectives

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brainstorm
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• group
• in
• silence

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prioritize based on business value
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Whats Business Value?
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calculation
Value Calculation
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calculation
Value Calculation
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calculation
Value Calculation
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Trust
any help?
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High
Market Differentiating
Low
High
Low
Mission Critical
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High
Innovate
Market Differentiating
Low
High
Low
Mission Critical
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High
Innovate
Market Differentiating
Parity
Low
High
Low
Mission Critical
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High
Innovate
Partner?
Market Differentiating
Parity
Low
High
Low
Mission Critical
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High
Innovate
Partner?
Market Differentiating
Who cares?
Parity
Low
High
Low
Mission Critical
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calculation
Purpose
Business Value
Costs and Benefits
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other considerations
?
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time to market
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risks
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flexibility

• Collaboration Model

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• team size and experience
• market uncertainty
• domain knowledge
• team capacity
• technical uncertainty
• external dependencies

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Purpose
Business Value
Costs and Benefits
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Considerations
Purpose
Costs and Benefits
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conversation

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resolve differences

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prioritize based on business value
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add what to make better decisions ?

• Transaction
• Costs

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Considerations
Purpose
Costs and Benefits
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at the end of the iteration

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did model inputs change?
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adjust BV model run features thru
model
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now you can ask
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• Do we have enough business value to go to market?
  

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• Should we continue?

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• If so, what goes in the next iteration?

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adjust BV model run features thru
model re- prioritize
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• Business Value Velocity Model

Enough BV to go to market? Yes? Ship. No?
Build largest BV features
Backlog
Prioritized Backlog
Adjust BVMif inputs changed
BVM
Enough BV2 to continue? No? Stop. Yes?
Discuss BV and BV2 to date
Business Value Model
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so, back to the collaboration process
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• individuals
• volunteer
• for what

and by when
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leading collaboration
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Collaborative Leadership
the Right People
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Passion
Best
Organizational Fit
values
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• Hire and promote
• first on the basis of integrity
• second, motivation
• third, capacity
• fourth, understanding
• fifth, knowledge
• last and least, experience.
• - Dee Hock, CEO Emeritus VISA International

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• authenticity
• attitude
• intelligence
• talent

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Project Management
trust First !

• Risk Management

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Leadership Role

• Suspicion is a permanent condition.
• - Marcus Buckingham

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operate with total transparency
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Project Management
over communicate!

• Focus, Communication, and Expectation Management

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decisions made by teams
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step back ?
step UP ?
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• dont
• rescue
• the
• teams

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step up collaboratively

step back and
keep focus

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your tipping point?

• test for Success
• ask Questions

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leadership role

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keep the purpose alive
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keep focus through questions
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• Organizations change in the direction in which
  they inquire.
• Listen.

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• fix
• processes
• not people

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no such thing as
Constructive Criticism
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feedback that honors the
relationship
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remove obstacles
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influence not authority
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expect Success Accept mistakes
expect Success Accept mistakes

• Protect Team Boundaries

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fail early fail fast
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fall forward
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• remove all
• blame

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Team Confidence
take the fun out of being dysfunctional
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final words
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Leadership Role

• autocracy dampens peoples creativity and
  motivation
• - Ricardo Semler,
• The Seven-Day Weekend

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Definitions
give up command and control
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• free team to question, analyze and
  investigate

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the opposite of control is

• discovery

discovery
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• a place where
• people want to be

not have to be
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• people
• have
• what they need to succeed

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• people
• have
• what
• they need to succeed

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• People dont resist change
• they resist being changed.
• - Peter Scholtes
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• evolutionarysystems.net
• collaborativeleadership.com
• 1 . 801 . 209 . 0195
• p2_at_ppixton.com

Pollyanna PIXTON