We’re so happy to share our Pattern Cards for Successful Agile Change now also in Spanish! Here you can download the 27 pattern cards for free and use them within your organization or with your clients.
Here you can download the Pattern Cards in Spanish for Free (PDF) >
If you like to get inspiration on how to use the cards you can find out more here and also download the the original English version of the pattern cards >
In our breakfast seminar ”Agile change management” the participants each get a deck of Pattern Cards and are asked to choose the pattern that is most challenging for them right now.
Over 100 people have been asked this question. These are the top 3 challenges:
WIP is an acronym for Work In Progress and basically means how many different things are being worked on at the same time.
Many agile methods, like Kanban, strives to limit WIP, to reduce the number of concurrent initiatives.
When you have many concurrent initiatives, working on many different things at the same time, you might feel effective, but in truth you are not.
The amazing Guillaume Dutey-Harispe has once again translated our work to French 😀 We´re so humble that we have friends like Guillaume, and so proud to be able to share our Pattern Cards free to download and use also in French as well with you! Enjoy!
Download the French Pattern Cards in High Resolution (PDF) for printout here >
If you like to get inspiration on how to use the cards you can find out more here and also download the the original English version of the pattern cards >
Thank you Guillaume Dutey-Harispe, gduteyharispe@aneo.fr
T-shape is about growing skills in people that might not be in within their core expert competence area. When coaching leaders, teams and organizations we’ve noticed that building T-shape is often a game changer that makes a big impact – but it might sometimes be more tricky than you think.
This is one of the 27 patterns for Successful Agile Change that you can download for free here >
When transforming to an Agile organization we often move from expert teams to cross functional teams. Growing t-shape is a way to enable the cross functional team to collaborate better and it helps them to work as a team instead of a group, meaning solving problems together instead of working as a mini-waterfall within the team. This helps the team become high performance and enables them to innovate and create better solutions.
My experience is that organizations that have a strong expert culture may have more difficulties to become T-shape. Since you then might also need to change the culture from a hero culture to a team-playing culture, it can take some time. People might also struggle to keep their expert role since it makes them feel safe and perhaps it has also previously been the only way to make a career, get higher pay as well as also informal power. Changes might then be needed in how the structures are set up around roles and responsibilities before you start the coaching around T-shape.
In many organizations who want to enable high performance teams and T-shape, titels and roles are changed to simply “team members”, and instead we talk about competences, which is your T-shape. As a leader, you could support by help showing how the skill and performance of the team is more important than the expertise of individuals by perhaps celebrating as one team instead of highlighting individual performance.
In the Harvard Business Review I found this article that describes the research done on leaders and how they grow competence. According to their research there are 4 different leadership styles for developing skills in employees.
The different coaching styles of a leader: (more…)
Many times while coaching people we want to be able to quickly give people new perspectives, food for thought and bring people together around shared understandings and common goals. Thats why we created these pattern cards for successful Agile transformation, to enable engaging discussions. Please feel free to download and use them you too if you feel they can help you to create valuable dialogues too.
You can also purchase these decks of cards in our Online Shop >
EDIT: Updated Pattern Cards (May 8) with 5 additional patterns
– Stable Teams
– Reflection
– T-shaped People
– Distributed Decision Making
– Impediments Removal
Free Download of the Pattern Cards For Successful Agile Change (PDF) >
The different cards are visualizing patterns that we have seen to be the most important to succeed with Agile transformation and scaling Agile organizations.
You can probably use them in many different ways. Here is how we have used them with leadership teams most of the times.
Group people in smaller groups, 3-5 people. Give them a time box of 10-15 min to prioritize the 5 cards they find would bring the most value to focus on in the next period (3 – 6 months perhaps). (more…)
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