{"id":2016,"date":"2015-12-09T11:15:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T16:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2015-12-09T11:18:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T16:18:33","slug":"open-space-agile-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/12\/09\/open-space-agile-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Space for Rapid Agile Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>what happens when agile adoption runs on invitation and self-organization, more like open space?  here is an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlcarey321.com\/2015\/09\/how-walmart-is-going-agile-with-how.html?m=1\" target=\"_blank\">case story<\/a>&#8230;  <\/p>\n<p>walmart has 4000 core IT employees and another 6000 contractors &#8212; and four agile coaches.  they&#8217;ve gone from 10% agile to 80%+ agile in about 1.5 years.  they don&#8217;t mandate scrum, XP, kanban, SAFe, etc.  they&#8217;ve done 30 open space meetings for 300+ people each in about 8 months.  until just recently, they considered OS an important competitive advantage and did not speak about it publicly.<\/p>\n<p>when i talked with one of their coaches in an agile learning group, he shared that his SVP keeps asking him &#8220;what does the agile store look like?&#8221;  (they have 11,000 stores).  i sketched him a back-of-the-envelope, invitation-based, open space plan to touch all 11,000 stores in a year.  he thinks it might take five.  (probably we have slightly different done criteria.)  <\/p>\n<p>either way, agile in open space looks fast and effective, in IT and beyond.  and, of course, this same approach would work with any other enterprise-wide transformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>what happens when agile adoption runs on invitation and self-organization, more like open space?  here is an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlcarey321.com\/2015\/09\/how-walmart-is-going-agile-with-how.html?m=1\" target=\"_blank\">case story<\/a>&#8230;  <\/p>\n<p>walmart has 4000 core IT employees and another 6000 contractors &#8212; and four agile coaches.  they&#8217;ve gone from 10% agile to 80%+ agile in about 1.5 years.  they don&#8217;t mandate scrum, XP, kanban, SAFe, etc.  they&#8217;ve done 30 open space meetings for 300+ people each in about 8 months.  until just recently, they considered OS an important competitive advantage and did not speak about it publicly.<\/p>\n<p>when i talked with one of their coaches in an agile learning group, he shared that his SVP keeps asking him &#8220;what does the agile store look like?&#8221;  (they have 11,000 stores).  i sketched him a back-of-the-envelope, invitation-based, open space plan to touch all 11,000 stores in a year.  he thinks it might take five.  (probably we have slightly different done criteria.)  <\/p>\n<p>either way, agile in open space looks fast and effective, in IT and beyond.  and, of course, this same approach would work with any other enterprise-wide transformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,30,28,2,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agile-development","category-designs","category-inviting-leadership","category-open-space-technology","category-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}