Premise

More advanced course on being an enterprise coach.

Context is SAFe as that is where Alex is from so there anti-patterns you hear about in this Training are mainly as a result of consulting in a SAFe environment

Background

From course:

“The Enterprise Lean-Agile Coach Course is a three-day, full-immersion experience for consultants, coaches and leaders whose responsibility is to guide their enterprise through the adoption of Lean and Agile. The course will teach you the practical techniques required to grow the right mindset and culture and to build organizational habits – sustainable practices that match organizational context and continuously evolve to drive maximum enterprise value.

Course topics:

Complex Adaptive Systems

Organization as a sociotechnical system

Process as a system of enabling constraints

Adaptation of practices and dynamic organizational change

The problem of ‘waterfalling’ the adoption of Agile

The biggest impediments to adopting Lean and Agile in the enterprise

Mindset and culture

Diagnosing legacy mindsets in leadership and engineering

Identifying and removing factors that encourage legacy mindsets

Aligning and refining enterprise and team mental models

Factors that form culture

Growing the right culture

Anti-patterns in growing mindset and organizational culture

Organizational design

Organizing around value in complex cases

Understanding value networks

Organizational implications of Conway’s Law

Fixed vs. fluid team structure

Building a high-performing team-of-teams

Anti-patterns in organizational design

Building organizational habits

Making practice a habit

Impediments to building sustainable practices

Coaching the right mindset for a practice

Understanding how practices evolve over time

Anti-patterns in practice adoption

Building a learning organization

Implementing validated learning in your organization

Open and closed-loop systems

Identifying and addressing blind spots in mental models

Process evolution in the organization: experiment, scale, repeat

Anti-patterns in validated learning

Adaptive enterprise economics

Exploring and defining business value in an organizational context

Operating with leading and lagging economic indicators

Optimization within existing funding constraints

Evolving towards Leaner funding models

Enterprise coaching techniques

Coaching in ‘Gemba’

Problem-solving tools

Building the rollout roadmap

Coaching vs. training

Coaching at different levels of the enterprise

Coaching anti-patterns

Adoption patterns for practices in:

DevOps

Architecture

Quality

Planning – Synchronization – Demo – Inspect & Adapt

Exploration and learning

Metrics and Measures

The course is built around numerous individual and group exercises and simulations designed to effectively explore and internalize specific coaching and change management practices, critical for an enterprise coach.

Prerequisites: This course is for experienced Lean-Agile leaders, coaches and consultants only. This assumes a couple of years of operating in one of the capacities listed above.

The course includes Org Mindset Enterprise Coach (OMEC) certification. Course participants will have the opportunity to take the exam.”

# Attendees

Alex Yakyma - http://orgmindset.com

# Videos

Eric Ries on “Innovation Accounting” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdb_6946pGI

Birds flocking - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-mCuFYfJdI

## Dilbert

Dilbert Key Assumptions for a Business Plan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s296fATGsU

Bold New Strategy (reorganize the department): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv64WFauYLM

Dogburt Tech Support and bad measures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amnt0Vf1Juc

Dilbert Accurate numbers (87 studies): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0uBnNHJvfA

# Recommended Books

1. N Taleb.	Fooled	by Randomness	(also any other books in “Incerto” series).
1. D Kahnemann.	Thinking Fast and Slow.
1. D Reinertsen. The Principles of Product Development Flow. (with caution!!)
1. J Glieck. Chaos.
1. J Humble, et al. Lean Enterprise

# Notes

2017-06-06 - Enterprise Coach Day 1 2017-06-07 - Enterprise Coach Day 2 2017-06-08 - Enterprise Coach Day 3