{"id":142,"date":"2007-09-09T06:36:23","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T05:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken\/2007\/09\/09\/im-a-sideways-agilist\/"},"modified":"2010-12-16T22:29:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T03:29:10","slug":"im-a-sideways-agilist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/im-a-sideways-agilist\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a Sideways Agilist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted about <a href=\"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/the-road-not-taken\/\">why I need to encourage agile practices outside my department<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/denn\/145137179\/' title='Fiddler Crab by denn'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/145137179_cefa297c36_m1.jpg\" title='Fiddler Crab by denn' alt='Fiddler Crab by denn' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If Scrum is isolated within one team, its very success can be used to counter further adoption. &#8220;Agile works for you but what we do is different. You do X we do Y.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>This resistance is a direct result of what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bc.edu\/schools\/lsoe\/facultystaff\/faculty\/hargreaves.html\">Andy Hargreaves<\/a> calls <a href=\"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/collaboration-and-competition-balkanization-vs-bounded-cohabitation\/\">balkanization<\/a> &#8212; groups insulated from each other, with hard boundaries, loyalties and a political complexion. <\/p>\n<p>Creating a culture where groups work together to improve the organization is core to lean and agile. So the best ways to counter balkanization are the very principles under challenge.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tackling this top-down by lobbying senior executives to bring in an agile\/lean coach, bottom-up by removing impediments for my team, and, perhaps most significantly, <em>sideways <\/em> by initiating a Scrum in another department. <\/p>\n<p>I have tentative approval from another department&#8217;s senior managers. Now, I have to meet with line managers and identify a backlog of work. Then solicit volunteers for a team.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve taken <a href=\"http:\/\/www.controlchaos.com\/\">Ken Schwaber<\/a>&#8216;s words to heart and asked them to Scrum their hardest challenge or the work they think least suited to agile. <\/p>\n<p>So many things can go wrong. Of course, nothing that isn&#8217;t already going wrong.  That&#8217;s the point.<\/p>\n<p>Scrum will highlight those problems and make solving them obvious and necessary if no easier.<\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted about why I need to encourage agile practices outside my department. If Scrum is isolated within one team, its very success can be used to counter further adoption. &#8220;Agile works for you but what we do is different. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/im-a-sideways-agilist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[11,19,311,173,120,878],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scrum","tag-agile-management","tag-agile-software-development","tag-agilelean-coach","tag-andy-hargreaves","tag-ken-schwaber","tag-scrum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/145137179_cefa297c36_m1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2391,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/2391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}