#stopbadagile

Bringing agile back
to its essence

With so many misconceptions, too many companies have been told they are doing agile, but they aren't seeing the benefits after multiple, multi-million dollar "transformations". They are losing faith in something they haven't actually experienced.

I created #stopbadagile to shine a light on what agility means. My hope is that together we can bring agile back to its essence so we can continue to help companies experience what agility really does look like. I've created illustrations of over 150 birds that help me highlight the things that are sold as agile or are expected of agilists but won't result in agility.

All the birds are created by me in Procreate. They are not AI generated.

Meet the birds Get the cards

The book - available on Amazon

You can't buy an agile transformation: #stopbadagile

Are you a leader who was part of an agile transformation that didn't provide your company with the promised results? Are you an employee suffering under one or more failed agile transformations? If any of this sounds familiar, you need to read this book.

If the listing doesn't say "Full Color Version" it's the black and white edition.

About the book

Card decks are available

The cards

Want some of my birds for your very own? I've created a deck of cards that can be shared, used in retrospectives, hung up to start conversations, or whatever you think would help #stopbadagile.

The deck contains 55 cards: 52 of the birds with 3 instruction cards. Order a deck and have it shipped anywhere in the world.

If you live in Sydney I have decks available for $20. Ping me if you are interested. These come with a free sticker.

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How to use the cards to #stopbadagile

Team retro

Have the team pull all the cards from the deck that they recognize from their job. Discuss. Make a list of the ones they plan to explore. Have them choose one that they will eliminate with their team and share with the company.

1, 2, 4, all

Have each person find one card that resonates with them. Next create pairs and have them discuss which is the one they want to stop. Now create groups of 4 and do the same. Now each group of four shares their top bird. Now create the list on a wall where everyone can see it.

Disagree? Curious?

Ask your org to go through and bring anything they don't understand or disagree with to either their coach, scrum master, or have them get in touch with me on sallysloley.com or on LinkedIn.

Why? What? How?

Choose a card to discuss. Ask the group: Why is the bird sharing this? What are you observing in your org? How can you #stopbadagile?

Dysfunctions

1) The group votes for five of the bird cards by relevance in their company context (2 minutes). 2) The group starts with the most relevant card and discusses how to prevent this in the future (10 minutes). 3) Rinse, repeat till number 5.