Social systems agile comparison
Topic | Social system perspective | Process perspective |
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Mode of operation | Be Agile | Do Agile |
Emphasis | Humans & Relationships | Processes & Results |
Primary activity | Develop people | Implement process |
Primary result metric | Employee satisfaction and performance | Frequent delivery |
Ground | overview of employee skills and capacities | overview of the process |
Primary reason for effective change | The quality of awareness, attention of consciousness | The wisdom accumulated in verified and proven methods. |
Problem-solving | Teach problem-solving skills to people | Offer solutions from a proven method |
Reflection | Teach reflection skills to people | Teach various formats for Retrospectives |
Language | Lead change based on awareness | Lead change based on a method |
Implementation | Observe, then implement | Implement, then observe |
Problem diagnosis | Go and see for yourself | Compare current situation with prescribed solution |
Cause of failure | Insufficient capacity/skill to diagnose root cause and solve problem | Did not fully implement the process fully (Scrum But) |
Control (1) | Control through facilitating self-organization | Control through inspecting metrics |
Control (2) | Facilitate decentralized self-organizing systems | Centralized overview to inspect metrics and adapt |
Results | Transformative, Cultural, Qualitative, Multi-facated | Quantitative metrics, focused, delivery. |
Frameworks | Theory U, Crystal, Heart of Agile | Scrum, SAFe, XP, DevOps |