HR - Enabler or Impediment in an Agile Transformation

HR has to align itself with future of workforce along with the Agile ways of working

1. HR – Enabler or Impediment in an Agile Transformation

2. Who am I? Sanjay Saini Worked across different domains – healthcare, manufacturing, energy efficiency, banking etc. Wanted to be a fighter pilot, dolphins in my pool and horses in my farm Professional Scrum Trainer from Scrum.org Will be a co-learner along with you all during the session

3. About Scrum.org Founded by Ken Schwaber in 2009 Approx. 200+ trainers across the world

4. HR History First reference in 1893 book “The Distribution of Wealth” Used to be Personnel Administration First setup in National Capital Register Co. in 1900 – as per Society for Human Resource Management www.shrm.org Responsibilities includes hiring, firing, pay, perks, grievances etc.

5. Traditional HR as Executor

6. Future of Work Force More freelancers and independent workers than the full time employees Would like to work with organization that has a purpose or cause Always on learning path No job for life concept More diversified skillset and background More creative than mechanical Autonomy would be the basic need

7. Agile Transformation Customer focused Cultural and mindset change People centric, treating people as People and not Machines/Robots Self-organized teams Creativity and Innovation Continuous Improvement Openness and Transparency Safe to Fail and Fail fast

8. Future Workforce + Agile Ways of Working = Future HR

9. HR as Business Partner

10. Find out your Customers Employees Management Organization Ex-employees Prospect-employees Organization’s customers

11. Coaching on ‘WHY’

12. Flat or Hierarchy structure

13. Theory ‘X’ or ‘Y’

14. Leave and Vacation policy

15. Loyalty Bonus

16. Hiring and Firing

17. Performance Appraisal

18. HR as a Cost center

19. Rewards and Recognitions

20. Roles and Designations Your organization has started its Agile transformation journey and has 15 defined designations. Management along with Agile coaches have come up with 15 Agile roles to create a 1:1 mapping. Everyone seems to be happy with their new title. What problem do you see here?

21. Inspect and Adapt

22. Tips to kick-start Attend your Agile delivery team’s meetings Take help from Agile coaches Attend Agile training, meetups, conferences etc. Explore Automation Think 180 degree opposite to the current ways of working

23. Go and see other organizations

24. Inspired From https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2018/03/11/can-hr-become-agile/#4e1d383b4ae3 https://hbr.org/2018/03/the-new-rules-of-talent-management#comment-section https://economictimes.com https://hbr.org/2014/01/how-netflix-reinvented-hr https://hbr.org/2017/06/how-hr-can-become-agile-and-why-it-needs-to