T H E R E M U S T B E S O M E T H I N G W R O N G
W E A R E G E T T I N G S O F E W C O M P L A I N T S A B O U T Y O U G U Y S
Jasper Sonnevelt #LLKD14
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W H AT I T S TA R T E D L I K E
• Large work packages
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• Parttime team allocation
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• Tasks and activities WAY to big
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T H E P R O J E C T
• Development of a system that will be used by different ministeries and local governments
• Important project
• Already late
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T H E S T R U C T U R E
Project Backog
Work Package
ScrumMaster
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T H E S T R U C T U R E
Project Backog
From third party
Work Package
All at different locations the people using it
The people making decisions
ScrumMaster
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T H E A P P R O A C H
• Make the team work smooth and predictable
• Get development process to work (Scrum)
• Make policies explicit
• Involve customer in the process
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A N D A F T E R T H AT…
• Grow to involve the rest of the organization
• Ops
• Structure project portfolio
• One team for the application
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M A K I N G S E N S E O F W O R K I T E M S
• Large items carry risk
• Focus is on the wrong things
• Is it actually the right stuff?
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A B O U T S T O R Y M A P P I N G “ D E S I G N Y O U R P R O J E C T I N W O R K I N G L A Y E R S T O A V O I D H A L F - B A K E D I N C R E M E N TA L R E L E A S E S . B Y J E F F PA T T O N ”
Source: http://www.agileproductdesign.com/writing/how_you_slice_it.pdf
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S T O R Y M A P S : E X A M P L EM
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it m
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awes
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Wheels Steering Brakes Engine Lights
What we need to make it work
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T H E P R O J E C T S T O R Y M A P. T R Y 1
Functions
Priorities Stories and tasks
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W H AT I T D I D
• Was very helpful when splitting tasks
• Gave us something to look at while talking
• Drew attention to our project
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R E S U LT S T O T H I S P O I N T
• Happy team
• Regular retrospectives
• User Stories that actually are small enough to do in a 2 week sprint
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T H E B O A R D
Expectation for this sprint
L E A D T I M E
4-5 weeks 2 weeks
When we started After 3 months
T H E B O A R D
Smell!
Same process
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O U R “ R E A D Y ” P R O C E S S
Work package
User Stories &
Tasks
Priorities &
splitting
Project Backlog
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G O B I G O R G O H O M E
• Limited use of people working on the project
• max 2 days a week
• no real portfolio priority list
• overworked OPS team
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O U R P R O J E C T
Priorities &
splitting
Project Backlog
The Team
Incidents & Small Changes
Project B
Project C
ScrumMaster
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O T H E R P R O J E C T S
• Same people
• Same whiteboard
• Same application
The organization around us became more and more an issue we needed to fix in order be effective
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T H E N E W S T R U C T U R E
Priorities &
splitting
Project Backlog
The Team
Incidents & Small Changes
Project B
Project C
ScrumMaster
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W H E R E T H E I N T E R E S T I N G S T U F F H A P P E N S
Work package
User Stories &
Tasks
Priorities &
splitting
Project Backlog
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“I don’t hear anything from your project. That doesn't feel right…”
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B I G L E S S O N N U M B E R 1
Don’t forget to involve management
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B I G L E S S O N N U M B E R 2
This is government…
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Project Backlog
H E R E ’ S W H AT H A P P E N E D
Manager
T O R O U N D U P
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A N D T H E N G R O W I T
Let scaling start small
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M A K E S U R E I T ’ S T H E I R S U C C E S S T O O !
Don’t forget to include “invisible” stakeholders
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O P T I M I Z I N G T H E I R “ R E A D Y ” P R O C E S S I S J U S T A S I M P O R TA N T T O G E T F L O W !
Optimizing teams is important
T H A N K Y O U V E R Y M U C H !
@ J A S P E R S O N N E V E LT !
M A I L @ J A S P E R S O N N E V E LT. N L J S O N N E V E LT @ X E B I A . C O M
