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True Agility Requires aRe-examination of Our Beliefs


Mental BarriersMental Barriers


“Value for individuals?”“Value for organizations?”

“Value for individuals?”“Value for organizations?”


“Traditional Development is tried and true”“Traditional Development is tried and true”


The Success of Waterfall Software Development


The Alternative to Software


Is Traditional Development Really “Tried and True?”

Poll: How long does it take to learn “the process” when you start a new job?

What are the mainstream practices?

How well does it scale?

Consider the following examples of mainstream adoption that scales• Java

• C#

• HTML


“Agile is easy”“Agile is easy”


Removing Impediments is the Heavy Lifting

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“We’re already Agile!”“We’re already Agile!”


True Agility Requires Learning and Experience


Phrases From the Agile Manifesto

“satisfy the customer”“satisfy the customer”

“competitive advantage”“competitive advantage”

“Deliver working software frequently”“Deliver working software frequently”

“become more effective”“become more effective”

“uncovering better ways”“uncovering better ways”

“Responding to change”“Responding to change”

“valuable software”“valuable software”


Realtime Feedback

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Build & Test ResultsBuild & Test ResultsBacklogBacklog TaskboardTaskboard

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Realtime Feedback

All Information is shared by the team


Iteration Review

What did we accomplish?How was it received?


Retrospective – Looking in the Mirror

How can we do better?


Value and Feedback

Product Owner

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UserStories

Continuous Integration

CI

Short Iterations


True Agility

Focus on customer value

Constant improvement

Significant improvement in work life

Significant improvement in organization viability

Whole organization aligned around all of the above


“Agile only effects the development teams”“Agile only effects the development teams”


Agile Scope

Upper ManagementUpper Management

Middle ManagementMiddle Management

Line ManagementLine Management

Individual ContributorsIndividual ContributorsAgile technical practices (XP)

Agile project management

(Scrum)

Agile program management and PPM

Agile

Lean


“Individuals are the problem”“Individuals are the problem”


“People can’t be trusted / aren’t self-motivated”

“People can’t be trusted / aren’t self-motivated”


Traditional Development



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“The value of work is the work itself”“The value of work is the work itself”


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CompanyCompany

ResultsResults $$$$$$


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Bank AccountBank Account

ShelvedShelved

CancelledCancelled

UnusedUnused

Customer Value

Customer ValueTangible

ValueTangible

ValueRevenueRevenue

You new

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StrategyStrategyProduct Mgmt

Product Mgmt

Market/CustomersMarket/Customers

PeoplePeople KnowledgeKnowledge


“Decreasing costs works, improvement efforts don’t”

“Decreasing costs works, improvement efforts don’t”


Agile Development

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Product ownerProduct owner

Master Backlog

Master Backlog Colo

TeamsColo Teams

Cross Functional

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Continuous Integration

Limited WIPLimited WIP

Daily StandupsDaily Standups

Unit TestsUnit Tests

RefactoringRefactoring

User StoriesUser Stories

One Piece FlowOne Piece Flow

Scrum MasterScrum Master

Frequent DemosFrequent Demos

RetrospectivesRetrospectives

Task boardTask board


Agile Development

IntInt

IntInt

IntInt

Hooray!


Top Ten Agile Blindspots

“We’re already Agile”

“Agile is easy, we’ve done all that before”

“There’s no real benefit for individuals”

“There’s no real benefit for organizations”

“Traditional development is tried and true”

“The value of work is the work itself”

“Agile only affects the development teams”

“Reducing costs works, improvement efforts don’t”

“Individuals are the cause of the problems”

“People can’t be trusted/aren’t self-motivated”

“We’re already Agile”

“Agile is easy, we’ve done all that before”

“There’s no real benefit for individuals”

“There’s no real benefit for organizations”

“Traditional development is tried and true”

“The value of work is the work itself”

“Agile only affects the development teams”

“Reducing costs works, improvement efforts don’t”

“Individuals are the cause of the problems”

“People can’t be trusted/aren’t self-motivated”


Conclusion

True Agility is a tremendous value creation and process improvement engine

Agile allows you to uncover and address blindspots as part of that engine


Resources/Q&A

Damon Poole ([email protected])http://damonpoole.blogspot.com

Extreme Programming Explained2nd Edition, Kent Beck

Agile Software Development with ScrumKen Schwaber & Mike Beedle

Lean Software Development, Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck

DIY Agile

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