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The Road to Agility

Agile Eastern Europe ConferenceKiev Ukraine April 9 2016

Ben Linders



Agile Lean Quality amp Continuous Improvement

Retrospectives Facilitator Agile CoachMentorTrainerCMMI amp People-CMM Assessor

Freelance Editor for InfoQcom

Ben Linders

Co-Author Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives English Dutch French Japanese Spanish Italian Chinese Russian Polish German Greek TurkishAuthor What Drives Quality amp Continuous Improvement

eBook Download from Amazon InfoQ or LeanpubPrint Buy on Amazon or Lulu



Agile Manifesto

“We are uncovering better ways of developingsoftware by doing it and helping others do it”



Agile Principle

“At regular intervals the team reflects on how to become more effective then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly”

Continuous Improvement is essentialif you want to increase your agility



Embedded Improvement Agile values principles practices and methods

support continuous improvement

Frequently Inspect and Adapt Scrum master focus on process Stand-up focus on impediments Agile Retrospectives learn and improve Coaching to support your agile journey



Travelling for Agility Understand needs Prepare and pack Start traveling



Why Agile Fails

10th annual State of Agile Survey – VersionOne 2016



Get Management Support

Development flow amp teams Resistance No believe in agile Career system

Lack of support for Agile Agile Processes

Managers should support teams in improving their way of working – remove impediments



Why AgileKnow your business goalsWhat do you expect from Agile

Deliver Right ProductShort Time to Market Increased ProductivityHappy EmployeesHigher Product Quality Lower Costs Business Benefits Agile



How Agile are youSelf-assessments Know where you are Checklists tools Decide what to do next

Self Assessing Agility

Values and Mindset drive Practice



(Back)packing for Agile

Prepare Things to take along Stuff to leave at home

Think about Risks Opportunities



SkillsScrum master Agile Coach Tech leading (servant) Coaching Communication Supporting change System view

Need to have “soft skills” to work with technical and business people



Developing skills Try out new things Training Coach the coaches Communities of practice Safe environment



Start TravellingKnow WhyPrepared

Deciding what to do Value Risk Information Learning



KanbanStart where you arePull based changeExperiment

Short Cycled Improvement

Learning from Mistakes



Dealing with Blockers amp Impediments

Make blockers visible Raise issues early Build shared understanding Feelings matter Why over How Know the root causes Safe-to-fail experiments



Agile RetrospectivesPractice for teams to reflect on their way of workingand to continuously become better in what they do

Focus upon

Teamworking

Self organizing

What is an Agile Retrospectives



Vital few actionsSmall but significant stepsContinuous improvement

Actions for the next iteration Destroy actions Enable teams to improve Vital Few Actions

Focus to assure that vital few actions get done



Golden Rules for Improvement Dare to share early and frequently Result depends on team not individuals The one who checks out a task is not necessarily

the one who has to finish it The one’s working on a task are the right people You may critique anything

but never criticize anyone

BenLinderscomGoldenRules



The looks of Agile Working Software Delivering Value Embracing Change Adress Risks Early Fail Fast amp Learn Buit in Quality Collaboration amp Communication



Take a first stepThink about a problem that needs to be solved pick something you learned think of a practical way to do it start doing it First Agile Step

Every journey for agility and continuous improvement starts with a first step



Continuous Improvement

Become aware of importance of continuous improvement

Explore how it’s engrained in agile software development

Suggestions that you can use in your daily work to improve continuously

Increase your organizations agility

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“Continuous Improvement is the act of continuously doing whatever helps to become better and thus more valuable”



QuestionsQuestions

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Background Information



Retrospectives BookGetting Value out of Agile RetrospectivesBy Luis Gonçalves amp Ben Linders

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Retrospectives Book BundleSix successful retrospectives books Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives Fun Retrospectives Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your Retrospectives The Retrospective Handbook Retrospectives for Organizational Change The Retrospectives Kickstarter

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Agile Retrospectives

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Getting More out of Agile amp Lean Practices for teams and stakeholders to develop the right

products deliver faster increase quality and create happy high performing teams

Full Day WorkshopDeploying practices effectively Improve CollaborationTips amp Trick for Agile amp Lean Improve Continuously


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Assessing your Agility

Over 40 tools Self-Assessment checklists Readyness checks Maturity assessments Agile health checks Measurements And much more Agile Self-Assessments



Articles on Effective Agile Self-assessing how Agile you are Sustainable Improvement through Agile Retrospectives Working in a Sustainable Pace Becoming Agile and Lean Succes Factors for Using Scrum and Getting Benefits Process Improvement The Agile Way Golden Rules for Agile Process Improvement How to deal with Resistance when Implementing Agile Managing Projects with Agile Teams Agile Project Management Establishing and Maintaining Stable Teams Getting Business Value out of Agile Retrospectives Sharing Knowledge is Power Are your Professionals Empowered



Agile Lean Quality amp Continuous Improvement

Retrospectives Facilitator Agile CoachMentorTrainerCMMI amp People-CMM Assessor

Freelance Editor for InfoQcom

Ben Linders

Co-Author Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives English Dutch French Japanese Spanish Italian Chinese Russian Polish German Greek TurkishAuthor What Drives Quality amp Continuous Improvement

eBook Download from Amazon InfoQ or LeanpubPrint Buy on Amazon or Lulu



Agile Manifesto




Agile Principle













Why Agile Fails













































Focus upon

Teamworking

Self organizing































QuestionsQuestions





































Agile Manifesto




Agile Principle













Why Agile Fails













































Focus upon

Teamworking

Self organizing































QuestionsQuestions





































Agile Principle













Why Agile Fails













































Focus upon

Teamworking

Self organizing































QuestionsQuestions













































Why Agile Fails













































Focus upon

Teamworking

Self organizing































QuestionsQuestions














































































Focus upon

Teamworking

Self organizing































QuestionsQuestions
































































QuestionsQuestions



































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