this is agile?
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THIS IS AGILE?
LETITIA FEARONAGILE ON THE BEACH 2015
A BIT ABOUT MEDoer & Helper / Business Analyst
Public and Private Sector
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@Letitia_Fearon
•Why Managers want Agile?•What is Agile? •Look at the Team•Align Direction•Optimise the Team•Utilise Time
•Why Managers want Agile?•What is Agile? •Look at the Team•Align Direction•Optimise the Team•Utilise Time
•Why Managers want Agile?
•What is Agile? •Look at the Team•Align Direction•Optimise the Team•Utilise Time
BUT METHODOLOGIES AND FRAMEWORKS DON’T MAKE IT AGILE
•Why Managers want Agile?•What is Agile?
•Look at the Team•Align Direction•Optimise the Team•Utilise Time
FOCUS ON THE TEAM NOT THE INDIVIDUAL
TEAM SIZECommunication path = n(n-1)/2
TEAM PROCESS
VISIBILITY
•Why Managers want Agile?•What is Agile? •Look at the Team
•Align Direction•Optimise the Team•Utilise Time
PRODUCT VISION STATEMENTS
For [target customer]Who [statement of the need]The [product name] is a [product category]that [key benefit, compelling reason to buy].Unlike [primary competitive alternative],our product [statement of primary differentiation]
PRODUCT VISION STATEMENTS
For business e-mail users
Who want to better manage the increasing number of messages they receive when out of the
office,
BlackBerry is a mobile e-mail solution
that provides a real-time link to their desktop e-mail for sending, reading and responding to
important messages.
Unlike other mobile e-mail solutions,
BlackBerry is wearable, secure, and always connected.
STORY MAPPING – JEFF PATTON
timeThe backbone
The walking skeleton – Release 1
nece
ssity
Release 2
Release 3
SHARED UNDERSTANDING
•Why Managers want Agile?•What is Agile? •Look at the Team•Align Direction
•Optimise the Team•Utilise Time
CORE PRINCIPLE
Committed +Ownership + Responsibility =Excellence
MARGINAL GAINS
TRAINING
WORKING ENVIRONMENT
PAIRING
MOBBING
INFLUENCE DIRECTION
HAPPINESS
TEAM BUILDING
•Why Managers want Agile?•What is Agile? •Look at the Team•Align Direction•Optimise the Team
•Utilise Time
CAPTURE WASTE
•Why Managers want Agile?•What is Agile? •Look at the Team•Align Direction•Optimise the Team•Utilise Time
IN SUMMARY
HELP TEAMS BE GREAT• Prioritise and decide what is to be achieved
• Clarify what it would take to do this.
• Start from that destination and work back to where you are today.
• Clarify the plan for reaching the destination.
• Execute the plan.
MAKE THE MOST OF TIME• Celebrate success
• Regular feedback loops
• Reduce multitasking
• Capture Waste
• Innovate
FURTHER READING•Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time - Jeff Sutherland•Agile Management: Leadership in an Agile Environment -Ángel Medinilla•Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love - Richard Sheridan•Maverick!: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace - Ricardo Semler•The Happy Manifesto: Make Your Organization a Great Workplace - Henry Stewart •The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - Patrick M. Lencioni •The Leprechauns of Software Engineering - Laurent Bossavit