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Jovan Vidic
April 05, 2016
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You are messing up with people's lives - From burnout to #NoEstimates
Slides for my talk at Agilia 2016
Jovan Vidic
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Transcript
· · · – – – · · · You
are messing up with people's lives From burnout to #NoEstimates Jovan Vidic, IT Consultant
[email protected]
@_yowan_
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Let me tell you a story
Would you like to work at a startup?
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Yes, they need someone with your skills. So?
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expectations
reality
development team “I have changed something and now something is
working”
business “Someone is doing something somewhere. I think that is
affecting some pages”
leadership “We have a ticket.”
make it work
“you can't manage what you can't measure” Peter Drucker
reality check
back to the drawing board
“give me some estimate, does not need to be precise”
leadership “Let’s change focus for a moment”
I am with you
back to the drawing board
we have a plan
the most experienced dev decides to leave the company
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I can do it
leadership “Let’s change focus for a moment”
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let’s do it
back to the work
leadership “Let’s change focus for a moment”
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you let the whole team down
I WILL STAY!
I slipped
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE!
options?
I’ll work harder
I WANT MORE!
time?
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
light at the end of the tunnel
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ready to play in this team?
knowledge
empowerment
teamwork
• Collective ownership • Simple design • Refactoring • Continuous Testing (Unit/Test first, BDD/ATDD,
UAT) • Pair programming • Continuous integration • Immutable servers (dev & test) • Only two roles: PO and team members • Sprint planning, detailed planning, daily standup, grooming, review, retro • Spikes • Timeboxing • Show & Tell
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effort or complexity?
stakeholders want es.mates predic.on priori.za.on analysis understanding what if? what
if? what if? what if?
user story slicing
limit WIP
The retrospective
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affinity diagram instead of story points
transition
Houston, we have a problem
A3 problem solving
mob programming
deadline
inspect & adapt inspect & adapt inspect & adapt inspect
& adapt review inspect & adapt demo
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current focus & future outlook
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continuous improvement
OKR’s
complexity thinking
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#Es.mates #NoEs.mates #MehEs.mates value estimates can go wrong
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