You are messing up with people's lives - From burnout to #NoEstimates

Slides for my talk at Agilia 2016

Transcript

1. · · · – – – · · · You are messing up with people's lives From burnout to #NoEstimates Jovan Vidic, IT Consultant
2. vidicj@gmail.com @_yowan_
7. Let me tell you a story
8. Would you like to work at a startup?
10. Yes, they need someone with your skills. So?
12. expectations
13. reality
14. development team “I have changed something and now something is working”
15. business “Someone is doing something somewhere. I think that is affecting some pages”
16. leadership “We have a ticket.”
17. make it work
18. “you can't manage what you can't measure” Peter Drucker
19. reality check
20. back to the drawing board
21. “give me some estimate, does not need to be precise”
22. leadership “Let’s change focus for a moment”
23. I am with you
24. back to the drawing board
25. we have a plan
26. the most experienced dev decides to leave the company
28. I can do it
29. leadership “Let’s change focus for a moment”
31. let’s do it
32. back to the work
33. leadership “Let’s change focus for a moment”
36. you let the whole team down
37. I WILL STAY!
38. I slipped
39. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE!
40. options?
41. I’ll work harder
42. I WANT MORE!
43. time?
44. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
45. light at the end of the tunnel
48. ready to play in this team?
49. knowledge
50. empowerment
51. teamwork
52. • 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
54. effort or complexity?
55. stakeholders want es.mates predic.on priori.za.on analysis understanding what if? what if? what if? what if?
56. user story slicing
57. limit WIP
58. The retrospective
60. affinity diagram instead of story points
61. transition
62. Houston, we have a problem
63. A3 problem solving
64. mob programming
65. deadline
66. inspect & adapt inspect & adapt inspect & adapt inspect & adapt review inspect & adapt demo
68. current focus & future outlook
70. continuous improvement
71. OKR’s
72. complexity thinking
74. #Es.mates #NoEs.mates #MehEs.mates value estimates can go wrong