Being Agile

introduction to agility from ~1hour to the whole morning (or afternoon)

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1. Being agile ?
   @pablopernot
   version 0.5
   december 2012
   

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2. Project(s)
   Product(s)
   

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3. One or many goals
   One or many dates
   People
   Material (tools, places, etc.)
   Project(s)
   Product(s)
   

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4. One or many goals
   One or many dates
   People
   Material (tools, places, etc.)
   A cost
   Project(s)
   Product(s)
   

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5. Features are not those expected
   Features are not what we needed
   Features are not fully achieved
   Features are not working as expected
   Some features are missing
   Some features are useless
   Some features are working badly
   We discover too late problems with features
   We are late
   We will never reach the goal, never
   We discover too late that the goal will be never reach
   people don't understand each other
   people don't communicate
   people are giving failure and responsability to others
   people have pressure
   people will not want to work again together
   people will not want to work again
   people are not effective
   people are not performing
   people are not faithful
   We discover too late problems with people
   

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6. The goal has been reached but is deceptive
   The goal has been reached but is deceptive for some of us
   The goal has been reached but it is hard to make it evolve
   The goal has been reached but it is long to make it evolve
   We are not proud of the outcome
   It costs too much money
   We discover too late that it will cost too much money
   The contract forbids us to do what we will now
   It's a failure
   

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7. 64%
   rarely or never used features
   Chaos Report - Standish Group
   

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8. Agile Manifeste, 2001
   http://agilemanifesto.org
   

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9. Edwards Deming Taiichi Ohno
   Continuous improvement
   Respect people
   Challenge everything - Embrace change
   "Why are we doing this ?"
   

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10. Individuals and interactions
    over processes and tools
    Working software
    over comprehensive documentation
    Customer collaboration
    over contract negotiation
    Responding to change
    over following a plan
    http://agilemanifesto.org
    

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11. Google
    Microsoft
    Yahoo
    Adobe
    Oracle
    Salesforce
    Spotify
    

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12. Lean Thinking
    Extreme Programming Scrum Kanban
    craftsmanship devops
    

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13. Agile Culture
    practices are a deadend without culture
    

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14. Visual Management
    

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15. Transparency and
    communication
    

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16. Communication &
    collaboration
    

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17. Deliver things done
    and emergent design
    Jeff Patton, http://www.agileproductdesign.com/blog/dont_know_what_i_want.html
    

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18. Breaking the silos
    http://www.sao.corvallis.or.us/drupal/files/The%20New%20New%20Product%20Development%20Game.pdf
    Source: “The New New Product Development Game”, Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka,
    Harvard Business Review, January 1986.
    

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19. Optimize feedback
    Change is easier and cheaper
    

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20. Estimates & planification
    Repeating a observed capacity of delivery
    Cost Time
    Features
    Cost
    Time
    Fixed & regular
    capacity of
    delivery
    

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21. Test Driven Development
    & Continuous integration
    

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23. How to become agile ?
    From doing agile
    ...to being agile
    

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24. Awareness
    Desir
    Ability
    Promotion
    Transfer
    Agile is mainly a change
    management approach
    

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25. Mike Cohn, http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/
    

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26. Benefits & stoppers
    

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27. Turnover & motivation
    Intrinsec quality (bugs)
    Time to market
    Productivity, innovation, competitivity
    Benefits ?
    

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28. Culture that doesn't support change
    Ineffective use of retrospectives
    Ignore needed infrastructure
    Lack of full planning participation
    Unavailable Product Owner
    Bad Scrummasters
    Not having an onsite evangelist
    Team lacking authority
    Testing not pulled forward
    Traditional performances appraisals
    Reverting to form
    Checkbook commitment Jean Tabaka
    2009
    Agile failure modes
    

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29. Agility as the goal
    Focusing on practices
    It's just for the development team
    Robbie McIver
    Three Failures to Avoid in Agile
    Transitions
    Beware
    

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30. Focus Scrum
    

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31. Roles & responsabilities
    Product Owner
    Responsible for "WHY & WHAT"
    Own the vision
    Maximize ROI
    Prioritize & Validate
    

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32. Roles & responsabilities
    Team
    Responsible for "HOW"
    Estimate
    Produce
    Self-organized
    Cross-functional
    

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33. Roles & responsabilities
    Scrummaster
    Focus on
    Communication
    Facilitation
    Culture & practices
    

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34. Artefacts
    Backlog & user stories
    

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35. Artefacts
    Definition of done
    

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36. Artefacts
    Burndown
    Burnup
    chart
    

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37. Timeboxes
    Review
    Retrospective
    Iteration
    Sprint planning
    Daily Scrum
    

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38. Tell me, and I will forget.
    Show me, and I may
    remember.
    Involve me, and I will
    understand.
    – Confucius, 450 B.C
    Workshops
    The Chair Game
    http://agiletrail.com/2012/03/27/8-great-short-games-for-groups/
    Offing the offsite customer
    http://jamesshore.com/Presentations/OffingTheOffsiteCustomer.html
    Open Ended Specifications
    http://blog.crisp.se/2009/02/18/davidbarnholdt/1234986060000
    Marshmallow Challenge
    http://www.marshmallowchallenge.com
    Scrum Ball Point Game
    http://borisgloger.com/2008/03/15/the-scrum-ball-point-
    game/
    Multitasking Name Game
    http://www.crisp.se/gratis‐material‐och‐guider/multitasking‐
    name‐game
    

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