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20 Years of BDD or The Power of Shared Understanding Daniel Terhorst-North

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Hi, I’m Daniel A decade* as a $adjective Developer A decade* as a consultant at Thoughtworks 2-year hiatus (accidental proper job) A decade* as an independent consultant https:// fl ickr.com/photos/jmcarthy99/ ‘I advocate passionate dedication to the pursuit of short-term goals; be micro-ambitious.’ * for values of ‘decade’

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Why shared understanding of the goal
 What shared understanding of success criteria
 How shared understanding that we will fi gure this out People work best when there is a shared understanding

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Building shared understanding © Je ff Patton & Associates

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How to build shared understanding for a single team?

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BDD

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A brief history of BDD 2007 Plain Text Stories RBehave RSpec Story Runner Introducing BDD 2006 RSpec 2005 Story title 2004 I do this This happens (Ivan Moore) Given When Then scenarios and steps s/test/example/ 2003 (Liz Keogh) (Chris Matts) (Steven Baker) (David Chelimsky) (Aslak Hellesøy) Gherkin

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A brief history of BDD

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A brief history of BDD

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BDD is its community

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10 years on… How to build shared understanding for a team of teams?

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Demand-Led Planning

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Demand-Led Planning in 5 minutes Assumption: stable, long-lived feature teams Team Team Team Team Team Demand ?? Value ?? ? ?

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Delivery Features Enhancements Discovery Experiments Research - user behaviour - domain - technology Everything else! (‘keep the lights on’) Scheduled BAU Failure demand Kaizen - process improvement - tech cleanup - learning & development Start with the demand Demand-Led Planning in 5 minutes

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Demand-Led Planning in 5 minutes 1. Identify the demand 2. Pitch the demand 3. Set the constraints 4. Runaround! 5. Test the result repeat until working! Everybody in one room!

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Demand-Led Planning in 5 minutes O · i O · · O O O i O o · i o · O - i O · o . - O i & O ⊥ & ⊥ - · O - ·

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Demand-Led Planning in 5 minutes ⊥ O 10 - O E · O O t - i O · · · ant O O G · & O · · O i - TechDebt! of - O & O - & O · - i o - i , ·

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Demand-Led Planning in 5 minutes 1. Throughput 2. Lead time (Age) 3. Work in Process (Load) Use OKRs for goals, fl ow metrics for tracking

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20 years on… How to build shared understanding for a whole organisation?

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Autonomy through Alignment

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direction structure Alignment of owned by shared through Product vision Product leadership Product strategy Technology vision Technology leadership Technology strategy Ways of working Practices / Guilds Communities Focus Delivery leaders OKRs Autonomy through Alignment in 5 minutes

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Autonomy through Alignment in 5 minutes I am calling this approach Goalwards®

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What’s next… for BDD? a vibrant community centred not bounded not for sale! for Goalwards? it’s taking shape watch this space! for me? I’m still exploring…

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What’s next… for you?

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Thank you https://dannorth.net @tastapod@mas.to @tastapod.com linkedin.com/in/tastapod