@belindawaldock www.beingagile.co.uk [email protected] The Agile Road Less Travelled Hurdles faced by people on the ground in agile delivery With Belinda Waldock Hosted by Chethan Kumar Baliga

Belinda Waldock Being Agile Growth, Performance and Well-being @belindawaldock www.beingagile.co.uk [email protected]

agenda  90 minutes  Recording  Chat / Video @belindawaldock www.beingagile.co.uk

Agile? @belindawaldock www.beingagile.co.uk

The Road Less Travelled @belindawaldock www.beingagile.co.uk And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. The Road Not Taken BY ROBERT FROST Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,

Aspects of a Team in Agile Delivery: • How to keep the team's tempo consistent with values and delivery? • While a good scrum team will tend to improve iteration after iteration, team members will carry an unknown risk which is fatigue. • How to minimize this risk so that team members are in a happy space to deliver consistently? @belindawaldock www.beingagile.co.uk

Aspects of a Team in Agile Delivery: Practical Challenges faced by the team on a day to day basis @belindawaldock www.beingagile.co.uk

Aspects of a Team in Agile Delivery: Getting associates to work as a team, not as individuals Aspects of Individual ownership vs Team ownership in Agile Delivery @belindawaldock www.beingagile.co.uk

@belindawaldock www.beingagile.co.uk Aspects of a Team in Agile Delivery: • How to deal with resistance to change within a team?

Scaling Agile Delivery: • Discuss the practical difficulties in adopting Agile Delivery in larger projects - that deliver features over a longer period of time and require a large number of people and many teams. • Does the famous Spotify model work well? Are there better ways to do it? @belindawaldock www.beingagile.co.uk

Bring Agility in an organization @belindawaldock www.beingagile.co.uk

•A good fit for scrum master's role - Who can perform a better scrum master role, an experienced Project Manager or Program Manager or Tech Lead? Can someone who is just fresh out of college or a facilitator who knows SDLC perform this role? Though this has been discussed in various platforms, it still remain blurry." @belindawaldock www.beingagile.co.uk

•How to make an introvert to talk? •Making all of them speak / speak freely in meetings •Ensuring team pick up stories instead of Scrum master or PO assigning them @belindawaldock www.beingagile.co.uk

•How can DevOps and Agile be made to work seamlessly in teams that have adopted both? @belindawaldock www.beingagile.co.uk

•Making retros effective and interesting, addressing points discussed in Retro @belindawaldock www.beingagile.co.uk

• What and Who defines a working product in a large multi vendor / multi feature product developed by distributed teams ex: IOT projects with multiple layers @belindawaldock www.beingagile.co.uk

•How effectively is WSJF used across organisations (Weighted Shortest Job First) •Demystify estimations in Agile. Is T shirt sizing a good method? •Measuring productivity and utilization of team members in Agile. How useful is it? How is it done? @belindawaldock www.beingagile.co.uk WHAT HOW

•Sales teams do estimation based on a high level understanding of the requirements from customers. Do you introduce Agile estimates in the pre sales cycle so the estimates can be more accurate? @belindawaldock www.beingagile.co.uk

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@belindawaldock www.beingagile.co.uk [email protected] The Agile Road Less Travelled Hurdles faced by people on the ground in agile delivery Belinda Waldock