The devs - The Forgotten of the Agility

In 2001, brilliant developers came together around an idea: we have to do our jobs differently that's why they have created the Agile Manifesto.
Since then, Agile frameworks and methods claiming to be heirs have proliferated.
Organisations have been created and have built flourishing businesses around Agility (don't need to name them)

Little by little, Agility has been diverted and no longer belongs to developers.
All you have to do is go to an Agile conference and ask the question of the number of developers in the assembly to prove it.

During this half hour together we will show you how much the developers have become forgotten about agility and we will give you keys to re-on-board them.

Transcript

1. An Agile Luxembourg meetup
   The Devs: the Forgotten of Agility
   by Adrien Muller & Yoan Thirion
   LOST IN AGILE
   Event storming : The Smartest Approach to Collaboration Beyond Silo Boundaries
   by Cédric Pontet
   

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2. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
   Yoan THIRION
   @yot88
   Software craftsman at Agile Partner S.A.,
   agile enthusiast, team player
   Adrien MULLER
   Agile Coach, Software Craftsman, Trainer and Security
   Officer at Agile Partner S.A
   

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3. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
   Kent Beck
   Software Engineer
   Mike Beedle
   Computer Scientist
   Arie Van Bennekum
   Project Manager
   Alistair Cockburn
   Computer Scientist
   Ward Cunningham
   Software Developer
   Martin Fowler
   Software
   Developer
   James Grenning
   Software Engineer
   Jim Highsmith
   Software Developer
   Andy Hunt
   Software Developer
   Ron Jeffries
   Software Developer
   Bob Martin
   Software Engineer
   Stephen J. Mellor
   Computer Scientist
   Jeff Sutherland
   Software Developer
   Ken Schwaber
   Software Developer
   Dave Thomas
   Computer Programmer
   Jon Kern
   Program Manager
   Brian Marick
   Computer Scientist
   

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4. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
   State of Agile
   

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5. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
   The Rules of the game
   

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6. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
   What we have
   observed ?
   

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7. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
   The Scrum Master
   The Scrum Master helps
   everyone change their
   interactions to maximize
   the value created by the
   Scrum Team.
   

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8. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
   The Product Owner
   The Product Owner is the
   sole person responsible
   for managing the
   Product Backlog.
   

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9. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
   Sprint Planning
   The plan is created by the
   collaborative work of
   the entire Scrum Team.
   

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10. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
    Daily Scrum
    The Development Team
    plans work for the next
    24 hours.
    

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11. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
    Sprint Review
    The Development Team
    demonstrates the work that
    it has “Done” and answers
    questions about the
    Increment.
    

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12. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
    Sprint Retrospective
    The Scrum Team inspect
    itself and create a plan for
    improvements to be
    enacted during the next
    Sprint.
    

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13. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
    Self-organization
    Coaching the
    Development Team in
    self-organization and
    cross-functionality.
    

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14. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
    Cross functional teams
    Include all competencies
    and domain knowledge
    without depending on
    others outside the team.
    

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16. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
    Developers do not find themselves in this version of the agility
    They all believe in the manifesto
    “It’s common sense”
    BUT
    No longer feel concerned
    “It’s for project managers, PMI”
    LOST IN AGILE
    

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17. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
    Evidence #1
    How many developers in the room ?
    

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18. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
    Evidence #2
    

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19. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
    Evidence #3
    

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20. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
    Every company needs them
    DEV
    ON-BOARD
    

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21. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
    An answer in 2008
    • Too much focus on the process
    o How to build it fast
    o How to build the right thing
    • Teams must care, not execute
    o We value execution but we value craftsmanship more
    • Technical excellence is CRUCIALLY
    important to deliver value
    “Craftsmanship over Execution” – Uncle Bob
    The 5th Agile value
    Reduce the gap between agile and the
    technical world
    

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22. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
    • We need to help them set up the necessary practices
    to support iterative and incremental development
    o Training
    o Coaching
    eXtreme Programming (XP)
    A lot of responses in XP
    

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    • Give more feedback to them
    o No digital transformation without Devs
    • They are not “code monkeys”
    o Learn new stuff every days
    o Push organizations to innovate
    Valorize their work (1/2)
    

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    • No more “Peter’s principles”
    o Every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence
    • Create new H.R paths
    • No shame to be a developer
    • Agile needs to work on it
    Change the HR processes (2/2)
    Be proud to be a developer
    Success
    Promotion
    Success
    Promotion
    Failure
    

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    • Train them on true agile concepts
    o Agile != Scrum
    o A mindset
    o Continuous improvement
    o Self organization
    • Dark scrum
    o A framework that oppresses the team every day
    • Power to say NO
    o Challenge the implementation of Agility
    Empower them
    

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26. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
    • People imposing stuff to the teams
    o "if you're doing Extreme Programming the same way as you were doing it a year ago,
    you're no longer doing Extreme Programming" - Martin Fowler
    • Negative impact on team's health
    o A self organizer
    o First decision made by self-organized people : “it's not the right
    choice, you'll fail”
    • Beware the BAD apple
    o Put them away
    Avoid the agile dictators
    “There is no chief, if you need one it will be me”
    

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27. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
    • Not use only the coaching posture
    Expect pragmatism from agile
    coaches
    No more dogmatism / evangelism
    

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    • A lot of energy on :
    o New roles as Product Owners and Scrum Masters
    o Organization (Top management)
    • What about the devs?
    Invest on technical coaching
    https://agileforall.com/understanding-acis-agile-coach-competency-
    framework/
    

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29. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
    Craftsmanship @AP
    • We propose a dedicated approach
    o Craft coaching
    o Training
    o Craftsmen
    • Team bootstrap
    o Agile coaching
    o Craft coaching
    Break silos
    https://agilepartner.github.io/craft-challenges/
    

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30. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
    Be pragmatic
    • One size does not fit all
    o One framework is not the answer
    • The ‘what’ and ‘how’ should be suited to customer
    context and to a wider strategic vision.
    Be pragmatic
    

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31. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
    

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32. Agile Meetup Luxembourg
    Yoan THIRION
    @yot88
    Software craftsman at Agile Partner S.A.,
    agile enthusiast, team player
    Adrien MULLER
    Agile Coach, Software Craftsman, Trainer and Security Officer at
    Agile Partner S.A
    THANK YOU !!!
    

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