Title: IgniteTalks Timestamp: 2015-05-05 23:56:15 +0000 Created: 2015-05-05 14:38:27 +0000 Last Accessed: 2015-05-05 14:38:27 +0000 Times Accessed: 0 Tags: Metadata: gpslongitude=-111.868991,gpslatitude=33.541433 # Presenter
Box Box on wheels Then Agile utility belt - scrummando belt Materials, post it notes Projector Message - inspect and adapt
Context is everything
Know their pain Dollars and cents Time to market, dev costs, quality, customer sat, productivity, employee sat It's the one big pain point for that company
Find big wins Recognize when big wins are hidden in small wins Bar maybe a lot lower than you expected Deliver outcomes for the business Focus on agile principles and scrum values
Simplify the message Enable people (training is part of this, employee sat, cultural change) Building high performing teams Delivery business value Release on demand (technical practices, Devops etc)
Messaging (deliver value, reduce cycle time, etc) Buyin / support (build alliances, find key influencers and deliver to them, how can we) “Get it” factor (frame big picture, opportunities tic coaching to execs, collect success stories, enable them to tell their story)
Context evolves
2 successful sprints and you get a team event Fail resets count
If failed - disappointed with themselves (not outside people saying you failed) This resulted in real change More cross team, more camaraderie See people with more depth
Board game in conference room, watch movie
Kanban means card
Better communication through visual management - picture your work
Visualize work Limit work in process (column represent team capacity) Make policy / agreements - how move, flag items, manage blocked states (make visual on board) Manage flow
Improve collaboratively
Bottlenecks are easy to identify
Expedite card
Metrics
Cycle time - time left from ready to done Throughout - number of items completed per unit time
Consider Kanban for Maintenance projects Event drive work Lots of changes in plan
First listen
Quote - “Most people do not listen to understand, they listen to reply” - Stephen Covey
Ask clarification questions - no other questions
You can be in there world - recreation (of their situation) Never make them “wrong”
What's in it for them
End micromanagement Comic - there is no hyphen in micromanagement
Pull model - freedom from pressure
Enable flow Stop context switching - you can get in the zone
Fun Agile done right is fun
Prove it!
Their management has to prove it
Have to demonstrate real change Removing obstacles Demonstrate it Report it every day
Wrote book an agile transformation
Agile success is limited by culture
Agile enterprise Anti fragile Resilient
Agile transformation Is a fantasy
We focus on tactics, strategy but not culture
Book - Reinventing organizations - Frederick lallou
What is the voice of the system Start with why Compassion Leaders go first - create culture Freedom to choose - let go of agile (comes back on its own) Let go of control Organic spread of ideas
“I spend a lot of my life as a well intentioned arsehole.” - Michael
Top down mandate for agile
Teams became good at doing their own stuff But didn't work cross teams
Set up portfolio backlog
Now need to coordinate all efforts together
Two step planning process Create integrated project planning Teams respond epics stories, dependencies, timing
Then create enterprise release plan 1 1/2 days
Make a release plan Foam boards foldable Every panel is a sprint
Projects then validate their plans with each team
Report back Green we can do Yellow might do Red can't do Risks
Include all executives in meeting Work directly with teams
120 people Quarterly meetings Been doing for 3 years
Why Fun You can see for yourself
“I like to plan first then execute”
Game - you sunk my waterfall - battleship Waterfall navy shoots 40 times but no feedback Agile navy 1 shot but immediate feedback adapting to change over following a plan
“Retrospectives are waste of time” 52 pickup Shuffle 2 minutes for planning 5 minute sorting 3 minutes for retro
Sort cards by value, suit
How long to sort Someone will do in 30 sec
“How does this scrum thing tie things together”
Build a bridge All day exercise
Minimize dependencies