agile learning (60 minute version)
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Reduced version of Agile Learning presentation to fit in 60 minutesTRANSCRIPT
Learning is key to agile success
building a learning culture on your agile team
Declan Whelan
Overview
Agile ManifestoWe are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.Kent Beck, Mike Beedle, Arie van Bennekum, Alistair Cockburn, Ward Cunningham, Martin Fowler, James Grenning, Jim Highsmith, Andrew
Hunt, Ron Jeffries, Jon Kern, Brian Marick, Robert C. Martin, Steve Mellor, Ken Schwaber, Jeff Sutherland. Dave Thomas
© 2001, the above authors this declaration may be freely copied in any form, but only in its entirety through this notice.
Satir Change Model
Learning
Source: http://www.stevenmsmith.com/my-articles/article/the-satir-change-model.html
Learning
Value
Learning study
accumulateknowledge
child indoorway
bird leavingnest
youth
practice continuously
What Do We Need to Learn?
People
• Self• Team• Organization
Environment
• Domain• Product• Customers• Stakeholders
Methods
• Technology• Process & Tools• Skills• Learning
How do We Learn?Auditory
Kinesthetic
Visual
Personal History Exercise
Ask your partner:1.How many children in your family2.The most challenging thing you faced as a child
Personal Learning
L Brain R Brain
LogicalSequential RationalAnalyticalObjectiveLooks at parts
RandomIntuitiveHolistic
SynthesizingSubjective
Looks at wholes
IDEA
L Brain R Brain
LogicalSequential RationalAnalyticalObjectiveLooks at parts
RandomIntuitiveHolistic
SynthesizingSubjective
Looks at wholes
IDEA
Shu Ha Ri
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuhari
Following Breaking Away Fluent
Beginner’s Mind
“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.”
Shunryu Suzuki
Personal Mastery
Mental Models
Shared Vision
Team Learning
Systems Thinking
The Learning Organization
Draw a Hand Exercise
Draw a hand in 45 seconds
http://www.thiagi.com/pfp/IE4H/august2005.html#99Seconds
Personal Mastery
Mental Models
Shared Vision
Team Learning
Systems Thinking
The Learning Organization
Personal Mastery
Mental Models
Shared Vision
Team Learning
Systems Thinking
The Learning Organization
Team Learning
Team Learning
Discussion Dialog
Tinkering School
http://www.ted.com/talks/gever_tulley_s_tinkering_school_in_action.html
“Gleeful calamity”“Success is in the doing and failures are celebrated and
analyzed. Problems become puzzles and obstacles disappear”“Nothing ever turns out as planned ... Ever”
“Decoration of the unfinished project is a kind of conceptual incubation. From these interludes come deep insights and
amazing new approaches”“We start from doodles and sketches; sometimes we make real
plans; sometimes we just start building”“We keep the landscape of the projects tilted towards
completion”
Chaordic Learning: Tinkering
http://www.ted.com/talks/gever_tulley_s_tinkering_school_in_action.html
Learning Culture Map
accumulateknowledge
child indoorway
bird leavingnest
youth
Intentional
Infrastructure
Incremental
Individual Safety
Retrospectives
Retrospective Format
Set the stageGather dataGenerate insightsDecide what to doClose
Diverge & Converge
Source: Chris Corrigan blog: http://chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/?p=1265
Integrate Learning & Working
• Pairing• Planning Sessions• Standups• Demos
Create Practice Fields
• Initial training• Simulations• Games• Katas• Etudes
Create Learning Sessions
• Brown bags• Study groups• Road trips• Games
http://www.thiagi.com/games.html
Create Learning Workspace
• Big Visible Charts• Information Radiators• In Your Space• e-Forum
Individual Safety
Virginia Satir“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”
Summary
“Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself.
But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well.”
Shunryu Suzuki
Agile Coach Camp Canada
An Open Space Conference for Agile CoachesPeer-to-peer Learning in a Collaborative SettingFree!
June 11-12, 2010Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
http://agilecoachcampcanada.com/