all you need to know is that it's possible

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Bill GaiennieAgile Trainer

Agile Coach

Trained over 5,000 people in Agile methodsover the last 5 years

Personally coached 30 different teams in various industries to successfully transition to an Agile approach

Website: davisbase.org Agile Blog: theagileadvisors.com Email: [email protected]

Davisbase Consulting Developing People Who Develop Software.


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“Success is determined by

those whom provethe impossible,

possible.” - James W. Pence

“Impossible only means that you haven’t found the solution yet.”

“Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.”

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"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so l o n g , we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing."

- Mother Theresa

“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone else to accomplish.”

But, we tried- Marcus Aurelius

We can’t

doit,

wearetoo

different!

- Henry Ford


“Success is determined by

those whom provethe impossible,

possible.” - James W. Pence

“Impossible only means that you haven’t found the solution yet.”

“Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.”

Agile sounds great, but...Agile sounds great, but...Agile sounds great, but...Agile sounds great, but...Agile sounds great, but...Agile sounds great, but...Agile sounds great, but...Agile sounds great, but...Agile sounds great, but...Agile sounds great, but...Agile sounds great, but...Agile sounds great, but...Agile sounds great, but...Agile sounds great, but...Agile sounds great, but...Agile sounds great, but...Agile sounds great, but...Agile sounds great, but...Agile sounds great, but...Agile sounds great, but...Agile sounds great, but...Agile sounds great, but...

"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so l o n g , we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing."

- Mother Theresa

“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone else to accomplish.”

But, we tried- Marcus Aurelius

We can’t

doit,

wearetoo

different!

- Henry Ford

The only thing we can do consistently, it seems, is get it wrong when it comes to predicting our inability to overcome the impossible.


“Inventions have long since reached their limit,and I see no hope for future improvements.”

- Julius Frontenus 10 A.D.


“What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling

twice the speed of stagecoaches?”1825- Quarterly Review


“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.”

- Western Union internal memo

1876Sunday, July 25, 2010

“The ordinary ‘horseless carriage’ is at present a luxury for the wealthy; although its prices will probably fall in the future, it will never, of course, come into as common use as the bicycle.”

- Literary Digest1899Sunday, July 25, 2010

“The ordinary ‘horseless carriage’ is at present a luxury for the wealthy; although its prices will probably fall in the future, it will never, of course, come into as common use as the bicycle.”

- Literary Digest1899

“The actual building of roads devoted to motor cars is not likely to ever happen, in spite of many rumors to that effect.”

- Harper’s Weekly

1902Sunday, July 25, 2010

Flightby

machinesheavier

thanairis

IMPRACTICALand

INSIGNIFICANTif

notutterly

IMPOSSIBLE- Simon Newcomb, Director, U.S. Naval Observatory1902


"There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the Moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the Earth's gravity." - Forest Ray Moulton

Astronomer

"Landing and moving about on the moon offers so many serious problems for human beings that it may take science another 200 years to lick them."

1932

1948- Science Digest


Where would we be

today if the many chose to be convinced by the limiting beliefs of the few?


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TheSecretForAstonishingTeamSuccess...

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CULTIVATE THIS

BeliefIntentionSupport

TeachPerseverance

Forgive FailureSunday, July 25, 2010

ReactiveResponsiveOrientation

TuckerAverage

CorporateCitizen

Corporate InitiativesProject Processes

GovernanceCompliance

Process EngineeringSpecifications

Etc. Etc. Etc.

He KnowsHow HisWorld WorksPrescribed ProcessesProject FailuresA CYA ExpertMust Satisfy ProcessDon’t QuestionThings Don’t ChangeBe a Good Soldier

Baked In Over TimeAgile

World View Set


CurrentState

IMP

RO

VE

ME

NT

AgileWhat Tucker is told


CurrentState

IMP

RO

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ME

NT

AgileWhat Tucker believes

Agile = Another corporate

initiative

This is going to fail, like everything else we try!

A friendof mine

tried thisand it failed!

What’s wrongwith whatwe’re doing NOW?

I’ll go along withthis until it fails, and it will!

THIS IS STUPID!!THIS IS STUPID!!THIS IS STUPID!!THIS IS STUPID!!

"Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist, someone who made the mistake of converting ideals into expectations."

- Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline

?WHY?


PASTEXPERIENCES

FUTUREP O S S I B I L I T I E S=


CurrentState

IMP

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Positive

Creative

Tensi

on

BELIEF


Faith Hoping Imagining

Short-Term Belief Building

...what success will look like, how we might try to achieve it,

and how we will know we found it.

...that the success that others have found will also be

experienced by our team.

...that my organization will forgive small failures in our

quest for better results. Success rarely happens overnight.

(this state has a short life span, use it wisely)


Long Term Belief Building


Long Term Belief Building Companies must invest enough timeand patience in the transition process.

Provide guidance, training, and effective tools for teams to have the best chance at success.

Be aware of the effect this type of change will have on the corporate culture. Those unprepared for this specific change will likely fail.

But Most Important of All...Sunday, July 25, 2010

Communicate consistently that Agile is the chosen direction of the company.

Problems will need to be solved, no other possible way forward except through our challenges.

Expect your teams to fall down, then help pick them up.

Reward a team’s ability to risk a small failure in turn for the possibility for a better result.

Put in place a mechanism the teams can use to achieve continuous improvement.


You Must Also ResolveA deficiency of knowledge A deficiency of execution


What We

Say What We

Do

“Organization learning and change is eventually always about action. One basic reflective skill involves using the gaps between what we say and what we do as a vehicle for becoming more aware. Until the gap between espoused theory andcurrent behavior is recognized, no learning can occur.”

Organizations that struggle with learning how to do old things in new ways, will struggle with Agile.

- Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline


AllYouNeedToKnowIsThatIt’sPossibleToGoFrom

Hereto

HereSunday, July 25, 2010

...And if your team or organization chooses to stay in the desert, they will need to recognize that it is a decision, not an unavoidable circumstance.


Break the law of organizational inertia.

Necessity may be the mother of invention,but imagination for something better is the

fountainhead for greatness.

All That You Need To Know Is That It’s Possible

Bill Gaiennie [email protected], July 25, 2010



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