can you be remotely agile? (agile2015)

Can You Be Remotely Agile?Mark Kilby

MARK KILBYSOFTWARE SINCE 1990

AGILE COACHING SINCE 2003

Agile Orlando

Past

@mkilby

ARE YOU REMOTE OR DO YOU WORK WITH REMOTE

TEAM MEMBERS?

(OR HAVE DONE SO IN THE PAST?)

WHAT ABOUT YOU?

WHO WORKS IN A 100% DISTRIBUTED TEAM?

THAT IS, NO ONE CO-LOCATED?

(OR HAVE DONE SO IN THE PAST?)

HOW MANY JUST THOUGHT TO THEMSELVES:

THAT CANNOT REMOTELY BE AGILE!

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TINY HOUSES

NOW … A LITTLE BACKGROUND ON SONATYPE

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2001Jason VanZyl launches Maven and Maven Central

2010Wayne Jackson

joins as CEO, Company

funded, Central reaches 4B

2008Sonatype formed around Nexus development team

2006Maven emerging as a standard, Central reaches 100M

2008Nexus

repository manager

introduced to OS community

2006M2eclipse

introduced to OS community

2013Sonatype launches CLM and

Nexus Pro CLM solutions

2012Sonatype

raises growth round of $25 million, NEA

leads

2012Nexus

surpasses 20k installs

2014Central

surpasses 17.2B

requests

ABOUT SONATYPE

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative_and_incremental_development

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Fully Distributed Agile

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CAN THIS WORK?


BENEFITS OF REMOTE WORK?

Adapted from TechRepublic article Jan 19, 2015 “10 Good Reasons Why Working Remote Makes Sense” http://tek.io/1J1j0BX



Less stressed




Less stressed


Provides more choices

(work environment & style)



Less stressed


No Commuting

(less impact to people

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Less stressed




Cost less ???

No Commuting

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Less stressed




Cost less ???More engaged ???

No Commuting

(impacts to people

& environment)


IS IT FOR EVERYONE?@mkilby


IS IT FOR EVERYONE?


• Why?

• Principles

• Practices

• What’s next?


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WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME/US TO WORK THIS WAY?

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Working with best & brightest

will UP your game

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MAKE A DIFFERENCE / NO SOUL-CRUSHINGhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87a_Ira

ARE WE AGILE?

Satisfy the Customer

Welcome Change

Deliver Frequently

Collaborate Daily

Support & Trust Motivated

Teams

Promote Face-to-Face Conversations

Measured by Working Software

Promote Sustainable

Pace

Promote Technical

Excellence

Maximize Through Simplicity

Have Self-Organized

Teams

Reflect & Adjust

Regularly

Source: www.agilemanifesto.org@mkilby

ARE WE AGILE?


Welcome Change

Deliver Frequently

Collaborate Daily


Teams



Promote Sustainable

Pace

Promote Technical

Excellence


Have Self-Organized

Teams

Reflect & Adjust

Regularly

Source: www.agilemanifesto.org

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ARE WE AGILE?


Welcome Change

Deliver Frequently

Collaborate Daily


Teams



Promote Sustainable

Pace

Promote Technical

Excellence


Have Self-Organized

Teams

Reflect & Adjust

Regularly

Source: www.agilemanifesto.org

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DON’T GO CHEAP

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T-SHAPED PEOPLE (A MUST)

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GET COMFORTABLE IN 2 WORLDS

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SERVANT LEADERSHIP FROM THE TOP

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OPEN SOURCE MINDSET

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CRAFTSMANSHIP

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OPEN SOURCE MINDSET


craftsmanshipCHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS

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OPEN SOURCE MINDSET


craftsmanshipchallenging assumptionsRAPID PROTOTYPING

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OPEN SOURCE MINDSET


craftsmanshipchallenging assumptionsrapid prototypingSHARING

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OPEN SOURCE MINDSET


craftsmanshipchallenging assumptionsrapid prototypingsharingTRANSPARENCY

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• Why?

• Principles

• Practices

• What’s next?


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When remote…

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PRINCIPLE:WorkWith

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WORK OPEN / GO ANYWHERE / LEAVE NO TRACE

WORK OPEN / GO ANYWHERE / LEAVE NO TRACE

NOTE: 2 Teams share this task board for development on the same product


Multiple Open Channels Always (MOCA)


Multiple Open Channels Always (MOCA)

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WORK-LIFE BLEND-ing

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You work at home?

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Are we meeting or hanging out?

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YOU’RE WORKING WHERE TODAY?


• Why?

• Principles

• Practices

• What’s next?


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REMEMBER THESE 2 TEAMS?

NOTE: 2 Teams share this task board for development on the same product


STAY WITH THE PACK

Zen Insight


IN THE SPRINT…

Insight Shared Zen Backlog Grooming (1-2x’s / sprint)

Sprint Planning Pt 1 – Story selection

Sprint Planning Pt 2 – tasking


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IN THE SPRINT…




Sprint Planning Pt 2 - tasking

Task Board same Jira Agile board with “sprint per team” Task Board

REMEMBER? 2 Teams share the task board for development on the same product

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IN THE SPRINT…






Design (complex stories & epics)

Code Review – Github Pull Requests (two +1s to move forward)

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IN THE SPRINT…








Daily Scrum Visiting Daily Scrum

Team Room(open to all)

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IN THE SPRINT…








Daily Scrum Visiting Daily Scrum


Sprint Review

Retrospective

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IN THE SPRINT…








Daily Scrum Daily Scrum


Sprint Review

Retrospective

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Backchannels

Remember this Principle? Multiple Open

Channels Always (MOCA)

BACKCHANNEL = PERIPHERAL SENSE

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INTENTIONALLY SOCIAL

(The Lounge)

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• Why?

• Principles

• Practices

• What’s next?


@mkilby

Successfully adopt Scrum or KanbanSuccessfully adopt

XP engineering practices (i.e., Software Craftsmanship) –Continuous Integration/Delivery, Automated Testing, TDD, BDD

Successfully integrate business expertise (Product Owner with decision authority in the team, Lean Startup, Impact Mapping, Roman Pichler’s Product Owner tools)

Going beyond agile; setting and executing “organizational experiments”(e.g., Valve, WL Gore, Github)

AGILE FLUENCY

System Thinking via http://coachingbeyondtheteam.com

Esther Derby Don Gray

http://leanchange.org


New tools like retrium.com


IS IT FOR EVERYONE?

Mark Kilby

Agile Coach

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