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Getting More out of Agile and Lean
GOTO Amsterdam Workshop, June 17
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AgendaLearning Goals & Getting to Know Each Other
Building the Right ProductExercise: Product Owner & Team
Effective Collaboration in TeamsExercise: Impediments
Learning and ImprovingExercise: Valuable Agile Retrospectives
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Learning Goals• Effective practices for planning games, stand-ups,
demos and retrospectives• Ideas for improving collaboration in teams and between
teams and stakeholders• Tips and tricks to improve your agile way of working• Advice on selecting and applying Agile and Lean
practices effectively
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What’s Value?Introduction• Name• Company and role/function• “Get More out of Agile/Lean”: Value?
What does value mean for you, your company, customers?How do your products/services differ?What is needed to keep making this difference?If you could change one thing to become more valuable,
what would it be? Why?
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Agile, Lean, Quality & Continuous Improvement
Retrospectives Facilitator Agile Coach/Mentor/TrainerCMMI & People-CMM Assessor
Freelance Editor for InfoQ.com
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Co-Author Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives English Dutch French Japanese Spanish Italian Chinese Russian Polish German
Author: What Drives Quality
eBook: Download from Amazon, InfoQ or LeanpubPrint: Buy on Amazon or Lulu
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Agile Manifesto
“We are uncovering better ways of developingsoftware by doing it and helping others do it”
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Why Agile Fails
9th annual State of Agile Survey – VersionOne 2015
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Building the Right Product• What is value in the eyes of customers?• Customers & and customers customers needs• Stakeholder expectations
Principles Frequent Feedback Openness & Trust Deliver Fast
Value in Agile is knowing what to build!
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Exercise: Product Owner & Team
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What to build: Valuable Practices
Storytelling Product Management Teams Lean Startup / MVP Structuring backlog Value & Impact over costs Effective product demo’s Behavior Driven Development Small User stories Cost of Delay
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Product Management Teams
Development Product Management
Products managers and/or project managers + support better insight in requirements Balancing requirements, time, money & quality Team approach, not depending on single person (PO)
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Effective Collaboration in Teams
• What makes a team?• Conditions for effective teams• What’s in it for me?
Principles Interact & Communicate Flexibility Agile & Lean Mindset
Teams drive Agile & Lean results!
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Handling Impediments• Catch Signals• Understand the Impediment• Deploy Good Practices• Decide who takes action
Customer & RequirementsTechnical PracticesTeam Working & EfficiencyOrganizational Change
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Exercise: Impediments
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Collaboration: Valuable Practices
Pair Working Measure Happiness Swarming Definition of Done Co-located teams Spend non-working time together Scrum Master from the team Root Cause Analysis on Blockers
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Pair WorkingWork together in pairs• Complex problems• Critical software
Instant feedback Learning between peers Higher quality Effectively solve problems
Image from the Management 3.0 Workout book by Jurgen Appelo
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Learning and Improving• No first time right• Become better in what you do• Agile and Lean is a journey
Principles Self Organize Reflect Frequently Respond to Change
Agile = Sustainable Improvement!
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Agile Principle
“At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its
behavior accordingly”
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Exercise: Valuable Retrospectives
Possible Exercises:• Sailboat• One-Word Retrospective• Team Assessment Survey• Perfection Game
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Learn & Improve: Valuable Practices
Scrum master guards the process Stand-up, daily impediment focus Valuable Agile Retrospectives Agile coaching Safe-to-fail experiments Kanban Solution Focused Becoming Agile in an Agile way
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Solution Focused Approach
Source: Delta Method, by Alistair Cockburn
How did you get this far?
Celebrate it!How can you use
that to get a smidgy bit further?
What you currently imagine “perfect” to
be .
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Improve!
Continuous Improvement is essentialif you want value from Agile & Lean!
The Impact and Value of Agile
Agile Value Creation
Business Value of Agile Retrospectives
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Take AwayWhat have you learned:• Valuable Agile and Lean practices• Ideas for improving collaboration• Tips and tricks to improve agility• Applying agile practices effectively
What’s your next step to increase value?
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Questions?Questions?
Ben LindersIndependent Consultant Agile, Lean,Quality & Continuous Improvement
[email protected]@BenLinders.com @BenLinders www.linkedin.com/in/benlinderswww.linkedin.com/in/benlinders www.facebook.com/BenLindersAdvieswww.facebook.com/BenLindersAdvies www.benlinders.comwww.benlinders.com
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Background Information
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Retrospectives BookGetting Value out of Agile RetrospectivesBy Luis Gonçalves & Ben Linders
Download from InfoQ or LeanpubBuy on Amazon or Lulu
amazon.com/dp/B00SWJO1DIleanpub.com/gettingvalueoutofagileretrospectives
Mailinglist: eepurl.com/Mem7H
The suggested price is $9,99 (excl. VAT); this is what we think is the real value of this book. We leave it up to our readers to decide what they would like to pay for the book.
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Agile Retrospectives
amazon.com/dp/B00SWJO1DI benlinders.com/exercises/
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Articles on Effective Agile• Agile needs coaching• How futurespectives help teams to reach their goals• Spice up your agile retrospectives• Empower teams to increase quality• Self-assessing how Agile you are• Sustainable Improvement through Agile Retrospectives• Working in a Sustainable Pace• Becoming Agile and Lean • Succes Factors for Using Scrum and Getting Benefits• Process Improvement: The Agile Way• Golden Rules for Agile Process Improvement• How to deal with Resistance when Implementing Agile• Managing Projects with Agile Teams• Establishing and Maintaining Stable Teams• Getting Business Value out of Agile Retrospectives• Are your Professionals Empowered?