Agile FTW!

How To Get Started With Agile

When You Don’t Know Where to Start

Before you get too settled in, we’re going to doan exercise so you might end up at a different table!

Create Your Learning Group

•Take a sheet of paper and write down:

•what do you want to learn today?

•what can you offer to other people here?

•Tape your sheet to your chest

•Mingle and create your learning group!

Tip: if you’re here with a co-worker, try sitting in different groups to gain other perspectives

“Everybody wants to be Agile,too few actually want to do it”

- Ron Jeffries

I dunno what I dunno what it’s called but it’s called but it’s working!it’s working!

should we do scrum?

are we doing Agile right?

scrum-but? what theheck is that? Is it bad?

should our PM’sget certified?

!!!!WARNING!

bigger companysmaller company

rigid process/politics

flexible/collaborative

Where is your company?

Text

Where are you

headed?

Exercise• In your learning groups:

• Brainstorm questions you want this session to answer (10 minutes)

• Cluster similar questions (5 minutes)

• Designate someone to put your stickies on the corresponding flip-chart Big company, rigid process

How can we make Scrum workwhen people are working on

multiple projects?

The Model

Understand

Educate Execute

Understand

Organization SizeOrganization Size

Bigger Organizations:more complexity

processes are harder to changeslower adoption pace

complex politicsdifficult to cross boundaries

“Agile can’t work here” Syndrome

Understand

Organization StructureOrganization Structure

Crossing Boundaries:difficult to create cross functional teams

departmental incentivesbusiness vs development vs IT

How to understand it?map it out on the wall

note your sphere of influenceseparate response from resistance

Understand

Organization CultureOrganization Culture

Choose Process wisely:control cultures like process and metrics

collaborative cultures can use ‘blackbox’ processes cultivation cultures invest in people

competence culture strive to be the best

How to Understand Culture?Schneider Culture Model

Understand

People are DifferentPeople are Different

People are not linear:“people go through changes at different rates and intensities” (Gerry Weinberg)

How to Understand People?Myers Briggs (MBTI)

Example

conflict!

Challenges:‘scrum team’ forced to follow existing processesDev vs QA vs IT vs PMO vs BusinessPMO called projects “agile” to bypass bureaucracy

Educate

Certification isn’t all THAT bad

but...

Educate

Local User groups,Peer Support Groups,

workplace book study groupscan be more effective

Educate

Certain processes are betterfor certain types of work....and cultures

Execute

Based on your understandingand what you’ve learned, give’er!

Execute- Be visible with your plan- Be visible with your progress

Execute

what’s what’s working?working?

what’s not what’s not working?working?

how can we how can we adjust?adjust?

Group Discussion

•How can you shape your adoption based on this model?

•How can you apply this model to your questions?

•Write down at least one activity you will commit to in order to get started

De-Brief

•What was the outcome of your discussion?

Group Discussion II

•Looking at what you wanted to learn here today, did you accomplish it?

•why? why not?

Thank You and Next StepsJason Little @jasonlittle

http://www.agilecoach.ca

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