lean for agilists by cheryl hammond
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Cheryl Hammond16+ years’ experience in software
development, team leadership, and
organizational transformation
Passionate about agile, lean, and
making software delivery humane;
not afraid to look silly doing it
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Speaker at Agile Games 2015, ALM
Forum, TechEds 2013, Agile 2015 …
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agreements and asks
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law of two feet
topics
Water-Scrum-fall
History of agile & lean
Connections
Extensions
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why?
water-scrum-fall
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a better way
a very brief history of agile & lean
XP, 1999
Agile Manifesto, 2001
TPS, 1953
The Toyota Way, 2001
Kanban, 2010
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return to the principles
Stop trying to teach them agile;
teach yourself lean.
Agile works
because it’s lean.
Lean works
because it’s math.
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alignments
potato, potahtoagile lean
Welcome change Embrace variability
Self-organization Respect for people
Sprint Batch size
Sprint backlog Limit Work in Process (WIP)
Remove impediments Eliminate waste
YAGNI Just-in-time
Product owner, stack ranking Economic prioritization
DevOps Jidoka
Inspect and adapt Safe-to-fail experiments
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…and beyond
value
Busy-ness (utilization) doesn’t create value
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visualize work
queues
Queues are expensive
Queues make you look bad
Queues are evil
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case study: queues
strategies
you want the same things
Limit work in processThey get: lower cycle times, less waste
You get: less context-switching, lower stress
Deliver small items frequentlyThey get: fast feedback, accommodate change
You get: fast feedback, manage risk
Build quality inThey get: stakeholder happiness, more time for features
You get: maintainability, more trust@bsktcase #lean4agile
speak their language
Agile leanWork in process
Reduce waste
Cycle time
Lean simplifyFast feedback
Focus
Finish what we start
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questions?
