productcamp berlin 2015: agile failure patterns in organisations
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Agile Failure Patterns In Organizations
Why Agile Fails
ProductCamp 2015Berlin, October 17th, 2015
Common Sense
The Four Core Principles of the Agile Manifesto*:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan*http://www.agilemanifesto.org/
The Benefits Of Being Agile
• Less customer churn: Focus on value better product happier customers➜ ➜
• Mitigate risk: Focus on value less waste higher ROI➜ ➜
• High quality software: Self-organization happier team-members less fluctuation higher ➜ ➜ ➜productivity better code➜
• Improved organizations: Collaboration with stakeholder organizational flaws revealed➜
• More financial value: Better traction extended runway better valuation for next round (If ➜ ➜you’re a startup.)
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Practical Reasons To Adopt Agile
Most popular ones:• Low productivity – perceived or actual• Low morale • Senior people won’t join your company• Budget constrains• Competition drives innovation at a high pace
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Four Levels Of Agile Adoption
• Organization• Team• Process• Facility
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Organizational Level (I)
• No (product) vision• The fallacy of "We know what we need to
build”• Micro-management by management• No transparency• No culture of failure
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Organizational Level (II)
• No rapid build-test-learn culture friction➜• Senior management is not participating in
Agile processes• „When you put problem in a computer, box
hide answer. Problem must be visible!“*
*Hideshi Yokoi, former President of the Toyota Production System Support Center in Erlanger, Kentucky, USA
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Organizational Level (III)
• Product management "Jira monkeys”➜• Local optimization efforts w/o, bypassing
product • Core responsibilities of the product
management covered by other departments, e.g. tracking,
• Product managers w/o a dedicated team
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Team Level (I)
• There are too many junior• Engineers with an open source coding mentality• Teams are too small and hence not cross-
functional• Teams are not adequately staffed, e.g. Scrum
Master positions are not• Team members reject Agile methodologies
openly
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Team Level (II)
• Teams are not self-organizing• Team members abandon Agile quietly ➜
management fad• Faux Agile: Teams follow the “Agile rules”
mechanically • Moving people among teams upon short
notice.
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Process Level
• Processes are bent or ignored • Agile processes are tempered with ( Product owner ➜
becomes project manager)• Stakeholders are bypassing product management• Not enough communication among participants
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Facility Level
• Places to talk: cafeterias, tea kitchens, sofas etc.
• Whiteboards• Agile offices
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