Agile Mindset A Growth Mindset

A talk by Kamal Manglani

Agile practices alone are not sufficient!

Many teams are not successful delivering outcomes even though they have great agile practices!

are we sprinting in the wrong direction?

learning to un-learn & then learn

Adding post its to a wall…

Over whelming Product Backlog

Complex Unusable Product

Dweck’s findings: Two Mindsets

Fixed mindset:◇ Intelligence and talent -

fixed ◇ Innate talent creates

success◇ Effort will not make a

difference◇ You either get it or you

don’t

Growth mindset: ❖ Intelligence can be

developed❖ Brains and talent are just

the starting point ❖ Enjoy effort and process

of learning❖ You can always grow

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Best starting point - Collaborate in 2’s / Pairing

Visualize the flow of work

Daily checkin & where help is needed: Create safety

Who are we designing for?

Anatomy of a persona Interview as many “customers” as you can - Magic number is 40

boundary conditions

Target

Secondary

SimplicityHow do hacks work?

NEED ROLE1 ROLE2 ROLE3

I need x

I need x x x

I need x

I need x

MVP?

MVP? Prototype first & demo

MVP? Prototype first & demo - iterate 2 to 3 times

Story Card: A placeholder for a conversation

It describes business value, not implementation.

It can be estimated. It can be tested. It’s independent.

Example: In order to choose an action movie that I want to watch as a Netflix customer, I should be

able to see all “action movies available”.

Quality Advocacy

https://www.menloinnovations.com/by-reading/PDF/Successful_QA.pdf

Zimbardo case study

Fix your broken windows - Quality, bugs, code reviews, demos

Dweck: EFFORT IS ESSENTIAL!

• Brains Don’t Grow Neural Connections Magically; They Grow Them By Hard Work and Not Giving Up!

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Brain Peaks!

FixedRight or Wrong?

Growth Right or Wrong…Why?

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Zipcar, we started very lean in terms of service and became more beautiful as time went on…

"I really wanted a car, just sometimes, without any of the bad stuff," says Chase, who co-founded Zipcar.

de-scale to Scale: Air BnB jumping from a failed start up to $10B valuation

During class, while we were in the café everyday, we did not show our mockup prototypes right away. We first talked with random visitors about their needs and how they were reading news these days. We kept asking questions. People often say what they want. But what they actually need is something different. If we had kept doing what they asked us to do, we would have become another Google reader. Instead, we first observed our test participants as they read news on their iPads. This was a good starting point. Afterwards we would show them paper prototypes. The idea was to show multiple prototypes at the same time. People would always have a preference for one or the other prototype. People definitely gravitated more toward visual news during our test sessions. We also tried a lot of visualizations as well as different sizes and different ways to display sources. The one that is in the app right now is something we stumbled upon during our tests.

Pulse, a business reader app that was famously displayed by Steve Jobs atthe Apple Worldwide DevelopersConference in 2010 and was lateracquired by LinkedIn for 90 Million Dollars. Akshay and his business partnerAnkit Gupta started developingPulse in 2010 when they were stillstudents at Stanford.

Does your company have the buzz? constant chatter?

The big picture - Design thinking, Lean Startup and Agile

Carol S. Dweck, Standford University Mindset: The new psychology of success

“The growth mindset confirms the new research which reveals that intelligence can be developed, and expertise can be built by

means of deliberate practice.”

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Thank you!A talk by Kamal Manglani