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The state of agile in ten easy lessons

Sander HoogendoornAuthor of This Is Agile

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BEYOND BREAKING BAD

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2Sander HoogendoornMe

Dad (3 + 2)

Programmer, trainer, mentor, architect

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Articles (+250)

International conferences (+100)

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Principal technology officer

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Why it failsTHE WATERFALL MODEL

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5Waterfall?

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10We’ve got a plan and we’ll stick to it

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11Boehm’s Law. Testing is always too late

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13Waterfall?

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The end of software development’s silver bulletAGILE IS DEAD

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15Trying something different

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16The state of agile

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17Manifesto for what again?

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18Agile is dead

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19Agile conferences…

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20We are uncovering better ways to change the world?

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Lesson one

HAVING SOME PROCESSIS NOT A BAD THING

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23We are uncovering better ways to change the world?

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24Process? What process?

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25What do you mean Scrum is not a process?

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28FDD. Adding some process

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29Smart. Adding some process

Create

project

proposal

Write

project plan

Deliver

working

software

Stabilize

software

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30DSDM. Adding more process

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WHAT MAKES A PROJECT AGILE?

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32Boehm’s Law applied to iterations

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Lesson two

THE SCRUM MASTER ISN’T ALWAYS A MASTER

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35Lowering our fences

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36Lowering our fences

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37Dogmagile

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38Become a scrum master? A servant-leader-master?

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40Scrumman

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Lesson threeLOOSE THE SCRUM BOARD

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WHAT’S THE REAL STATUS?

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VISUALIZE YOUR FLOW…

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…AND GO WITH THE FLOW

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47Boehm’s Law applied to backlog items

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Not exactly like Kanban? Who cares. It works for us

LIMIT WIP?

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Lesson four

WE ARE NOT MANUFACTURING

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How long do you need to build this feature?

Eh .. I don’t know. It depends I guess

20 hours.

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Please for once give me an exact number

you silly nerd!

Stop asking me these things I don’t

really have an answer to

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52We are using the wrong metaphors

How long do you need to build this feature?

How long do you need to build this feature?

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53Manufacturing? Construction?

Manufacturing and construction are linear processes

Software development is a creative process and it is very much non-linear

Software isn’t Built, it’s InventedCoding is a creative problem. Every time a developer writes code, he is taking a non-deterministic path towards an unknown solution — a unique solution that has never been created before. If the work weren’t unique, he wouldn’t need to write it, he’d simply copy and paste it.

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Lesson five

SELF-ORGANIZATIONCAN BE PRETTY TOUGH

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58Magic!

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59Drawing owls

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70Those who do the work, do the estimate

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How long do you need to build this feature?

Eh .. I don’t know. It depends I guess

20 hours.

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72With creative work estimates are rarely linear

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So no projects? No estimates?LEARN TO LIVE WITH AMBIGUITY

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Lesson seven

YOU ARE NOT USAIN BOLT

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75Sprints. Scrum’s mini-projects

The team commitsto deliver

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77The red sprint anti-pattern

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78Yesterday’s Weather

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79Reverse planning

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80Trust the metrics

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Lesson eight

PROJECT MANAGERS ARE NOT A TOTAL WASTE AFTER ALL

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85The traditional project manager

ProjectManager

Customer

Analyst

UI Designer

ArchitectDeveloper

Developer

Tester

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Ask your team how you can contribute“DO NOTHING” IS NOT AN OPTION

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PROJECT MANAGERS ARE PART OF THE TEAM TOO

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88The agile team facilitator

Team

Customer

Analyst

UI Designer

DeveloperDeveloper

Tester

ProjectManager

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89Be part of the team• Do-nothing isn’t good enough

• Be transparent

• Don’t hide your spread sheets

• Don’t fool with metrics

• Ask the team how you can contribute

• Make sure the what is covered.

• Don’t try to interfere with the how

• Manage the environment

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Lesson nineMANAGE THE ENVIRONMENT

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92Isn’t that what the scrum master does?

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Keep the politics out of the team, but don’t hide the politics from the team“YOU DON’T WANNA KNOW”

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94This is where a project manager comes in handy

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IN RETROSPECTIVE?

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96In theory…• The whole organization is already working

agile

• You don’t need a steering committee

• Budget flows automatically

• Everybody wants to collaborate

• Teams are self-steering

• You don’t need a process

• No external parties are involved

• The product owner perfectly represents all stakeholders

• No project manager is needed

• The Scrum Master is our hero

• You always make the sprint

But in practice You’re likely the first agile project in the

organization

Management requires a steering committee

Budgets need to be guarded

People are conservative

Self-steering is hard

A little process is unavoidable

There are always external parties

The product owner only represents a sub-set of all stakeholders

Yes they are needed!

The Scrum Master is too junior

Sprints “fail” all the time

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Lesson ten

THERE IS NO SO THING AS ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL AGILE

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98Agile is a sliding scale

Ceremony

Agility

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THERE’S VALUE FOUND IN ALL AGILE APPROACHES. AND EVEN IN WATERFALL

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