Beyond breaking bad. The state of agile in ten easy lessons

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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

BEYOND BREAKING BAD. THE STATE OF AGILE IN TEN EASY LESSONS©2001 - 2014 Sander Hoogendoorn. All Rights Reserved@aahoogendoorn

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Why it failsTHE WATERFALL MODEL


5Waterfall?


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


11Boehm’s Law. Testing is always too late


13Waterfall?

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The end of software development’s silver bulletAGILE IS DEAD


15Trying something different


16The state of agile


17Manifesto for what again?


18Agile is dead


19Agile conferences…


20We are uncovering better ways to change the world?

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Lesson one

HAVING SOME PROCESSIS NOT A BAD THING


23We are uncovering better ways to change the world?


24Process? What process?


25What do you mean Scrum is not a process?


28FDD. Adding some process


29Smart. Adding some process

Create

project

proposal

Write

project plan

Deliver

working

software

Stabilize

software


30DSDM. Adding more process


WHAT MAKES A PROJECT AGILE?


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


36Lowering our fences


37Dogmagile


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

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40Scrumman


41

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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


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


How long do you need to build this feature?

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

20 hours.


Please for once give me an exact number

you silly nerd!

Stop asking me these things I don’t

really have an answer to


52We are using the wrong metaphors




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


58Magic!


59Drawing owls

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70Those who do the work, do the estimate



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

20 hours.


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


75Sprints. Scrum’s mini-projects

The team commitsto deliver


77The red sprint anti-pattern


78Yesterday’s Weather


79Reverse planning


80Trust the metrics

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Lesson eight

PROJECT MANAGERS ARE NOT A TOTAL WASTE AFTER ALL


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


88The agile team facilitator

Team

Customer

Analyst

UI Designer

DeveloperDeveloper

Tester

ProjectManager


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


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”


94This is where a project manager comes in handy

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IN RETROSPECTIVE?


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


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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