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Happiness:A Key Component of Agile
Presented by: Organizational Engineering
Jeremy Webb – Managing Partner
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”
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Objectives
• For Agile practitioners - Connect happiness to Agile implementations
• Improve Agile implementations
• Share techniques for overcoming Agile adversity
• For everybody
• Convey benefits of happiness in the workplace
• Help people increase their happiness
• Make a positive impact on the way business is done
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Count to 10Ninja!
• Circle with 10-20 people• Choose a facilitator to start the round• Nobody can say more than one number• Count to 10 without repeating any numbers• If a number is repeated, start over
• Circle with 5-10 people• Choose facilitator to start round by saying “Bow
to your opponents”• Hands together and bow• Strike a “Ninja” pose with 1 hand behind back• Game begins to left of facilitator or with last
winner• Try to slap hand of anybody else in circle• You can dodge slaps but must remain still
otherwise unless you are slapping• If your hand is slapped, you are out
Sciency
Stuff
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What Drives UsDavid R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. says:
Everything we (people) do is driven by the pursuit of two basic emotions
“Thousands or even millions of thoughts can be replaced by a single emotion”
Sources: Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
Loss of Capacity to Experience
What is Happiness?
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Traditional View of Happiness
Sources: The Happiness Advantage, Photo courtesy of 1shots at freedigitalphotos.net
Success Happiness
New View of Happiness
Sources: The Happiness Advantage
SuccessHappiness
Sources of Happiness
• Autonomy
• Mastery
• Purpose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdzHgN7_Hs8
Sources: Drive by Daniel Pink
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Sources: Wikimedia
Positivity and Happiness
• Hot trend in research
• Happiness Advantage: Fear narrows thinking, happiness expands it
• State of the American Manager: 61% (2X avg) of employees are engaged when managers focus on strengths
• Psychology Today: Stress causes mental capacity to drop while mindfulness meditation increases mental capacity
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Studies Have Shown…
• Doctors in a positive mood show 3X more intelligence and make accurate diagnosis 19% faster
• Happy sales people outsell other salesman by 56%
• Judges like sandwiches!
Sources: The Happiness Advantage
Impact of Fear
Sources: Photos from freedigitialphotos.net courtesy of 1) dream designs 2) 9comeback 3) Naypong
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Opposing Forces
Sources: What Every BODY is Saying, The Happiness Advantage
Freeze
Flight
Fight
Reinforcing Habits
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Broaden and Build Theory
• Barbara Frederickson circa 1998
• Positive emotions
• Lead to building skills over time
• Provide a wider range thoughts and actions to choose from
Sources: The Happiness advantage, Wikipedia
Concepts
Applied
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Agile Manifesto
Sources: agilemanifesto.org
12 Principles – Part 1
Sources: agilemanifesto.org
12 Principles – Part 2
Sources:agilemanifesto.org
Approaches
Waterfall and Traditional Practices
Focus on Eliminating Risk - Fear Driven
Agile and Scrum
Embraces Uncertainty - Focus on the Positive
Change Control / Resistance
Multiple Gates & Approvals
Elaborate Plans
Empowerment Minimal Planning
Responding to Change
Elaborate Processes
Minimal Overhead
Specific Roles
Customer Focus
HeavyDocumentation
Cross-functional
Scrum Principles for Happiness and Motivation
• Work in teams and pass or fail as a whole
• Sprint Reviews and Demos
• Retrospectives
• User stories (good ones)
• It takes as long as it takes
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Sutherland On Happiness
• Happiness is a Leading Indicator of Success
• Happiness Metric (Next Slide)
• Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose make people happy (and great teams)
• Connection leads to happiness (Zappos)
• Happiness comes from achievement not complacency
• The journey is more satisfying than the result
Happiness Metric (From SCRUM)
1. On a scale from 1 to 5, how do you feel about your role in the company?
2. On the same scale, how do you feel about the company as a whole?
3. Why do you feel that way?
4. What one thing would make you happier in the next sprint?
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Scenario
• A dev team is transitioning to Agile.
• Velocity has been increasing
• Large amount of technical debt
• Team meets and puts together a plan to address the issues and build out infrastructure at the same time
• Management decides that if they product doesn’t ship in 2 months, employment contracts will be changed or terminated
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Team X Velocity Chart
Points Completed (Stories only) Avg velocity
Avg velocity from 2/17 Linear (Avg velocity)
Linear (Avg velocity from 2/17)
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Start Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10
Team X Data (Bug Fixing)
Bugs added Stories Added Remaining Issues:
Ideal Burn Linear (Remaining Issues:)
Unconventional Approaches for Happiness• Vanderbilt University uses Aromatherapy
• Reports of being stressed often 68% down to 14%
• Major mood improvements
• Higher energy levels
• More ability to handle stressful situations
• 84% strongly agree and 10% agree (94% total) that diffusers had a positive effect
• Volunteering programs
• 20% time
• Daily writing
• Marine Corps using meditation in a program called M-Fit (meditation) to increase mental capacity, reduce illness and reduce fear
Sources: Washington Times, http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/
My View of Happiness
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SuccessHappiness
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What did you learn?
Feedback
Thank You!
Contact info:
Website: org-eng.com
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 434-260-1450