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written, illustrated and performed by
Claudio Perrone
agilesensei.com
@agilesensei
Continuous evolution
Through ultra-rapid
experimentation
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This…
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… Is jim
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He wants to get things done
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Grow
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Be part of a high-performance team
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Jim would like to change the world
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But the world does not want to be changed
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His company went through many reorganizations, only to stay the same
Organization chart Blame flow
Rule makers
Controllers
Enforcers
Victims Organization chart God
Losers
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So, Today, this is Jim.
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most of us think about change as big, slow and scary
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But what if we could make it infinitely small…
… and learn to evolve almost as fast as a virus?
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“ -- 1st PopcornFlow Principle
(aka “the virus” principle)
If change is hard, make it continuous.
Here is a “mad” thought…
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trying to rewire the human brain is difficult, however.
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A better option is to ACT ON THE system – i.e. the environment in which decisions are made.
…But how?
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ARCHITECTING CHANGE
(with PopcornFlow)
@agilesensei
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A while ago, I worked with a team who had not deployed software in months
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With the motto “Hard on systems, soft on people”, We worked together and evolved using the kanban method
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The Kanban board captured our value stream…
… But that’s only the outcome of our thinking
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“ -- Claudio Perrone
It’s not what you do but rather what you learn by doing it that matters.
You see...
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Problems & observations
Options Possible experiments
Ongoing Review Next
Committed
the real “secret” was our rapid stream of traceable change experiments…
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the real “secret” was our rapid stream of traceable change experiments…
Problems & observations
Options Possible experiments
Ongoing Review Next
Committed
PopcornFlow Claudio Perrone PopcornFlow.com
h#p://agilesensei.com/resources
... A powerful learning stream that I call “popcorn Flow”...
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So, we captured our learning journey on a parallel “PopcornFlow board”
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It starts with Problems & Observations
The quality of our code sucks.
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inertia is our enemy…
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“ Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, but… A shared opinion is a fact.
… so, I’m happy to Make progress even with imperfect information. As a consequence…
-- 2nd PopcornFlow Principle (aka “the kaizen urgency” principle)
The quality of our code sucks.
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The quality of our code sucks.
...I use shared observations to create/elicit options (“rule of three”).
Test-driven development
Code review Pair Programming
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Test-driven development
Code review Pair Programming
Promising options lead to a backlog of possible experiments.
Action: Research
good books on
TDD
Action: Let’s pair program for 3 days
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Action: Let’s pair program
Reason: Code quality sucks
Expectations:
- Perception is that code
is better - We’ll like it & want to
keep doing it
Duration: 3 days
Review Date: dd/mm/yy
experiments that we Commit to pursue have an action, reason, expectation and Review date.
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Experiment: "Fix as you go": If found small bugs (less than 20mins), just branch and fix them. Do a pull request and mark the id on the card. Reason: too much bureaucracy for small bugs. Expectation: - developer happy to fix things as needed without lengthy triages. - steadily improving quality. - low bureaucracy, but still able to track it if things go wrong. - at least 3 bugs fixed like this by due date.
Experiment: Pair on JIT analysis Reason: We are moving towards JIT analysis to reduce sprint planning and moving to continuous flow. Expectation: - DoD created - Team agrees that analysis goes smoothly - No significant bottlenecks created Experiment: Do an Analytics meet-up to show how analytics work in <new
kanban tool> Reason: <product owner> needs some form of predictability.
Expectation: - Po/Team are aware of what’s possible now with the current level of
analytics - We have better understanding of if, how, when we can improve
forecasting with minimum amount of estimation.
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At Each retrospective, we ask exactly these questions:
Action: Let’s pair program
Reason: Code quality sucks
Expectations: - Perception is that
code is better
- We’ll like it & want to
keep doing it
Duration: 3 days
Review Date: dd/mm/yy
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Some people fear “failure”…
Gap = Frustration
Reality
Expectation
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… But we only really “fail” when we limit our opportunities to learn
Gap = Frustration
Reality
Expectation
Learning
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“ -- 3rd Popcorn Flow Principle (aka “the skateboarder” principle)
It’s not “fail fast, fail often”… It’s “learn fast, learn often”.
YOU SEE…
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Can you REALLY pretend that you’ll never fall?
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Right from the beginning, I knew this was different.
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... Because the team COULD easily handle 5-10 change experiments each week...
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... rapidly enabling it to DELIVER multiple times a day
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…and then it spread. Popcorn boards started to appear in other parts of the organization.
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Imagine a continuous flow of experiments to dramatically accelerate the rate of change in every corner of your organization...
... How far would you go?
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Today, popcorn flow is entering more organizations
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It was designed to quickly introduce, sustain & accelerate change…
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… But then, I wondered: what jobs are other people ‘hiring’ PopcornFlow for?
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They “hire” a product or service to get the job done.
Prof Clayton Christensen
People encounter situations that drive the need to accomplish a job.
After all…
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Some teams ‘hire’ Popcornflow to better reflect and continuously improve the way they work.
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others use it to reach product/market fit (e.g., “improve conversion rate from 5% to 10%”)
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corporate boardrooms use it for strategic decision-making (real options)
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PopcornFlow is touching lives even outside the business world…
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e.g. Families,
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... Schools, autism support groups.
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PopcornFlow is even part of A proposal to foster innovation in the public sector
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popcorn Flow is also getting traction at personal level
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“ Every single week, I’m 5 experiments older. Can I evolve even faster? Can you?
Continuous evolution Is a way of life.
-- Claudio Perrone
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Projects under active development include a lightweight “Action Deck” to facilitate face-to-face conversations...
(... Which I used to help some friends finding a job)
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...stickers, to setup a popcornflow board like a pro in minutes...
h#p://popcornflow.com/s;ckers
JUST RELEASED!
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h#p://discuss.popcornflow.com
… A discussion forum
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(psst... a “secret” online platform...)
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... And a book.
h#p://popcornflow.com/book
JOIN THE EARLY
NOTIFICATION LIST!
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Final Thoughts
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“ -- Claudio Perrone
It’s not what you do but rather what you learn by doing it that matters.
But then...
It’s not what you learn, but rather what you do with what you learn that matters.
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Claudio Perrone
[email protected] www.agilesensei.com @agilesensei
Join the book no;fica;on list! h#p://popcornflow.com/book
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