Building your Silver Bullet

Daniel Teng, Certified Scrum Coach Agile Tour 2010 Qingdao

Tools

• Thinking Tools – Lean Thinking – Theory of Constraints – System Thinking – 6 Thinking Hats

• Process Tools – Scrum – Extreme Programming – Kanban – CMMI – RUP – Test Driven Development

• Physical Tools – Car – Knife & Fork, Chopstick – Gun – Computer

• Organizational Tools – Score Balanced Card – Matrix Organization – Review/Control Board – Performance Evaluation

• Personal Tools – To-do list – Mind Map – Pomodoro Technique

• Design tools – CRC card – Color Modeling

• Programming Tools – Implementation Patterns, Design

Patterns, Architectural Patterns – Refactoring – Clean Code

Tool: ”anything used as a MEANS of accomplishing a task or PURPOSE.” - dictionary.com

People has tool OBSESSION

武林至尊

Silver Bullet (银弹)

Panacea (万灵药)

• Best Practice

• Standard

• Short-cut

• …

Some Other Similar Things

Easy

I want out-of-box answer

Copy & Paste

Don’t make me think

山寨

LAZY

Companies Like Building Fancy Tools

• Now Kanban is very popular, Let’s try Kanban

• We adopted Kanban because Scrum failed

• Let’s define a company agile standard

• Once you use our tool, you will have agile

• Let’s buy the best agile tools

• Learn Pascal (Other things) in seven days

• Agile will not work for us, our requirement is fixed from the beginning

Symptom of Tool Obsession

• Agile is a Tool

• Tool is only the MEAN, not the GOAL

• Tool is neither good or bad

• Tool has context

• Any tool can be mis-used

• Never attribute people problem to tools

Never BLAME the tools

“PEOPLE as non-linear, first-order components in software development”

“Software development (design in general) is a purely intellectual team activity, which means that everything about PEOPLE – their mood, their communication, their communities – affect the outcome of the process. “

It is a PEOPLE Problem

Agile Manifesto

“We build PEOPLE before building cars”

What TOYOTA Says

• 失道而后德，失德而后仁，失仁而后义，失义而后礼。夫礼者，忠信之薄，而乱之首。前识者，道之华，而愚之始。

• When the Way is lost, there remains harmony; When harmony is lost, there remains love; When love is lost, there remains justice; But when justice is lost, there remains ritual. Ritual is the end of compassion and honesty, The beginning of confusion; Belief is a colorful hope or fear, The beginning of folly.

Let’s Build the PEOPLE

• Knowledge – the fact or condition of being aware of something

– the fact or condition of having information or of being learned

• Skill – the ability to use one's knowledge effectively and

readily in execution or performance

– a learned power of doing something competently

• Competence – having requisite or adequate ability or qualities

Three Concepts

• Knowing more about tools

• Knowing more tools

• Sharing

• Choosing tools wisely

Strategies for building up Competence & Skills

Know MORE about your tools

• Code Katas

– Watching others

• Coding Dojo, Retreat , Pair Programming

– Practicing with others

• Masters & Coach

• Open Source Projects

• 不闻不若闻之，闻之不若见之，

见之不若知之，知之不若行之。

学至于行之而止矣。 -- 《荀子·儒效》

• I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand.

-- Xunzi

Practice Makes Perfect

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/10/30/8391794/index.htm

Kata - Practices Deliberately for 100, 000 hrs

Coding Dojo, Retreat , Pair Programming Doing & Practicing with others

Coding Retreat

Master, Mentor, Coach

• Books, Blogs, Magazines

• Conferences

• Communities of Practices

• Professional Networks

• Mailing group, BBS

• Twitter

Know more tools

Books, Blogs, Magazine

Design & Patterns Magazine

Estimating&Planning

Scrum

XP

Career Lean

Conferences

Community of Practices, Study Group

Tech Talk

Professional Network

Mailing Group, BBS, RSS Reader

Twitter

• Write Blogs

• Speak at Conferences

• Contribute to Open Source

• Answer Questions in Mailing Group

People to SHARE to LEARN

Speak at Events

Contribute to Open Source

• “Choose your tools wisely, that they

allow for the development of your skill.”

Tools That Develop Your Skill

• Agile is a tool, not goal

• Never attribute people failure to tools

• Understand the goal

• Build the people

– Know more about the tools

– Know more tools

– Encouraging Sharing

– Choose tool wisely

• That they allow for the development of your skill

2010/12/14 Daniel Teng 40 Take Away

• Deliberate Practice in Software Development - Mary Poppendieck

• Characterizing people as non-linear, first-order components in software development – Alistair Cockburn

• The thinking tool called agile – Henrik Kniberg • Sharpen the saw – Dan North • Promiscuous Pairing and Beginner’s Mind – Arlo

Belshee • Taoteching – Laotzu • Ruxiao - Xunzi

Reference

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