Agile Companies Go P.O.P.

Are Great Companies Lucky? Published in Harvard Business Review Over 20,000 Companies From 1966 to 2006 http://hbr.org/2009/04/are-great-companies-just- lucky/ar/1P.O.P. Copyright 2012, Curtis "Ovid" Poe

Most studies Most studies are crap are crap http://www.flickr.com/photos/redwoodphotography/4356518997/P.O.P. Copyright 2012, Curtis "Ovid" Poe http://www.flickr.com/photos/redwoodphotography/4356518997/§

Reality trumps opinionBook Apparent Superstars Real SuperstarsAlchemy of Growth 29 0%Big Winners/Big Losers 9 13%Blueprint to a Billion 26 8%Breakthrough Company 9 17%Built to Last 18 7%Creative Destruction 11 0%Good to Great 11 0%Granularity of Growth 42 0%In Search of Excellence 14 0%Peak Performance 21 0%Profit from the Core 32 17%Stall Points 67 0%What Really Works 14 0%P.O.P. Copyright 2012, Curtis "Ovid" Poe

Agile Manifesto1. Individuals over process2. Software over documentation3. Customer collaboration over negotiation4. Change over plans http://agilemanifesto.org/P.O.P. Copyright 2012, Curtis "Ovid" Poe

Unstructured Interviews Interviewers aren’t trained in interviews Different candidates/different questions Personality valued over performance Very little predictive power https://apps.opm.gov/ADT/ContentFiles/SIGuide09.08.08.pdfP.O.P. Copyright 2012, Curtis "Ovid" Poe

Structured Interviews1. Job analysis2. Determine desired skills3. Develop questions4. Goal, role, action, score, speculation (GRASS)5. Immediately assess answersP.O.P. Copyright 2012, Curtis "Ovid" Poe

Large projects fail http://www.ralentz.com/old/space/feynman-report.html http://www.idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htmP.O.P. Copyright 2012, Curtis "Ovid" Poe http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Space_Shuttle_Columbia_launching.jpg

Continuous … What? Continuous integration is old-skool! Try continuous deployment Courage instead of fear Minimize risk/maximize reward Continuous Deployment at IMVU: Doing the impossible fifty times a dayP.O.P. Copyright 2012, Curtis "Ovid" Poe

Testing TDD is not QA Testing Tradeoffs between unit/integration testing A/B test your bug fixes! http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:94-707-6_hybrid_rocket_test.jpg P.O.P. Copyright 2012, Curtis "Ovid" Poe

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