9. Spreading Agile Samurai
Mindset to Fast Growing
Organization
Takumi Tsunokake
May 29, 2015
Regional Scrum Gathering Vietnam 2015 Day 1
10. Sharing my experience of spreading
agile samurai mindset to a fast
growing company.
CAUTION: I’ll not talk about a detail
of each agile method too much.
Purpose
11.
12. Our organization is growing fast.
It causes many problems.
To tackle them, we created a team.
One of effective team activities is
forming a reading group of Agile
Samurai. It got several results.
Summary
13. Our organization is growing fast.
It causes many problems.
To tackle them, we created a team.
One of effective team activities is
forming a reading group of Agile
Samurai. It got several results.
Summary
14. IGNIS LTD.
Started in Japan
in May 2010
Develops smartphone
apps
100% self-produced
Members’ age avg.: 29
http://1923.co.jp/en/
24. Our organization is growing fast.
It causes many problems.
To tackle them, we created a team.
One of effective team activities is
forming a reading group of Agile
Samurai. It got several results.
Summary
25. Many Problems 1
Who is good at what?
Some product owner doesn’t review
a team result regularly
26. Many Problems 2
Programmers feel hard to
tell their estimation
Sudden & no notified
project members change
etc, etc…
28. How to tackle…
Conscious for problems
Discussions occurred locally
We have to stock discussions and
knowhow
29. Our organization is growing fast.
It causes many problems.
To tackle them, we created a team.
One of effective team activities is
forming a reading group of Agile
Samurai. It got several results.
Summary
31. 3 leaders
“Agile Guild”
“Agile” is beyond development
Member: Any interested
Do action for processes and
communications
We told our concept to officers
35. Project Process
1. Finding Idea
2. Service Design
3. Prototyping
4. Development # Tackle here first
5. Growth Hack
36. One of Causes
Not enough knowledge and mindset
of long-term projects
Many previous projects were short-
term so we has been done them
without the knowledge and mindset
37. Our organization is growing fast.
It causes many problems.
To tackle them, we created a team.
One of effective team activities is
forming a reading group of Agile
Samurai. It got several results.
Summary
38.
39. Wrote agile mindset widely with
easy expression including Scrum
I’m a one of translators
40. How to do
Member: 6 programmers
Set each member aiming:
To review agile mindset
To get a skill to lead project
43. Process of Each Time
1. Read one section (ex: 1.1)
2. Discussion & write a log
3. Go back to 1 in a time-box
4. Upload the log to our organization
SNS
44. How Many Times
Do the previous process
in 1 hour for 14 times
Do per week, took 3 months
#15 Final retrospective
48. Our organization is growing fast.
It causes many problems.
To tackle them, we created a team.
One of effective team activities is
forming a reading group of Agile
Samurai. It got several results.
Summary
49. Result 1
One of members achieved
“To get a skill to lead project”
Improving communication of
estimation with producer
56. Our organization is growing fast.
It causes many problems.
To tackle them, we created a team.
One of effective team activities is
forming a reading group of Agile
Samurai. It got several results.
Summary