1.Why do you want to be agile? L1: Set a goal for being agile or you achieve nothing L2: Commit to agile values and principles; your practices will follow L3: Piloting is learning. Learning is progress. 2.How to reach business agility? L4: Business agility is about having adaptability and predictability L5: Create product vision and validate it with customer development L6: Find your Minimum Viable Product 3.Organization as a people system L7:Optimize the whole L8: Build great teams

1. 8 lessons learned from becoming agile 15.5.2010 ESTONIA Marko Taipale

2. Visited 13companies Coached2agile transitions and 10+ teams Co-founded1Lean startup Trained over300people

3. Failed enough to tell stories Succeeded enough to show results

4. 1.Why do you want to be agile? 2. How to reach business agility? 3.Organization as a people system

5. 1.Why do you want to be agile? (Being = respect the values and principles)

6. 80% had no goal for being agile no method to reach the goal … no way to measure if they were getting any better

7. No Goal – No chance to Score

8. Lesson #1 Set a goal for being agile, otherwise you achieve nothing (It’s ok to figure it out...)

9. “What does method X say about Y?”

10. “What does method X say about Y?” Collaborate!

11. Lesson #2 Commit to agile values and principles; your practices will follow Craft your own process

12. Pilot, Scale, Optimize

13. Pilot, Scale, Optimize

14. Pilot, Scale, Optimize OR Visualize the value stream Fix the way you manage product development Continuous Improvement

15. Pilot, Scale, Optimize Multiple ways so what’s the point? OR Visualize the value stream Fix the way you manage product development Continuous Improvement

16. Pilots are not about proving if agile works Forward motion is often thought as progress

17. Lesson#3 Pilot is about learning …not “working software” … not about getting results Continuous Improvement

19. Make the cycle as short as possible

20. A way of learning 5whys There are no technical problems only human problems

21. Lesson #1 You need to have a SMART goal Lesson #2 Commit to agile values and principles; your practices will follow Lesson #3 Progress is about learning

22. 2. How to reach business agility?

23. ”Agile teams need to value adaptability over predictability” - Someone in Twitter

24. Lesson #4 Business agility is about having adaptability and predictability - My experience

25. ” Where do I get the backlog?” what to build

27. “No plan survives first contact with the customers” - Steven Blank

28. Customer Development Customer Discovery Customer Validation Customer Creation Scale Company

29. Customer Development Customer Discovery Customer Validation Customer Creation Scale Company Hypotheses, experiments, insights Data, feedback, Insights Agile Product Development

30. Customer Development Problem Team Customer Discovery Customer Validation Customer Creation Scale Company Hypotheses, experiments, insights Solution Team Data, feedback, Insights Agile Product Development

31. “Should I do whatever my customers want me to do?”

32. “Should I do whatever my customers want me to do?”

33. Lesson #5 Create product vision and validate it with customer development Vision = a boundary for her wishes

34. Is agile about delivering features as fast as possible?

35. Nr 1 waste = Unused features Building a feature maybe the wrong answer Who cares about velocity? We can work on highest priority story – who cares?

36. It is not about how much but rather how little you can release Minimum Viable Product

37. Lesson #6 Find your Minimum Viable Product It should make you feel embarrassed

38. “It's the things that are not there that we are most proud of"

39. Lesson #4 Business agility is about having adaptability and predictability Lesson #5 Create product vision and validate it with customer development Lesson #6 Find your Minimum Viable Product

40. 3.Organization as a people system

41. ”We have Scrum but we are still slow!”

42. Customer approval Internal approval Idea Resourcing Development Design Deployment

43. Customer approval Internal approval Idea Resourcing 2h 2h 1d Development Design Deployment 2m 1m 3w 3m

44. Selected ideas 8 Customer approval Internal approval Idea Resourcing 1m 2d 6m 2h 2h 1d 1w 6m 6m Development Design Deployment 2m 1m 3w 15 12 3m 24m Design ready Production ready

45. Selected ideas 8 Customer approval Internal approval Idea Resourcing 1m 2d 6m 2h 2h 1d SCRUM! 1w 6m 6m Development Design Deployment 2m 1m 3w 15 12 3m 24m Design ready Production ready

46. Selected ideas 8 Customer approval Internal approval Idea Resourcing 1m 2d 6m 2h 2h 1d SCRUM! 1w 6m 6m Development Design Deployment 2m 1m 3w 15 12 3m 24m Design ready Production ready

47. Lesson #7 Optimize the whole Beware sub-optimization Visualize the value stream Identify bottleneck Limit WIP on all levels Incentives are bad!

48. Adoption is about letting problems to surface Manage the system, remove chance for failure, make it flow

50. Smell: The fear of being vulnerable Leader: Go First

51. Smell: The desire to preserve artificial harmony Leader: Mine for Conflict Smell: The fear of being vulnerable Leader: Go First

52. Smell: The lack of clarity or buy-in Leader: Force Clarity and Closure Smell: The desire to preserve artificial harmony Leader: Mine for Conflict Smell: The fear of being vulnerable Leader: Go First

53. Smell: The need to avoid interpersonal discomfort Leader: Confront Difficult Issues Smell: The lack of clarity or buy-in Leader: Force Clarity and Closure Smell: The desire to preserve artificial harmony Leader: Mine for Conflict Smell: The fear of being vulnerable Leader: Go First

54. Smell: The pursuit of individual goals and status Leader: Focus on Collective Outcomes Smell: The need to avoid interpersonal discomfort Leader: Confront Difficult Issues Smell: The lack of clarity or buy-in Leader: Force Clarity and Closure Smell: The desire to preserve artificial harmony Leader: Mine for Conflict Smell: The fear of being vulnerable Leader: Go First

55. Lesson #8 Build great teams

56. Marko Taipale @markotaipale huitale.blogspot.com marko.taipale@huitale.com I help companies to improve by showing what I have done how I have done it and what I have learned about it. I am a CTO of a lean startup

57. Why do you want to be agile? L1: Set a goal for being agile or you achieve nothing L2: Commit to agile values and principles; your practices will follow L3: Piloting is learning. Learning is progress. 2. How to reach business agility? L4: Business agility is about having adaptability and predictability L5: Create product vision and validate it with customer development L6: Find your Minimum Viable Product 3.Organization as a people system L7:Optimize the whole L8: Build great teams

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