Adopting Agile in Estonia

AdoptingAgile in EstoniaAgileSaturday (firstconferenceofAgile Estonia)13.02.2010 Tallinn
Alek Kozlov, Hanno Jarvet
Scrum.ee

References / customers / personal experience

Experience in implementing Agile in development teams working on
Public / Privatesectors & asSupplier / asCustomer
Self Service portals
e-Commerce solutions
Financial Management Information Systems
e-procurement
e-Archives
Distributed Retail Enterprise Information Systems
Business Intelligence
Middle-ware
Front end for embedded software
Web portals

Retrospective
Find a partner and discuss (2 minutes):
What have I learned today?
What do I still want to know?

Reported reasons for implementing agile in Estonia
Hype (we heard it somewhere, our customers want it, it seems to be a good buzzword etc.)
A specific project is in trouble and nothing else seems to help.
We are not sure what our developers are actually doing.
We are not happy with our current results (time, quality, customer satisfaction) – “MASU”.

Some Local Quotes
We are using our own methodology. It is called common sense and it works just fine.
Someone in our company is using some parts of Scrum in some projects where it is useful.
The developers are lazy and stupid - if we don't control them they will never get the project done.
Agile is just for developers who do not want to do their job well.
Agile is just RUP with a pretty face and we are already doing that with prototyping and early releases.
Agile is a new management fad that will pass.
The customer/supplier will never go along with it.
We already have a couple certified specialists who seem to be working on adoption.
Our supplier has their own methodology

Adoption Antipatterns
New religion
Go it alone
Forced adoption
No pilot project
Don't train anyone
Ignore the corporate culture
Don't engage the gold owner
Worst Employee As ScrumMaster
ScrumMaster Is Nominated
“Project Manager is ScrumMaster”
Source: Wayne Allen

Obstacles for adoption(wemetmostoften)
Forced adoption of agile for micromanagement purposes
Lack of trust
Unwillingness to change
Unmotivated team
Fear of failure
not to reach the goal of the project
to lose reputation
to be kicked out of the company

Obstacles for adoptioncont.(wemetmostoften)
Lack of knowledge
don’t train anyone
blind belief in agile
how to cope with communication issues and emotions
We have sent our specialists to certification courses so it should start happening any minute now
By-the-book attitude
Implementing processes without understanding the principles.
The purpose of agile development: to provide value to the customer

Success stories
Issues:
The customer wants everything at once
Lack of visibility
Solution(4 first steps):
Creating a common vision
Writing architecturally important user stories
Creating a prioritized backlog
Scrum
MostoftenweimplementStealth-SCRUM
Consequences
Resumed communication /workingrelationshipwithout lawyers
Increased productivity

Find a partner and discuss (2 minutes):
What do I plan to implement?
What do I plan to do differently in my work?
Surprisesfromtoday

Recommendations
Don't reinvent the wheel
It costs a lot of time and money
Minimum for implementation in Crystal Clear (Alistair Cockburn):
Frequent delivery of usable code to users
Reflective improvement
Osmotic communication preferably by being co-located
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Clear_(software_development)

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