Keynote delivered by Craig Smith at Agile Encore in Auckland, New Zealand in November 2012. Agile adoption is now becoming more mainstream and, as a community, we are struggling to address the issue of how to take experienced Agile practitioners to the next level, while still supporting those who are beginning their journey. With the "agile" word getting so overloaded, the challenge is to continually innovate without assigning labels or losing focus on our prime objective - to deliver!

1. Craig
Smith
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2. Encore!
Encore!
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3. *Let’s take a
brief journey
back in time…
highlights!
some selected
*These are just
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4. “…broke the rules, challenged the bureaucratic system that stifled
innovation and hindered progress; spelled out 14 rules and practices." 1943
Skunkworks
at Lockheed
Martin
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5. “…strives for the absolute elimination of waste, overburden and
unevenness to allow members to work smoothly and efficiently.” 1948
Image: http://www.business-improvement.eu/lean/Toyota_brand.jpg
Toyota
Production
System –
The birth of
Lean

6. “I believe in this concept, but the implementation described
above is risky and invites failure.” 1970
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Waterfall &
Winston W.
Royce

7. Man Month
Fred Brooks:
The Mythical
makes it later.”
“Adding manpower to a late software project
1975
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8. Image: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jrT2bzSchUU/Tu7rzg5zrDI/AAAAAAAACGo/kL8hYgnHU4M/s400/386771_296323727075726_117422791632488_8681
“Six Sigma is a disciplined, data-driven approach and methodology for
eliminating defects (toward six standard deviations) in any process” 1986
Six Sigma s
at Motorola

9. “...reduce supervision, combine fragmented tasks, eliminate work that
fails to add value, cut activities within each process to a minimum….” 1993
Image: http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/products/crys-clear.jpg
Alistair
Cockburn:
Crystal Clear

10. than either could alone.”
“Together, they accomplish better work more quickly
Pair
Programming
1995
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11. Image: http://www.whiteontech.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/IMG_7389.jpg / http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/dollfacerugger/Rug
“Scrum exposes every inadequacy or dysfunction within an
organization’s product and system development practices.” 1995
Ken Schwaber /
Jeff Sutherland:
Scrum

12. “...reduce supervision, combine fragmented tasks, eliminate work that
fails to add value, cut activities within each process to a minimum….” 1997
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Jeff De Luca:
Feature
Driven
Development

13. “Adaptive Software Development life cycle comprises of three phases:
-Speculation, Collaboration, Learning” 1999
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Jim Highsmith:
Adaptive Software
Development

14. “XP starts from the premise that programming is programming, but
that you have to add some activities to sustain it over time” 1999
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XP: Extreme
Programming

15. Image: http://www.fabrice-aimetti.fr/dotclear/public/photos/martin-fowler.jpg / http://noncon.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/cruise-control-switch-by-m
“you can use continuous integration without using any other parts of
XP… it's an essential part of competent software development activity.” 2000
Martin Fowler:
(popularised)
Continuous
Integration

16. “We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it…” 2001
Agile
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Manifesto

17. “Red… Green…
Refactor…” 2002
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Kent Beck:
(published)
Test Driven
Development

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“…studies have shown that averaging individual estimates
leads to better results as do group discussions of estimates.” 2002
James
Grenning:
Planning Poker

19. Image: http://www.plateshed.com/forum/uploads/monthly_01_2009/post-5-1231338924.jpg / http://mexapln.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/david
“Kanban takes an organization’s development process and provides
greater visibility into the status of the work and how it is proceeding.” 2007
David J.
Anderson:
Kanban

20. Image: http://springboard.com/wp-content/uploads/Eric-Ries-sq.jpg / http://samcarterart.com/wp-content/uploads/wpsc/product_images/ghostbuster
“Bringing principles from lean and agile to the process of innovation,
helps companies succeed in a business landscape riddled with risk.” 2008
Eric Ries:
The Lean
Startup

21. “Releasing high quality software fast through build, test and
deployment automation.” 2009
Continuous
Deployment /
Delivery
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22. “2 days, 2 streams, 337 delegates
42 speakers, 6 sponsors” 2009
Agile
Australia

23. Agile
Encore!
2012
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24. Us To
Which
Brings
Now…
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25. Agile
Defined
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26. So many
flavours!
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27. Agile?
Textbook
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28. Pure
Agile?
29
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29. Agile?
Drunk on
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30. Joe
Public
Just give me the
process. I want to
deliver something!
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31. Raccoon!
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32. 80% 40% We have
of IT Organisations* of all Organisations* crossed
the chasm
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* according to Gartner

33. C
The Agile
Slider
Agile
Tragile Fragile

34. 'agile' jobs advertised on SEEK (AU/NZ)
1200
Success
1000 = Jobs
800
600
400
200
0
Q1Q2Q3Q4Q1Q2Q3Q4Q1Q2Q3Q4Q1Q2Q3Q4Q1Q2Q3Q4Q1Q2Q3Q4Q1Q2Q3Q4Q1
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

35. Conference
Attendance
Rising
900
800
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
2009 2010 2011 2012
Agile Australia Attendees

36. Darwin
Agile / Scrum: N/A
Communities
Lean Startup: N/A
Kanban / Limited WIP: N/A
Brisbane Auckland
Agile / Scrum: 527 Agile / Scrum: 354
Perth Lean Startup: 158 Lean Startup: 51
Agile / Scrum: 601 Kanban / Limited WIP: 33 Kanban / Limited WIP: 8
Lean Startup: 234
Kanban / Limited WIP: N/A Sydney
Agile / Scrum: 1,450
Adelaide Lean Startup: 289
Agile / Scrum: 39 Kanban / Limited WIP: 345
Lean Startup: 70
Kanban / Limited WIP: N/A Canberra
Agile / Scrum: 59
Melbourne Lean Startup: 31
Agile / Scrum: 1,076 Kanban / Limited WIP: N/A
Lean Startup: 803
Kanban / Limited WIP: 362 Wellington
Hobart Agile / Scrum: 564
Agile / Scrum: N/A Lean Startup: 436
Lean Startup: N/A Kanban / Limited WIP: N/A
Kanban / Limited WIP: N/A

37. Days?
Happy
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38. Decline?
Renew or
C
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39. level?
What is
the next
C
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40. yet?
Level 1
Have we
completed
41
C
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41. Looking
Forward…
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42. Agile in
Software
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43. Water Scrum Fall
Upfront project Iterative and Controlled,
planning adaptive infrequent
process that approach to production
typically achieving the release cycle
happens overall plan that that is governed
between IT and was first laid by
the business. out in the organizational
'Water' stage. policy and
infrastructure
Water- limitations
Scrum-Fall

44. Look Left
& Right

45. Tools &
Developers =
Craftsmanship
46
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46. Quality
Testers =
47
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47. Analysts =
the Problem
Understanding
48
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48. Together
The Bunch
Leaders = Keep
49
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49. High
Performing
Agile Analyst /
Customer
Project
Elaboration / Acceptance
Manager
Specification Criteria
High
Performing
AGILE
Developer Automation
Tester

50. Manifesto for
Software
Craftsmanship

51. Practices
Rethinking
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52. Basics
Understood?
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53. Pair
Programming
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54. Continuous
Integration
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55. TDD
& ATDD
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56. SBE
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57. Delivery
Continuous
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58. DevOps
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59. Business…
Agile in the
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60. projects
IT projects
are business
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61. crowd…
We have
sorted the IT
development
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62. areas…
always so
We are not
good in other
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63. Why is
all this
important?
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64. Knowledge
Economy
Source: http://whatmatters.mckinseydigital.com/internet/using-technology-to-improve-workforce-collaboration
Production
15%
Knowledge
47%
Transaction
38%
Projected Types of Workers, share of US workforce (2011)

65. Economy
Knowledge
90%
Knowledge
10%
Transaction
Types of workers (Financial Industry)
Source: http://www.apo-tokyo.org/00e-books/IS-02_TrainingKnowledgeWorkers/IS-02_TrainingKnowledgeWorkers.pdf

66. Agile
Industrial
Revolution
Information
Forrester Research 2012
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67. Let’s
ponder
the Agile
Manifesto
Responding to
change
over
following a
plan

68. And the
underlying
principles
Build projects
around motivated
individuals.
Give them the
environment and
support they need,
and trust them to
Our highest priority
get the job done.
is to satisfy the
Agile processes customer
promote sustainable through early and
development. The continuous delivery
sponsors, developers, of valuable software.
and users should be
able to maintain a
constant pace
indefinitely.
69

69. Change
software
to
solutions
Responding to
change
over
following a
plan

70. Agile
Processes
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71. new
mostly
domains
processes
Our current
translate to
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72. Scrum
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73. Extreme
Programmming
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74. Kanban
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75. Kanban is
everywhere
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76. Agile
outside
of IT

77. (or
everything
old is new)
Skunkworks
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80. Lean
(still cruising…)
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82. Lean
Startup
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83. Build
Learn
Measure
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84. Break
Culture
Existing
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85. The Basics of
Collaboration
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86. Cynefin
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87. Drive
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88. Extreme
HR
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Netflix has no vacation policy or tracking!
“There is no clothing policy at Netflix, but no one
has come to work naked lately.” (Patty McCord, Netflix)

89. Reviews
Performance
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90. Beyond Budgeting
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92. Agile
Marketing
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93. Social Good
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94. OpenMRS
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95. Agile
Governments
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96. Extreme
Manufacturing

97. Wikispeed

98. Wrap Up
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99. The
Adapt
Playbook
100
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100. Evolving
Continue
101
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101. Raccoon
Not
Evolution
Revolution
102
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102. not the
Vehicle…
destination
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103. Non
Oath of
Allegiance
104
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104. The next
step starts
with you…
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105. Thankyou!
Questions?
Craig Smith
http://www.craigsmith.id.au
http://www.theagilerevolution.com
craig@craigsmith.id.au
@smithcdau