Presentation I gave at the Agile Tour Brussels 2014 about Agile scaling heuristics, or simply, what you should not be doing if you're serious about scaling Agile.
13. I say, a lion! Let’s see:
Lion escape = f(hunger, speed, pack
size, wind, terrain)
Expected MaxLionVelocity = 80 km/h
Best course of action: start running
NNW and then turn South…
14. I say, a lion! Let’s see:
Lion escape = f(hunger, speed, pack
size, wind, terrain)
Expected MaxLionVelocity = 80 km/h
Best course of action: start running
NNW and then turn South…
I like you… I shall call
you “yummy lunch”
15. Lion? Run! Gazelle Clever Gazelle
No Photo
Available
a proud
mother of 6 ! Yummy Lunch
19. Heuristic: (/hjʊˈrɪstɪk/; Greek: "Εὑρίσκω", "find" or
"discover") refers to experience-based
techniques for problem solving, learning, and
discovery that find a solution which is not
guaranteed to be optimal, but good enough for
a given set of goals.
source: wikipedia
23. Nassim N. Taleb
The entire idea of via negativa is
that omission [avoidance of harm,
removal of drugs, corn syrup,
cigarettes, gluten, carbs by fasting,
gym instructors, tail risks, etc.] does
not have side effects and branching
chains of unintended
consequences -hence robust. But
big corporations [evil pharma,
pepsi] and consultants cannot
make money from removing; they
only benefit from adding.
“Anti-Fragile” (2012)
43. SCALING HEURISTICS
VIA NEGATIVA STYLE
1. Stop doing projects
2. Stop doing resource planning
3. Don’t focus on efficiency
4. Never forget the user
5. Don’t scale technical incompetence
44. SCALING HEURISTICS
VIA NEGATIVA STYLE
1. Stop doing projects
2. Stop doing resource planning
3. Don’t focus on efficiency
4. Never forget the user
5. Don’t scale technical incompetence
6. Stop with traditional management career paths
45. ALIGN CAREERS & CRAFT
the “Peter Principle” will kill agility
46. SCALING HEURISTICS
VIA NEGATIVA STYLE
1. Stop doing projects
2. Stop doing resource planning
3. Don’t focus on efficiency
4. Never forget the user
5. Don’t scale technical incompetence
6. Stop with traditional management career paths
47. SCALING HEURISTICS
VIA NEGATIVA STYLE
1. Stop doing projects
2. Stop doing resource planning
3. Don’t focus on efficiency
4. Never forget the user
5. Don’t scale technical incompetence
6. Stop with traditional management career paths
7. Don’t scale process
48. CULTURE > PROCESS
don’t focus on processes, scale trust and purpose instead
49. SCALING HEURISTICS
VIA NEGATIVA STYLE
1. Stop doing projects
2. Stop doing resource planning
3. Don’t focus on efficiency
4. Never forget the user
5. Don’t scale technical incompetence
6. Stop with traditional management career paths
7. Don’t scale process
50. SCALING HEURISTICS
VIA NEGATIVA STYLE
1. Stop doing projects
2. Stop doing resource planning
3. Don’t focus on efficiency
4. Never forget the user
5. Don’t scale technical incompetence
6. Stop with traditional management career paths
7. Don’t scale process
8. Don’t scale unless you have to
52. “We found again and again that things get clumsy after
150 people”
– Bill Gore (Gore & Associates)
53. SCALING HEURISTICS
VIA NEGATIVA STYLE
1. Stop doing projects
2. Stop doing resource planning
3. Don’t focus on efficiency
4. Never forget the user
5. Don’t scale technical incompetence
6. Stop with traditional management career paths
7. Don’t scale process
8. Don’t scale unless you have to
58. REFERENCES
• “Joy, Inc.” (Menlo Innovations, CEO Richard Sheridan)
• “Anti-Fragile”, Nassim N. Taleb
• Ken Rubin, “Economically Sensible Scrum” (SGNOLA Keynote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcePFHD_p70
• “The Dog and the Frisbee”, Andrew G Haldane (speech 31/08/12)
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/speeches/
2012/speech596.pdf