Our world changes fast and at increasing speed. Things that weren't possible 5 years ago come into reach. Incumbents need to adept to match start-ups that use newer technologies. We are evolving towards smaller, faster, shorter. Smaller teams or even micro-teams, flat organizations, no management, even shorter cycles, smaller components. During this inspiring talk Sander discusses Cynefin, how software development goes wrong, how to go beyond Scrum, why self-organization is hard, why continuous delivery allows you to stop estimating or do projects and why microservices are hard, but essential.

1. It’s a small world after all
Sander Hoogendoorn
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Mentoring ▪ Consulting ▪ Training
Agile ▪ Software architecture ▪ Code
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2. Smaller shorter faster
Sander Hoogendoorn
ditisagile.nl
Mentoring ▪ Consulting ▪ Training
Agile ▪ Software architecture ▪ Code
@aahoogendoorn
@aahoogendoorn | www.ditisagile.nl | Faster shorter smaller flatter

3. Sander Hoogendoorn
Independent dad, software architect,
agile coach, programmer, speaker, writer
CTO ANVA
Former CTO insurance company
Former global agile thoughtleader
Capgemini
sanderhoogendoorn.com
aahoogendoorn
aahoogendoorn
sander@ditisagile.nl
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6. The times
they are
a-changing
Much faster than you think
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Moore’s Law
The number of transistors
in a dense integrated
circuit doubles
approximately every two
years.

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1954

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The IBM Personal
Computer 5150
The simplest configuration has
16K on-board RAM and uses an
audio cassette to load and save
data. A floppy drive is optional. A
hard drive was not supported.
A system for home or school
with a memory of 64K bytes, a
single diskette drive and its own
display, was priced around
$3,000.

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Amazon EC2
Then, in 2006, Amazon
launched its Elastic
Compute cloud (EC2) as a
commercial web service
that allows small
companies and individuals
to rent computers on
which to run their own
computer applications.

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How long did it take to reach 50 million users?

13. The Times
They Are a-Changin'
A short story about the financial market
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Dutch fintech landscape 3.0
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Welcome to the
world of small
moveable parts

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Even
shorter
cycles
Feature
by feature
Minimal
viable
products
Stop doing
projects
Even
smaller
teams
Communicating
and self-organizing
Even
smaller
components
Microservices
and serverless
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The
continuous
culture
Everything will
be continuous
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18. Less is more
Deliver minimal viable products, not projects
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Complex problems require continuous exploration
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The iron triangle of project management?
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Detailed planning?
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22. Roadmaps over plans
While there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more
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Minimal
viable
products
Build products
feature by feature
Think small,
deploy early
and frequently

24. Do we need this
NOW?
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Less estimates
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Counting is better than planning poker
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28. Even shorter cycles
Agile way beyond Scrum
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What does agile mean to you?

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Does agile scale? Is large scale agile just multiple copies of Scrum?

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Or does large scale agile require a large scale process?

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Let’s all copy Spotify!
You are not Spotify!
(unless you actually are Spotify)

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Does agile scale?
If you don’t succeed
at agile with a
5-person team,
what makes you think
you’ll succeed at
enterprise level?

34. Stop sprinting
Wouldn’t it be nice?
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The red sprint anti-pattern

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To satisfy the customer through early and
continuous delivery of valuable software
The agile manifesto

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How often do you release to production?
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Continuous flow

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Delivery pipelines Fully automated deployment machinery

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Automated testing
delivers continuous feedback
Fail fast, fail often, fail forward

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Immutable infrastructure
Pets versus cattle
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44. Even smaller teams
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Small teams in Scrum
Is 7 plus or minus 2 really small?
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Clear communication is key

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Autonomous teams?
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The living room work space
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Mandatory fun
Maybe we’re overdoing it a little?
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Autonomous teams?
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Self-organization is hard

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How to draw an owl

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It only takes one person to start the change

54. Less rules
Amsterdam, Alexanderplein Continue
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Traditional teams Agile teams

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Micro-teams

57. Never stop learning
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In retrospective
Some final thoughts

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Complex problems require continuous exploration
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Beyond the point of no return

62. Never stop thinking for yourself
Don’t just copy someone else’s model
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References
and questions
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