Walking in narrow shoes, when Agile doesn't fit
Slides of my experience story for the Software Quality Conference held in Utrecht on 23 April 2015. Description: Implementing agile seems a lot like learning to drive. At First, all effort goes into controlling the car. But soon you discover that anticipating the traffic is the real game. During the agile implementations that I did last year, I had a similar insight. It is not so hard to teach the team to follow the agile processes; the true challenge is dealing with the organisation around the team. In this presentation I will share our insights and learning points on how culture, the project and organisational structures can threaten the success of your agile implementation. We learned that if you neglect those and focus on the agile process only, doing agile is much like walking in narrow shoes. Each step hurts. We will share some real cases from our experience in various organisations. I will hold them against the agile theory, show where it does not fit. I will explain how we dealt with these issues.
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Walking in narrow shoes, when Agile doesn't fit
- 1. @DerkJandeGrood Walking in Narrow Shoes- When Agile doesn’t fit Derk-Jan de Grood – Software Quality Conference - 2015 1
- 2. @DerkJandeGrood Why we like Agile 2[By Simon Sinek]
- 4. @DerkJandeGrood Does it feel like walking? 4
- 6. @DerkJandeGrood 6 SCRUM Guide: 19 pages 12 principles Manifesto: 4 lines Team: only 3 roles How hard can it be?
- 7. @DerkJandeGrood Impact of Agile On Testing and BA
- 8. @DerkJandeGrood You work.. 8 In teams In motion In the organisation
- 9. @DerkJandeGrood Agile doesn’t fit when… Team members have operational tasks The organization culture is task oriented Hierarchical structure with side effects The Scrum master of Product owner acts like a manager Management wants control rather than quality Management keeps chaining the team and its settings Business lacks overview on project portfolio A blame culture makes people afraid to share problems Communication style makes it impossible to retrospect The project does not match the agile criteria 9
- 13. @DerkJandeGrood 13 Task driven culture
- 23. @DerkJandeGrood 23 The Role of the BA? 23
- 24. @DerkJandeGrood The BA challenge The stereo type BA prefers: Theoretical embedding over Empirical experience Analysing over Just Starting
- 28. @DerkJandeGrood New E-Book 28 Download for free at: http://blog.valori.nl/ebook-de-klant-centraal
- 32. @DerkJandeGrood 32 Wrap-up @DerkJandeGrood SCRUM 7 What makes it succesfull? Recognisewhen it won’t fly
- 33. @DerkJandeGrood Topics Team members have operational tasks The organization culture is task oriented Hierarchical structure with side effects The Scrum master of Product owner acts like a manager Management wants control rather than quality Management keeps chaining the team and its settings Business lacks overview on project portfolio A blame culture makes people afraid to share problems Communication style makes it impossible to retrospect The project does not match the agile criteria Communication style makes it impossible to retrospect 33
- 34. @DerkJandeGrood Valori Coltbaan 4a 3439 NG NIEUWEGEIN The Netherlands M: derkjandegrood@valori.nl P: +31(0)651807878 B: djdegrood.wordpress.com W: www.valori.nl Enjoy the hike!
Editor's Notes
- Management wants control rather than quality Agile is not a pulg in Manager that want grip and promise the customer a feature, without consulting the team It does not matter how the team does is, traditional, agile , its their thing, als long as it is delivered on time. Management wants control rather than quality Als je decultuur hebt …werk het niet Ik wil alles wat ik gevraagd heb en ik ben alwetend (ik weet wat ik wil, en overize het project Link met Taco; asl ik ben Encoce en agile is een plugin..
- Management keeps chaining the team and its settings 2de project – team ontbinden Vraag tijdens PSM training – lean machine of tijdelijke structuur Benoem waste, want SCRUM is framwork dus tunen naar eigen situatie niet out-of-the box, of copieren leercurve is waste…
- ' Type a list of Flows, like this: ' SOURCE [AMOUNT] TARGET ' Examples: Project A [40] Velocity Project B [30] Velocity Bug fixes [30] Velocity Velocity [10] Items Project A Velocity [70] Items Project B Velocity [10] Bug Fixes Velocity [10] Spikes http://sankeymatic.com/build/ ' After all your Flows are entered, use ' the controls below to customize the ' diagram's appearance. ' For even finer control over presentation, ' see the Manual.
- Business lacks overview on project portfolio
- A blame culture makes people afraid to share problems
- The project does not match the agile criteria