Joshua Kerievsky's 2016 keynote speech at Agile2016. Speech abstract follows...
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Over the past decade, innovative companies, software industry thought leaders and lean/agile pioneers have discovered simpler, sturdier, and more streamlined ways to be agile. While there is timeless wisdom in agile, today's practitioners would do well to bypass outmoded agile practices in favor of modern approaches.
Modern agile methods are defined by four guiding principles
• Make people awesome
• Make safety a prerequisite
• Experience & learn rapidly
• Deliver value continuously
World famous organizations like Google, Amazon, Air BnB, Etsy and others are living proof of the powers of these four principles. However, you don't need to be a name brand company to leverage modern agile wisdom.
In this talk, Josh will explain what he means by modern agility, share real-world modern agile stories, show how modern agile addresses key risks while targeting results over rituals, and reveal how the 2001 agile manifesto can be updated to reflect modern agile's four guiding principles.
46. “Invent a faster train.”
— Head of Japanese
railway system, 1955
47. 1964: Tōkaidō Shinkansen
Jack
Welch
Wow!!
By Roger Wollstadt - http://www.flickr.com/photos/24736216@N07/3429753993/in/set-72157623081490477/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18004116
62. “I’m so much more conscious of how I
model listening, whether I interrupt, or
how I encourage everyone to speak.”
—Sagnik Nandy,
chief of Google Analytics Engineering
Adapted from Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg
63. Be Caring, Curious & Nonjudgmental
Avoid Dominating
or Interrupting
Review/Repeat
People’s Points
Encourage Everyone
to Contribute
Listen to
One Another
Psychologically Safe Meetings
Adapted from Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg
113. Jeff Bezos
CEO, Amazon
“They share a distinctive
organizational culture that cares
deeply about and acts with conviction
on a small number of principles.”
2016 Letter to
Shareholders
114. Taking professional pride in
operational excellence
Eagerness to invent & pioneer,
willingness to fail
Customer obsession rather
than competitor obsession
Patience to think long-term