Growing Agile Practices in a Hostile Environment
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The document discusses strategies for teams working in a "hostile environment" to build an internal "fortress" where they can nurture agile practices. It suggests teams focus on establishing strong internal agreements and processes, limit work-in-progress, and recruit allies outside the team to extend influence. The goal is to create a safe and comfortable space for the team within the constraints they face.
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Growing Agile Practices in a Hostile Environment
- 1. Fortress Agile nurturing and growing healthy practices in a hostile environment @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon
- 2. Fortress Agile nurturing and growing healthy practices in a hostile environment Cheryl Hammond (she/her/y’all) Senior Director / thisisartium.com @bsktcase
- 3. she/her/y’all 20+ years in software development, executive leadership, and organizational transformation Passionate about agile, lean, and making software delivery humane; not afraid to look silly doing it Fourth-generation Seattleite College recruiter & mentor; bolonka lover; traveler; genealogist; intersectional feminist Cheryl M Hammond @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon
- 4. slideshare.net/bsktcase Today’s slides and more @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon Tweet your feedback and questions Invitations and asks @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon
- 5. Under siege? Knights in shining armor Become a self-rescuing princess Dig the well Your fortress, your rules Make your fortress safe and comfortable Recruit emissaries Extend your influence outside the walls Expand your fortress Agenda @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon
- 7. @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon Knights in shining armor
- 8. Self-rescuing princess You have more power than you think - use it! Your team is already a black box - take advantage of that! Where is your fortress? Who is in it? @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon
- 9. @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon Dig the well
- 10. Your fortress, your rules Inside the fortress, use working agreements and support each other. Have each other’s backs! Unit testing / TDD Estimation Standups Work in process (WIP) Requirements / prioritization @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon
- 11. Unit testing / TDD What’s stopping you? If you are already seen as “too slow” (and you are), be too slow with great quality! “Gee, that’s just how long software takes 🤷” What slows you down? Bugs and brittleness! You know this already! Believe that testing now will speed you up later @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon
- 12. Estimation What’s stopping you? You may be asked for estimates, but you can spend less time creating them. They’ll be wrong anyway! Right-size your stories, and try to make sure they have value (not “tasks”) Then just agree to make everything a 3, or randomize; have fun with it 🤣 In standup, watch out for variance and work item age @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon
- 13. Standups What’s stopping you? If managers insist on a status update standup, give them one; have your real standup after they leave Use your standup to inspect the flow of work, not the busyness of people @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon
- 14. Work in process (WIP) What’s stopping you? You will surely be asked to do too much, but you can start working on fewer things at a time. Limit your own WIP! “Stop starting, start finishing” Work from right-to-left on your kanban/Scrum/JIRA board; prioritize work that can be finished today @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon
- 15. Requirements / prioritization What’s stopping you? Be strategically wrong; someone will be unable to resist correcting you Move fast and get fast feedback; believe that this is faster than big grooming Learn your business Learn (e.g.) your PMs’ boss’s priorities, and strive to satisfy them Make your detractors look good! @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon
- 16. Bonus slide! Sprint review / demo What’s stopping you? The intention of Scrum’s Sprint Review is to get immediate, actionable feedback from stakeholders, but they often don’t attend and teams are often wrong about what’s helpful for them to see; meanwhile the demo becomes a status update Same as with standup, consider a shorter “decoy demo” to give status updates Seek out ways to get the actionable feedback you need outside of a meeting (figuring out who to ask and how to get their time is a great place to start!) @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon
- 17. @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon Safe and comfortable
- 18. @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon Recruit emissaries
- 19. Extend your influence Have empathy for the folks outside your fortress What results/outcomes are they accountable for? How might you help them with their challenges? How can you help them succeed? Feed the eagles! @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon
- 20. Expand your fortress @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon
- 21. @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon Someday, a relic
- 22. Invitations and asks slideshare.net/bsktcase Today’s slides and more @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon Tweet your feedback and questions @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon
- 23. Artium is hiring! Product management Product design Engineering Engagement management Sales Balanced teams doing XP Remote-friendly Santa Monica San Francisco New York Wherever you are @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon thisisartium.com/careers
- 25. Fortress Agile nurturing and growing healthy practices in a hostile environment @bsktcase #FortressAgile #AgileMiniCon