Slides from Michael Levine's presentation at Agile Day Twin Cities 2019, hosted on November 20th at the RiverCentre in Saint Paul, MN.
https://www.agiledaytwincities.com/
2. • We value people and interactions over
processes and tools.
• Business people and developers must work
together daily throughout the project.
• Build projects around motivated individuals.
Give them the environment and support they
need, and trust them to get the job done.
• Working software is the primary measure of
progress.
• The best architectures, requirements, and
designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
Is our
obligation to
provide space
and money
and then
stand back
and see what
happens?
3. Kick-off Principle: Light Governance
• Empowered teams.
• Streamlined and fast decision-making.
Team makes decisions unless they
decide to escalate.
• No status reports. If management
want to know what’s up, come to
demo.
• No management grilling of their
assigned team members. Team
members ask when they need
something.
Retrospective: Journey Owner
• “Most valuable element was my
meeting every morning at 7:30 with
the president of the business unit.”
• “In past we didn’t have such close
participation of senior executives in
our projects.”
• “This enabled us to get fast decisions
made, helped us get other groups to
pay attention and act, and got us the
resources we needed quickly.”
4. Not Just Management: Leadership for Agility
A new kind of endeavor………Requires a new kind of leadership
Building something complicated
Leadership for Agility
• Participating in & leading large
teams of talented and diverse
people to deliver highly
abstract, intellectually
challenging, complex and
valuable solutions, and
• Enabling many such teams
within larger organizations to
succeed.
Coordinating large number
of people to common goal
Now add: Integrating thousands of
ideas in new ways using new tools
that work invisibly for thousands of
people– over and over!
9. The A3
Originated at Toyota, part
of lean problem solving
Can be used to frame an
effort / project, solve a
problem, etc.
One page, diagrams and
charts
Nemawashi
Rigor, Alignment, &
Efficiency!
10. The Architecture Simulation
• Prepare business scenarios starting with customer
• Lay out systems architecture
• Run scenarios
Audience participation
Make it physical
Make it human
Have fun!
Rigor, Alignment, Efficiency