How Agile sometimes fails expectations, just like all revolutions did - and how to fix it.

1. AGILE REVOLUTION
REBOOT
Lucas Olczyk
Agile Portugal
Leiria, June 6th 2014

2. Lucas Olczyk
(@Lukoletz)
(World’s Happiest) Coach
NDA count: 11
Petrolhead
Hates sugarcoating

4. You can teach people how to program,
but you can’t teach them to be
programmers

5. Animal Farm
George Orwell

8. Animalism
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings,
is a friend.
No animal shall wear clothes.
No animal shall sleep in a bed.
No animal shall drink alcohol.
No animal shall kill any other animal.
All animals are equal.

9. Animalism 2.0
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings,
is a friend.
No animal shall wear clothes.
No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets.
No animal shall drink alcohol in excess.
No animal shall kill any other animal without
reason.
All animals are equal.

10. Animalism 3.0
All animals are equal but some animals are
more equal than others.

11. Agile Manifesto
Individuals and interactions over Processes and tools
Working software over Comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over Contract negotiation
Responding to change over Following a plan

12. Agile Manifesto
Individuals and interactions over Processes and tools
but Scrum process is above all
Working software over Comprehensive documentation
but we want to have it designed
Customer collaboration over Contract negotiation
but we have no idea how to sell Agile
Responding to change over Following a plan
but ’’We have a Sprint plan!!’’

13. Why
do we have Agile?

15. Diffusion of innovation

16. The Actual Reason

18. (How) can it be fixed?

19. Get a
consultant!

20. You’re likely to get:
Off the shelf solution
Complex solution
Solution that you will
not want to implement
(most likely: 3 in 1 combo!)

21. Another way

22. Name the country

26. Vietnam

27. How would you fight
kids’ malnutrition
in Vietnamiese
countryside?

28. Consultant’s solution:
Ensure proper education
Provide better hygiene
Improve economic conditions

29. Jerry Sternin
(director of Save the Children in Vietnam)

30. Positive Deviance

31. Deviance
(as in people doing things differently)

32. Positive
(as in: deviant behaivor yields good results)

33. The Algorithm
1. Find positive results within existing environment
2. Eliminate exceptional cases
3. Analize the deviance
4. Let them spread it!

34. If you’d like to know more:
Simon Sinek ’’Start with why’’
George Orwell ’’Animal Farm’’
Chip & Dan Heath ’’Switch’’
Richard Nelson, Sidney Winter ’’An Evolutionary
Theory of Economic Change’’

35. Ever tried.
Ever failed.
No matter.
Tried again.
Failed again.
Failed BETTER.

36. THANK
YOU