The document describes Johanna Rothman's presentation titled "My Agile Suitcase" given at Agile 2013 in Nashville. Some of the key points included in her suitcase are: working tiny and proving results incrementally, getting work done through small batches, learning constantly, improving together, being trustworthy and predictable, and winning together. The presentation encourages attendees to define their own Agile suitcases by including important principles and practices. It also involves exercises where attendees work in pairs and groups to introduce their suitcases and identify shared and unique contents.

1. My Agile Suitcase
#Agile2013 #MyAgileSuitcase
Pecha Kucha Agile 2013, Nashville

2. Agile Enthusiast,
Consultant,
Coach & Trainer
Community Groomer
Germany

3. holiday
Your

4. one
call

5. a new
project

6. Your team http://www.flickr.com/photos/accolite/2927750264

7. Your last project

8. A message

9. Ask for help

10. Help is
on
the way

11. "My suitcase is
filled with the
things that I
really wish
others would
start packing for
themselves."
@arlobelshee

12. „Mindset
matters “
@johannarothman

13. „The Agile
Community is
so beautiful and
giving that I
want to share
what I have
learned."
@michael_sahota

14. „Sharing our
experiences and
our perspectives
is essential to
growing our
collective
knowledge."
@davidhussman

15. „I want to
practice what
I preach."
@berndschiffer

16. 20 x 20 =
6´40

18. Applause
Your

19. Feedback
#Agile2013
#MyAgileSuitcase
Your

23. "My suitcase is
filled with the
things that I
really wish
others would
start packing for
themselves."
@arlobelshee

24. The typical agile suitcase
Stories
Adaptive
planning
Complaint-fest
retrospectives
Visible status
Stand-ups
Visible
upcoming work
Estimation

25. My agile suitcase
Stuff
I
need
Stuff others
need but
always leave at
home

26. My agile suitcase
Plan,
Status,
Stories,
Burn-up,
Stand-up
Code well:
Work Tiny. Prove it. Get Done.
Learn and improve discipline.
Work together. Win together.
Make changes together.

27. Work tiny

28. Work tiny – spiral in reverse

29. Work tiny – impressive results eventually
Check in
Ship live
Validate business impact

30. Prove it
Traditional or 1 star Agile 2+ star Agile
Dev’s job
• deliver software
Write ~8 bugs / man-day
Dev’s job
• Deliver software
• Demonstrate software does
what devs expect
Tools
• Mechanized refactoring
• Small steps, with reverting
• Test first
• Automated developer testing
• Design in units
• Design for testability
Write ~1 bug / 80 man-days

31. No bugs!

32. Low cost changes => Emergent Design
“Hey, we
could …”
The simplest thing
that could possibly
work
You aren’t gonna
need it
PainNo Pain

33. Low risk changes => Learn in the market

34. Get done
April May June
Product A
Product B
Product C
Revenue:
July
A+B+C
April May June
Product A Product B Product C
Revenue:
July
A+B+CA A+B
VS

35. Learn informally

36. Learn constantly

37. Improve together

38. Be trustworthy – be predictable

39. Be trustworthy – consider others

40. Do the work together

42.  Work tiny
 Prove it
 Get done
 Learn constantly
 Improve together
 Be trustworthy
 Win together
My packing list generator

43.  Pair or mob, 100%
 Design small units
 100% mechanized refactoring
 Tests are specs; write them first
 Finish and prove each step before
starting the next
 1 process change / week (minimum)
 Decentralize all decisions
 Involve people directly
My current packing list

44. Applause

45. „Mindset
matters “
@johannarothman

46. My Agile Suitcase
Johanna Rothman
New: Hiring Geeks That Fit
@johannarothman
www.jrothman.com
jr@jrothman.com
781-641-4046

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68. 1
Your
Agile Suitcase

69. Define your Agile Suitcase by packing
your favorite 5elements on post-its
Your Agile Suitcases
of Pairs
1

70. „The Agile
Community is
so beautiful and
giving that I
want to share
what I have
learned."
@michael_sahota

71. My Agile Suitcase
@MichaelSahota
michael.sahota@agilitrix.com

72. Big Open Toolbox
Scrum
Lean
Kanban
Systems Thinking
Adaptive Action

73. Most Value from Mindset/Culture, not Practices
~20% Benefit ~3X Benefit
•Ability to manage changing priorities
•Improved Visibility
•Increased Productivity
•Improved Quality
•Reduced Risk
•Customer Delight
•Joy at work
•Engagement
•Innovation, Creativity
•Continuous Learning

74. Change is Within a Scope

76. Culture Provides Greatest Leverage

77. Supplication

78. Reveal Patterns

79. Value Stream Mapping

80. Innovation Games®

81. Strategic Play®

82. SupplicationLet Them Choose (Let go of Outcome)

83. Partnership (50/50)

84. See People As Valuable

85. Love Myself

86. Courage & Vulnerability

87. Call for Help

88. Temenos Lab
Full Session - Wed. Aug 7 @10:45AM

89. Oneness Meditation

90. “Be the Change you want to See in the World”
- Mahatma Gandhi

91. • Photo Credits
• Seamless Grungy Teal Pattern -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/webtreatsetc/
• Toolbox - http://www.flickr.com/photos/arrrrt/
• Neo/Matrix Red Pill, Blue Pill, used without permission
• Handshake - http://www.flickr.com/photos/62751770@N05/
• Sleeping Homeless Person - http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotografar/
• Vulnerability Statue - http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnia/
• Phone Booth - http://www.flickr.com/photos/jarodcarruthers/
• Morraine Lake - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gorgo
• World - http://www.flickr.com/photos/donkeyhotey/

92. Applause
Your

93. Define your common Agile Suitcase by
• Introducing each others suitcase
• Packing new suitcase(keep family tree)
Your Agile Suitcases
of two Pairs
11 1+ =

94. „Sharing our
experiences and
our perspectives
is essential to
growing our
collective
knowledge."
@davidhussman

95. Cutting an Agile Groove
David Hussman - DevJam

96. Empathy
What’s it like on Waterfall Island?

97. Listening
“We have two ears and one mouth so we
listen twice as much as we speak” - Epictetus

98. Questioning
Dude’s Law: Value = Why / How
V=
W
HV=
W
H

99. How much process is enough?
Test Driven
Refactoring
User Stories
Acceptance Tests
Sprints
Product Backlogs
Sprint Reviews
Sprint Backlog
Continuous Integration
Evolutionary Design BurndownBurnupVelocity
Information Radiators
IterationsReleases
PersonasKanban
Kaizen
Common Workspace
Cross Functional Teams
Daily Scrum
Retrospectives
Iteration 0
Chartering
Collective Ownership
WIP
Pivot
MVP
Planning Poker
Story Points
Technical Debt
Story Maps
Domain Driven Design
Don’t tell me what the book says Walter,
what practices do we really need man?

100. Don’t assume you know where you’re going
Getting Ready
Getting Productive
Staying Productive
Don’t assume you know how to get there

101. Getting Ready: Discover Product
Who needs what and why?

102. Getting Ready: Get to Know the People
Who’s in the band?

103. Getting Ready: Uncover the Eco-System
Tools and technologies?
Design areas? Collaboration spaces?

104. Getting Ready: Make Remote Connections
Who are “they” and what are their names?
Raj
Sam
Sue
Ivan
Etta

105. Adopt Humanely with Intent
Avoid “Scrum buts” and other prescriptions

106. Getting Productive: Learn from Delivery
“Done” means more than “demod”

107. Getting Productive: Monitor Tech Debt

108. What is your next best investment?
Getting Productive: Invest Wisely

109. Getting Productive: Continuously Learn
Don’t wait to reflect and adapt

110. Staying Productive: Use Humor

111. Don’t mistake crowds for collaboration
Staying Productive: Less is More

112. Staying Productive: Keep Process Lean
Readiness over process (or procedure)

113. Epistemic Arrogance: “The difference between
what you know and what you think you know”
Staying Productive: Avoid Arrogance

114. Staying Productive: Frame and Reframe
Building for the future Building to adapt
Talking about code Talking about tests
Late integration Continuous Deployment
What’s required? What’s needed?
How many hours? How much product?
How much cost? How much opportunity?
(from) Last Millennia (to) This Millennia
How big? Too big?
Learning to estimate Learning from estimates
Completing work Validating value delivered

115. Practice empirical skepticism
Never stop questioning and learning!

116. Cutting an Agile Groove
http://devjam.com/2013/07/12/cutting-an-agile-groove-overview/
© 2013 DevJam - All rights reserved.

117. Define your common Agile Suitcase by
• Introducing each others suitcase
• Packing new suitcase(keep family tree)
Your Agile Suitcases
of two groups of four
11 1+ =

118. „… because I
want to practice
what I preached."
@berndschiffer

119. My Agile suitcase
05/08/2013 Agile Conference Nashville
Bernd Schiffer

121. http://i.imgur.com/rE0Za68.jpg

138. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Australian_Coat_of_Arms.png

141. One group presents their last suitcase
• Others check for same in their suitcase
• Count different items
Your Agile Suitcases
Diversity

142. Your Agile Suitcases
Gallery of „family trees“
1 1 1
1 1
1
1 1 1 1
1 1
1
1 1 1 1
1 1
1
1

144. Feedback
#Agile2013
#MyAgileSuitcase
Your
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