This document discusses how agile practices like stickies on a wall will not help if an organization has underlying issues like building poor quality software, lack of trust among employees, or basic communication problems. It emphasizes that good organizations choose practices that fit their needs and that true agility is about dividing large products into independent subproducts that can be developed and managed separately. Scaling agile is about decomposition, not just scaling individual methods. Having an agile mindset and understanding what agile means is more important than any single practice.

1. Stickies on the wall will not help you if
you are building crappy software
Wiktor Żołnowski
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3. Individuals and Interactions over …
Working Software over...
Customer collaboration over...
Responding to change over...

4. Customers Collaboration?

5. Let it Scrum

6. It is dangerous to think that a single practice makes an
organization good...
It is quite possible that it is the other way around:
Good organisations pick particular practices to
follow!

7. Responding to changes?

8. How many of you are Project Managers?

9. „Project: Planned set of interrelated tasks to be
executed over a fixed period and within certain cost and
other limitations.”
source: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/project.html

10. Project:
- fixed scope
- fixed time
- fixed budget

11. Waterfall makes sense...
...until you start thinking about it...

12. Project lifecycle

13. Project lifecycle

14. Working software?

15. Product - not project

16. „Stickies on the wall will not help you if you are building
crappy software”

17. Product Agility

18. Product Agility
„Stickies on the wall will not help you if you are building
crappy software”

19. Individuals and Interactions?

20. People Agility

21. „Stickies on the wall will not help you if you don't trust
your people”

22. Agile Culture

23. „Stickies on the wall will not help you if you have basic
communication problems”

24. But what about Agile for BIG PROJECTS?
Agile for BIG PROJECTS doesn't work!

25. CHAOS Report

26. „Nothing will help you if you are building BIG crappy
software”

27. Scaling Agile

28. People who are trying to scale Agile are doing it all
wrong...

29. It's not about scaling Scrum/Kanban and other methods
It's not even about scaling projects...

30. Scaling Agile
It is about dividing your product into smaller subproducts which are as much independent as it is possible

31. So it is all about decomposition!

32. „Stickies on the wall will not help you if you don't want
to be Agile”

33. Individuals and Interactions over …
Working Software over...
Customer collaboration over...
Responding to change over...

34. „Stickies on the wall will help you if you have Agile
mindset and understand what does it means”

35. If you want change something you need to change
something...

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@streser
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37. https://leanpub.com/problemywagile

38. https://leanpub.com/agile-transformacje