The document discusses agile and lean practices, focusing on defining value from the customer's perspective and the benefits of agile methodologies such as Scrum. It highlights the importance of quick feedback, stakeholder engagement, and incremental development, using case studies like Snapchat and NowTV.com for illustration. Additionally, it emphasizes the role of small cross-functional teams in delivering software efficiently and effectively.

1. Agile & Lean Practices
Craig Strong

2. ABOUT ME
•AGILE/LEAN COACH & TRAINER
•LEAN STARTUP & ENTERPRISE
COACH
•SCRUM, KANBAN, XP, ToC…
•LONDON AGILE PRACTITIONERS
craig.strong@c6s.co.uk
@craigstrong
uk.linkedin.com/in/craigstrong/

5. LEAN ?
“Lean thinking defines value
as providing benefit to the
customer; anything else is
waste.”!
!
The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation
Creates Radically Successful Businesses by
Eric Ries

6. LEAN ?
“Working from the perspective of the customer
who consumes a product or service, "value" is
defined as any action or process that a
customer would be willing to pay for.”!
!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing

7. LEAN ?
Minimal amount of effort required for you to
learn what the customers needs are.!
!
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!
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8. AGILE & LEAN
Agile DOES NOT lead to more software being developed
faster. It leads to the RIGHT software being delivered as fast
as possible.

9. TRADITIONAL

10. INCREMENTAL

11. SCRUM

12. SCRUM FRAMEWORK

13. PEOPLE
Great ideas get better
when people work together

14. ROLES
TEAM
PRODUCT OWNER
SCRUM
MASTER

15. SPRINT 1-2 WEEKS

16. STANDUP
What did you do yesterday ?
What are you working on today?
Any problems or blockers ?

17. PLANNING
Cross-Functional Teams = Efficient Solutions

18. ESTIMATION

19. SPRINT DEMO
WORKING SOFTWARE NOT PLANS!

20. RETROSPECTIVE

21. BENEFITS
• Quickly Know If You Take Wrong
Turn
• Unpredictable Environment
• Test Assumptions
• Potentially Shippable Software

22. LEARNING EACH SPRINT
CUSTOMER
ENGINEERINGSTAKEHOLDER

23. HYPOTHESES
We believe [target market] !
Will [do this action / use this solution] !
For [this reason]

24. LEARN EACH SPRINT

25. CASE STUDY
NOWTV.COM

27. INTERNAL STARTUP

28. VISIBLE INFORMATION

29. FACE TO FACE
PAIR PROGRAMMING

30. READABLE TESTS

31. SPRINTS
•1-2 WEEK SPRINTS
• SCRUM OF SCRUMS
•STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
•VISIBLE AND ACCESIBLE
•INTEGRATED TEAMS
•FREQUENT DEMONSTRATIONS
•METRICS LIVE AND VISIBLE
•TEAM ENVIRONMENT
•CUSTOMER SUPPORT TO EXECS
•INTEGRATED VISIBLE TESTS

32. POWER OF SMALL TEAMS
Turned down $3bn offer from Facebook
No source of revenue
When asked about future revenue sources for Snapchat, CEO
Evan Spiegel is testing a new hypothesis: getting users to pay
for added value services. By using agile development, instead
of waterfall development, Snapchat will be able to build itself
incrementally and iteratively.
http://blogs.ubc.ca/amnamasud/2013/11/12/lean-start-up-snapchat/
<30 full-time employees

33. http://labs.spotify.com/2014/03/27/spotify-engineering-culture-part-1/
http://www.slideshare.net/InfoQ/lean-apart-a-case-study-in-agile-ux-design-for-a-distributed-team
http://blog.hbs.edu/dighbs/whatsapp-resisting-building-multi-sided-platforms-too-soon/

34. craig.strong@c6s.co.uk
@craigstrong
uk.linkedin.com/in/craigstrong/
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