This document discusses the author's journey in coaching musicians and software developers in agile practices. It describes how the author started with small music coaching projects and producing bands [1]. It then discusses how the author helped form coding communities and applied agile principles to software development [2]. The rest of the document outlines various agile practices like iterations, stand-ups, and retrospectives that the author has used and evolved in their work coaching different communities [3].

1. How did you get here?
The Dude
Where are we going?
How Did You Get Here?
( what’s your story )
My story starts here …
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2. My Time Coaching Musicians
Teacher Producer
Partner Member
Little Shop of Coders
- little ceremony, big delivery -
Big Shop of Horrors
- big ceremony, little delivery -
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3. Extremely Familiar
- practical and pragmatic -
A New Form of Producing
A Community in Discovery
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4. A Community in Growth
- coaching and connecting -
The Agile Movement Today
We grow as a community
by telling our stories
My story and your story
become our story
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5. How Did You Get Here?
( what’s your story )
h t’ t
Where Are We Going?
(d
dogma f
free evidence )
id
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6. "It's what you don't know you
don't know that gets you into trouble."
DevJam Agility (today)
Creating Community and Common Vision
Form Communities (Chartering)
Composing a Product (Backlogs - Personas – Story Maps)
Create an Eco-System (Iteration 0 – Common Workspace)
Prioritizing and Planning
Product R l
P d t Releases (Releases - P i iti - E ti t )
(R l Priorities Estimates)
Iterative Delivery (Iterations – Stories/Tasks - Estimates)
Iterative Delivery of Tangible Value
Staying Connected (Daily Standup – Common Workspace)
Tracking Progress (Task Wall - Burnchart - Velocity)
Technical Agility (Continuous Integration – Test Driven)
Delivering Value (Acceptance Test - Story Sign Off)
Tuning and Improving
Validating Progress (Reviews – Product Presentations)
Reflect and Improve (Retrospective)
Emergent Evolution
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7. Evolving Our Practice
Estimation Story Points
Iterations Stand Ups
Retrospectives
- valuing “why” over “how” -
Chartering: Building Community
- who is involved and how? -
Learning Design Thinking
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8. Pragmatic Personas
- who’s buying or buying in & why? -
Story Maps Connect Communities
A Clever Variation
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9. New Lo-Tech, Hi-Fi Tools
Other Valuable Emergence
test driven
(everything)
&
more automated
testing tools
So Where Are We Going?
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10. - agile methods are tools not solutions -
Practice Beginner’s Mind
- beware the expert trap -
Where are you going?
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Coaching and Developing Agility
david.hussman@devjam.com
www.devjam.com
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