The document discusses the importance of adopting a growth mindset for agile teams to be successful. It describes Carol Dweck's research on fixed and growth mindsets, where a growth mindset believes intelligence can be developed through effort. The document advocates that agile practices alone are not enough and teams must learn through experimenting with prototypes and getting early customer feedback. It emphasizes the value of continual learning, questioning assumptions, and improving through iteration for developing successful products.

1. Agile Mindset
A Growth Mindset
A talk by Kamal Manglani

3. Agile practices alone are not sufficient!
Many teams are not successful delivering outcomes even
though they have great agile practices!
are we sprinting in the
wrong direction?

5. learning to un-learn & then learn

6. Adding post its to a wall…

7. Over whelming Product
Backlog

8. Complex Unusable Product

9. Dweck’s findings:Two Mindsets
Fixed mindset:
◇ Intelligence and talent -
fixed
◇ Innate talent creates
success
◇ Effort will not make a
difference
◇ You either get it or you
don’t
Growth mindset:
❖ Intelligence can be
developed
❖ Brains and talent are just
the starting point
❖ Enjoy effort and process
of learning
❖ You can always grow
and learn
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10. Best starting point - Collaborate in 2’s / Pairing

11. Visualize the flow of work

12. Daily checkin & where help is needed: Create safety

15. Who are we designing for?

16. Anatomy of a persona
Interview as many “customers” as you can - Magic number is 40

17. boundary
conditions
Target
Secondary

18. Simplicity
How do hacks work?

19. NEED ROLE1 ROLE2 ROLE3
I need x
I need x x x
I need x
I need x
MVP?

20. MVP? Prototype first & demo

21. MVP? Prototype first & demo - iterate 2 to 3 times

22. Story Card: A placeholder for a conversation
It describes business value, not implementation.
It can be estimated.
It can be tested.
It’s independent.
Example: In order to choose an action movie that
I want to watch as a Netflix customer, I should be
able to see all “action movies available”.

23. Quality Advocacy
https://www.menloinnovations.com/by-reading/PDF/Successful_QA.pdf

24. Zimbardo case study
Fix your broken windows - Quality, bugs, code reviews, demos

25. Dweck: EFFORT IS ESSENTIAL!
• Brains Don’t
Grow Neural
Connections
Magically; They
Grow Them By
Hard Work and
Not Giving Up!
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27. Brain Peaks!
Fixed
Right or Wrong?
Growth
Right or Wrong…Why?
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28. Zipcar, we started very lean in terms of service and became more
beautiful as time went on…
"I really wanted a car, just sometimes, without any of the bad stuff," says Chase,
who co-founded Zipcar.

29. de-scale to Scale: Air BnB jumping from a failed start up to $10B
valuation

30. During class, while we were in the café everyday, we did not show our mockup prototypes right away. We first talked with random visitors about
their needs and how they were reading news these days. We kept asking questions. People often say what they want. But what they actually
need is something different. If we had kept doing what they asked us to do, we would have become another Google reader. Instead, we first
observed our test participants as they read news on their iPads. This was a good starting point. Afterwards we would show them paper
prototypes. The idea was to show multiple prototypes at the same time. People would always have a preference for
one or the other prototype. People definitely gravitated more toward visual news during our test sessions. We also
tried a lot of visualizations as well as different sizes and different ways to display sources. The one that is in the app right now is something we
stumbled upon during our tests.
Pulse, a business reader app that
was famously displayed by Steve Jobs at
the Apple Worldwide Developers
Conference in 2010 and was later
acquired by LinkedIn for
90 Million Dollars.
Akshay and his business partner
Ankit Gupta started developing
Pulse in 2010 when they were still
students at Stanford.

32. Does your company have the buzz? constant chatter?

33. The big picture - Design thinking, Lean Startup and Agile

35. Carol S. Dweck, Standford University
Mindset: The new psychology of success
“The growth mindset confirms the new research
which reveals that intelligence can be
developed, and expertise can be built by
means of deliberate practice.”
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36. Thank you!
A talk by Kamal Manglani