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Agile Schmagile -- Jon Kern
The document discusses whether Agile practices are effective or not. It questions if the reader's team is performing well with Agile and what practices may have failed. It acknowledges that while Agile can be problematic, the principles may not be the root cause and introspection is needed. The document advocates focusing on people, processes, and tools holistically. It suggests educating oneself on successful teams and reflecting on one's own practices rather than blindly following Agile. Overall, it argues that Agile success depends more on individuals' mindsets and adaptiveness than any defined processes.
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Agile Schmagile -- Jon Kern
- 1. Agile SchmagileDoes AgileStink, or is it Just Me?Jon Kern
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- 4. Peak PerformanceDo youwork on a high-performing team?How can you be sure?
- 5. Abysmal PerformanceHave youbeen disappointedby Agile?What practice has failed you/your team?
- 6. Grade From YourStakeholders/Clients?✔
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- 8. Agile Stinks! OrDoes it?No escaping that Agile can be a BAD word100,000+ CSMs could be a good thing, or notHow can we tell what we should be doing?
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- 10. Recipe For AgileSuccessKiller App Software ProductIngredients:1.2.3.
- 11. Recipe For AgileSuccessKiller App Software ProductPEOPLE!Ingredients:1. 2.3.Ingredients:1. PEOPLE!2.3.
- 12. Recipe For AgileSuccessKiller App Software ProductIngredients:1. PEOPLE!2. Process3. Tools
- 13. Being Able toReason is KeyEducate yourself about the agile practicesLearn about successful project teamsEngage in observation – Cause and EffectReason about what you do as a teamReflect & Adapt
- 14. The Manifesto RevealsTruthsIndividuals and interactions over processes and toolsWorking software over comprehensive documentationCustomer collaboration over contract negotiationResponding to change over following a plan
- 15. Agile Practices DemandHolismConsider the project to be a systemSynergies of PracticesHolistic Approaches
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- 17. And Yet… AGILEIS HARD!
- 18. Let’s Turn theWorld Upside Down
- 19. The Anti-Agile ManifestoWeare uncovering better ways to provide the illusion of developing software by listening to others talk about watching people try. Through this (dare I call it?) work, we have come to value:Dogmatic process and CASE-tool-like automation over inspiring quality individuals to interact with the team and the clientsSufficient up-front comprehensive design specifications over seeing frequent, tangible, working results.Writing detailed Statements of Work and negotiating changes over collaborating to do our collective best with the time and money at handDriving toward the original project plan over accommodating the client changing their mind, or a path turning into a dead end
- 20. So “What’s ItGonnaBe?”Agile Manifesto?Bizarro Manifesto?
- 21. How Do WeStart?
- 22. It Starts WithYou!
- 23. Change is HardEspeciallybecause it starts with you!I needtrainingWe only work on COMPLEX projectsWe’re stuck with legacy codeThe QA Dept does all of our testingAgile isa FadTight DeadlinesTDD takes too much timeManagement doesn’t care about qualityWe’ve never done it that way beforeWe need full requirements up front
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- 27. Be… BalancedTreat softwareholistically, as a closed-loop system
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- 30. Be… BoldQuestion withBOLDNESSAsk Why?Why?Why?Why?Why?
- 31. Don’t: Just DoIt!Understand why you are doing itObserve, reflect, adapt
- 32. You Don’t DoAgile, You Are AgileAgile is first and foremost a personal PRACTICE!As is ballet, yoga, rock climbing…Never a master, always a student
- 33. Agile Has FailedUs?Not so much!Return to the founding principlesBe Agile, don’t blindly just DO Agile!Apply common senseAgile problems? First look inward…The Agile Mindset has no agenda, no certificate
- 34. Agile Can’t Changethe WorldBut…You can be more agileYour team can be more agileYour group can be more agileYour company can be more…
- 35. Agile Can’t Changethe WorldBut…You can be more agileYour team can be more agileYour group can be more agileYour company can be more… Maybe agile CAN impact the world after all!Agile SchmagileDoes Agile Stink, or is it Just Me?Jon Kernjkern@lightshipinc.comjkern@axialexchange.comhttp://TechnicalDebt.comThank you!
Editor's Notes
- #3 Hah, let’s reverse the typical talk format that does Q&A as a last slide <evil grin>I want to start out by setting the stage to have the audience reflect on their current agile experience from their current frame of reference.Then I want to deliver a quasi-interactive talk to have them reflect on the “true” meaning of Agile.I will then help folks RE-CONNECT to the agile principles.Conclude with a call to action at the individual level.And I’ll return to asking them again about their “Agile Practice” and just how good it really is.
- #4 Can you go at full speed and stop on a dime?
- #5 A rare treat in a career
- #7 How would your stakeholder and/or clients grade your team?
- #8 How would your stakeholder and/or clients grade your team?
- #9 Show a mass of soldiers marching in lock-step (like North Korea or China or Russia)
- #10 Of course, this implies having been connected in the first place. Hmmm. Might have to rethink <g>.
- #11 What is the #1 ingredient to be successful at an Agile project?
- #12 What is the #1 ingredient to be successful at an Agile project?
- #13 What is the #1 ingredient to be successful at an Agile project? #2 & #3 are also important!
- #14 Show a stack of books, historical documents…
- #15 Like the Laws of Physics…The tenets distill the immutable motive forces behind delivering software
- #16 Think of some sort of closed-loop image. A system of systems. An energy cycle. Weather cycle, or the photosynthesis cycle.The beauty and challenge of Agile methods is the holistic nature that must be grasped.Much like the human body, or in engineering a system (for example an aircraft), many of the pieces affect other parts of the puzzle.So it goes with Agile and Software Development projects.
- #17 The techniques and ideas behind agile are not rocket science
- #18 Yet, it is hard to continuously be perfect at agile.
- #20 Cover each manifesto point as if we lived on the Planet Bizarro.
- #21 Ask… How will you Get Started?Do any of you feel like you are in Camp Bizarro?
- #23 Nothing beats self-gratification.Oh, but wait, this isn’t that!
- #24 Photo from http://sourcesofinsight.com/2010/04/22/change-is-hard-because-self-control-wears-you-out/
- #26 From our ballerina daughter, magnets on the refrigerator
- #27 Agile practices are all about reducing the gap in time between an action and it’s result.
- #28 Show something off-balance and out of whack.Too much emphasis on any one thing leads to imbalance and disharmony.Images like the proverbial aircraft designed by separate disciplines… Propulsion group wants giant engines, Aero group wants needle-like fuselage with no drag, etc.
- #31 Image: big question mark? Scratching head? Head surrounded by 5 question marks?Try it… ask about something and keep going for 4 or 5 levels deep. Good luck getting that far. And if you do, it’s a great thing!
- #32 Show digging a ditch and filling it back in.
- #33 Add yoga-esque imagesGurus/yogis sitting cross-legged, or crazy pose…
- #35 Inverted pyramid leading to YOU
- #36 Inverted pyramid leading to YOU