The document provides an overview of agile principles and processes. It discusses the Agile Manifesto which values individuals and interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change over comprehensive documentation, contract negotiation, and following a plan. It then discusses common agile processes like Scrum and Kanban which emphasize iterative development, continuous delivery, and collaboration. The document suggests agile principles can be applied beyond software development to make people and organizations more effective. Finally, it addresses why some may hesitate to adopt agile while emphasizing the benefits it can provide to customers, management, and teams.

1. AGILE
AGILITY AT EMIRATES

2. Rasmus Runberg
• Product Owner and active member of the Agile ME
community
• +12 years of project experience - past 7 working
agile
• Background as classic Project Manager
Teletronics
• UAE based software development company
• By crafting software and creating knowledge, it
is our ambition to enable people, to live happier
more fulfilled lives

3. WHAT IS AGILE TO
YOU?

4. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - WHAT IS AGILE?
THE AGILE MANIFESTO
2001
We are uncovering better ways of developing software

5. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - WHAT IS AGILE?
THE AGILE MANIFESTO
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we
value the items on the left more.
Individuals and
Interactions
over
Processes and Tools
Working Software
over
Comprehensive documentation
Customer
Collaboration
over
Contract Negotiation
Responding to
Change
over
Following a Plan

6. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - WHAT IS AGILE?
THE AGILE MANIFESTO
Individuals and Interactions
Working Software
Customer Collaboration
Responding to Change
Where in your daily
work are you or
could you apply
these principles?

7. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - WHAT IS AGILE?
THE AGILE MANIFESTO
Individuals and Interactions
Working Software
Customer Collaboration
Responding to Change
Talk to people
Only follow process if it
adds value
Do what you know is right
not what you’re told

8. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - WHAT IS AGILE?
THE AGILE MANIFESTO
Individuals and Interactions
Working Software
Customer Collaboration
Responding to Change
Measure progress in
deliveries, not time or
resources spend
Deliver continuously in
small iterations

9. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - WHAT IS AGILE?
THE AGILE MANIFESTO
Individuals and Interactions
Working Software
Customer Collaboration
Responding to Change
Deliver what the customer
need, not what was
agreed in the contract
Get feedback from your
client or users

10. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - WHAT IS AGILE?
THE AGILE MANIFESTO
Individuals and Interactions
Working Software
Customer Collaboration
Responding to Change
If the plan doesn’t make
sense any longer - change
it!
Do not fear changes -
embrace them

11. WHAT IS AN AGILE
PROCESS?

12. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - AGILE PROCESSES
AGILE PROCESSES
Are you doing Agile, or
are you being agile?

13. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - AGILE PROCESSES
SCRUM AND KANBAN
Releasing software early
+
Collaborative and self-
managed teams.

14. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - AGILE PROCESSES
SCRUM

15. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - AGILE PROCESSES
SCRUM

16. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - AGILE PROCESSES
SCRUM
▸ Backlog of user stories
▸ Planning
▸ Sprint
▸ Daily Standup
▸ Review
▸ Retrospective
▸ Product Owner
▸ Scrum Master
▸ Team Members
▸ Stakeholders

17. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - AGILE PROCESSES
KANBAN
Lean Software Development

18. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - AGILE PROCESSES
KANBAN
1. Transparency by visualizing what you are doing
2. Keep Work In Progress at a minimum
3. Optimize the flow
4. Visualize your process rules and guidelines
5. Ensure feedback loops
6. Improve Collaboratively, Evolve Experimentally

19. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - AGILE PROCESSES
KANBAN
▸ No prescribed roles
▸ Continuous Delivery
▸ Single Piece Flow
▸ Can change at any time
▸ Cycle time
▸ Scrum master, PO etc.
▸ Time boxed sprints
▸ Sprint backlog
▸ No changes mid-sprint
▸ Velocity
SCRUM

20. CAN THIS BE APPLIED
ELSEWHERE THAN
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT?

21. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - MODERN AGILE
THE AGILE MANIFESTO
2001
We are uncovering better ways of developing software

22. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - MODERN AGILE
THE MODERN AGILE “MANIFESTO”
2015
We are uncovering better ways of getting awesome results

23. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - MODERN AGILE

24. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - MODERN AGILE
MAKE PEOPLE AWESOME
HOW CAN WE MAKE PEOPLE AWESOME. THIS INCLUDES THE PEOPLE WHO
USE, MAKE, BUY, SELL OR FUND OUR PRODUCTS OR SERVICES. WE LEARN
THEIR CONTEXT AND PAIN POINTS, WHAT HOLDS THEM BACK AND WHAT
THEY ASPIRE TO ACHIEVE. HOW CAN WE MAKE THEM AWESOME?
DELIVER VALUE CONTINUOUSLY
ANYTHING THAT ISN’T DELIVERED ISN’T HELPING ANYONE
BECOME MORE AWESOME OR SAFE. IN MODERN AGILE WE ASK
OURSELVES, “HOW COULD VALUABLE WORK BE DELIVERED
FASTER?”
EXPERIMENT & LEARN RAPIDLY
YOU CAN’T MAKE PEOPLE AWESOME OR SAFER IF YOU AREN’T
LEARNING. WE LEARN RAPIDLY BY EXPERIMENTING FREQUENTLY.
WE MAKE OUR EXPERIMENTS “SAFE TO FAIL” SO WE ARE NOT
AFRAID TO CONDUCT MORE EXPERIMENTS.
MAKE SAFETY A PREREQUISITE
SAFETY IS BOTH A BASIC HUMAN NEED AND A KEY TO UNLOCKING HIGH
PERFORMANCE. WE ACTIVELY MAKE SAFETY A PREREQUISITE BY
ESTABLISHING SAFETY BEFORE ENGAGING IN ANY HAZARDOUS WORK. WE
PROTECT PEOPLE’S TIME, INFORMATION, REPUTATION, MONEY, HEALTH AND
RELATIONSHIPS. AND WE ENDEAVOR TO MAKE OUR COLLABORATIONS,
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES RESILIENT AND SAFE.

25. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - MODERN AGILE
CUSTOMER
COLLABORATION
WORKING SOFTWARERESPONDING TO CHANGE
INDIVIDUALS AND
INTERACTIONS

26. WHAT DO YOU THINK
MAKES A GREAT TEAM?

27. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - MODERN AGILE
MAKE SAFETY A PREREQUISITE

28. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - MODERN AGILE
MAKE SAFETY A PREREQUISITE

29. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - MODERN AGILE
MAKE SAFETY A PREREQUISITE
“I intend to make ALCOA the safest company
in America. I intend to go for zero injuries.”
Paul O’Neill - CEO, Alcoa

30. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - MODERN AGILE
MAKE SAFETY A PREREQUISITE
ALCOA Revenue (in Billions) 1987-2012

31. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - MODERN AGILE
MAKE SAFETY A PREREQUISITE
ALCOA Revenue (in Billions) 1987-2012

32. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - MODERN AGILE
MAKE SAFETY A PREREQUISITE

33. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - MODERN AGILE
EXPERIMENT & LEARN RAPIDLY

34. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - MODERN AGILE
EXPERIMENT & LEARN RAPIDLY
"If you think that's a big failure, we're working on much bigger
failures right now. And I am not kidding. And some of them are
going to make the Fire Phone look like a tiny little blip”
Jeff Bezos, CEO at Amazon
"The size of your mistakes needs to grow along with the
company - If it doesn't, you're not going to be inventing at scale
that can actually move the needle"
Jeff Bezos, CEO at Amazon

35. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - MODERN AGILE
EXPERIMENT & LEARN RAPIDLY

36. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - MODERN AGILE
DELIVER VALUE CONTINUOUSLY

37. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - MODERN AGILE
MAKE PEOPLE AWESOME

38. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - MODERN AGILE
MAKE PEOPLE AWESOME
“You’ve got to start with the customer
experience and work backwards to the
technology.”

39. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - MODERN AGILE
MAKE PEOPLE AWESOME

40. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - MODERN AGILE
MAKE PEOPLE AWESOME
“Top management creates an element of
tension in the project team by giving it great
freedom to carry out a project of strategic
importance to the company and by setting very
challenging requirements”

41. HOW AGILE ARE
YOU?

42. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - MODERN AGILE
MAKE PEOPLE AWESOME
HOW CAN WE MAKE PEOPLE AWESOME. THIS INCLUDES THE PEOPLE WHO
USE, MAKE, BUY, SELL OR FUND OUR PRODUCTS OR SERVICES. WE LEARN
THEIR CONTEXT AND PAIN POINTS, WHAT HOLDS THEM BACK AND WHAT
THEY ASPIRE TO ACHIEVE. HOW CAN WE MAKE THEM AWESOME?
DELIVER VALUE CONTINUOUSLY
ANYTHING THAT ISN’T DELIVERED ISN’T HELPING ANYONE
BECOME MORE AWESOME OR SAFE. IN MODERN AGILE WE ASK
OURSELVES, “HOW COULD VALUABLE WORK BE DELIVERED
FASTER?”
EXPERIMENT & LEARN RAPIDLY
YOU CAN’T MAKE PEOPLE AWESOME OR SAFER IF YOU AREN’T
LEARNING. WE LEARN RAPIDLY BY EXPERIMENTING FREQUENTLY.
WE MAKE OUR EXPERIMENTS “SAFE TO FAIL” SO WE ARE NOT
AFRAID TO CONDUCT MORE EXPERIMENTS.
MAKE SAFETY A PREREQUISITE
SAFETY IS BOTH A BASIC HUMAN NEED AND A KEY TO UNLOCKING HIGH
PERFORMANCE. WE ACTIVELY MAKE SAFETY A PREREQUISITE BY
ESTABLISHING SAFETY BEFORE ENGAGING IN ANY HAZARDOUS WORK. WE
PROTECT PEOPLE’S TIME, INFORMATION, REPUTATION, MONEY, HEALTH AND
RELATIONSHIPS. AND WE ENDEAVOR TO MAKE OUR COLLABORATIONS,
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES RESILIENT AND SAFE.

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AGILITY AT EMIRATES - MODERN AGILE
MAKE PEOPLE AWESOME
DELIVER VALUE CONTINUOUSLYEXPERIMENT & LEARN RAPIDLY
MAKE SAFETY A PREREQUISITE

44. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - MODERN AGILE
DELIVER VALUE CONTINUOUSLYMAKE SAFETY A PREREQUISITE

45. WHY DO YOU WANT
TO BE AGILE?

46. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - THE VALUE OF AGILE
THE CUSTOMER
▸ Will get what he need
- not what he thought he needed
▸ or worse, what he payed for
▸ Transparency
▸ Builds trust and ownership
▸ The option to change his mind
▸ Value driven

47. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - THE VALUE OF AGILE
THE “MANAGEMENT”
▸ No overcommitment
▸ Transparency
▸ Fail & Learn fast
▸ Ability to inspect and adapt

48. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - THE VALUE OF AGILE
THE TEAM
▸ Psychological safety
▸ It’s okay to fail
▸Strong feedback loop
▸ Ownership
▸ Innovation
▸ Collaboration

49. IF AGILE IS SO GREAT, WHY
ARE SOME PEOPLE
HESITATING?

50. AGILITY AT EMIRATES - THE VALUE OF AGILE

51. WHAT DO I TAKE
HOME WITH ME?

52. AGILITY AT EMIRATES
TAKEAWAYS

53. AGILITY AT EMIRATES
TAKEAWAYS
▸ Agile is not a process - It’s a mindset and a general way of working
▸ Frequent deliveries, enabling a strong and quick feedback loop is key to be truly
agile
▸ Be transparent - Why are you doing what you’re doing
▸ SCRUM and KANBAN are tools and processes that can be followed to support
agility, but the true value is in the mindset
▸ Agility can be used for much more than just software development if you focus on
what really matters

54. QUESTIONS?