The document discusses theories and principles for increasing productivity and throughput (velocity). It presents queuing theory and the theory of constraints, explaining how to reduce utilization, batch size, and item size to improve flow based on queuing theory. It then provides 21 experiments teams can try based on these theories, such as reducing work in progress limits, splitting up work into smaller batches and items, and improving the identified constraint area.
This presentation by Kyle Sherman, LinkedIn iOS Developer for the SlideShare iOS app, goes over fixing issues with jittery scroll performance in iOS applications. The presentation goes over the basics of using Instruments to measure and fix problems, tips for using Instruments, and a concrete example from the new LinkedIn iOS flagship application.
In this talk from Southern Fried Agile 2014, Cory Foy gives an overview of the patterns necessary to have successful agility when working with distributed and dispersed teams. He looks at Scrum, Kanban and various virtual tools.
In this talk from Red Hat's 2014 Agile Conference, Cory Foy talks about the conditions necessary to bring about true organizational change towards agility. In addition, he covers patterns of adoptions and a variety of techniques used at scale
Kanban method in four easy steps. Enjoy kanban.
Kanban in 4 easy steps is one of the most popular Kanban presentations. Learn how to successfully implement Kanban in your business process or life. Get to know basic Kanban principles and to see how easily you can improve your productivity using Kanban boards.
Choosing Between Scrum and Kanban - TriAgile 2015Cory Foy
In this talk from TriAgile 2015, Cory Foy details the differences between Scrum and Kanban to figure out how to combine the best of both to increase the agility of your organization.
A lean automation blueprint for testing in continuous deliverySauce Labs
Testing in Continuous Delivery changes test automation. It demands more automation but also requires immediate feedback. Many test teams today suffer from two extremes. Too little or no automation to organizations with hundreds of thousands of tests constantly running all kinds of VMs takes multiple days to execute. Any hope of Continuous Delivery or Pipeline Automation makes these states unsustainable.
This presentation by Kyle Sherman, LinkedIn iOS Developer for the SlideShare iOS app, goes over fixing issues with jittery scroll performance in iOS applications. The presentation goes over the basics of using Instruments to measure and fix problems, tips for using Instruments, and a concrete example from the new LinkedIn iOS flagship application.
In this talk from Southern Fried Agile 2014, Cory Foy gives an overview of the patterns necessary to have successful agility when working with distributed and dispersed teams. He looks at Scrum, Kanban and various virtual tools.
In this talk from Red Hat's 2014 Agile Conference, Cory Foy talks about the conditions necessary to bring about true organizational change towards agility. In addition, he covers patterns of adoptions and a variety of techniques used at scale
Kanban method in four easy steps. Enjoy kanban.
Kanban in 4 easy steps is one of the most popular Kanban presentations. Learn how to successfully implement Kanban in your business process or life. Get to know basic Kanban principles and to see how easily you can improve your productivity using Kanban boards.
Choosing Between Scrum and Kanban - TriAgile 2015Cory Foy
In this talk from TriAgile 2015, Cory Foy details the differences between Scrum and Kanban to figure out how to combine the best of both to increase the agility of your organization.
A lean automation blueprint for testing in continuous deliverySauce Labs
Testing in Continuous Delivery changes test automation. It demands more automation but also requires immediate feedback. Many test teams today suffer from two extremes. Too little or no automation to organizations with hundreds of thousands of tests constantly running all kinds of VMs takes multiple days to execute. Any hope of Continuous Delivery or Pipeline Automation makes these states unsustainable.
Code Palousa presentation- "Giving Digital Eyes to your Synthetic Tests"Christopher Hamm
My project combines open source technologies of Tensorflow with major computer vision model to create a powerful computer vision API. In the project, it can evaluate confidence levels for each labels using good training data. The practical application example will include the computer vision API integrated with a Selenium test script setup. The end result is a robust visual testing tool that can determine if a page compares better to a working state vs a failing state.
#Scrum is very popular these days but #kanban is suitable for better organizational level continuous improvement. We use #scrumban to get the benefits of both the worlds. Its a combination of good practices of scrum with kanban.
How Netflix tests in production to augment more traditional testing methods. This talk covers the Simian Army (Chaos Monkey & friends, code coverage in production, and canary testing.
Building on the Shoulders of Giants: the Story of Bitbucket PipelinesAtlassian
When the Atlassian Dev Tools team looked to innovate on continuous integration and delivery, we explored many ways to bring the build and deployment pipeline closer to developers and Bitbucket. This led us to think outside the existing product boundaries of Bamboo and build on top of the Bitbucket Connect platform.
James Bryant, a senior designer on the Software Team, will take you through how his team decided to build on top of a platform instead of building out new products. It involves defining a vision, guiding a team with an experience, and testing with customers early and often to build the new Bitbucket Pipelines feature.
You’ll come away from this session with a framework for adopting an experience-driven strategy, and tips to help give your agile teams a vision to build on top of a platform.
Products covered:
Bitbucket, Bamboo
10 Tips for Configuring Your Builds with Bamboo SpecsAtlassian
Bamboo 6 lets every team manage their plans through code. But it's only the start of a journey. At Atlassian, we now configure the vast majority of our builds and deployments with code. Whether you're a new starter or already a user of Bamboo Specs, you're (or will be) facing questions such as "How do I test my Spec before update?", "Can I safely modify this reused Spec component?", or "How do I make Specs more accessible to non-Java teams?".
Join Przemek Bruski, the architect of Bamboo to hear how our teams solved these - and more - problems. Apart from practical tips, we'll also talk about jump-starting your Specs with our exporter, latest additions to the Specs feature, and support for Bitbucket Cloud Pipelines configuration files.
Being productive is a great advantage. So, today, we will give you some tips on how to work faster and be productive with great results. Keep checking our blog for more tips & tricks at http://kanbantool.com/blog.
Pitchero - Increasing agility through DevOps - Leeds DevOps November 2016Jon Milsom
Jon is co-founder & CTO of Pitchero heading up the technology team, but currently working across the whole business to make sure they have appropriate processes in place as they grow. Jon will explain how Pitchero have used DevOps practices over the last few years to improve both technical and business agility, covering both the people challenges as well as engineering detail.
http://www.leedsdevops.org.uk/post/152568213470/meetup-tuesday-15th-november-2016-at-the-odi
https://twitter.com/jonmilsom
https://twitter.com/PitcheroTech
https://twitter.com/leedsDevops/status/798608855781490688
https://twitter.com/techdiction/status/798607947680993280
Optimizing Git LFS Migration Through Repository Data-miningAtlassian
Does your company struggle under the weight of HUGE repositories and slow clone times? Do you have developers distributed around the world, sharing repositories?
Join Michael Monsen, DevOps Engineer at Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, and learn how they migrated a huge code base from Mercurial to Git. Using data about their files, they migrated to Git LFS while striking a balance between file size and developer convenience. The results turned out to be a lot different than what they expected before examining the data!
Lightning talks on best practices for product and engineering teams to experiment everywhere in their applications.
First presented at Optimizely's user conference, Opticon18 on September 12th, 2018.
How do you know what 60 millions users like? Wix.com is conducting hundreds of experiments per month on production to understand which features our users like and which hurt or improve our business. In this talk we’ll explain how the engineering team is supporting product managers in making the right decisions and getting our product road map on the right path. We will also present some of the open source tools we developed that help us experimenting our products on humans.
Code Palousa presentation- "Giving Digital Eyes to your Synthetic Tests"Christopher Hamm
My project combines open source technologies of Tensorflow with major computer vision model to create a powerful computer vision API. In the project, it can evaluate confidence levels for each labels using good training data. The practical application example will include the computer vision API integrated with a Selenium test script setup. The end result is a robust visual testing tool that can determine if a page compares better to a working state vs a failing state.
#Scrum is very popular these days but #kanban is suitable for better organizational level continuous improvement. We use #scrumban to get the benefits of both the worlds. Its a combination of good practices of scrum with kanban.
How Netflix tests in production to augment more traditional testing methods. This talk covers the Simian Army (Chaos Monkey & friends, code coverage in production, and canary testing.
Building on the Shoulders of Giants: the Story of Bitbucket PipelinesAtlassian
When the Atlassian Dev Tools team looked to innovate on continuous integration and delivery, we explored many ways to bring the build and deployment pipeline closer to developers and Bitbucket. This led us to think outside the existing product boundaries of Bamboo and build on top of the Bitbucket Connect platform.
James Bryant, a senior designer on the Software Team, will take you through how his team decided to build on top of a platform instead of building out new products. It involves defining a vision, guiding a team with an experience, and testing with customers early and often to build the new Bitbucket Pipelines feature.
You’ll come away from this session with a framework for adopting an experience-driven strategy, and tips to help give your agile teams a vision to build on top of a platform.
Products covered:
Bitbucket, Bamboo
10 Tips for Configuring Your Builds with Bamboo SpecsAtlassian
Bamboo 6 lets every team manage their plans through code. But it's only the start of a journey. At Atlassian, we now configure the vast majority of our builds and deployments with code. Whether you're a new starter or already a user of Bamboo Specs, you're (or will be) facing questions such as "How do I test my Spec before update?", "Can I safely modify this reused Spec component?", or "How do I make Specs more accessible to non-Java teams?".
Join Przemek Bruski, the architect of Bamboo to hear how our teams solved these - and more - problems. Apart from practical tips, we'll also talk about jump-starting your Specs with our exporter, latest additions to the Specs feature, and support for Bitbucket Cloud Pipelines configuration files.
Being productive is a great advantage. So, today, we will give you some tips on how to work faster and be productive with great results. Keep checking our blog for more tips & tricks at http://kanbantool.com/blog.
Pitchero - Increasing agility through DevOps - Leeds DevOps November 2016Jon Milsom
Jon is co-founder & CTO of Pitchero heading up the technology team, but currently working across the whole business to make sure they have appropriate processes in place as they grow. Jon will explain how Pitchero have used DevOps practices over the last few years to improve both technical and business agility, covering both the people challenges as well as engineering detail.
http://www.leedsdevops.org.uk/post/152568213470/meetup-tuesday-15th-november-2016-at-the-odi
https://twitter.com/jonmilsom
https://twitter.com/PitcheroTech
https://twitter.com/leedsDevops/status/798608855781490688
https://twitter.com/techdiction/status/798607947680993280
Optimizing Git LFS Migration Through Repository Data-miningAtlassian
Does your company struggle under the weight of HUGE repositories and slow clone times? Do you have developers distributed around the world, sharing repositories?
Join Michael Monsen, DevOps Engineer at Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, and learn how they migrated a huge code base from Mercurial to Git. Using data about their files, they migrated to Git LFS while striking a balance between file size and developer convenience. The results turned out to be a lot different than what they expected before examining the data!
Lightning talks on best practices for product and engineering teams to experiment everywhere in their applications.
First presented at Optimizely's user conference, Opticon18 on September 12th, 2018.
How do you know what 60 millions users like? Wix.com is conducting hundreds of experiments per month on production to understand which features our users like and which hurt or improve our business. In this talk we’ll explain how the engineering team is supporting product managers in making the right decisions and getting our product road map on the right path. We will also present some of the open source tools we developed that help us experimenting our products on humans.
Self Organisations in Agile is extremely important. The Agile Manifesto talks about it, the Scrum Guide does. But what is it and how do we get self organising teams?
Queuing Theory and the Theory of Constraints are two powerful theories that can increase your velocity. This session explains both theories in simple terms then covers how they can be applied in the real world by agile teams. 21 simple velocity increasing experiments are described that you can immediately use.
The effects of Queuing Theory impact our lives on a daily basis. Scrum uses Queuing Theory at its core and you can amplify those effects.
The Theory of Constraints can identify the one constraint that is preventing your team from increasing its velocity. It also shows us how to remove that constraint in the cheapest way possible.
Improving throughput with the Theory of Constraints and Queuing TheoryAndrew Rusling
Practical advice on how to improve the throughput of your agile team, by using the Theory of Constraints and Queuing Theory. Shows how to apply TOC to your task board. Explains how Queuing Theory is built into Scrum and Kanban, powering you to make the most of them.
Continuous Context Driven Test ImprovementTechWell
Classical test process improvement is often not today’s best solution. With virtualization, SOA, web, cloud, mobile, and integration with social media, the way we develop, test, and manage has drastically changed. Jeroen explores why Agile, context-driven testing, SCRUM, continuous integration/development and DevOps require a flexible and pragmatic context-driven approach to test improvement. Context-driven test improvement is organized on two levels. [1] The improvement architecture level starts by clarifying the goal, scope, and context. This results in the improvement approach, a mixture of fixed- and free-format models and methods. The analysis of the collected information provides improvement suggestions that help achieve the “new” approach. [2] The improvement implementation level starts with transforming and prioritizing the improvement suggestions into tasks in the improvement backlog and fitting them into business-as-usual projects. Continuous improvement requires a continuous process that includes checking improvement results against the objectives—and, of course, new insights.
Scaling out logistic regression with SparkBarak Gitsis
Large scale multinomial logistic regression with Spark. Contains animated gifs. Analysis of LBFGS. Real world spark configurations. SimilarWeb categorization algorithm
Системный взгляд на параллельный запуск Selenium тестовCOMAQA.BY
Параллельный запуск тестов – не просто желание, но острая необходимость, стандартная задача, с которой рано или поздно столкнется каждый проект, за исключением, разве что, совсем небольших и краткосрочных. Порой, вопрос параллелизации тестов превращается в сложный или даже почти невыполнимый. Давайте поговорим о том, как избежать подобной ситуации: какие рекомендации и инструменты существуют, какую архитектуру стоит выбрать изначально, каких решений следует избегать. Антон попробует ответить на все эти актуальные вопросы и конечно приведет множество примеров для наглядности и практического подтверждения. Мы проговорим «хорошие» варианты параллельного запуска автоматизированных тестов, но так же рассмотрим ситуацию с противоположной стороны «от противного». Проанализируем десяток «плохих» решений по параллелизации на реальных примерах – сложных, медленных, дорогих, неэффективных. Фактически, беседа будет состоять из двух частей: «что такое хорошо и что такое плохо» в примерах, с аргументацией и рекомендациями.
improving the performance of Rails web ApplicationsJohn McCaffrey
This presentation is the first in a series on Improving Rails application performance. This session covers the basic motivations and goals for improving performance, the best way to approach a performance assessment, and a review of the tools and techniques that will yield the best results. Tools covered include: Firebug, yslow, page speed, speed tracer, dom monster, request log analyzer, oink, rack bug, new relic rpm, rails metrics, showslow.org, msfast, webpagetest.org and gtmetrix.org.
The upcoming sessions will focus on:
Improving sql queries, and active record use
Improving general rails/ruby code
Improving the front-end
And a final presentation will cover how to be a more efficient and effective developer!
This series will be compressed into a best of session for the 2010 http://windycityRails.org conference
My updated slides about the journey to hell and back to normality wrt automated tests at scale. Based on real 10+ years experience of JIRA development teams.
I delivered this talk at XPDays in Kiev in October 2013.
Webinar: Estrategias para optimizar los costos de testingFederico Toledo
Webinar en colaboración de QAminds y Abstracta Tech Talks.
Abstract: En estos días de lockdown y recesión económica muchas empresas están buscando formas de recortar costos por acá y por allá, y por supuesto, el testing es de las cosas que se suele recortar primero. El problema de recortar presupuesto y recursos para testing queda reflejado en el viejo dicho "pan para hoy hambre para mañana". En esta charla quiero compartir algunas estrategias con las que puedes optimizar costos de testing sin comprometer la calidad del sistema o producto que estás desarrollando.
Similar to Andrew rusling 21 experiments to increase velocity (20)
Christian van Stom learned Scrum on the cusp of the dot com bubble bursting. He has led multi-functional teams across 3 industries, and technical, marketing, sales, customer service and operational squads.
An enterprise agile coach role lured him north to Brisbane, to the finance sector where he was to lead the transformation of a 300-person enterprise. Hear his real life account of the challenges and learning of embedding real agile ways of working in a highly acquisitive business, moving at an incredible pace run by an ex-serving, paratrooper legionaire.
Changing the way we change – leveraging a combination of Lean, Design, and S...Scrum Australia Pty Ltd
Lean & Agile have a shared orientation towards customer centricity, respect for people, and continuous improvement. When applied with the right intention to the appropriate context, both domains complement each other exceptionally well in solving complex business problems effectively and sustainably. Aginic and Nik Ilich from Fire & Flint collaborated in driving a principles-first approach to iteratively designing and implementing a transformative future state service onboarding journey for clients of Cerebral Palsy Alliance (CPA). Through a hybrid of lean & agile thinking, the team worked closely with key representatives of CPA, sharing the driver’s seat, to pragmatically deconstruct and deliver a vision for the future with strong agile-delivery foundations underpinning its execution.
In the first months of remote work due to COVID, I noticed a massive opportunity to learn from others, as a lot of conferences went online.
But then arose a problem in my capacity to absorb these learnings. So, I started my Creativity Journal and have never look back.
The natural constraints imposed by having a Creativity Journal ensure that I prioritise my attendance to online conferences, such as the Scrum Australia Lightning sessions and Creative Mornings talks. I take notes when I attend these insightful sessions; and then share the notes after the sessions.
Let me show you how you too can get the benefit of a Creativity Journal.
Are your retros boring, non-productive, and a waste of time? Come learn about 3 case studies of extraordinary retrospectives.
Retrospectives are the heart of the feedback loop, existing within an agile framework that fosters self-improvement.
Retrospectives lose value due to 2 reasons: they get boring or they have no value in terms of actionable items.
The first case will describe a team’s experience, organised at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia. A custom tour was developed that focused on “mateship”.
The second case will describe a team’s experience at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, Australia: a prototype team training based on Visual Thinking Strategies, VTS, usually reserved for 11-12 year old school children.
The third case will describe a leadership team’s experience at the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney, Australia. A team of executive-level leaders learned about mindfulness techniques and taking the time off to appreciate art as a team.
I will describe how you can partner with a variety of resources, including government programs, that will enable you to do the same thing.
The predominant mindset around complex problem solving is decomposition; we inevitably jump to ways of ‘chunking up’ a solution. At Aginic, our experience of delivering hundreds of engaging data experiences is that this often misses a step that is crucial to creating compelling digital experiences: experimentation. In this talk we’ll describe how we have baked in experimentation to our ability to explore and navigate complex problem spaces and how this has helped deliver engaging outcomes for our customers.
This talk is a must for anyone tackling complex projects, particularly involving data.
People decide to go agile and then take on the task of hiring a coach. But if they don’t know anything about agile, how do they know what a good coach looks like? Here I take a look at what coaches should value over the many of the things that consultant coaches value.
Are you trapped in a hamster wheel of meetings, updating tracking tools, trying to keep stories progressing and generally being the “Scrum secretary” for everything that others are not doing themselves? Whilst you might be aware that this is not the most effective way to spend your time, you may not know how to transition out of this situation and what the more impactful activities are to transition to.
In this session we will explore what the most effective Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches focus on as well as some strategies for freeing up your time and building your skills in order to make a much bigger difference for your Scrum Team and surrounding organisation.
Situational Scrum Mastering: What the Scrum guide didn’t tell me about leadin...Scrum Australia Pty Ltd
This session aims to raise awareness about what it takes to successfully lead a team that is trying to be Agile. Santosh will share his personal experiences about challenges he has faced, and why it’s important for an effective Scrum Master to understand what their team needs in terms of leadership before they can successfully lead a team.
According to Paul Hersey, leaders need to adapt their behavior to fit a team’s readiness. Based this readiness level, which is determined by the team’s ability and willingness, a Scrum Master can opt for Telling, Selling, Participating, and Delegating their style of leadership.
In this talk, we will dive into specific things a Scrum Master should do when leading a team that has a different level of readiness. Ultimately, we will learn how a Scrum Master can help teams with limited confidence and abilities to become an agile team, leading them to maximise their agile-ness throughout.
If you are just starting a career as a Scrum Master are a seasoned veteran, or even an agile team member, and want to increase your understanding about leading teams that are trying to become agile, then this talk is for you.
A storm is defined as a disturbance of the atmosphere or the state of an environment, and life brings them in many forms and sizes. Some bring significant disruptions to normal conditions, while others destroy the existing structures and force a rebuilding. As humans we will experience various storms throughout our lives, with the aim of surviving them all.
We are so used to the occurrence of storms that preparing for them has become second nature. We have the technology available to us to help predict them, their size and intensity, so we know what to expect and plan accordingly. Best practices exist to manage the storms. However with climate change, it feels like there are more ‘freak’ one in a 100 year occurrences happening, which take everyone by surprise. The best practices lead to chaos. What’s the future going to hold and what can we learn today to in order to build our resilience for future storms? Do we reflect the shifting environment into our existing practices?
How do we apply these learnings from our life to an Agile transformation of an organisation?
On the horizon, a cyclone is growing in intensity and heading towards your organisation: to disrupt the existing paradigms. Everyone is scared and uncertain of what will survive, or will need to be rebuilt after the agile transformation has hit. What do we need to do to prepare for the transformation? How are we going to work together to build our resilience in the chaos of the cyclone?
How do organisations embrace the storm?
Were you born as an Agile leader, or can you develop or pivot your leadership style to be one?
This workshop will uncover ten Agile leadership attributes in a fun and engaging way, giving you an opportunity to reflect on your own capabilities and then self-focus areas for further development of your leadership capability.
Also download Sam Bowtell's: Discover your leadership agility
to accompany self-assessment
Were you born as an Agile leader, or can you develop or pivot your leadership style to be one?
This workshop will uncover ten Agile leadership attributes in a fun and engaging way, giving you an opportunity to reflect on your own capabilities and then self-focus areas for further development of your leadership capability.
Accompanies Sam Bowtell's: Discover your leadership agility
presentation
Choice and Control, how Hireup’s Empowering Vision aligns with Agile PrinciplesScrum Australia Pty Ltd
At Hireup, we believe that people with disability should have total choice and control over their supports. We've designed the Hireup model to ensure that people with disability decide who they work with, when they want their bookings to happen and how they would like their support delivered. Hireup's philosophy easily aligns with Agile Principles; learn how Agile Coaches join forces with the People and Culture team to champion Hireup's purpose-led culture.
by Andrew Rusling
Outcomes such as “subscriptions increased by 20%” or “complaints regarding the upload feature reduced to zero” are what makes a real difference in our customers lives and hence to the company’s bottom line. When a team is delivering outcomes like that, there is no denying their performance and hence their value to the company.
Delivering outcomes comes from understanding our customers, producing an output that may result in an outcome and then validating if we have achieved the desired outcome. At the very least one of these cycles produces knowledge. The Lean Start-up by Eric Ries, clearly explained this cycle, unfortunately it did not explain clearly how we should design, set up, run or analyse our experiments. I have met many people who agree we should follow the Lean Start-up approach; however, there is rarely any consensus on the experimentation approach that will make it a reality.
In 2017 Australia’s largest independent game studio, Halfbrick Studios, embarked upon a mission to better understand their customer and experiment their way to renewed success. Fruit Ninja Fight is one of the results of that approach. In 2018 Australia’s largest Telco, Telstra, focused on “co-creation” with their customers through a series of experiments; delivering improved customer satisfaction and faster results than ever before.
This presentation shares with you my experiences of working with those two Scrum based organisations as they sought to improve their outcomes through Experimentation.
by Alan Taylor (Innodev)
Test Driven Development is an engineering concept with practices that has great benefit to business. For example, if your business wants to have idealised and revered products, you will have:
- an ability to deliver high quality products which keep up with the latest customer wishes;
- products which are constantly updated with the latest cool features; and
- ability to very quickly resolve any issues that do occur – and they do for even the best organisation
We will share with you why Test Driven Development is a pivotal tool in the fight to be one of those inspiring organisations. We will cover the practices at a high level and go into the outcomes of those practices. We will include not only how the business should benefit directly from them, but also how they provide indirect benefits for the team and the organisation. Every positive has some negatives, whether they are perceived or actual, long term or short term). We will touch on how they are like any form of exercise – they will be hard work at times, but afterwards the results will include fitter, stronger and faster teams able to delivery consistently better results.
As a manager or leader, you will be able to walk away with insight that will enable you to determine how TDD is worth following up in your domain.
As someone within the delivery team, you will leave with deeper understanding of how you, your team and your company can effectively benefit from Test Driven Development.
Get outcomes by putting people over processes: Trust us… We’re social workers!Scrum Australia Pty Ltd
by Wendi Keenan & Rob Wojtaszek
Our session will focus on:
Utilising the power of social work values and principles to compliment Agile and Scrum implementation
Applying a social work lens to promote a positive team culture that facilitates the delivery of outcomes
Identifying how social work practices can motivate and encourage self-organisation.
Do you always take the stairs? How to use your growth mindset to build smar...Scrum Australia Pty Ltd
by Jen Miller
This session introduces the concept of a Growth Mindset and its synergies to Scrum and Agile, through the sharing of examples I have experienced. Attendees will learn what the qualities of a Growth versus Fixed Mindset are and how to recognise them in ourselves, our teams, and organisations. Tips and techniques on how to introduce and promote a growth mindset and how it helps build smarter scrum and agile teams will also be shared, so attendees have practical tools to take away with them.
The concept of a Growth Mindset gained real visibility with Carol Dweck’s research and 2007 book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Her research looked at how children learned and faced challenges and problems thought to be beyond their age. Children who were excited to try something new, and learn while doing it, demonstrated what Carol Dweck called the ‘Growth Mindset’. The principles of Scrum align with this concept as they are founded on the empirical practices of try, inspect, and adapt. Seeking to continue learning and improving are characteristic of Scrum and the Growth Mindset. Being aware of, and practicing, the qualities of a growth mindset will make scrum teams and organisations stronger, more resilient, and adaptive in times of challenge and change.
by Alex Sloley
Imagine you are a Mad Agile Scientist and have a diabolical experiment to conduct – what would happen if you exchanged the brains of a Product Owner and Scrum Master? Mwuhahahaha!!! How would the body of a Product Owner with the brain of a Scrum Master act? And vice versa?
Perhaps the Scrum Master would now treat the team like a backlog? This Scrum Master would be focused on value and maintaining a coaching backlog of team and person improvements. This Scrum Master is refining the team, crafting a group that delivers value.
And perhaps the Product Owner might treat the backlog like a team? Rather than backlog refining, they coach the backlog. They would be focused on nurturing, protecting, and empowering the backlog. The backlog might transform from an irritation into a labor of love.
Although this experiment sounds terrible, this change of perspective might be what you need to reanimate your dead team or backlog.
Join the fun and come learn what horrifying results await!
by Anoar Ahmed
Have you ever sat through endless scrolling credits after a film, speechless, while you processed your thought and feelings? Hundreds, if not thousands, of those disappearing names contributed towards these profound moments of transformative experiences. Timeless films are excellent examples of deep collaboration between multidisciplinary teams of highly skilled craftspeople, working to create moments that transcend the audience to the story world and subtly move them through the journey of films’ protagonist/s.
Filmmakers are master collaborators that literally bring together teams of multidisciplinary casts and crews on the same page of the scrip. Great filmmakers challenge and inspire technicians to become artists and actors, to become immortals through the “power of the story”.
Many years ago, my screenwriting lecturer famously told us during our very first day at the film school, “One thing is certain about filmmaking, that everything you have planned will need to change because it will rain tomorrow”. Filmmakers mastered the art of embracing uncertainty many decades ago, when there were no weather apps, by being truly agile.
In this talk, I will draw from my lifetime of study and exploration of the art and craft of filmmaking. I will demonstrate, using examples from classic films, how motivated and inspired multidisciplinary teams collaborate to bring the vision of a cinematic project to life and transcend audiences around the globe to the story world. I will share what leaders can learn from masters of the ultimate collaborative art of filmmaking.
by Diana Kirkova
Team Dynamics is like an unconscious force that influences team behaviour, reactions, and performance. Problems and solutions, from my experience, will be packed into a nice presentation, but the most exciting part will be the “Time to play” where we will face real problems and discuss how to solve them. Games like Blame game and responsibility game will be played and discussed.
by Craig Brown
This session is a structured walk-through the ideas around collaboration. I’ll be introducing key ideas and then leading participants through a workbook of eight questions that help people understand collaboration, why it is important and how they can take action to increase collaboration at their workplace.
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24. Why reduce batch size?
Littles Law
Avg. Cycle Time =
Work In Progress (WIP)
Avg. Velocity
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Velocity
Cycle
Time
WIP
Batch
Size
25. Why reduce item size?
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Velocity
Queue
Size
(WIP)
Item
Size
Predictability
Bad
Variability
Cycle
Time
26. Improving freeway velocity
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27. Reducing utilisation
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• Radio messages
• Signs
• Promote Car Pooling
• Promote Public Transport
• Tolls
• High Taxes and fees
• Limit access by registration
• Add more lanes
28. Reducing batch size
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• Control entry points
• Stagger work times
• Multi nucleolus city
29. Reducing item size
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Replace Buses with Cars, Cars with Bikes.
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30. Queuing Theory
is baked into
agile & Scrum
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Good news!
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31. Queuing Theory in agile
agile lowers Utilization by
• Promoting sustainable development.
• Customer collaboration.
agile lowers Batch Size by
• Focus on early delivery of Working Software.
agile lowers Item Size by
• Focus on simplicity & business feedback.
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32. Queuing Theory in Scrum
Scrum lowers Utilization by
• Team members 100% allocated.
• Team pulls in work to sprint.
Scrum lowers Batch Size by
• Sprint length.
Scrum lowers Item Size by
• Time boxing & D.O.D.
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33. Utilisation experiments
• Pull in less total Story Points (-20%)
• Commit to less team hours (-20%)
• Limit # of I.P. User Stories (p/2)
• Show requesters your Scrum board
34. Batch size experiments
• Split up Releases (½)
• Split up Epics/Features (3 to 12)
• Shorten your Sprints (-1w)
35. Item Size Experiments
• Split up your User Stories (# in sprint ~= p)
• Use Spikes
• Practice Simplicity
• Split up your Tasks (max 1d)
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Why add just one lane?
41. Focusing our efforts
5 units
per week
2 units
per week
3 units
per week
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Idea
Process
A
Process
B
Process
C
Customer
• A?
• B?
• C?
• A, B & C?
• Need more info?
42. Theory of Constraints (TOC)
"a chain is no stronger than its
weakest link“
Improving strong links, does not
strengthen the chain.
To achieve more of your goal,
improve your weakest link.
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46. Backlog Analysis Coding Review Testing Accept Done
Populate with current state
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47. 1. Identify the constraint
Symptoms
• Work waiting in front of the constraint.
• Resource is heavily stressed.
• Starvation downstream.
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Constraint
48. Backlog Analysis Coding Review Testing Accept Done
Where is the constraint?
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51. Backlog Analysis Coding Review Testing Accept Done
Doing ReadyDoing ReadyDoing ReadyDoing Ready
Split all other columns
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52. 2. Cheap Changes
Some experiments:
• Shield them from interruptions.
• Limit their WIP.
• Reduce their non value adding work.
No overtime!
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54. Backlog Analysis Coding Review Testing Accept Done
Doing ReadyDoing ReadyDoing ReadyDoing Ready
(5)
Let it run
Constraint remains
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55. 3. Align everyone
Some experiments:
• Limit WIP of upstream to match.
• Upstream do preparation work.
• Upstream improve their quality.
• Pair upstream with constraint staff.
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56. Backlog Analysis Coding Review Testing Accept Done
Doing ReadyDoing ReadyDoing ReadyDoing Ready
(5)(5)(5)(5)
Align everyone
Match upstream WIP to constraint
Devs do more test prep work.
Dev-QA pairing
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57. Backlog Analysis Coding Review Testing Accept Done
Doing ReadyDoing ReadyDoing ReadyDoing Ready
(5)(5)(5)(5)
Let it run
Constraint remains
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58. 4. Expensive Changes
Some experiments:
• Improve their tools.
• Improve their environment.
• Improve their team work.
• Hire more people.
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59. Backlog Analysis Coding Review Testing Accept Done
Doing ReadyDoing ReadyDoing ReadyDoing Ready
(5)(5)(5)(5)
Expensive Changes
Improve tools (reduce manual effort)
Get Devs to help execute tests
Hire another tester
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60. Backlog Analysis Coding Review Testing Accept Done
Doing ReadyDoing ReadyDoing ReadyDoing Ready
(5)(5)(5)(5)
Let it run
Constraint has been broken
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61. 5. Repeat
• The bottleneck should now have shifted.
• Start all over again.
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62. Scrum enables TOC
• Task board
• Stand up
Identify
• Focus on Sprint Goal
• Scrum Master
Cheap
Changes
• Shared Team Success
• Self Organising Team
Align
Everyone
• Retrospective
• Self Organising Team
Expensive
Changes
63. Questions
Analogies
Utilisation, Batch Size, Item Size
Queuing theory in Agile
Queuing theory in Scrum
Improving the weakest link
Five Focusing Steps
Scrum enables TOC
Real life examples
Experiments
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64. QT Experiment Summary
• Pull in less total Story Points (-20%)
• Commit to less team hours (-20%)
• Limit # of I.P. User Stories (people/2)
• Show requesters your Scrum board
• Split up Releases (½)
• Split up Epics/Features (3 to 12 sub items)
• Shorten your Sprints (-1 week)
• Split up your User Stories (# in sprint ~= people)
• Use Spikes
• Practice Simplicity
• Split up your Tasks (max 1d)
65. TOC Experiment Summary
• Shield them from interruptions.
• Limit their WIP.
• Reduce their non value adding work.
• Limit WIP of upstream to match.
• Upstream do preparation work.
• Upstream improve their quality.
• Pair upstream with constraint staff.
• Improve their tools.
• Improve their environment.
• Improve their team work.
• Hire more people.