Few thoughts on how teams do agile wrong and end up being more fragile instead of agile

1. Be Agile Not Fragile
Hrishikesh Karekar
@hrishikarekar
2017

2. Together we can
Throw it over the wall There is only ONE team
Fragile Agile

3. Together we can
Practical Tip
Schedule a recurring weekly meeting on Thursday of the PO and scrum team
Story clarification, demos of stories etc.
If nothing much to be discussed, the meeting will be skipped
Communication is the key

4. Extreme Multi - Tasking
Doing this and that.. And that too Stop Starting Start Finishing
Fragile Agile

5. Together we can
Practical Tip
Make User stories small (Should finish in half the duration of your sprint length)
& Testable ( Think System Test )
Small and Testable User Stories

6. Deliver Value Not Code
Ship & Repair Don’t ship if it does not work
Fragile Agile

7. Together we can
Practical Tip
Have a clear Definition of Done
that is well understood in the team &
communicated to all stakeholders
Definition of Done

8. Responding To Change
Poor Planning Discovered something new
Fragile Agile

9. Together we can
Practical Tip
Plan all your US in “detail” planned for the iteration on Day 1 of the sprint
Discovers
If you have all the information necessary to build and test
More time to handle dependencies
Plans are useless but Planning is essential

10. Inspect & Adapt
Keep doing same mistakes…are too busy to learn Retrospectives are a way of life
Fragile Agile

11. Together we can
Practical Tip
In your sprint retrospective,
identify only 1 item that is within your zone of influence and can be actioned on in the next
sprint.
If you adopt only one Agile practice, let it be retrospectives

12. Thank You

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