Beyond the Underpants Gnomes: Why Kanban Stalls and How to Restart It by Cheryl Hammond
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You put up your Big Visible Display. Maybe you even limited WIP, or argu^H^H^H^Htalked about limiting it. Something more was supposed to happen. Why didn't more happen? If your Kanban implementation feels like this... Phase 1: Collect underpants Phase 2: ? Phase 3: Profit ... you're not alone. The Underpants Gnomes can be a scourge of Kanban. Fortunately, they don't have to have the last word. In this session, you'll learn how to detect Underpants Gnomes in your organization's Kanban process, and how to combat them. We'll investigate three concrete solutions—by-the-book, and beyond—and fill your toolbox with simple, proven strategies for restarting your Kanban after it stalls. You're ready for the real Phase 2. Downsize the Underpants Gnomes and let's get started!
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Turning stories into software - Laracon Australia 2018
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A beginner's guide to machine learning for SEOs - WTSFest 2022
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Why did your latest agile/cloud/DevOps/big data/digital/crypto/AIML transformation stall or fail?
Along with the massive layoffs impacting big tech generally, it seems we all know someone whose agile coaching role has been impacted or outright eliminated.
Famously, Capital One had an agile transformation effort said to have been going on for more than TWENTY YEARS — and completely abandoned it.
What drew you to agile? Was it pride in successful delivery with high quality? The thrill of innovation and experimentation? A passion for people — respecting them through servant leadership, self-organization, and sustainable pace? If you’re feeling a disconnect between your employer’s priorities and your agile values, you’re not alone.
In this session, we’ll talk about the business benefits of agile and how some conventional wisdom leads us down wrong and frustrating paths.
We DON’T need to wait for the mythical executive sponsor who isn’t coming and can’t help anyway. Sometimes we’re all we’ve got — let’s work together to be all we need.
2023 Using Agile Self-Organization to Help Your Team's 'Return To Office' Suc...
Whether you’re excited to collaborate in-person or you dread having to wear shoes again—or both—it’s clear the great Return To Office is a big adjustment for you and your teams. In the past 2-3 years, we all tried to tailor our home office environments to help us work at our best. Now we have to re-learn how to share space with others whose working styles, communication styles, needs, and preferences are very different. In some cases, our companies’ Return To Office policies are creating new problems that we might not be able to fix right away.
Teamwork and self-organization are the heart of any agile practice, and this fast-paced session will teach you several concrete techniques for resetting team norms in our new normal. We’ll talk about working agreements and conflict resolution that can help fully co-located teams as well as hybrid teams. Return To Office might be challenging, but if your team can pull together and help each other through the transition, you’ll be set up to tackle any problem that comes next!
2022 Subsistence Agile - Sustainability and Self-Sufficiency for Thriving Tea...
Does ‘subsistence’ carry a negative connotation for you—scarcity, poverty, barely scraping by? In this era of enterprise scaling and big digital transformations, our trusty old agile often feels the same. It’s easy to get stuck when it seems like every retrospective action item worth doing requires an executive sponsor who isn’t coming.
Our planetary challenges require us to think of ‘subsistence’ differently. The ability to produce what we need, sustainably, using the resources available in our communities, is powerful! Are you getting the best from the ecosystem you already have?
This session explores practical tips for nurturing and growing your agile practice hyper-locally, using techniques accessible at the team level.
Learning outcomes:
- Build and strengthen the supportive agile community already around you
- Reduce your dependence on expensive faraway ‘imports’
- Expand your influence and capabilities by developing ‘trade’ networks nearby
- Focus on what’s most important for you and your team to thrive!
2021 Fortress Agile by Cheryl Hammond @ #Agile2021
When the broader organization just isn’t agile, teams can get stuck. They’re waiting for their knight in shining armor - the “enlightened” executive - to transform it all. What happens when the hero isn’t coming? Is it possible to realistically accept an organization’s limitations without killing morale? Can a manager or coach “shield” a team without losing momentum? Is there any point to making incremental change at the team or division level when “real” progress seems eternally blocked by external impediments? This session explores practical tips to care for the humans in your realm; provide them a safe, comfortable, and defensible space in which to work; and make it inviting enough to win over (some of) the forces outside. Help your teams become self-rescuing princesses, and create the happily-ever-after that your people deserve!
Learning Objectives:
* Make your fortress a comfortable place in which to live and do great work together
* Keep your fortress and its people safe from outside interference
* Attract allies, and grow the community inside your fortress... until someday maybe your walls become unnecessary!
2019 Full-spectrum diversity: norms for inclusion and intersectionality by Ch...
Organizational diversity isn’t just about the attributes we can see. Every team is a near-infinite spectrum of its members’ needs, some of which we know about and a lot more we probably don’t (and might never). How do we create a safe, accommodating space for things we aren’t even aware of?
It’s possible. For our teams to reflect the diversity of our worlds, HR policies are necessary but not sufficient. Our teams can and should take concrete steps, large and small, to make ourselves more welcoming. You’re probably doing some of them already, so let’s talk about what works and how we can scale it out.
From stairs, ramps, and elevators to menu planning to planking and wall sits during meetings, we’ll discuss how to rethink our norms, retire our assumptions, ask the right questions without prying, and create space for our teammates to self-accommodate. You might never know the difference you’ve made, but your teams will be healthier and wiser for it.
Learning outcomes:
- Become constructively curious about the breadth of diversities that affect teams
- Learn several specific techniques for creating a more accommodating team environment
2019 Full-spectrum diversity: rethinking our norms by Cheryl Hammond
Organizational diversity isn't just about the attributes we can see. Every team has members with a near-infinite spectrum of needs, some of which we know about and a lot more we probably don't (and might never). How do we create a safe, accommodating space for things we aren’t aware of? It's possible. For our teams to reflect the diversity of our worlds, HR policies are necessary but not sufficient. Our teams can and should take concrete steps, large and small, to make ourselves more welcoming. You're probably doing some of them already, so let's talk about what works and how we can scale it out. From stairs, ramps, and elevators to menu planning to planking and wall sits during meetings, Cheryl Hammond discusses how to rethink our norms, retire our assumptions, ask the right questions without prying, and create space for our teammates to self-accommodate. You might never know the difference you've made, but your teams will be healthier and wiser for it.
2019 Fantastic Outcomes and How to Measure Them by Cheryl Hammond
Do your metrics track what matters most to your organization, or do they merely quantify your adherence to a process? Is that process a good proxy for real results? In your environment? How do you know? Discover where to look for elusive, real outcomes. Join Cheryl Hammond to learn how to study indicators for your important metrics so you can recognize them when you encounter them in the wild. Understand how to monitor the health and relevance of your outcomes, and commit to the constant care needed to keep them vibrant. You'll take back a renewed appreciation for the beauty of a wild, untamed outcome and how it can motivate and focus your teams.
2018 One Metric to Rule Them All - Effectively Measure Your Teams Without Sub...
If you don't know how to measure what you want, you'll end up wanting what you can measure. Most often the thing you want to know isn't easily quantifiable, and common proxy metrics are usually poorly correlated with the information you actually need. Measuring the wrong things is worse than nothing—a toxic metric can damage your teams' performance.
With the right data, you can change the conversation. Tell your team's authentic story to management, your customers, and beyond. Step away from dangerous metrics that punish unfairly. Quit wasting time with metrics that are easily gamed. Instead, choose effective metrics to get everyone on the same page about what's important.
Whether you're the measurer or the measuree, in this session, you'll learn not just which metrics work, but why and how. Our examples will focus mainly on team, project, and program metrics, with theoretical guidance to inform all kinds of measures including portfolio and organization. Understand the difference between true metrics and proxy metrics, and good proxies and evil ones. Discover a framework for evaluating any metric, a Hall of Shame covering some of the worst most popular benchmarks, and one true guide to point you to the very best metrics of all. See some great examples of visualization that make metrics sing, and leave with several concrete measures you can begin tracking as soon as you get back to your desk.
2017 One Metric to Rule Them All: Effectively Measure Your Teams without Subj...
If you don't know how to measure what you want, you'll end up wanting what you can measure. Most often the thing you want to know isn't easily quantifiable, and common proxy metrics are usually poorly correlated with the information you actually need. Measuring the wrong things is worse than nothing—a toxic metric can damage your teams' performance.
With the right data, you can change the conversation. Tell your team's authentic story to management, your customers, and beyond. Step away from dangerous metrics that punish unfairly. Quit wasting time with metrics that are easily gamed. Instead, choose effective metrics to get everyone on the same page about what's important.
Whether you're the measurer or the measuree, in this session, you'll learn not just which metrics work, but why and how. Our examples will focus mainly on team, project, and program metrics, with theoretical guidance to inform all kinds of measures including portfolio and organization. Understand the difference between true metrics and proxy metrics, and good proxies and evil ones. Discover a framework for evaluating any metric, a Hall of Shame covering some of the worst most popular benchmarks, and one true guide to point you to the very best metrics of all. See some great examples of visualization that make metrics sing, and leave with several concrete measures you can begin tracking as soon as you get back to your desk.
Women in Tech - Quick Reference Guide for Facilitating a Lean Coffee by Chery...
Lean Coffee is a structured format for a completely crowdsourced discussion. Attendees suggest topics, stack rank them via a voting process, and then discuss each one in order, using short timeboxes until they reach consensus to move to the next one. We reconvene at the end of the session time to share takeaways.
We tried Lean Coffee as an experiment at Seattle Code Camp 2016, focusing on topics of interest around women in tech, and the collaboration was fantastic! Here are the slides we used—setting the stage with principles from Open Space Technology and finishing with a Lean Coffee quick outline—so you can learn more and facilitate a session on your own.
Defense Against the Dark Arts: Protect Yourself from Evil Metrics by Learning...
Measuring the wrong things is worse than nothing; a toxic metric can damage your teams' performance—or your bonus.
Whether you're the measurer or the measuree, in this session, you'll learn not just which metrics work, but why and how. Understand the difference between true metrics and proxy metrics, and good proxies and evil ones. Discover a framework for evaluating any metric, a Hall of Shame covering some of the worst most popular benchmarks, and one true guide to point you to the very best metrics of all.
This updated session was presented at Seattle Code Camp 2016.
Lean for Agilists by Cheryl Hammond
A brief introduction to Lean/Kanban ideas, to help appreciate and extend what you already know about agile/Scrum. Presented at Seattle Code Camp 2015.
One Metric to Rule Them All: Effectively Measure Your Teams Without Subjugati...
If you don't know how to measure what you want, you'll end up wanting what you can measure. Most often the thing you want to know isn't easily quantifiable, and common proxy metrics are usually poorly correlated with the information you actually need. Measuring the wrong things is worse than nothing—a toxic metric can damage your teams' performance.
With the right data, you can change the conversation. Tell your team's authentic story to management, your customers, and beyond. Step away from dangerous metrics that punish unfairly. Quit wasting time with metrics that are easily gamed. Instead, choose effective metrics to get everyone on the same page about what's important.
Whether you're the measurer or the measuree, in this session, you'll learn not just which metrics work, but why and how. Our examples will focus mainly on team, project, and program metrics, with theoretical guidance to inform all kinds of measures including portfolio and organization. Understand the difference between true metrics and proxy metrics, and good proxies and evil ones. Discover a framework for evaluating any metric, a Hall of Shame covering some of the worst most popular benchmarks, and one true guide to point you to the very best metrics of all. See some great examples of visualization that make metrics sing, and leave with several concrete measures you can begin tracking as soon as you get back to your desk.
Learning Outcomes:
* Difference between true and proxy metrics
* Characteristics of good metrics
* Examples of common bad metrics and why you should stop using them
* Great metrics, including counterintuitive ones, that correlate to the performance you want to influence
* Some examples of measurements where qualitative, not quantitative, works best
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2022 Subsistence Agile - Sustainability and Self-Sufficiency for Thriving Tea...
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2021 Fortress Agile by Cheryl Hammond @ #Agile2021
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2019 Full-spectrum diversity: norms for inclusion and intersectionality by Ch...
2019 Full-spectrum diversity: norms for inclusion and intersectionality by Ch...
2019 Full-spectrum diversity: rethinking our norms by Cheryl Hammond
2019 Full-spectrum diversity: rethinking our norms by Cheryl Hammond
2019 Fantastic Outcomes and How to Measure Them by Cheryl Hammond
2019 Fantastic Outcomes and How to Measure Them by Cheryl Hammond
2018 One Metric to Rule Them All - Effectively Measure Your Teams Without Sub...
2018 One Metric to Rule Them All - Effectively Measure Your Teams Without Sub...
2017 One Metric to Rule Them All: Effectively Measure Your Teams without Subj...
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Beyond the Underpants Gnomes: Why Kanban Stalls and How to Restart It by Cheryl Hammond
- 1. beyond the underpants gnomes @bsktcase #kanbangnomes
- 2. Cheryl Hammond CTO, Peak Medical Technologies @bsktcase beyond the underpants gnomes why kanban stalls and how to restart it
- 3. agreements and asks @bsktcase #Agile2017 #kanbangnomes Tweet your feedback and questions during and after and whenever http://sched.co/ATXA Submit your feedback please please please one metric to rule them all Tomorrow 15:45
- 4. law of two feet @bsktcase #kanbangnomes
- 5. agenda the tragedy of underpants gnomes in kanban four approaches that may or may not work limit wip little’s law attack queues look right wrap-up @bsktcase #kanbangnomes
- 6. me Cheryl Hammond ~20 years’ experience in software development, exec leadership, and organizational transformation Passionate about agile, lean, and making software delivery humane; not afraid to look silly doing it Fourth-generation Seattleite College recruiter & mentor; traveler; bolonka lover; genealogist; feminist @bsktcase #kanbangnomes
- 7. kan 看 カン visual ban 板 バン card @bsktcase #kanbangnomes
- 8. three pillars Make Work Visible ? Flow @bsktcase #kanbangnomes
- 10. three pillars Make Work Visible ? Flow @bsktcase #kanbangnomes
- 11. kanban stalls at phase 2… but why? yes, yes, #notallkanban visualizing work exposes our pain we dislike pain seeing it and knowing what to do about it are very different things what even is phase 2 anyway? @bsktcase #kanbangnomes
- 15. Work in process Cycle time “two minutes of math”
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- 20. the “experts” play @bsktcase #kanbangnomes
- 21. the “experts”… oops @bsktcase #kanbangnomes
- 24. attack queues why it’s a good second step any team adopting Kanban will have them search-and-destroy is easy to teach, easy to learn they are evil, which is motivating why it doesn’t always work can be difficult to convince micromanagers that reducing them is valuable once destroyed, can re-form prevention is harder to learn @bsktcase #kanbangnomes
- 27. work right to left why it’s a good second step ideal focus for teams who prioritize fast delivery why it doesn’t always work customers and cultures may not value or support fast delivery @bsktcase #kanbangnomes
- 29. resources pinterest.com/bsktcase89/leanagile-resources Books, articles, and blogs (sorry about the login) aka.ms/kanban Microsoft Virtual Academy online course (free!) @bsktcase #kanbangnomes
- 30. agreements and asks @bsktcase #Agile2017 #kanbangnomes Tweet your feedback and questions during and after and whenever http://sched.co/ATXA Submit your feedback please please please one metric to rule them all Tomorrow 15:45
- 31. Cheryl Hammond CTO, Peak Medical Technologies @bsktcase thank you!
- 32. beyond the underpants gnomes @bsktcase #kanbangnomes