This document discusses how to create "big agility" by focusing on goals and outcomes rather than processes. It advocates questioning assumptions and continuously learning through experiments. Key points discussed include developing personas and story maps to understand users' needs, planning iterations to balance discovery, delivery and learning, and measuring real value delivered rather than effort spent. Cross-team collaboration and creating a shared understanding of what success means for stakeholders is also emphasized. The document provides examples of tools and practices for building agility within, across, and outside of teams.

1. Big Agility
Little „A‟ agile

2. Some call me “Dude”?

3. Some call me curious
Xiahe Samatia Jinghong

4. Some call me “Skeptic”
( skeptical not cynical )

5. Skeptics Unite
Questioning and Learning

6. Today people call me “Coach”
“I“I want big Agile.”
want to be big.”

7. Why?

8. When Is more, better?
( what can “they” teach us? )

9. Dig This

10. Tap the Existing Groove
“Groove is that quality
that moves the song
forward”
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“When a song has a good
groove, it invites us into
a sonic world that we
don‟t want to leave”

11. How do we create groove?
Within Teams
Across Teams
Outside Teams

12. DevJam Team Building

13. Goals (why) with Mechanics (how)
Creating Community (Common Vision)
Form Communities (Chartering)
Composing Product (Personas - Story maps - Sketching)
Create an Eco-System (Iteration 0 - Common Workspace)
Discovery (Planning)
Product Releases (Value - Effort - Dependencies)
Iterative Delivery (Iterations (cycles) - Kanban (flow))
Delivery (Iterating)
Staying Connected (Daily Standup - Common Workspace)
Tracking Progress (Task Walls - Burncharts - Velocity)
Technical Agility (Continuous Integration - Test Driven)
Delivering Value (Acceptance Tests - Continuous Deploy)
Learning (Tuning)
Validating Progress (Iteration Reviews - Users - User Testing)
Reflect and Improve (Retrospective – Market Feedback)

14. From ideas …
Questioning and Learning
Design Practices and Projects
Planning to Coach
Collaborative Chartering
Pragmatic Personas Develop
Story Mapping
Planning to Deliver
Deliver Planning to Discover
Setting the Stage
… to iteration

15. What makes them a team?
What will really help them?

16. What would you say if asked …

17. What do you do well?
Where are your challenges?

18. Why change? - Why agile?
What, Where, When?

19. What are the constraints?
What will hinder learning?

20. How much process is enough?
Appropriate Ceremony Sticks

21. Developing Customers and Product
Personas and Story Maps

22. Planning to Discover
Planning to Deliver

23. Within
Across
Outside

24. Planning to Discover
Skills - Dependencies - Assumptions

25. Cross Cutting Concerns
Cross Cutting Value

26. Within
Across
Outside

27. Who are “they”?
What do they value?
What are you giving them?

28. This is what “they” tell me
Timing (when)
Products (what)
Investments (how much)

29. Timely and Trustable Deliveries

30. Product Thinking
In their heads In our toolkit
Why should we build? chartering
Who‟s buying(in)? personas
What do they need? story mapping
Where is the value? story testing
Product Ownership

31. Investment Planning
Estimates is Currency

32. “Their” View of Success
Outcome Focus / Higher Value
People Helped
Profit Earned
Product Learning
User Feedback
Daily Scrums
Story Points
Practice Focus / Lower Value

33. Tools for Growing Big Agility

34. Big Success – Little Failures
Measure Real Value

35. Continuous Learning feeds Big Agility
( validate assumptions with evidence )

36. Stealing from Scientists
George Ohm‟s
Ohm Law

37. What laws guide us?

38. Dude‟s Law

39. Discussions around ”are we doing Agile?”
“Why are we doing what we are doing?”
{ Meaning = Intent / Action }
{ Worth = Purpose / Practice }

40. Dude‟s Law: Value = Why / How
Questions?
W W
V= H V= H

41. Question, Experiment, Learn
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Coaching and Developing Agility
david.hussman@devjam.com
www.devjam.com
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