Managing the evolution of a single product working with a small number of teams is somewhat straightforward. Working from a single backlog, the product roadmap becomes relatively easy to visualize, and planning and tracking is simple. As we increase the complexity of the product, things become harder. Different teams require different backlogs. Different products require work from different teams. Before you know it, there are lots of independent moving parts, and coordination costs increase and dependencies dominate. In this talk, we consider core principles and practices for scaling in an agile world, and discuss how to move from a handful of teams to many teams and many product lines.
Giving Teams the Roots to Grow and Wings to FlyDave Sharrock
We introduce useful and proven practices that increase the sticking power of new agile teams, allowing them to stay agile long into the future. To create sustainable change, agile teams have to overcome organizational gravity that pulls them back into the old, comfortable ways of working. New agile teams are especially at risk of falling back after the coaches leave or the agile transition is declared ‘over’. By helping the team set expectations early, the +15 practices provide support just when the team is most vulnerable, and increases the chance of creating lasting change.
We introduce two concepts, the +15 Team and the +15 Flightplan, that support teams not just at the beginning of a transformation, when management attention and resources are focused on the effort, but much later on as the teams begin unlocking some of the more challenging engineering practices, such as continuous integration or continual refactoring which take time and repeated practice to achieve. You will learn how to work with a new team to apply these concepts, and how the team can use these to guide growth over time.
Successful Agile transformations are built on successful Agile teams; achieving sustainable success depends on helping those teams grow and evolve over time. But in order to be self-organized and self-directed, newly formed agile teams need an example to follow; they need to have a glimpse of where a team can get to after 3, 6 or 12 months of continual retrospection, learning and improvement. Unfortunately, in many cases, there are few examples of such success around them. In a large organization, the inertia of existing cultural norms is likely to weigh down on any visions of excellent execution, diluting the vision and ultimately limiting the success of the teams and the transition.
The +15 Team is a simple exercise to focus the team on developing good agile behaviors that provide the roots from which a team can grow. The +15 Flightplan is a workshop or game that delivers a long-term plan for agile maturity created by the team that allows the team to soar over time. Participants will be introduced to this technique as a way to better guide the team’s development over time as well as learn how and when to respond. Spending just minutes at every retrospective using these artifacts can make the difference between a team returning to old habits and performance levels or striding forward to become self-directed, high-performing agile teams.
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Survival tricks and tools for remote developersAlessio Bragadini
Presented at PycCon 8, Florence 7 April 2017 – Remote working and “smart working” is very much in fashion these days, but what does it entail for the daily routing of a distributed development team? We will talk about tools, the disputed use of email, Skype, Slack but more specifically about time management, what you can expect from yourself and from other members of the remote team. Is your company “remote-friendly” or rather “remote-first”? When it’s time to spend a few days in physical proximity with your colleagues? We will share some examples out of the experience of a distributed team actively working with Python and Django on a daily basis, and show how you can make it all work, if you work on it.
Agile teams form the building blocks for agility. Having strong agile teams allows an organization to overcome systemic issues and adapt the product development process to the needs of the business. Agile teams that are not self-organizing and continually learning can quickly become subsumed by the challenges around them. So what does it mean for a team to be agile? We look at the fundamental characteristics of high performing teams, and how to influence the team environment and selection in order to initiate a team for success.
The rise of the Lean Startup has led to a deeper understanding of the importance of validating business ideas, from new features to new business models. But many tools available to the Product Owner aren't adapted to rapid validation. Starting from the principles and practices of agile product management, from defining the product vision to creating story maps and refining the product backlog, you will learn about key practices that incorporate the lean startup principles, allowing a Product Owner to bring the build-measure-learn cycle alive and ultimately earn more value more quickly.
Why self-organization might not work, and what has that to do with the compan...Andrea Tomasini
On the way toward becoming more agile, we often stumble on issues which are sometimes simple in hindsight, but when we are at it, they seem impossible challenges. We might start with an agile team, probably following the Scrum framework and having quite some fun while learning and delivering more value with our colleagues. At a certain point though the expected “hyper productivity” that some folks in the agile world are talking about doesn’t seem to be something achievable at all, and we comfortably think, that must be just marketing, or even the effect of the Chinese Whispers. But if we reflect ourselves on it, and have the courage to look deep and understand why things aren’t going the way they should, we often come to learn a lot. Question such as: “By the way, why do we still have Team Leader in a self-organizing team?” or “What is the role of a Tech Lead in a Scrum team?” up to “Why are we still estimating and planning upfront if we are doing agile development?” inevitably pop up. Is it a trust issue? is it a cultural problem? or is it an organizational design issue? Maybe the answer, as many times happen in complex situation is a mixture or neither of those.
Explore together with me what implications these dimensions have on the way teams will develop further or not develop. Also how do other companies around the world relate to this challenges, and maybe you can learn something from that…
What the presentation is not about:
- Explaining why self-organized teams
- Explaining what a self-organized team is
- Explaining what a team is
- Explaining the boundaries and conditions to make self-organization to happen
What the presentation is about:
- Show an structured way of supporting self-organization throw my personal experience.
Ever fought to replicate a successful pilot with a handful of teams to a functioning product delivery program across an enterprise? It's hard - and frameworks rarely make things simpler. In this talk, we'll examine the natural progression of an Agile transition, from isolated teams often held up as a pilot study, to synchronous agility where many teams collaborate to deliver a program, to the rarified world of networked agility, where we move back to the effectiveness of individual teams. While highlighting principles that distinguish each stage of growth, we also outline how to recognise where your transition is, and therefore where to move to next.
Managing the evolution of a single product working with a small number of teams is somewhat straightforward. Working from a single backlog, the product roadmap becomes relatively easy to visualize, and planning and tracking is simple. As we increase the complexity of the product, things become harder. Different teams require different backlogs. Different products require work from different teams. Before you know it, there are lots of independent moving parts, and coordination costs increase and dependencies dominate. In this talk, we consider core principles and practices for scaling in an Agile world, and discuss how to move from a handful of teams to many teams and many product lines.
Estimate Value to Deliver Value: Effectively Estimate the Value of Requiremen...Dave Sharrock
Agile organizations move work to dedicated teams, rather than move people to projects. In order to succeed, the Business Analyst needs to continually compare the value of different projects or work requirements to make sure that the teams are working on the most valuable items at any one time. But how can you compare new features that increase your profitability with platform migrations that increase your system stability or administrative features that reduce operational overhead? Where do BAs spend their time and how do stakeholders get their critical projects done?
The Experience Canvas provides a one-page requirement definition that allows stakeholders to effectively discuss and estimate the value of each requirement.
Using the Experience Canvas, we show how:
Stakeholders can compare and contrast the value of very different requirements with very different objectives,
Business Analysts can estimate return-on-investment using effort estimates from the team (investment) and value estimates from the stakeholders (return).
Giving Teams the Roots to Grow and Wings to FlyDave Sharrock
We introduce useful and proven practices that increase the sticking power of new agile teams, allowing them to stay agile long into the future. To create sustainable change, agile teams have to overcome organizational gravity that pulls them back into the old, comfortable ways of working. New agile teams are especially at risk of falling back after the coaches leave or the agile transition is declared ‘over’. By helping the team set expectations early, the +15 practices provide support just when the team is most vulnerable, and increases the chance of creating lasting change.
We introduce two concepts, the +15 Team and the +15 Flightplan, that support teams not just at the beginning of a transformation, when management attention and resources are focused on the effort, but much later on as the teams begin unlocking some of the more challenging engineering practices, such as continuous integration or continual refactoring which take time and repeated practice to achieve. You will learn how to work with a new team to apply these concepts, and how the team can use these to guide growth over time.
Successful Agile transformations are built on successful Agile teams; achieving sustainable success depends on helping those teams grow and evolve over time. But in order to be self-organized and self-directed, newly formed agile teams need an example to follow; they need to have a glimpse of where a team can get to after 3, 6 or 12 months of continual retrospection, learning and improvement. Unfortunately, in many cases, there are few examples of such success around them. In a large organization, the inertia of existing cultural norms is likely to weigh down on any visions of excellent execution, diluting the vision and ultimately limiting the success of the teams and the transition.
The +15 Team is a simple exercise to focus the team on developing good agile behaviors that provide the roots from which a team can grow. The +15 Flightplan is a workshop or game that delivers a long-term plan for agile maturity created by the team that allows the team to soar over time. Participants will be introduced to this technique as a way to better guide the team’s development over time as well as learn how and when to respond. Spending just minutes at every retrospective using these artifacts can make the difference between a team returning to old habits and performance levels or striding forward to become self-directed, high-performing agile teams.
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Survival tricks and tools for remote developersAlessio Bragadini
Presented at PycCon 8, Florence 7 April 2017 – Remote working and “smart working” is very much in fashion these days, but what does it entail for the daily routing of a distributed development team? We will talk about tools, the disputed use of email, Skype, Slack but more specifically about time management, what you can expect from yourself and from other members of the remote team. Is your company “remote-friendly” or rather “remote-first”? When it’s time to spend a few days in physical proximity with your colleagues? We will share some examples out of the experience of a distributed team actively working with Python and Django on a daily basis, and show how you can make it all work, if you work on it.
Agile teams form the building blocks for agility. Having strong agile teams allows an organization to overcome systemic issues and adapt the product development process to the needs of the business. Agile teams that are not self-organizing and continually learning can quickly become subsumed by the challenges around them. So what does it mean for a team to be agile? We look at the fundamental characteristics of high performing teams, and how to influence the team environment and selection in order to initiate a team for success.
The rise of the Lean Startup has led to a deeper understanding of the importance of validating business ideas, from new features to new business models. But many tools available to the Product Owner aren't adapted to rapid validation. Starting from the principles and practices of agile product management, from defining the product vision to creating story maps and refining the product backlog, you will learn about key practices that incorporate the lean startup principles, allowing a Product Owner to bring the build-measure-learn cycle alive and ultimately earn more value more quickly.
Why self-organization might not work, and what has that to do with the compan...Andrea Tomasini
On the way toward becoming more agile, we often stumble on issues which are sometimes simple in hindsight, but when we are at it, they seem impossible challenges. We might start with an agile team, probably following the Scrum framework and having quite some fun while learning and delivering more value with our colleagues. At a certain point though the expected “hyper productivity” that some folks in the agile world are talking about doesn’t seem to be something achievable at all, and we comfortably think, that must be just marketing, or even the effect of the Chinese Whispers. But if we reflect ourselves on it, and have the courage to look deep and understand why things aren’t going the way they should, we often come to learn a lot. Question such as: “By the way, why do we still have Team Leader in a self-organizing team?” or “What is the role of a Tech Lead in a Scrum team?” up to “Why are we still estimating and planning upfront if we are doing agile development?” inevitably pop up. Is it a trust issue? is it a cultural problem? or is it an organizational design issue? Maybe the answer, as many times happen in complex situation is a mixture or neither of those.
Explore together with me what implications these dimensions have on the way teams will develop further or not develop. Also how do other companies around the world relate to this challenges, and maybe you can learn something from that…
What the presentation is not about:
- Explaining why self-organized teams
- Explaining what a self-organized team is
- Explaining what a team is
- Explaining the boundaries and conditions to make self-organization to happen
What the presentation is about:
- Show an structured way of supporting self-organization throw my personal experience.
Ever fought to replicate a successful pilot with a handful of teams to a functioning product delivery program across an enterprise? It's hard - and frameworks rarely make things simpler. In this talk, we'll examine the natural progression of an Agile transition, from isolated teams often held up as a pilot study, to synchronous agility where many teams collaborate to deliver a program, to the rarified world of networked agility, where we move back to the effectiveness of individual teams. While highlighting principles that distinguish each stage of growth, we also outline how to recognise where your transition is, and therefore where to move to next.
Managing the evolution of a single product working with a small number of teams is somewhat straightforward. Working from a single backlog, the product roadmap becomes relatively easy to visualize, and planning and tracking is simple. As we increase the complexity of the product, things become harder. Different teams require different backlogs. Different products require work from different teams. Before you know it, there are lots of independent moving parts, and coordination costs increase and dependencies dominate. In this talk, we consider core principles and practices for scaling in an Agile world, and discuss how to move from a handful of teams to many teams and many product lines.
Estimate Value to Deliver Value: Effectively Estimate the Value of Requiremen...Dave Sharrock
Agile organizations move work to dedicated teams, rather than move people to projects. In order to succeed, the Business Analyst needs to continually compare the value of different projects or work requirements to make sure that the teams are working on the most valuable items at any one time. But how can you compare new features that increase your profitability with platform migrations that increase your system stability or administrative features that reduce operational overhead? Where do BAs spend their time and how do stakeholders get their critical projects done?
The Experience Canvas provides a one-page requirement definition that allows stakeholders to effectively discuss and estimate the value of each requirement.
Using the Experience Canvas, we show how:
Stakeholders can compare and contrast the value of very different requirements with very different objectives,
Business Analysts can estimate return-on-investment using effort estimates from the team (investment) and value estimates from the stakeholders (return).
The agile reading glasses: foundation principles and history being agile appr...Andrea Tomasini
A quick journey through the foundation of agile and the history behind it. Starting from the process control theory, moving forward through iterative and incremental approach, and the pull principle. Moving on to the continuous improvement focus, stemming from the Lean Thinking and the work done by the fore runners of the Toyota Production System (TPS). Finally discussing how agile thinking can help establishing self-organization and focus on customer value, motivating both the workers and the clients, by establishing healthier short-feedback cycle, with collaboration focused on learning faster together.
How can we reconcile the light touch approach of agile development teams to the governance and information security requirements such as Data Privacy and Regulatory Compliance? I discuss how to bring together the apparently conflicting needs of information security and agile, and show by example how agile teams actually approach tough regulatory requirements and good governance.
Why practices are not as important as principles?Andrea Tomasini
You might wonder why is not that easy to adopt agile engineering practices and achieve technical excellence. When we think at practices we tend to think at simple things: pinning on the fridge with a magnet the list of shopping items to buy, having a clear prioritised list of things to do, and work that in order… why is then that with Agile practices is not working that easy? What is that Teams are not getting right? Is it that we don’t have the right Software tools? Or we are not collocated? The Agile dilemma is: “To effectively apply practices, you need to understand the principle, to understand the principles you need to practice!”, simply… complicated!
Agile Embedded Software Development, what's wrong with it?Andrea Tomasini
We are in 2014 and still someone is challenging the fact that you can't use an Agile approach to develop embedded systems, why? What's wrong with embedded software development? Well, there are somethings which makes it harder than needed: Dependencies with hardware releases, fixed delivery dates, inadequate software tools, limited adaptation possibility due to hardware costs... and yes, one more thing, really special: culture!
We would like to focus this keynote in analyzing some example cases that include the “limitations” listed above and also give you some hints on how to solve them. Finally we will also attack the “culture” issue. This is especially important for companies which grew out of hardware development and do not have a solid culture that include software, and therefore are stuck with waterfall development process and a traditional view on professional barriers for their employees. These companies are usually the ones not understanding that the complexity for years gone away from pure hardware, and landed in integrated product development. Without more focus in increasing quality of the process and the techniques to build - especially mission critical - functionality, the cost of failure are going to be very high, as the amount of bugs exposed to the users will rise and the competition sharpens at the same time.
Team Member to Mgr: “Now I’m in a self-organized team, what do you do exactly?” Mgr: “Um, good question. Come to the talk and find out.”
Learning Objectives:
* Be able to answer the question “What do you do as a manager of an Agile team?”
* Understand the difference between line management, functional management and program management.
* Learn how to influence behavior through visible progress and expectations management rather than telling teams what to do.
* Discover why a focus on flow and value delivery is critical to Agile leadership.
* Bring Dilbert cartoons into your management style without everyone calling you “the pointy haired boss.”
Stop scaling... Start growing an Agile Organization!Andrea Tomasini
Strategic advantage lies in being yourself and doing the right things the right way. Those who copy what their competitors are doing, place themselves behind the pack — a sure way of losing. This is why “scaling” agility is misleading at best, and disastrous at worst. When you take an existing model and fit your organization to that, you lose much of what makes you unique and different.
Companies small and large must instead learn to grow their own agility for their own advantage. This sounds simple — and it is, when you know what to look for.
In this keynote, Andrea Tomasini presents guidelines and heuristics for growing an agile organization. You will understand why the first step in any transition must be learning how to change. Small inexpensive experiments and empirical metrics will lead you towards your strategic goal, iteratively and incrementally.
The agile transition never ends — but you know it’s working when transitioning becomes a way of life. This not only lets you adapt to new market conditions: it also allows you to create change in the market, on your own terms.
The complexity of scaling agile in a large organization
Fundamental principles on “growing”
Concrete examples (Siemens, Ericsson…) from companies of all sizes (60-6000 employees)
The principles are simple, but they must apply to the organization, not the product or the system architecture.
The heartbeat of a growing organization.
From a Product Vision to a running software... and back again, and agile coac...Andrea Tomasini
Eliciting Requirements and breaking them down into actionable tasks is a challenge that requires both creativity and a systematic and analytical approach. Applying agility to Requirement Engineering, means much more than focusing on full bandwidth communication instead of documentation... Discovering a more empirical approach to Requirement Engineering - an approach that allows you to focus systematically on what needs to be done, as well as allowing creative tension to emerge and find the simplest and more concrete solutions for your Requirements engineering
Agility and Compliance (Andrea Tomasini, agile42)Andrea Tomasini
Implementing agility in a strongly Regulated environment is sometimes a challenge. Many teams and company do find ways, but most of these are against the agile principles or are turning out to be big impediments. Mostly the problem being that from compliance authorities we get told HOW to do things and not WHAT they will measure to prove quality and compliance. Can we do better? Sure we can, transparency is the key...
Why Scrum can\'t fail? A very challenging question that I have been asked to answer at the House of Open Scrum in Munich, a free and open event to propagate Scrum to the masses :-) That\'s my answer... I hope you enjoy it ;-)
The Good Shepherd - the Role of BAs in AgileDave Sharrock
Agile teams may be popping up everywhere, with ScrumMasters and Product Owners and Development Teams. But what role does the BA play? Should the BA join the team, working with the development team to deliver work requests? Or should the BA take on the role of Product Owner, working with the business to define the work requests and ranking them to maximize value delivery? Is the BA best suited to the ScrumMaster, guiding the team to predictable delivery? Or is there some other role we've not talked about? The answer, of course, is 'it depends'. We will discuss the different roles on an agile team, and investigate how the traditional responsibilities of a BA role fit within the agile context. What we want to understand is how the BA fits into the agile development process, considering how the agile team works, and how the responsibilities of the BA are addressed in an agile environment.
Epic Budgeting - how agile teams meet deadinesDave Sharrock
According to this year's State of Agile survey, the most common success measure for agile initiatives, at 53%, is on-time delivery. But if agile teams can choose how much work they take into a sprint, how can teams be sure of delivering pre-committed scope on time and on budget? There is more to agile delivery than product owners ordering a backlog of work for teams to work on.
Epic budgeting is one tool that allows the product owner to steer a product across the line, delivering the expected scope on time by managing scope creep or an unsustainable focus on the perfect over the pragmatic. During this session learn about how product owners and their teams work towards a fixed date or budget by applying double loop learning to epic sizing and breakdown. Expect some tales from real companies and a few light hearted moments. And I'm at least 53% certain we will finish on time!
Adopting Scrum: an enterprise transformation (Andrea Tomasini, agile42)Andrea Tomasini
Using Scrum as a Pattern Language for Enterprise Transformation
How Scrum Patterns can be used also to introduce Scrum itself into a company. After many years of experience and many attempts to systematically make Scrum introduction into medium and large Enterprises, agile42 shares with you tools and methods used in some of the most successful agile transition.
Improve the chances of success of your organization with Resilience and Antif...Andrea Tomasini
Explicitly measuring and designing culture is an enabler towards agility and can provide incredible advantages to an organization development. Understanding how to lead such change is the one thing that might save your company in the rough waters of todays market. Are you ready for the challenge?
How to get everything right... by doing everything wrong? (Andrea Tomasini, a...Andrea Tomasini
a critical view on business changes in our age, and the impact they are having on structures and organizations which were defined in another century and are not anymore suited for today purposes. Who has the courage to challenge those structure and fully embrace change and uncertainty? How can an agile approach help to better support those changes?
How to grow your organization resilience and anti-fragilityAndrea Tomasini
Bringing agility to an organizational level requires a set of new skills and practices to emerge. While we have plenty of example on how agility can impact teams performance, by adopting well proven practices, there is still a lot of uncertainty in what to bring to an organizational level. Inspecting and adapting as an organization requires different structures and a more strategic approach, if we want to maximize the learning effect. Chaotic and uncontrolled experimentation and local adaptations can rapidly tear an organization apart. Focus on value and customers are important to set a common direction, but to roll out a shared strategy we need a solid and coherent cultural context, or the strategy will fail. Explicitly measuring and designing culture is a key enabler towards agility and can provide incredible advantages to an organization development. Understanding how to lead such change and enabling people to participate in creating rapid value, is the one thing that might save your company in the rough waters of today's market... Are you ready for the challenge?
Out of the success of some pilot (experiments) more and more organizations are stumbling on how to scale those experiments throughout the rest of the company. What most organizations end up doing is to reuse over and over again the same structures and the same rules they have been using for years, missing entirely the point about Agile. If you want to make it work for your organization, start from looking within a Team and understand what makes them Agile... look deeper into principles and values, not so much in practices, as those will emerge out of experience from your teams. Also understand the major difference between becoming agile and adopting agile. The latter encourage the wrong behaviour of looking on the market at existing models to adopt, and roll-out within your organization. Look at those model as a confirmation that is possible to solve your problems - as someone else apparently already did - and as inspiration. Also be vary of models which are not stemming out of experience, but of a lot of thinking, as that doesn't fit well to the Agile and Lean paradigm. Finally there are many factor you can evaluate in your journey toward becoming more Agile, there are level of complexity growing at an organizational level which you might not find in teams. Finally look at identifying metrics for tracking your progress in a way that reflects the outcome your organization is delivering and not the "work" is doing. In fact learning to work in an Agile way means learning to deliver more, by doing less. In the presentation I use the metaphor of an organization being a "car" rather than an organism, because of pure esthetic reasons, it would get rather bloody with an organic metaphor. I am aware like all models, has its weaknesses, and one of those is that it is mechanic, and predictable, unless it is a transforming car :-)
For a long time, organizations were seen more as machines in which processes are repeatable and, once set in motion, remain always the same. At agile42 we instead compare a company to an organism which grows, changes, and becomes resilient against external influences.
An organisation’s Agile transformation changes the organizational culture itself. This requires embracing a different set of values and principles, and so establishing a mindset strongly focused on collaboration and delivering customer value.
ORGANIC Agility recognises all organisational dimensions and contexts in order to create alignment between culture and business. The goal is to reduce process overhead as much as possible and create an environment of continuous improvement.
Herding cats or flocking birds - agile portfolio managementDave Sharrock
Managing the evolution of a single product working with a small number of teams is somewhat straightforward. Working from a single backlog, once the teams have established a predictable velocity, the product roadmap becomes relatively easy to visualize, whether by timeframe or feature set. As we increase the complexity of the product, things become harder. Different teams require different backlogs. Different products require work from different teams. Before you know it, there are lots of independent moving parts, with the risk that the coordination cost becomes higher and efficiency falls. In this talk, we consider some ground rules for visualizing work across multiple teams and discuss how dependencies are coordinated across different teams and product lines.
Keynote stop scaling... start growing an agile organization!Andrea Tomasini
Companies of all sizes need to grow their own agile way of working, becoming more agile is a journey, not a destination. Unfortunately, though, most of the time agile success is left in the hands of unlikely heroes, people who are passionate about agile, but likely lack the type of power and decision making required to move to the next level. Because becoming agile requires a radical mind-shift, it takes time, and time is what most organizations seem unwilling to invest. This is where our unlikely heroes come into play, pulling the “Agile Initiative” forward with their passion. Even more unfortunately, despite the great efforts of these individuals, the organization is not willing to wait, and instead, falls into the “implement that model” in a couple of months mindset. Does this work? Well, if it does, we still need to hear that it was fast and painless… On the other hand, more and more organizations are beginning to understand that becoming more agile is an individual journey, and has to be tightly coupled with the company business goals and culture, it can’t be standardized, or the company will likely lose their business advantage and uniqueness. In this keynote I am going to share stories about some of these companies, that having tried unsuccessfully to find more heroes, understood that becoming agile is a cultural shift that needs to be supported by the whole organization, and agreed to follow a growing approach rather than an implementing approach. Principles and tools which helped these organizations to grow their agility as well as stories of their journey will be shared as an example of how change can happen without heroic actions or old style “Change Initiatives”.
The agile reading glasses: foundation principles and history being agile appr...Andrea Tomasini
A quick journey through the foundation of agile and the history behind it. Starting from the process control theory, moving forward through iterative and incremental approach, and the pull principle. Moving on to the continuous improvement focus, stemming from the Lean Thinking and the work done by the fore runners of the Toyota Production System (TPS). Finally discussing how agile thinking can help establishing self-organization and focus on customer value, motivating both the workers and the clients, by establishing healthier short-feedback cycle, with collaboration focused on learning faster together.
How can we reconcile the light touch approach of agile development teams to the governance and information security requirements such as Data Privacy and Regulatory Compliance? I discuss how to bring together the apparently conflicting needs of information security and agile, and show by example how agile teams actually approach tough regulatory requirements and good governance.
Why practices are not as important as principles?Andrea Tomasini
You might wonder why is not that easy to adopt agile engineering practices and achieve technical excellence. When we think at practices we tend to think at simple things: pinning on the fridge with a magnet the list of shopping items to buy, having a clear prioritised list of things to do, and work that in order… why is then that with Agile practices is not working that easy? What is that Teams are not getting right? Is it that we don’t have the right Software tools? Or we are not collocated? The Agile dilemma is: “To effectively apply practices, you need to understand the principle, to understand the principles you need to practice!”, simply… complicated!
Agile Embedded Software Development, what's wrong with it?Andrea Tomasini
We are in 2014 and still someone is challenging the fact that you can't use an Agile approach to develop embedded systems, why? What's wrong with embedded software development? Well, there are somethings which makes it harder than needed: Dependencies with hardware releases, fixed delivery dates, inadequate software tools, limited adaptation possibility due to hardware costs... and yes, one more thing, really special: culture!
We would like to focus this keynote in analyzing some example cases that include the “limitations” listed above and also give you some hints on how to solve them. Finally we will also attack the “culture” issue. This is especially important for companies which grew out of hardware development and do not have a solid culture that include software, and therefore are stuck with waterfall development process and a traditional view on professional barriers for their employees. These companies are usually the ones not understanding that the complexity for years gone away from pure hardware, and landed in integrated product development. Without more focus in increasing quality of the process and the techniques to build - especially mission critical - functionality, the cost of failure are going to be very high, as the amount of bugs exposed to the users will rise and the competition sharpens at the same time.
Team Member to Mgr: “Now I’m in a self-organized team, what do you do exactly?” Mgr: “Um, good question. Come to the talk and find out.”
Learning Objectives:
* Be able to answer the question “What do you do as a manager of an Agile team?”
* Understand the difference between line management, functional management and program management.
* Learn how to influence behavior through visible progress and expectations management rather than telling teams what to do.
* Discover why a focus on flow and value delivery is critical to Agile leadership.
* Bring Dilbert cartoons into your management style without everyone calling you “the pointy haired boss.”
Stop scaling... Start growing an Agile Organization!Andrea Tomasini
Strategic advantage lies in being yourself and doing the right things the right way. Those who copy what their competitors are doing, place themselves behind the pack — a sure way of losing. This is why “scaling” agility is misleading at best, and disastrous at worst. When you take an existing model and fit your organization to that, you lose much of what makes you unique and different.
Companies small and large must instead learn to grow their own agility for their own advantage. This sounds simple — and it is, when you know what to look for.
In this keynote, Andrea Tomasini presents guidelines and heuristics for growing an agile organization. You will understand why the first step in any transition must be learning how to change. Small inexpensive experiments and empirical metrics will lead you towards your strategic goal, iteratively and incrementally.
The agile transition never ends — but you know it’s working when transitioning becomes a way of life. This not only lets you adapt to new market conditions: it also allows you to create change in the market, on your own terms.
The complexity of scaling agile in a large organization
Fundamental principles on “growing”
Concrete examples (Siemens, Ericsson…) from companies of all sizes (60-6000 employees)
The principles are simple, but they must apply to the organization, not the product or the system architecture.
The heartbeat of a growing organization.
From a Product Vision to a running software... and back again, and agile coac...Andrea Tomasini
Eliciting Requirements and breaking them down into actionable tasks is a challenge that requires both creativity and a systematic and analytical approach. Applying agility to Requirement Engineering, means much more than focusing on full bandwidth communication instead of documentation... Discovering a more empirical approach to Requirement Engineering - an approach that allows you to focus systematically on what needs to be done, as well as allowing creative tension to emerge and find the simplest and more concrete solutions for your Requirements engineering
Agility and Compliance (Andrea Tomasini, agile42)Andrea Tomasini
Implementing agility in a strongly Regulated environment is sometimes a challenge. Many teams and company do find ways, but most of these are against the agile principles or are turning out to be big impediments. Mostly the problem being that from compliance authorities we get told HOW to do things and not WHAT they will measure to prove quality and compliance. Can we do better? Sure we can, transparency is the key...
Why Scrum can\'t fail? A very challenging question that I have been asked to answer at the House of Open Scrum in Munich, a free and open event to propagate Scrum to the masses :-) That\'s my answer... I hope you enjoy it ;-)
The Good Shepherd - the Role of BAs in AgileDave Sharrock
Agile teams may be popping up everywhere, with ScrumMasters and Product Owners and Development Teams. But what role does the BA play? Should the BA join the team, working with the development team to deliver work requests? Or should the BA take on the role of Product Owner, working with the business to define the work requests and ranking them to maximize value delivery? Is the BA best suited to the ScrumMaster, guiding the team to predictable delivery? Or is there some other role we've not talked about? The answer, of course, is 'it depends'. We will discuss the different roles on an agile team, and investigate how the traditional responsibilities of a BA role fit within the agile context. What we want to understand is how the BA fits into the agile development process, considering how the agile team works, and how the responsibilities of the BA are addressed in an agile environment.
Epic Budgeting - how agile teams meet deadinesDave Sharrock
According to this year's State of Agile survey, the most common success measure for agile initiatives, at 53%, is on-time delivery. But if agile teams can choose how much work they take into a sprint, how can teams be sure of delivering pre-committed scope on time and on budget? There is more to agile delivery than product owners ordering a backlog of work for teams to work on.
Epic budgeting is one tool that allows the product owner to steer a product across the line, delivering the expected scope on time by managing scope creep or an unsustainable focus on the perfect over the pragmatic. During this session learn about how product owners and their teams work towards a fixed date or budget by applying double loop learning to epic sizing and breakdown. Expect some tales from real companies and a few light hearted moments. And I'm at least 53% certain we will finish on time!
Adopting Scrum: an enterprise transformation (Andrea Tomasini, agile42)Andrea Tomasini
Using Scrum as a Pattern Language for Enterprise Transformation
How Scrum Patterns can be used also to introduce Scrum itself into a company. After many years of experience and many attempts to systematically make Scrum introduction into medium and large Enterprises, agile42 shares with you tools and methods used in some of the most successful agile transition.
Improve the chances of success of your organization with Resilience and Antif...Andrea Tomasini
Explicitly measuring and designing culture is an enabler towards agility and can provide incredible advantages to an organization development. Understanding how to lead such change is the one thing that might save your company in the rough waters of todays market. Are you ready for the challenge?
How to get everything right... by doing everything wrong? (Andrea Tomasini, a...Andrea Tomasini
a critical view on business changes in our age, and the impact they are having on structures and organizations which were defined in another century and are not anymore suited for today purposes. Who has the courage to challenge those structure and fully embrace change and uncertainty? How can an agile approach help to better support those changes?
How to grow your organization resilience and anti-fragilityAndrea Tomasini
Bringing agility to an organizational level requires a set of new skills and practices to emerge. While we have plenty of example on how agility can impact teams performance, by adopting well proven practices, there is still a lot of uncertainty in what to bring to an organizational level. Inspecting and adapting as an organization requires different structures and a more strategic approach, if we want to maximize the learning effect. Chaotic and uncontrolled experimentation and local adaptations can rapidly tear an organization apart. Focus on value and customers are important to set a common direction, but to roll out a shared strategy we need a solid and coherent cultural context, or the strategy will fail. Explicitly measuring and designing culture is a key enabler towards agility and can provide incredible advantages to an organization development. Understanding how to lead such change and enabling people to participate in creating rapid value, is the one thing that might save your company in the rough waters of today's market... Are you ready for the challenge?
Out of the success of some pilot (experiments) more and more organizations are stumbling on how to scale those experiments throughout the rest of the company. What most organizations end up doing is to reuse over and over again the same structures and the same rules they have been using for years, missing entirely the point about Agile. If you want to make it work for your organization, start from looking within a Team and understand what makes them Agile... look deeper into principles and values, not so much in practices, as those will emerge out of experience from your teams. Also understand the major difference between becoming agile and adopting agile. The latter encourage the wrong behaviour of looking on the market at existing models to adopt, and roll-out within your organization. Look at those model as a confirmation that is possible to solve your problems - as someone else apparently already did - and as inspiration. Also be vary of models which are not stemming out of experience, but of a lot of thinking, as that doesn't fit well to the Agile and Lean paradigm. Finally there are many factor you can evaluate in your journey toward becoming more Agile, there are level of complexity growing at an organizational level which you might not find in teams. Finally look at identifying metrics for tracking your progress in a way that reflects the outcome your organization is delivering and not the "work" is doing. In fact learning to work in an Agile way means learning to deliver more, by doing less. In the presentation I use the metaphor of an organization being a "car" rather than an organism, because of pure esthetic reasons, it would get rather bloody with an organic metaphor. I am aware like all models, has its weaknesses, and one of those is that it is mechanic, and predictable, unless it is a transforming car :-)
For a long time, organizations were seen more as machines in which processes are repeatable and, once set in motion, remain always the same. At agile42 we instead compare a company to an organism which grows, changes, and becomes resilient against external influences.
An organisation’s Agile transformation changes the organizational culture itself. This requires embracing a different set of values and principles, and so establishing a mindset strongly focused on collaboration and delivering customer value.
ORGANIC Agility recognises all organisational dimensions and contexts in order to create alignment between culture and business. The goal is to reduce process overhead as much as possible and create an environment of continuous improvement.
Herding cats or flocking birds - agile portfolio managementDave Sharrock
Managing the evolution of a single product working with a small number of teams is somewhat straightforward. Working from a single backlog, once the teams have established a predictable velocity, the product roadmap becomes relatively easy to visualize, whether by timeframe or feature set. As we increase the complexity of the product, things become harder. Different teams require different backlogs. Different products require work from different teams. Before you know it, there are lots of independent moving parts, with the risk that the coordination cost becomes higher and efficiency falls. In this talk, we consider some ground rules for visualizing work across multiple teams and discuss how dependencies are coordinated across different teams and product lines.
Keynote stop scaling... start growing an agile organization!Andrea Tomasini
Companies of all sizes need to grow their own agile way of working, becoming more agile is a journey, not a destination. Unfortunately, though, most of the time agile success is left in the hands of unlikely heroes, people who are passionate about agile, but likely lack the type of power and decision making required to move to the next level. Because becoming agile requires a radical mind-shift, it takes time, and time is what most organizations seem unwilling to invest. This is where our unlikely heroes come into play, pulling the “Agile Initiative” forward with their passion. Even more unfortunately, despite the great efforts of these individuals, the organization is not willing to wait, and instead, falls into the “implement that model” in a couple of months mindset. Does this work? Well, if it does, we still need to hear that it was fast and painless… On the other hand, more and more organizations are beginning to understand that becoming more agile is an individual journey, and has to be tightly coupled with the company business goals and culture, it can’t be standardized, or the company will likely lose their business advantage and uniqueness. In this keynote I am going to share stories about some of these companies, that having tried unsuccessfully to find more heroes, understood that becoming agile is a cultural shift that needs to be supported by the whole organization, and agreed to follow a growing approach rather than an implementing approach. Principles and tools which helped these organizations to grow their agility as well as stories of their journey will be shared as an example of how change can happen without heroic actions or old style “Change Initiatives”.
Will Agile work in my embedded development environment?bmyllerup
Agile approaches like Scrum is designed for software development, but will it also work when we add electronics development and mechanical construction to the practices? Come and get insights from the experiences of a Certified Scrum Trainer who actually did the work himself. You will learn about how to setup teams that have the combined skill-set of software, electronics and mechanical engineers...
Portfolio prioritization with lean canvas and value gameBrad Swanson
Projects are too often prioritized based on opinions and politics. Use the Lean Canvas & Business Value Game for rigorous prioritization -- or SEQUENCING of projects.
Learning Objectives:
How to use the Lean Canvas to articulate critical project parameters
How to use the Business Value Game to achieve consensus on project priorities / sequencing
Portfolio prioritization with lean canvasMike Caspar
Portfolio prioritization with Lean Canvas, Relative Business Value and Cost of Delay .
Presentation done at Scrum Gathering 2015 in Phoenix (#SGPHX) together with Brad Swanson.
An Introduction to Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)CA Technologies
To compete in today’s application economy, organizations have adopted agile execution techniques. But is that enough? Learn about SAFe and how to leverage this methodology to elevate your agile teams to deliver quality outcomes and align at the enterprise level.
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Thoughts on Lean Product Development at CAMUG, YYC Nov 2014Dave Sharrock
The rise of the Lean Startup has led to a deeper understanding of the importance of validating business ideas, from new features to new business models. But many tools available to the Product Owner aren't adapted to rapid validation. Starting from the principles and practices of agile product management, from defining the product vision to creating story maps and refining the product backlog, you will learn about key practices that incorporate the lean startup principles, allowing a Product Owner to bring the build-measure-learn cycle alive and ultimately earn more value more quickly.
IBM Innovate2014 - Is Agile Compliance an Oxymoron? Dave Sharrock
Agile software development is a light framework that focusses more on early value delivery and incremental improvement than traditional tasks like detailed up-front planning, comprehensive specifications and technical documentation. But from the perspective of regulatory compliance, this planning and documentation serve a purpose. How can we reconcile agile approaches that value a working product over documentation with the need to meet regulatory requirements for, e.g. medical devices or telecommunications? I will discuss how to bring together the apparently conflicting needs of regulatory compliance and agile, and show by example how agile teams actually approach tough regulatory requirements in finance, healthcare and telecommunications.
Learning Objectives
- How to use agile in a highly-regulated environment
- How to incorporate strict regulatory requirements within an agile development approach
- The power of agile as a risk-limiting software development approach
ORGANIC agility webinar - Archetypes: mapping organization, culture and leade...Giuseppe De Simone
The empirical evidence agile42 has got from multiple client engagements supports the theory that ideal characteristics of a leader are based on archetypes, ideal types of what an organization should look like and their underlying culture, and has led us to observe a very strong relationship between leadership attitude, organizational design, and organizational culture. The idea behind ORGANIC leadership is that there isn’t any right or wrong leadership behavior, but rather there are behaviors that one can master, and can be appropriately called upon in specific situations within a specific culture: if a leadership behavior doesn’t correspond to the cultural expectations of the people involved, will very likely cause a negative emotional response, and potentially increase motivational debt.
In this webinar I provided an overview of different Archetypes that are expressed under specific conditions and bring leadership behavior, organizational design and organizational culture together. We also explored some methods within the ORGANIC agility framework, that allow to recognize the Archetype to which an organization can be mapped at a given moment in time, and provide guidance for transitioning to a different archetype, while increasing coherence between culture, organizational design and leadership behaviors.
Portfolio prioritization with lean canvas and value game for PMI Buffalo NY C...Mike Caspar
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Projects are too often prioritized based on opinions and politics. Use the Lean Canvas, a one-page business plan, and the Business Value Game for rigorous prioritization.
Learning Objectives:
How to use the Lean Canvas to articulate critical project parameters
How to use the Business Value Game to prioritize different projects
Agile portfolio administration helps groups and directors to understand the actual potential to subsequently perform their tasks successfully. Today with the accessibility of coordinated administration preparing suppliers on the web, you can undoubtedly take up far reaching dexterous preparing according to your need and accessibility of time.
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Agile portfolio administration helps groups and directors to understand the actual potential to subsequently perform their tasks successfully. Today with the accessibility of coordinated administration preparing suppliers on the web, you can undoubtedly take up far reaching dexterous preparing according to your need and accessibility of time.
In the last years many enterprises have decided to make Agile transformation in order to improve products delivery and to increase customer satisfaction. Also they want happy people while working on these products.
Self-managed teams are working since more than a decade with success. some of these teams belong to non-agile organizations, that in some way make no easy to perform their work while ensuring Agile values and principles.
When the complexity of these environments is high, new formats for communication and governance are needed. Scaled Agile Frameworks can be used in order to avoid this kind of troubles and resolve decision making with success.
SAFe is one of the mayor frameworks used to scale Agile at enterprise, in this talk we will discover why.
Scaled Agile, Inc., is the provider of SAFe®, the world’s leading framework for business agility. Through learning and certification, a global partner network, and a growing community of over 800,000 trained professionals, Scaled Agile helps enterprises build agility into their culture so they can quickly identify and deliver customer value, capitalize on emerging opportunities, and improve business outcomes. Learn more at scaledagile.com.
Webinar: 6 Keys to Agile Transformation Success with David Hawks | Agile Velo...Agile Velocity
Most Agile transformations are failing to deliver results. They’re either never-ending or constantly restarting, which has created transformation fatigue for many individuals and organizations. In this webinar, David Hawks discussed 6 critical elements most companies are missing that will enable them to have a successful Agile transformation.
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Is Agile in your DNA | Portland Global Scrum Gathering 2023Dave Sharrock
Agile has been around for a while. The Agile Manifesto was penned in 2001. By 2010 CIO Magazine had Agile identified as one of the top 3 trends any technology-minded leader should be actively incorporating into their organizations. And today, Agile is so well entrenched that it feels like we have always been Agile.
Now for the hard part. Agile is a mindset. A philosophy on how to approach product delivery. The practices and frameworks will fade in and out of the spotlight, but, as Marty Cagan has said, the core Lean and Agile principles are, hopefully, here to stay. But this is the riskiest part of the journey. We think we have this agility thing in our DNA and can start looking to the future. This is the moment that John Kotter described as institutionalizing change.
We will discuss how to understand where you are on your agile journey. Is agility in your DNA, or still an outlier in how you get work done? How can we visualize what agility looks like in our organization? How can we understand what remains to be done to lock in the agile mindset?
Specifically, we will look at five dimensions across your organization, and evaluate how strongly agility is in the DNA of your organization. From this perspective, we can identify opportunities to strengthen the change and where to move on, confident in the knowledge of a job well done. Come and learn how to peel back the covers on your organizational agility.
Product Owners plant the seeds for excellent agile delivery teams. Great POs know how to plant the best seeds, seeds that the team can swarm around and deliver quickly, that provide rapid feedback and learning, and that morph towards excellent customer experiences. In some situations we need a good PO, in others we need a great PO. The trick is to know the difference. Join me on a journey of discovery working with contemporary examples to find out how to be a great PO or a good PO, and why you might, at different times, want to be both.
We look at two key dimensions that determine whether you need good PO or a great PO, and how to tell the difference. First, what problem is the PO trying to solve? Are you rolling out changes to a mature product or battling to enter an emerging field? Are you scaling rapidly or slowly? Second, how is the PO making decisions about their backlog. Give a PO a project requirements document and a timeline, and what’s a PO to do? Even the best and most experienced POs will struggle to deliver an exciting customer experience that captures the heart of the customer.
Through the workshop, you will learn a simple model for identifying great POs based not on PO experience, but on how the PO makes decisions about their backlog. The best POs know how to combine data and stakeholder input to best effect.Finally, we consider the product problems you are trying to solve, the pace of change, and how this affects the PO - good to great - you want for your product.
Epic Budgeting - or how agile teams meet deadlinesDave Sharrock
Epic budgeting is all about meeting deadlines. Working with agile teams that pull work while meeting stakeholder expectations around what gets done by what date. The challenge is that teams don't always pull as much as we want them too. So how do you hit a deadline without forcing work onto the team?
According to this year's State of Agile survey, the most common success measure for agile initiatives, at 53%, is on-time delivery. But if agile teams can choose how much work they take into a sprint, how can teams be sure of delivering pre-committed scope on time and on budget? There is clearly more to agile delivery than product owners ordering a backlog of work for teams to work on.
Epic Budgeting allows the product owner to steer a product across the line, delivering the expected scope on time by managing scope creep or an unsustainable focus on the perfect over the pragmatic. During this session learn how product owners and their teams work towards a fixed date or budget by applying double loop learning to epic sizing and breakdown. Expect some tales from real companies and a few light hearted moments. And I'm at least 53% certain we will finish on time!
Why stop at your IT department? Or an Agile approach to Change Management
Business agility is more than the organization’s IT shop adopting an agile delivery method. Business agility depends on three core capabilities: rapid delivery, strategic sensing, and customer rapport. As such it builds resilience to change as a strategic imperative and eventually it allows businesses to build a strategic advantage in driving change.
Investments in “agile” from an IT perspective will not increase business agility. So what does a company need in order to successfully drive change rather than react to it?
We’ll talk about how creating a resilient organization starts with rapid delivery and why many major organizations are turning their attention to less costly on-demand releases. We’ll look at how customer rapport is the new driver of operational efficiency, where not building something is invariably cheaper than optimizing the operational cost of building anything at all.
Epic Budgeting - or how agile teams meet deadlinesDave Sharrock
According to this year's State of Agile survey, the most common success measure for agile initiatives, at 53%, is on-time delivery. But if agile teams can choose how much work they take into a sprint, how can teams be sure of delivering pre-committed scope on time and on budget? There is more to agile delivery than product owners ordering a backlog of work for teams to work on.
Epic budgeting is one tool that allows the product owner to steer a product across the line, delivering the expected scope on time by managing scope creep or an unsustainable focus on the perfect over the pragmatic. During this session learn about how product owners and their teams work towards a fixed date or budget by applying double loop learning to epic sizing and breakdown. Expect some tales from real companies and a few light hearted moments. And I'm at least 53% certain we will finish on time!
Product management as a discipline is undergoing a transition towards data-driven decision making. As the cost of testing product feature ideas falls, the role of a product manager becomes one based on testing many feature ideas, and rolling out proven features. In this presentation we touch on some of the trends behind this paradigm shift, and consider some tools the product manager can use.
Agile methods are based on short iterations delivering functionality in increments, with small, well-defined work requests consisting of just enough requirements definition at just the right time. But with such a short-term focus, how can agile teams manage a product portfolio over months or even years? We'll talk about the building blocks of an effective agile portfolio management strategy, starting with the core tools of the Product Owner, and extending these to look beyond the next few weeks of work into planning and tracking a product release or portfolio over several months.
The +15FLIGHTPLAN agile team behaviors, used to support and guide agile teams in developing a growth plan for long-term sustainable agility. Presented at Agile2012, in Dallas, Texas.
big bang delivery to continual value deliveryDave Sharrock
Recent years has seen an emerging new standard in software delivery, with Gartner claiming that over 80% of software development uses some form of agile methodology. Starting by understanding the mega-trends underlying this shift, from the commoditization of software changes, to the proliferation of development frameworks, to the increasing influence the customers of software have on the development lifecycle, we’ll consider the fundamental differences between a long big bang delivery lifecycle and a short incremental value delivery lifecycle, and its impact on information systems, security and controls.
We all know the engineering practices we should be using, and many teams I meet say that they have plans to start unit testing or test automation, ‘in the next 6 months’. But for a variety of reasons familiar to all of us, like time pressure and ever increasing demands from the customer, these worthy plans rarely come to pass. Using experiences from starting agile teams, I’ll throw out some proven strategies for getting a toe hold in adopting great agile practices, as well as looking at real examples from the audience and how we might accelerate the adoption of good practices.
Many agile teams start off well. But once the initial energy has dropped, and the team has gained some experience, what’s next? What do great agile teams do that good or failing agile teams don’t? You will learn how great agile teams develop the skills to continually improve, moving from good teams to high-performing teams that work ‘in the zone’. You will also develop a ‘flight plan’ for your agile team, creating the environment to stay in the sweet spot of high performance.
Adaptive software development processes epitomized by Agile methodologies are based on continual improvement – incremental changes that emerge as teams iterate and learn about the product they are developing. This appears to conflict with the world of the program office, responsible for defining the software development lifecycle (SDLC), in which a stable and repeatable development process with well-defined ownership and controls is a common objective. Using recent examples in which agile methods have been successfully introduced into large organizations with existing SDLCs, we consider the difficulties of creating a verifiable process when the process itself is continually being modified, and look at how software development can be managed and controlled without stifling the benefits of adaptive software development processes.
Leading Agile Change - AgileVancouver 2011Dave Sharrock
An often overlooked aspect of large agile transformations is how we lead that transformation. The elephant in the room, if you like, is that many coaches and transition consultants focus on helping teams become more agile, while not walking the walk themselves. It is extremely difficult to rely on many frameworks like Scrum or Kanban for managing the work of the transition team or leadership team in a large organization. We talk the talk with our teams, but don’t walk the walk.
How to form agile teams talks about the fundamental characteristics of high performing teams, and how to influence the team environment and selection in order to initiate a team for success.
Breakfast for agile champions workshop-sgsea2011Dave Sharrock
Breakfast - the most important meal of the day. Certainly, if you miss breakfast around mid-morning you can find yourself lacking the energy and motivation to keep on working; Missing out on a good breakfast can doom you to an ineffectual and frustrating day. The kick-off of a major transition has a similar impact on the success of the transition.
But how can we increase the chance of success on a large transition? What is a “good breakfast” when starting a large transition? What should be avoided? Drawing from our own experience of many successful transitions, and learning from the experiences of you, the audience, we will learn what works - and what does not work - when kicking-off large transitions
Putting the SPARK into Virtual Training.pptxCynthia Clay
This 60-minute webinar, sponsored by Adobe, was delivered for the Training Mag Network. It explored the five elements of SPARK: Storytelling, Purpose, Action, Relationships, and Kudos. Knowing how to tell a well-structured story is key to building long-term memory. Stating a clear purpose that doesn't take away from the discovery learning process is critical. Ensuring that people move from theory to practical application is imperative. Creating strong social learning is the key to commitment and engagement. Validating and affirming participants' comments is the way to create a positive learning environment.
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A personal brand exploration presentation summarizes an individual's unique qualities and goals, covering strengths, values, passions, and target audience. It helps individuals understand what makes them stand out, their desired image, and how they aim to achieve it.
RMD24 | Retail media: hoe zet je dit in als je geen AH of Unilever bent? Heid...BBPMedia1
Grote partijen zijn al een tijdje onderweg met retail media. Ondertussen worden in dit domein ook de kansen zichtbaar voor andere spelers in de markt. Maar met die kansen ontstaan ook vragen: Zelf retail media worden of erop adverteren? In welke fase van de funnel past het en hoe integreer je het in een mediaplan? Wat is nu precies het verschil met marketplaces en Programmatic ads? In dit half uur beslechten we de dilemma's en krijg je antwoorden op wanneer het voor jou tijd is om de volgende stap te zetten.
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Enterprise Excellence is Inclusive Excellence.pdfKaiNexus
Enterprise excellence and inclusive excellence are closely linked, and real-world challenges have shown that both are essential to the success of any organization. To achieve enterprise excellence, organizations must focus on improving their operations and processes while creating an inclusive environment that engages everyone. In this interactive session, the facilitator will highlight commonly established business practices and how they limit our ability to engage everyone every day. More importantly, though, participants will likely gain increased awareness of what we can do differently to maximize enterprise excellence through deliberate inclusion.
What is Enterprise Excellence?
Enterprise Excellence is a holistic approach that's aimed at achieving world-class performance across all aspects of the organization.
What might I learn?
A way to engage all in creating Inclusive Excellence. Lessons from the US military and their parallels to the story of Harry Potter. How belt systems and CI teams can destroy inclusive practices. How leadership language invites people to the party. There are three things leaders can do to engage everyone every day: maximizing psychological safety to create environments where folks learn, contribute, and challenge the status quo.
Who might benefit? Anyone and everyone leading folks from the shop floor to top floor.
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Tata Group Dials Taiwan for Its Chipmaking Ambition in Gujarat’s DholeraAvirahi City Dholera
The Tata Group, a titan of Indian industry, is making waves with its advanced talks with Taiwanese chipmakers Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (PSMC) and UMC Group. The goal? Establishing a cutting-edge semiconductor fabrication unit (fab) in Dholera, Gujarat. This isn’t just any project; it’s a potential game changer for India’s chipmaking aspirations and a boon for investors seeking promising residential projects in dholera sir.
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Discover the innovative and creative projects that highlight my journey through Full Sail University. Below, you’ll find a collection of my work showcasing my skills and expertise in digital marketing, event planning, and media production.
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