How to Roll Rocks Downhill FASTER
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This document discusses identifying and addressing bottlenecks in teams. It suggests finding the bottleneck, optimizing it, collaborating across roles, coordinating work, curating tasks for value, upgrading resources if needed, and shipping work strategically. The document uses the analogy of buffalo herds to illustrate how bottlenecks form and can be addressed.
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- 1. Who moved my Bottleneck? Clarke Ching Scrum Australia October 2018 @clarkeching
- 2. Scrum Team Everyone Else
- 11. Bottleneck
- 14. Example 1. Request: Eliminate the 120 top-priority defects, by EOY. Team of 16 - mixed roles & skill-sets time # BEFORE - 10 / M AFTER 13 / M 120 COBOL, ASP, Oracle May Dec
- 15. Not Started Analysis Design Program
- 16. Not Started Analysis Design Program
- 17. Not Started Analysis Design Program Test
- 18. Not Started Analysis Design Program Test
- 19. Not Started Analysis Design Program Test 20/m 10/m15/m25/m 10/m
- 20. Not Started Analysis Design Program Test 20/m 10/m15/m25/m 10/m
- 21. Not Started Analysis Design Program Test 20/m 10/m15/m25/m 10/m
- 22. Not Started Analysis Design Program Test 20/m 10/m15/m25/m 10/m
- 23. Not Started Analysis Design Program Test 20/m 10/m15/m25/m Have I told you about the buffalo? 10/m
- 24. The Buffalo Story started out as an email joke. An imagined conversation between Norm and Cliff, from “Cheers”, the TV Show. image: wikipedia
- 25. Well, you see, Norm, it’s like this. A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. The slowest buffalo stays at the back and the faster buffalo run in front, but at the slower speed. Otherwise, the herd would split apart. slowest fastest
- 26. Like this. And when they were split apart they were prone to attack by wolves. Evolution favoured the herds that didn’t spread apart. slowest fastest
- 27. When these tightly packed herds were hunted, the wolves killed the slowest and weakest buffalo. The guys at the back. That made the remaining herd stronger and faster. slowest fastest
- 28. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. [Hmmm … ] Now, as we know, excessive intake of alcohol kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. slowest fastest Here’s the JOKE Bit.
- 29. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. And that, Norm, is why you always feel smarter after a few beers. slowest fastest
- 30. Not Started Analysis Design Program Test 20/m 10/m15/m25/m Q: Where’s your “slowest buffalo?” Find your bottleneck Start Again strategically
- 31. Not Started Analysis Design Program Test 20/m 10/m15/m25/m How can we speed up the slowest buffalo? test cleverer & faster simple “time management” stuff Find your bottleneck Optimise your bottleneck Start Again strategically
- 32. Not Started Analysis Design Program Test 20/m 10/m15/m25/m How can the “faster buffalo” help? SLOW DOWN! Don’t distract the testers Help them!!!! FOCCCUS Find your bottleneck Optimise your bottleneck Collaborate - fast help slow Coordinate your herd Start Again strategically
- 33. Not Started Analysis Design Program Test 20/m 10/m15/m25/m How can the “faster buffalo” help? Tidy up the existing stickies. Cull the hardest. FOCCCUS Find your bottleneck Optimise your bottleneck Collaborate - fast help slow Coordinate your herd Curate for value Start Again strategically
- 34. Not Started Analysis Design Program Test 20/m 10/m15/m25/m If this doesn’t work, can we hire more bottleneck resource? FOCCCUS Find your bottleneck Optimise your bottleneck Collaborate - fast help slow Coordinate your herd Curate for value Upgrade $$$$ Start Again strategically
- 35. Not Started Analysis Design Program Test 20/m 10/m15/m25/m If this doesn’t work, can we hire more bottleneck resource? FOCCCUS formula Find your bottleneck Optimise your bottleneck Collaborate - fast help slow Coordinate your herd Curate for value Upgrade $$$$ Start Again strategically
- 36. IT starts as the bottleneck bottleneck But agile increases IT capacity … so Customer Users fuel IT
- 37. Customers soon become the bottleneck Customer fuel IT Users • Customers can’t keep up. • IT can’t slow down • So customers feed lower- value and lower-quality fuel … to keep IT busy … bottleneck
- 38. Customers soon become the bottleneck bottleneck Customer IT Users • Customers can’t keep up. • IT can’t slow down • So customers feed lower- value and lower-quality fuel … to keep IT busy … fuel “make work” requirements
- 39. Customers soon become the bottleneck Customer IT Users • We’ve gotta keep the developers busy! • So we start work that’s not “ready” • Which causes enormous rework • Which adds to the Fuel Tank • Which turns IT back into the bottleneck fuel REWORK “make work” requirements bottleneck
- 40. Customer IT Users • We look busy. • We look productive. • We are heading in the wrong direction, sluggishly AND: IT keeps getting faster! fuel REWORK “make work” requirements
- 43. IT Users • And ... we release all the time ... which overwhelms our users. • And frustrates us when they ask us to slow down. fuel Customer“make work” requirements
- 46. Scrum Team Everyone Else Bridge Builders
- 47. Bridge Builders
- 48. Bridge Builders • The Academy of Management Executive (1987-1989) • Vol. 2, No. 2 (May, 1988), pp. 127-132
- 49. Effective
- 50. Successful
- 51. Cynical!!!!
- 52. “SUCCESSFUL”“EFFECTIVE” People who are good at networking Shameless NetworkersTeam oriented “leaders” ManagerScrumMaster Face into the team Face up and out from the team Team Builders Bridge Builders
- 53. Scrum Team Everyone Else Bridge Builders
- 54. From https://hbr.org/2015/09/3-things-managers-should-be-doing-every-day 1. Build Trust 2. Building a real team and managing through it 3. Building a network. 3. Building a network. Every team depends on the support and collaboration of outside people and groups. Effective group leaders proactively build and maintain a network of these outsiders, which includes not just those needed for today’s work but also those the group will need to achieve future goals. This is without doubt the imperative that most troubles new managers. They think “networking” is manipulative organizational politicking that requires them to pretend they like people just because they want something from them. They strive to be above that sort of thing. Alas, in the process, they unnecessarily limit their own and their group’s ability to influence others for good ends. Building a network can be politicking but it need not be if they do it honestly, openly, and with the genuine intent of creating relationships that benefit both sides.
- 62. His greatest invention? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grazebrook_Beam_Engine.jpg This is a Boulton & Watt beam blowing engine re-erected on the Dartmouth Circus roundabout, on the A38(M) in Birmingham, UK. It was built in 1817 and used in Netherton at the ironworks of M W Grazebrook.
- 63. Michael My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse. Kay What was that? http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Godfather
- 64. = An offer too good to refuse: Horse Power
- 65. = = 30 HP Which currently costs you £900 p.a.. I’ll charge you £300 p.a.., saving you £600 p.a.. If you sign up for 20 years. An offer too good to refuse: Horse Power
- 66. = = 30 HP Which currently costs you £900 p.a.. I’ll charge you £300 p.a.., saving you £600 p.a.. If you sign up for 20 years. An offer too good to refuse: Horse Power Benefit = £600 every year.
- 67. Question: What benefits do YOU provide for YOUR customers? Answer: You need to figure that out out. But let me tell you what it’s not.
- 69. You choose: or Many cups each with fewer features MUCH MORE VALUE One cup with many features MUCH LESS VALUE
- 70. Question: What benefits do YOU provide for YOUR customers? Answer: You need to figure that out out. But let me tell you what it’s not. It’s not: Lots of features
- 71. This “benefits” conversation not only cuts scope, it: - makes sure IT works on the right stuff & - forces customers and IT to work together to chase the same thing. Customer Collaboration
- 72. Efficiency - Logistical Productivity Effectiveness - Commercial Productivity FASTER IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
- 73. www.Rolls.Rocks @clarkeching clarke@rolls.rocks Agile Productivity Secrets from Two Scottish Legends by Clarke Ching FASTER In the RIGHT DIRECTION
- 74. www.Rolls.Rocks @clarkeching clarke@rolls.rocks Agile Productivity Secrets from Two Scottish Legends by Clarke Ching
- 76. Lucy
- 78. People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things. “ ” —Steve Jobs, Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, May 13–16, 1997
- 79. ESPRESSO + Water + Milk + Foam + Sprinkles + a straw Base Optional - Nice to haves Choice: Lots of espresso -or- A few Caffe Mocha
- 80. imp 1 imp 2 imp 3 imp 5 bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla blaimp 4
- 81. Improvements Imp 1 Imp 2 Imp 3 ... List
- 82. Improvements Slice a Slice b Slice c Slice d Imp 1 1a 1b 1c 1d Imp 2 2a 2b 2c 2d Imp 3 3a 3b 3c 3d ... Slice & Dice
- 83. Improvements Slice a Slice b Slice c Slice d Imp 1 1a 1b 1c 1d Imp 2 2a 2b 2c 2d Imp 3 3a 3b 3c 3d ... The smallest, sensible, stand alone subset of 1.
- 84. Improvements Slice a Slice b Slice c Slice d Imp 1 1a 1b 1c 1d Imp 2 2a 2b 2c 2d Imp 3 3a 3b 3c 3d ... 1 2 3 4 5 Prioritize
- 85. Improvements Slice a Slice b Slice c Slice d Imp 1 1a 1b 1c 1d Imp 2 2a 2b 2c 2d Imp 3 3a 3b 3c 3d ... Vertical and Horizontal culling.
- 86. Six principles of Agile Development 86 Promised Shipping Date RELEASE BASE - Bare minimum All features time Working Software = Potentially shippable 2: Deliver chunks of high-value, well engineered, Working software often 4: The Customer can add, delete or reprioritise features at any time. i.e. this is how we “embrace change” 1: Customer lists known requirements (to a high level), then prioritises them. prioritised 3: The Customer can release the software at any time they want. ££££££££££££££ learn from the market 5: We protect schedule commitments, despite change - we deliver on time. Backlog 6. We review the project and the value it delivers at the end of each increment ???
- 89. Not Started Analysis Design Program Test 20/m 10/m15/m25/m FOCCCUS Find your bottleneck Optimise your bottleneck Collaborate - fast help slow Coordinate your herd Curate for value Upgrade $$$$ Start Again strategically Shipped
- 91. ToC tick tick tick