Last month (June 2016), I helped a well-known higher education institute in Indonesia. I train the lecturers there, so that their students can practice agile software development. [I show the audience some photos and videos as the proofs] Can you imagine a condition when all our CS/IT students already get the real experiences of proper Scrum, Automated Testing, etc? In that imaginary world, agile software development is already the norm! In the other side, there is no more room for Waterfall’s Big-Design-Up-Front style. Because we know that any software problem is inherently a design problem—or complex problem in Cynefin framework. You can’t solve that kind of problem by designing a big-fixed solution up in the front. And if almost every software development is already agile—as it was visioned back then in 2001 manifesto, why would we still use ‘agile’ term? We invent words to categorize things. Before ‘agile’ was proposed in the 2001 manifesto, they called it ‘lightweight’. Because it’s different with the previous heavy weight Waterfall. Now, when I say the word ‘computer’, what would your brain emulate? A mainframe computer? Or a personal computer? Both of them are literally a computing machine. I put my money on personal computer. Because almost everyone see personal computer in daily basis. And they haven’t seen any mainframe computer once in their life. Just as the dead of ‘personal’ term, in ‘personal computer’—I don’t count PC because that’s an abbreviation—‘agile’ in ‘agile software development’ will also be dead. Not because it’s bad. On the contrary, that’s because agility the best option for software development. In 2026 I, believe, we will call it simply as ‘software development’. Please help the world to reach that kind of utopia, at least by telling your ex-lecturers, “you should teach agile software development properly”. We should be so proud for standing here. Being a part of agile software development movement, of the 21st century. Why? Because a good movement always has a goal, this agile software development movement also has a clear end.

1. Rizky Syaiful @ DiscussAgile
Jakarta 2016

2. Hi !
My name is Rizky Syaiful:
2013 - 2014 : Helped Joshua Partogi,
a Scrum.org trainer who teach around Asia.
2014 - now : Quitted my job &
bootstrapping for my own startup...
agile soft. dev. training
Scrum, Design Sprint, Kanban
/ agile
personal
development
Human
happiness

3. I want to confess my crime...
I killed ‘Agile Software
Development’
unintentionally
9 June 2016
25 June 2016

4. This is exactly, how I did it...

5. This is exactly, how I did it...

6. This is exactly, how I did it...

7. This is exactly, how I did it...

8. This is exactly, how I did it...

9. This is exactly, how I did it...

10. This is exactly, how I did it...

11. This is the result...
Curriculum
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
Basic
development
skills
Real
development
course,
followed by
internship
Real
development
of their own
product.
Guided by
lecturers as
SM or XP
coach
Maximize the experience:
Fast & proper build-measure-
learn cycle.
Tools & mindsets in building
high-quality, easy-to-change,
well-maintained, software.
Full authority to forecast
timeline as development

12. Then, I was daydreaming...
FYI, I never sell any training to education entity…
I was surprised by their enthusiasm…
It went viral, other institutions start to email me...
At that time, I didn’t consider it as a crime…
Until, I realized…

13. What if...
Every
What if
in

14. In that imaginary world...
Do we still need to say something such as,
‘agile software development’ ?
When every software development process would
be ‘agile’ by default?

15. No. Of course no.
Humanity create name/word to differentiate things
A.k.a Categorizing
When heterogenous things become homogenous,
we don’t need name/word anymore…
In its early days, we can’t
just call this stuff ‘computer’.

16. A Short History
Why the name ‘agile’ appear in the first place?
Let me remind you the history of our movement.

17. In the end of my Daydreaming...

18. If you also believe that ASD is
the ideal/default,
ASD must be seen as the new
‘norm’.
As the new ‘software development’.
help me to replace Waterfall in
the curriculum with it.

19. If you don’t help me,
If you don’t help me, this people would remain
scarce:
Software developers who are self-organized,
code clean, know DevOps, etc.
Product researchers who live the philosophy of
build-measure-learn fast cycle (a.k.a agile).
Leaders & managers who create ASD-friendly
ASD will always be seen as
‘the other’ in the ecosystem.

20. Systemic

21. “Systemic Problem Needs
Systemic Solution”
Formal education is a systemic solution
for the future.
Why? Because it can touch
every future player in the ecosystem.

22. If you help ASD to become the norm,
ASD as the
normal SD
More Hi-Quality
Softwares,
Business-Wise &
Technical-Wise
A Better World :)
Enables
Implies
you’ll help making world a better
place

23. Next Part: Call to Action
Is there anyone who disagree
“ASD should be the ideal software development
style?”

24. Create the Demand
from Campus Management

25. Empirical Data
Story of my first campus & Blibli.com.

26. Email your ex-lecturer...
And tell them about this conference.
Tell them that industry needs the attitude/mindset from ASD.

27. My friends might help you
Hugo
Distributed working, offshoring, Scrum as a software
vendor or vendee.
Ivan
Scrum & other agile practice implementation in
Indonesia culture, network of agile practitioners here.
Imanzah
Product ownership: user-centered design, design
thinking.
Saket
Call him if you want ‘bahasa Indonesia’ Scrum

28. Promotion
Love human happiness topic ?
Do want to have more happy colleagues at work?
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