Masterclass de IIMN ofrecida en Marzo de 2015 "Agile (pensamiento y técnicas)" - por José Carlos Gil Zambrana

1. ¡Hola! 
#agileIIMN

3. Agile & Technical Coach
Consultant & trainer
Lego Serious Play
@josecgil
About me

5. It’s not about...
Practices or tools
Boards, post-it, stand-
ups, games...

6. What?

7. It’s about
principles...

8. … and Values

10. PRODUCT?

12. Computing Manufacturing

15. Most common
methods

18. Make work visible
Limit WIP
Measure flow
Explicit rules
Feedback loops
Evolve experimentally
Kanban

19. Let’s go back
to the example

20. 300 people
Catalog sales to web
Rebranding
Labour Force Adjustment (ERE)
Org Context

21. The project
Web redesign & rebuild
A company challenge
Not only Marketing & Tech

22. Background
Previous mobile web
made using Scrum
It may seems the same
but… it was not a
company effort

23. The project begins

24. Agile Inception
40 people
10 exercices
1 full day
Outside the company

29. Product Box Not List

32. How Long? How Much?

34. Results
Know what’s in/out: web,
brand, process change...
Shared vision
Too many people

35. 3 Full Stack Devs
1 Frontend Dev/UX
1 QA/UX
2 Part-time Designers
1 Product Owner
The team

36. Time & Space
Dedicated space for the team
Product Owner co-located
100% of time devoted to
project

41. Team Organization
Kanban:
Business, Design & Front End
Scrum:
Development & Acceptance Test
2 weeks Sprints

43. Business
UX

44. Design

45. Front End

47. Development

48. Acceptance Test

49. Everything is good
High quality of deliverables
Better business organization
High team morale
Customer satisfaction

50. Why?

52. Command & Control
“exercise of authority [...] by a
properly designated [individual] over
assigned [resources] in the
accomplishment of a [common goal]”
As defined by
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

53. Industrial Knowledge

54. Cmd & Ctrl Self Org
One brain
Slow decision chain
No idea
Demotivated
Many brains
Fast decision chain
Know how
Motivated

55. Self organizing team
Pulling work
Solving conflicts internally
Improving process by themselves
Suggesting solutions
Delivering value

56. Is for every team?
Requires maturity
Skills / Knowledge
Motivation / Ambition

57. Root cause
Testing
Quality at the
source

58. Pair working

59. Mob working

61. Demo
Every 2 weeks we
show and deliver a
product that
works and is
better than before.

62. Retrospective
Transparency
Continuous improvement

68. Informal meetings
As soon as a problem
arises
Anyware
Fast decision or …
Last responsible moment

69. No problems
then?

70. ERE
Every 5 weeks 1 off
Pair / Mob Working
Visual management
Self organization

71. Not everyone in the
team knew well
Scrum / Kanban.
Internal Training
Training

72. More cowbell
Management wants
speed / more people
Maximizing the amount
of work not done
Release early, release
often

73. Wisdom of the elders
“Adding manpower
to a late software
project makes it
later”
Frederick P. Brooks

74. Wisdom of the elders
“Nine women can’t
make a baby in one
month”
Frederick P. Brooks

76. Continuous delivery
Prioritize
Create options
Visualize the work
Contrast with
Delivery date

77. To conclude

78. Agile has practices...

79. ...but is about
Principles & Values

81. Your team is
your product

82. Thanks!

83. Questions?
@josecgil
josecgil@smokingbrains.com