modern approaches share a focus on producing exceptional outcomes and growing an outstanding culture. Today, it makes far more sense to bypass antiquated agility in favor of modern approaches. Modern agile methods are defined by four guiding principles: - Make people awesome - Make safety a prerequisite - Experiment & learn rapidly - Deliver value continuously

1. MODERN
AGILE

2. Teleportation

4. Fastest company
to reach
$100 billion in
annual sales.

5. Hit $10 billion in
annual sales faster
than amazon.com

6. Jeff Bezos
CEO, Amazon
“They share a distinctive
organizational culture that
cares deeply about and acts
with conviction on a small
number of principles.”
2016 Letter to
Shareholders

7. Customer obsession rather
than competitor obsession
Eagerness to invent & pioneer,
willingness to fail
Patience to think long-term
Taking professional pride in
operational excellence

9. Respect
for People
Continuous
Improvement
Production
System

10. Agility
Requires
Balance

11. Agile(M-W.com)
•marked by ready ability to
move with quick easy grace.
•having a quick, resourceful and
adaptable character.

14. Joshua Kerievsky
CEO, Industrial Logic, Inc.
joshua@industriallogic.com
Blog: industriallogic.com/blog/
Friend me on Snapchat!
I’m rarely on LinkedIn
I’m active on Twitter
Anonymous Feedback: sayat.me/joshua

15. We will rock
this Sprint!

16. Ummm, we have a
lot left to do. But
we’ll make it!

17. I don’t like the
looks of this!

18. Ouch! But we can
make it if we don’t
test or refactor.

19. We “finished” but
the code sucks &
I feel awful.

20. “I may have
invented points.
If I did, I’m sorry
now.”
Ron Jeffries
https://pragprog.com/magazines/2013-02/estimation-is-evil

21. “Velocity
is Killing
Agility!”
“I may have
invented points.
If I did, I’m sorry
now.”
Ron Jeffries Jim Highsmith
https://pragprog.com/magazines/2013-02/estimation-is-evil http://jimhighsmith.com/velocity-is-killing-agility/

22. Agile?!?
•marked by ready ability to sprint,
estimate with storypoints and
conduct standup meetings.

23. http://img.blog.yahoo.co.kr/ybi/1/1c/f6/cliffordmlarsen/folder/717992/img_717992_1359004_3?1103025176.jpg
“Let’s Get Out of the
Deliverables Business!”
-Jeff Gothelf, Lean UX

24. ... ...
Product Owner
ACCEPTED
Definition of Done?

25. We are uncovering
better ways of getting
awesome results.
MODERN
AGILE

30. Less Stress = Better!!!

33. If you have
a culture of fear
none of your fancy
practices or processes
will help you.

34. How I
Fired
Myself

35. "This, is a
monumental fuck up.
You're gonna cost us
millions in revenue."

36. SITE OUTAGE

38. ”People are not afraid
of failure, they’re
afraid of blame.”
SETH GODIN

40. MASSIMO
BATTURA
3-STAR
MICHELIN
CHEF

42. "OOPS!
I dropped
the lemon
tart!”

43. •2 Year Study
•200+ Interviews
• 180+ active teams
Project Aristotle
What is present on high
performance teams?

44. https://rework.withgoogle.com/blog/five-keys-to-a-successful-google-team/

45. “I’m so much more conscious
of how I model listening,
whether I interrupt, or how I
encourage everyone to speak.”
—Sagnik Nandy,
chief of Google Analytics Engineering
Adapted from Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg

46. Be Caring, Curious & Nonjudgmental
Avoid Dominating or Interrupting
Review/Repeat People’s Points
Encourage Everyone to Contribute
Listen to One Another
Psychologically Safe Meetings
Adapted from Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg

48. Tailboarding

49. Mob Programming

57. I hate
Apple
Music!

59. Why I Love Slack

60. “Invent a faster train.”
— Head of Japanese
railway system, 1955

61. 1964: Tōkaidō Shinkansen
Jack
Welch
Wow!!
By Roger Wollstadt - http://www.flickr.com/photos/24736216@N07/3429753993/in/set-72157623081490477/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18004116

63. Recognizing People

66. Concierge
Minimal
Viable
Product

67. Feature Fake
16 users from 4 countries
are online right now.
Join the chat.
78%
22%
Used
Not Used Unlikely Neutral Likely
1 7 6

68. MODERN
AGILE
How’s Our
Sales Process?
Modern Agile
Radar Chart

70. Tests running on 36 machines at IMVU
Doing The Impossible
50 Times A Day

71. Safe To Deploy

72. MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN
“Hi Kelly, I’ve checked
in all of my code.”

73. MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN
“I’ll tell our other 69
developers to check
in by Wednesday.”

74. MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN
“…so, not everyone
checked in. Please
finish by tomorrow!”

75. MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN
“Thanks everyone! All
code was checked in!”

76. MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN
“Hi Ramon, could you
please do a build?”

77. MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN
“I’ll have it done
right away Kelly!”

78. MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN
[Afternoon]
“Um, the build broke!”

79. MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN
[Developers Work
All Weekend]

80. MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN
“There are a LOT of
bugs in this build!”
OMFG!

81. MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN
[Developers attempt
to fix all the bugs…]

82. Quality
Assurance
Quality
Engineering
Sprints
Continuous
Flow
Continuous
Deployment
Manual
Builds

83. A Shipping Culture

84. Customer
Collaboration
over contract
negotiation
Individuals &
Interactions
over processes
& tools
Working
Software
over comprehensive
documentation
Responding
to Change
over following
a plan
Agile Manifesto
agilemanifesto.org
created circa 2001

85. Customer
Collaboration
Individuals &
Interactions
over processes
& tools
Working
Software
over comprehensive
documentation
Responding
to Change
over following
a plan
Make People
Awesome

86. Customer
Collaboration
Individuals &
Interactions
over processes
& tools
Working
Software
Responding
to Change
over following
a plan
Make People
Awesome
Deliver Value
Continuously

87. Individuals &
Interactions
over processes
& tools
Working
Software
Responding
to Change
Make People
Awesome
Deliver Value
Continuously
Experiment &
Learn Rapidly
Customer
Collaboration

88. Customer
Collaboration
Individuals &
Interactions
Working
Software
Responding
to Change
Make People
Awesome
Deliver Value
Continuously
Experiment &
Learn Rapidly
Make Safety a
Prerequisite

89. Experiment &
Learn Rapidly
Make Users
Awesome
Apply
Lean UX
Deliver Value
Continuously
Deploy
& Release
Continuously
Evolve
Solutions
Focus
on Flow
Modern Agile
Respect &
Appreciate
People
Make Safety
a Prerequisite
Test &
Refactor
Joshua Kerievsky
Industrial Logic
Make it
Safe to Fail
Conduct
Blameless
Retrospectives
Collaborate
& Integrate
Frequently
Leverage
Lean Startup
Charter
Your Work
Form
Product
Communities

91. ModernAgile.org
MODERN
AGILE

92. Q+AJoshua Kerievsky
CEO, Industrial Logic
@JoshuaKerievsky
MODERN
AGILE