The road to agility - AgileEE conference 2016 - Ben Linders

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Ben Linders Consulting
The Road to Agility
Agile Eastern Europe Conference
Kiev, Ukraine, April 9, 2016
Ben Linders

Agile, Lean, Quality & Continuous Improvement
Retrospectives Facilitator
Agile Coach/Mentor/Trainer
CMMI & People-CMM Assessor
Freelance Editor for InfoQ.com
Ben Linders
Co-Author Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives
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Agile Manifesto
“We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it”

Agile Principle
“At regular intervals, the
team reflects on how to
become more effective,
then tunes and adjusts
its behavior accordingly”
Continuous Improvement is essential
if you want to increase your agility!

Embedded Improvement
Agile values, principles, practices, and methods
support continuous improvement
• Frequently Inspect and Adapt
• Scrum master, focus on process
• Stand-up, focus on impediments
• Agile Retrospectives, learn and improve
• Coaching to support your agile journey

Travelling for Agility
• Understand needs
• Prepare and pack
• Start traveling

Why Agile Fails
10th annual State of Agile Survey – VersionOne 2016

Get Management Support
Development flow & teams
• Resistance
• No believe in agile
• Career system
Lack of support for Agile Agile Processes
Managers should support teams in improving
their way of working – remove impediments

Why Agile?
Know your business goals!
What do you expect from Agile?
 Deliver Right Product
 Short Time to Market
 Increased Productivity
 Happy Employees
 Higher Product Quality
 Lower Costs Business Benefits Agile

How Agile are you?
Self-assessments
• Know where you are
• Checklists / tools
• Decide what to do next
Self Assessing Agility
Values and Mindset drive Practice

(Back)packing for Agile
Prepare:
• Things to take along
• Stuff to leave at home
Think about:
• Risks
• Opportunities

Skills
Scrum master / Agile Coach
• Tech leading (servant)
• Coaching
• Communication
• Supporting change
• System view
Need to have “soft skills” to work
with technical and business people

Developing skills
• Try out new things
• Training
• Coach the coaches
• Communities of practice
• Safe environment

Start Travelling
 Know Why
 Prepared
Deciding what to do
• Value
• Risk
• Information
• Learning

Kanban
 Start where you are
 Pull based change
 Experiment
Short Cycled Improvement
Learning from Mistakes

Dealing with Blockers & Impediments
 Make blockers visible
 Raise issues early
 Build shared understanding
 Feelings matter
 Why over How
 Know the root causes
 Safe-to-fail experiments

Agile Retrospectives
Practice for teams to reflect on their way of working
and to continuously become better in what they do.
Focus upon
• Teamworking
• Self organizing
What is an Agile Retrospectives

Vital few actions
Small but significant steps
Continuous improvement
• Actions for the next iteration
• Destroy actions
• Enable teams to improve Vital Few Actions
Focus to assure that vital few actions get done!

Golden Rules for Improvement
• Dare to share, early and frequently
• Result depends on team, not individuals
• The one who checks out a task is not necessarily
the one who has to finish it
• The one’s working on a task are the right people
• You may critique anything,
but never criticize anyone
BenLinders.com/GoldenRules

The looks of Agile
• Working Software
• Delivering Value
• Embracing Change
• Adress Risks Early
• Fail Fast & Learn
• Buit in Quality
• Collaboration & Communication

Take a first step
 Think about a problem that needs to be solved,
 pick something you learned,
 think of a practical way to do it,
 start doing it!
First Agile Step
Every journey for agility and
continuous improvement
starts with a first step!

Continuous Improvement
Become aware of importance of
continuous improvement,
Explore how it’s engrained in agile
software development
Suggestions that you can use in your
daily work to improve continuously
Increase your organization's agility!
Leanpub.com/continuousimprovement
“Continuous Improvement is the act of continuously doing
whatever helps to become better and thus more valuable”

Questions?Questions?
Ben Linders
Independent Consultant Agile, Lean,
Quality & Continuous Improvement
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Background Information

Retrospectives Book
Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives
By Luis Gonçalves & Ben Linders
Download from InfoQ or Leanpub
Buy on Amazon or Lulu
amazon.com/dp/B00SWJO1DI
leanpub.com/gettingvalueoutofagileretrospectives
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Retrospectives Book Bundle
Six successful retrospectives books
• Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives
• Fun Retrospectives
• Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your Retrospectives
• The Retrospective Handbook
• Retrospectives for Organizational Change
• The Retrospectives Kickstarter
These books will make your agile retrospectives rock!
Teams will love to do them :-).
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Agile Retrospectives
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Getting More out of Agile & Lean
Practices for teams and stakeholders to develop the right
products, deliver faster, increase quality, and create
happy high performing teams.
Full Day Workshop:
Deploying practices effectively
Improve Collaboration
Tips & Trick for Agile & Lean
Improve Continuously
Increase your organization's agility!
BenLinders.com/agilelean

Assessing your Agility
Over 40 tools:
• Self-Assessment checklists
• Readyness checks
• Maturity assessments
• Agile health checks
• Measurements
• And much more!
Agile Self-Assessments

Articles on Effective Agile
• Self-assessing how Agile you are
• Sustainable Improvement through Agile Retrospectives
• Working in a Sustainable Pace
• Becoming Agile and Lean
• Succes Factors for Using Scrum and Getting Benefits
• Process Improvement: The Agile Way
• Golden Rules for Agile Process Improvement
• How to deal with Resistance when Implementing Agile
• Managing Projects with Agile Teams
• Agile Project Management
• Establishing and Maintaining Stable Teams
• Getting Business Value out of Agile Retrospectives
• Sharing Knowledge is Power
• Are your Professionals Empowered?

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