Tool and process obsession is one key pitfall of software development and agile development. What shall we do about it

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Awakening Change
Daniel Teng, CSC & CST

2. Daniel Teng
• Awakener @
• Learning, Shameless sharing,
Agile,Technical, Networking,
Tennis
• www.danielteng.com
• www.agiletour.cn

3. Broccoli Principle

4. Cultural Revolution Not Work

5. Virginia Satir
Behavior (actions)
Coping (pleasing, challenging, ignore)
Feeling (Joy, anger, fear)
Perception (beliefs, assumptions)
Expectations
Yearnings (love, acceptance, freedom)
Self (spirit, soul, being)
Controlling Rarely Work

6. illumination

7. Key to illumination
“Awareness is an important
tool in becoming more than
a novice”

8. Cross the Chasm

9. Awakener’s Weapons - ISNIPER
• Inspiration
• Specific
• Network
• Infection
• Pressure
• Empathy
• Reflection

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Early Adopter
• Willing to try
• Open for new ideas
• Failure is acceptable

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Principle #1 - Specific

12. How Do Slogans Link To
Daily Work?
Simplicity - MVP
Build - Measure - Learn
Perfect
Release fast, Iterate to
Learn
Innovative
Trial, Error, Learn

13. Behavior over Outcome
“Choose strategy about
behavior, not outcome”

14. Copy Me

15. ObserveYou
Be Specific
•what’s good
•what to improve
•ask specific questions

16. Principle #2 - Reflection

17. Action Reflection Learning (ARL)
http://www.sedl.org/pubs/tapinto/v3n2.pdf
•Intervention
•Based on concrete behaviors
•Derive abstract concepts
Finally (after 3 months of coaching) @danielteng
started to talk about Scrum basics, now team
members begin to understand it.

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ISNIPER Principles
Specific
Reflection

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Early Majority
• Thoughtful
• Judgmental
• Pragmatic
• Careful, but accepting
Note: they are opinion leaders

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Principle #1: Empathy

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Stand in Someone Else’s
Shoes
SEE what they see
HEAR what they say
FEEL what they feel

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Principle #2: Inspiration

24. I want
I can
I share
I enjoy
Pain
Nancy: @danielteng, I received a gift
Daniel: @Nancy, Don’t eat them all

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Principle #3: Network

26. Networks
• Liquid network
• Smoker network
• Community of Interests
• ... network
10th Lean Coffee
Here we offer free lunch and coffee
You can talk about any topic that
you have passion about

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From Layered to Network

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ISNIPER Principles
Specific
Reflection
Empathy
Inspiration
Network

29. Late Majority
• Conservative
• Skeptic of new ideas
• Adopt only after majority
is using it

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Principle #1: Infection

31. Signaling Change
“Scaling Agile @ Spotify”

32. Do Me A Favor
Facilitator’s Toolbox
Daniel,
Can you lend Wei your “facilitator’s tool” book?
I was inspired a lot and recommended this to him.
Sure, you are now Sniper

33. Steal Me, Please

34. Gift Giving

35. Cyber Dojo

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Principle #2: Pressure

37. Peer Pressure

38. Create Conflicts
Great tool, great job!
Does UTGenius have unit test?
This is contrary to philosophy of UT.
Does it bring any value to developer?
Where is the user?

39. DesignYour Own Process
Ah, this is what we need
• One week sprint
• Sprint planning
• Sprint review
• Daily Scrum
• Acceptance Criteria
• Backlog refinement
• Less frequent retrospective

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ISNIPER Principles
Specific
Reflection
Inspiration
Network
Empathy
Infection
Pressure
Ignore
this