IT managers who want to improve their software development activities are quickly faced with the “Lean or Agile?” question. Are lean and agile the same thing? Should we deploy agile before implementing lean? Having been on both sides of the table, Régis shares what he has learned so far about both approaches, and how best to use them to create high performance software development organizations.

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Agile for building,
Lean for learning
Regis Medina
@regis_medina
regis.medina@operaepartners.com
Lean Kanban Central Europe
November 4, 2013
Hamburg

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Feature comparison ?
Agile
Lean
Iterations
Small batches
+ customer pull
Automated
testing
Jidoka
Taskboards
Visual management
Burndown
charts
Performance
management
…
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Context #1 : waterfall
Sample of 20 projects
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Context #2 : agile
Target
Velocity
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It’s all about people!
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Operational success
Processes
Tools
+
People
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Different approaches
Agile :
Lean :
BUILDING
LEARNING
Process for building
the right product
with the minimum overhead
in an unclear environment
Practices for developing
the right skills
to deliver more value
with the less waste
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Developing skills
Who needs to learn what to succed?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Define the goal
Understand the main obstacles
Create an exercise
Practice with frequent feedback
➚Customer satisfaction
➚Quality
➘Lead time
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Fast results
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Lean AND
Scrum
Kanban
Extreme Programming
Waterfall
Unified Process
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The lean practice
For each team:
Create a visual environment that
clarifies the challenge and
reveals problems
Obeya
React immediatly
Solve problems one by one
Spread the knowledge
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PDCA
Standards
& training
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Lean exercises
Define value
Deliver right first time
+
Manager
=
Teacher
Deliver on time every day
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13. Lean exercise #1
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Define value
« We need to implement features or user stories X and Y »
Go & see users:
A
P
Act
Plan
C
D
Check
Do
What is the problem we want to solve?
Why is it important?
How and when will we check that it is solved ?
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14. Define Value
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Define Value
Project goal:
« Simplify the activity »
Role Planned
Actual
savings
duration
per request per request
Planned savings
per request
A
1 hour
10 minutes
B
4 hours
1h30
To be
C
30 minutes
3 minutes
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As is
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16. Lean exercise #2
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Deliver Right First Time
« We need more resources for testing »
At every step in the process:
What problems were found?
Why did they occur? Why? Why?
How can we prevent these problems from happening again?
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Deliver Right First Time
Right First Time Stories
Why?
Rework
Why?
Incremental
construction
Why?
Why?
Why?
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Deliver Right First Time
Right First Time Projects
Defects
Why?
Why?
Why?
Internal reworks
Why?
Why?
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19. Lean exercise #3
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Deliver on time every day
« It took longer than expected, we should have estimated better »
 Is the project on track today? How do you know?
 What happened? Why? Why? Why?
 What are you planning to do?
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20. Control Lead Time
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Getting past « wrong estimates »
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Control Lead Time
On time every day
+
« Everything is okay… »
Fine-grained milestones
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Daily goals
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Agile ≠ Lean
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Agile first ?
Lean
Agile
What is the problem
you are trying to solve?
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Lean first
Define the challenge
Engage the teams
Visualize the causes
What will work?
Let them own the choice
Teach them problem solving
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It’s about them
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It starts with you
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Thanks!
@regis_medina
regis.medina@operaepartners.com
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