Slides from presentation on devclub.eu

1. What is Agile or how to start learning Japanese Stanislav Vasilyevdevclub.eu

2. Agenda Highly inaccurate and biased history People and respect for the people Management / Leadership Quality assurance Scrum Kanban

3. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…. Rebellion against industry trends of the 90s: Pursue perfection early in the lifecycle in order to improve project success Strong pressure by aero and space programs Unified Modeling Language More and more documents prior to writing code

4. Does it bring you any VALUE? There is no time to follow 11K pages processes: It is better to hire good people and trust them Make smaller packages Embrace failure tolerant attitude Perfect is the enemy of good enough!

5. Ford’s assembly line

6. Ford’s weak points Overproduction - Economy of scale Produce more to minimize the cost “One best way” Eliminates “craftsman” work Replaceable people

7. Respect your people Grow knowledge inside No process over people! Provokes self-improvement culture Requires changes in peoples’ attitude

8. Attitude to leadership "Managers do things right, while leaders do the right thing." Leaders focus on people and people follow Managers focus on rules and process

9. Attitude to testing Build quality in Make things so that you cannot break them Testers do NOT hunt bugs, they PREVENT defects No maintenance teams, no bug-tracking tools!

10. Scrum in a nutshell Does not magically solve all your problems “Scrum, But…”, WaterScrum, etc. Has no leader Follows goals Cross-functional

11. What is Kanban? Sets less rules than Scrum Show the value stream Limit Work In Progress No estimations No planning No prioritization No iterations

12. Drawing the line It is all about people! Practices over principles Focus on improvement Openness for change

13. Questions? Thanks!

14. What to read?