Presentation given at the "Lunch & Learn Agile" event in Olympia, Washington on October 2, 2014

1. Distributed Agile
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What’s Happening?
• Teams everywhere are becoming distributed
– Private sector, public sector, nonprofit
• Teams everywhere want to be more Agile
– Small “a” agile or big “A” Agile?
• Traditional Agile thinking doesn’t help
– (Go Agile or go distributed, you can’t do both)
• We need to develop new best practices
– We need new tools and methods

3. Distributed teams in Private Sector
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Google is here
Google’s CIO is here

4. Because no room is roomy enough
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5. Distributed Teams in Public Sector
• Collaborate across multiple locations
– Only the tiniest agencies are collocated
• Develop partnerships
– Across agencies, and to outsource civic services
• Support field teams
– 75% of WA State Auditor’s Office is not in Olympia
• Supporting Telework
– Reducing commutes, better work-life balance
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6. Distributed Teams in Nonprofit Sector
• Nonprofits are a cottage industry
– 55,000 nonprofits in Washington State
– 80% of them are tiny (assets/income < $100K)
• Nonprofits are service delivery organizations
– Contracted to deliver civic services
• Multiple, transient partnerships
– How nonprofits get leverage
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7. Social Collaboration: You Are Here
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You are a member of
multiple, changing collaboration networks

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Why become Agile?
• Deliver Lean Government
– Continuous improvement
• Embrace change
– Deal with ambiguity
• Deliver more with less
– Flat/declining budgets
– Increased expectations

9. Becoming agile, adopting Agile
• Agility comes from many sources
– Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, Lean, Kaizen…
• Be pragmatic, not dogmatic
– Learn, Adopt, Adapt
– Improve
– Repeat
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What really matters?
• For Distributed Agile to succeed
– Remove ambiguity
– Gain real-time visibility
– Empower teams
– Integrate electronic conversations
– Deal with desktop & online content
– Support workflows & best practices
– Understand Push vs. Pull
– Use Work-In-Progress Limits

11. You need Sticky Notes on Steroids
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Visual Task Management
Cards
Columns
Important
stuff is on top
Move cards
from left to right

13. Examples in Government, today
• Distributed Lean
– State Auditor’s Office
– Office of Financial Management
– Governor’s Office
• Distributed Agile
– Office of the CIO
– Employment Security Department
– Thurston County Regional Planning
– Department of Revenue
– Department of Ecology
– Department of Fish & Wildlife
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Demo

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Questions?

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