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AGILE CULTURECompany Culture as the Key Agile Milestone Zuzana Sochova zuzana@sochova.cz http://agilniasociace.cz http://ccn.cz http://sochova.cz

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Prague is where I live…

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Historical city…

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“Hey, let’s start agile!”

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We are special, agile won’t work for us!

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SW development projects are failingby IT Corex: an IT project is more likely to be unsuccessful than successful about 1 out of 5 IT projects is likely to bring full satisfaction the larger the project the more likely the failure 1st step: change practices, skills, processes… Try Agile ;)

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There is no cookbookon how to adopt agile http://www.eoiguada.info

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How difficult is to introduce given practice? 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

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How useful are the following practices? 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

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What was the most challenging during the agile adoption? 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Team Customer Team Change Management Communication Communication Responsibility Resistance Support and and and Understanding Cooperation Involvement

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What would you do differently?Hire a good full time coachInvolve both design and testingCo-locate as much as possibleAdjust the length of sprints for every projectMore customer focusInvolve more business stakeholdersWork more on responsibility, auto-organizationBe aware of the change, it’s hard

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What would you recommend ?• Agile cannot be implemented top-down only nor bottom-up only. Agile needs to be a grass roots effort that has executive level sponsorship.• Dont cheat and never ever let a sprint go past its time.• View coach and customer as KEY roles and ensure the right people are in these roles.• Dont sell Scrum as the dogma.• Make sure everyone involved in an agile effort understands the Agile Manifestos Values and Principles• Forget about "scrum tools". Use a real physical whiteboard and super- sticky post-its.• Don’t forget the communication is everything.• Attend Agile conferences.

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No common practice to use… ajpscs

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AGILE is Culture of Trust, Communication and Supporthttp://shannonstanley.files.wordpress.com http://gustavus.edu http://www.bbc.co.uk

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Self-organization

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CollaborationOrcas Attack Seal

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Company Culture as the Key Agile MilestoneCollaborative Agile Culture Quality Flexibility Be smart Sharing Self-Reliance http://nextup.files.wordpress.com Responsible Sustainable Successful

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Feels like chaos from the top… http://www.stevey.com

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…but perfectly working in fact http://4.bp.blogspot.com http://www.nzhistory.net.nz http://discussions.mnhs.org

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Starting agile…Understand where you are http://www.searchenginepeople.com

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Starting agile…Understand where you want to go http://crfranke.wordpress.com

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Agile is a change ofwhat you believe in http://christianmenchristianwarrior.wordpress.com

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Evolution process http://www.questcorp.com

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It’s a philosophy… … so go deep inside http://leadinganswers.typepad.com http://photos3.flickr.com

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Change? http://www.toothpastefordinner.com

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Kotter’s 8 steps of successful change Create a Sense of Urgency Pull Together the Guiding Team Develop the Change Vision and Strategy Communicate for Understanding and Buy-in Empower Others to Act Produce Short-Term Wins Don’t Let Up Make it Stick http://www.ouricebergismelting.com

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Must the culture be here before Agile or will it emerge from the adoption process? http://www.devcomments.com

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Do You Believe In Agile Culture?Agile needs culture…Any method to be adopted must be essentially compatible with the culture.If the culture doesnt support or embrace Agile, it will never work as a process.Agile changes culture…At the same time certain cultures will be very difficult to change – i.e. heavy, authoritarian, top-down cultures. Maybe not impossible, but it could be close.

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Empower people http://jamiejacksonxp.com/

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Adoption ManifestoDo believe in agile company cultureBe able to embrace a change and overcome resistanceBelieve in peopleHave willingness to take risksHave DESIRE for Agile methods

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Thank you for your attentionZuzana ŠochováAGILE & SCRUM TRAINER, CONSULTANT AND COACHzuzana@sochova.cz http://agilniasociace.cz http://ccn.cz http://sochova.cz