Agile Workshop

Agile Development Workshop:

 

Pete Behrens

Trail Ridge Consulting

 

SCRUM is about 75% of the frameworks in use.

 

Framework         for learning

 

Focus                    for quality

 

Feedback                            for alignment

 

Flow                      for predictability

 

It is a learning framework

 

Where did it come from: Winston Royce, 1970, Waterfall

 

Agile, Lean, Scrum, & XP in Context

 

-examples from manufacturing

 

Scrum is a learning framework

 

-what is the difference between a framework and a methodology

-framework is missing this is how

-scrum says try something, learn from it, do it again

 

Scrum is a learning framework.

 

Rugby video....

 

Scrum is a team sport (stop the line principle; Toyota)

 

Problems surface sooner, but it is easier to fix at that stage.

 

Most scientists don't like to work with people. 

 

System optimization not local optimization, the bottleneck we want to run full speed, but where is it?  Most software development we don't know where that is.

 

Roles: Product owner, scrum master, the team.

 

#1 waste in software is because we build the wrong thing - over 60% is built in software is not used.

 

PO: build the right thing

Dev Team: Build the right thing

SM:Build thing fast

 

Steve Jobs - visionary, passionate, strategic and taclical

 

 

Example of team room where team could collaborate. 

 

SCRUM exercise with rugby ball...

 

form teams

each member must touch ball

must be airtime

no non-body tools

no left/right neighbor pass

has to return to the start

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Characteristics of Agile

 

Ford example

 

 

Agile want to integrate specialists, and connect them better togther.

 

In the 70s IBM and others brought in

Waterfall

 

Lifespan of companies is going down.

 

Companies are evolving faster than companies. (Zapos - no management)

 

Agile will not go away.

 

IBM Survey Says - CEOs are looking for collaborative environments

 

Patterns in Agile:

 

                thrashing agility - what are the patterns that make it successful

 

State of Agile Survey

 

Companies that have broken through barriers:

 

                Start with company culture

                Be Agile vs doing Agile

 

3 Companies:

 

                McKinsey&Co

                                creative culture

                                stats of imporvements

                                details of changes

                               

               

                SalesForce

                                competence culture (compete)

                                internal and externalA

                                fast growth

                                internal competiion hurt

                                now they have yearly releases

                                very productive

                                ____

                               

                                They did:

                                Adaptive Development Methodology

                                2006 - became agile companywide in a month

 

                GE

                                HCIT control culture

                                Agile spreading within GE like a virus

                                Fastworks

                                The V model

                                Scaled Agile framework

                (Lean Startup- read this )

 

Most creativity comes from random intersections with others.

 

Competing values framework example...

 

Third Part:

 

1) think about agile as extension of our culture

2)agility should change culture

3)developing leadership agility

 

book: Organizational patterns of agile software develpment

face to face before remote

the wise fool

etc...

 

process

structures/patterns

cultures