DCSUG - Happiness: A Key Component of Agile
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The document discusses how happiness is a key component of agile implementations. It provides objectives like connecting happiness to agile, improving agile implementations, and sharing techniques for overcoming adversity. It then covers topics like what drives people, different views of happiness, sources of happiness like autonomy and purpose, and how positivity expands thinking whereas fear narrows it. Finally, it discusses how agile embraces uncertainty and focuses on the positive compared to traditional waterfall approaches, and gives examples of how scrum principles can promote happiness and motivation in teams.
DCSUG - Happiness: A Key Component of Agile
- 1. Happiness: A Key Component of Agile Presented by: Organizational Engineering JeremyWebb – Managing Partner
- 2. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” Sources:
- 3. Objectives • For Agile practitioners - Connect happiness toAgile implementations • Improve Agile implementations • Share techniques for overcoming Agile adversity • For everybody • Convey benefits of happiness in the workplace • Help people increase their happiness • Make a positive impact on the way business is done Sources:
- 4. Count to 10 Ninja! • Circle with 10-20 people • Choose a facilitator to start the round • Nobody can say more than one number • Count to 10 without repeating any numbers • If a number is repeated, start over • Circle with 5-10 people • Choose facilitator to start round by saying “Bow to your opponents” • Hands together and bow • Strike a “Ninja” pose with 1 hand behind back • Game begins to left of facilitator or with last winner • Try to slap hand of anybody else in circle • You can dodge slaps but must remain still otherwise unless you are slapping • If your hand is slapped, you are out
- 6. What Drives Us David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. says: Everything we (people) do is driven by the pursuit of two basic emotions “Thousands or even millions of thoughts can be replaced by a single emotion” Sources: Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender Loss of Capacity to Experience
- 8. TraditionalView of Happiness Sources: The Happiness Advantage, Photo courtesy of 1shots at freedigitalphotos.net Success Happiness
- 9. NewView of Happiness Sources: The Happiness Advantage SuccessHappiness
- 10. Sources of Happiness • Autonomy • Mastery • Purpose https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=wdzHg N7_Hs8 Sources: Drive by Daniel Pink
- 11. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Sources: Wikimedia
- 12. Positivity and Happiness • Hot trend in research • Happiness Advantage: Fear narrows thinking, happiness expands it • State of the American Manager: 61% (2X avg) of employees are engaged when managers focus on strengths • PsychologyToday: Stress causes mental capacity to drop while mindfulness meditation increases mental capacity Sources:
- 13. Studies Have Shown… • Doctors in a positive mood show 3X more intelligence and make accurate diagnosis 19% faster • Happy sales people outsell other salesman by 56% • Judges like sandwiches! Sources: The Happiness Advantage
- 14. Impact of Fear Sources: Photos from freedigitialphotos.net courtesy of 1) dream designs 2) 9comeback 3) Naypong 1 2 3 3
- 15. Opposing Forces Sources: What Every BODY is Saying, The Happiness Advantage Freeze Flight Fight
- 17. Broaden and BuildTheory • Barbara Frederickson circa 1998 • Positive emotions • Lead to building skills over time • Provide a wider range thoughts and actions to choose from Sources: The Happiness advantage, Wikipedia
- 20. 12 Principles – Part 1 Sources: agilemanifesto.org
- 21. 12 Principles – Part 2 Sources:agilemanifesto.org
- 22. Approaches Waterfall andTraditional Practices Focus on Eliminating Risk - Fear Driven Agile and Scrum Embraces Uncertainty - Focus on the Positive Change Control / Resistance MultipleGates & Approvals Elaborate Plans Empowerment Minimal Planning Responding to Change Elaborate Processes Minimal Overhead Specific Roles Customer Focus Heavy Documentation Cross-functional
- 23. Scrum Principles for Happiness and Motivation • Work in teams and pass or fail as a whole • Sprint Reviews and Demos • Retrospectives • User stories (good ones) • It takes as long as it takes Sources:
- 24. Sutherland On Happiness • Happiness is a Leading Indicator of Success • Happiness Metric (Next Slide) • Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose make people happy (and great teams) • Connection leads to happiness (Zappos) • Happiness comes from achievement not complacency • The journey is more satisfying than the result
- 25. Happiness Metric (From SCRUM) 1. On a scale from 1 to 5, how do you feel about your role in the company? 2. On the same scale, how do you feel about the company as a whole? 3. Why do you feel that way? 4. What one thing would make you happier in the next sprint? Sources:
- 26. Scenario • A dev team is transitioning to Agile. • Velocity has been increasing • Large amount of technical debt • Team meets and puts together a plan to address the issues and build out infrastructure at the same time • Management decides that if they product doesn’t ship in 2 months, employment contracts will be changed or terminated Sources:
- 27. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Team XVelocity Chart Points Completed (Stories only) Avg velocity Avg velocity from 2/17 Linear (Avg velocity) Linear (Avg velocity from 2/17)
- 28. 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 Start Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Team X Data (Bug Fixing) Bugs added Stories Added Remaining Issues: Ideal Burn Linear (Remaining Issues:)
- 29. Unconventional Approaches for Happiness • Vanderbilt University uses Aromatherapy • Reports of being stressed often 68% down to 14% • Major mood improvements • Higher energy levels • More ability to handle stressful situations • 84% strongly agree and 10% agree (94% total) that diffusers had a positive effect • Volunteering programs • 20% time • Daily writing • MarineCorps using meditation in a program called M-Fit (meditation) to increase mental capacity, reduce illness and reduce fear Sources: Washington Times, http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/
- 31. Sources: What did you learn? Feedback ThankYou! Contact info: Website: org-eng.com Email: jeremy@org-eng.com Phone: 434-260-1450