Agile and Lean - The real life
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This document summarizes Tom Mantsch's presentation at the Agile Tour Vienna 2014 conference about using agile and lean practices in real life. It describes various practices the company uses, including daily standup meetings, weekly tech talks and brown bag sessions, hackathons, and social events to build team spirit. It also outlines aspects of their agile workflow like using scrum boards to track work in progress, evolving their product backlog, and conducting retrospectives to continuously improve. The presentation emphasizes how honesty was a key factor in the success of one of their projects.
Agile and Lean - The real life
- 1. 9 November 2014 TOM MANTSCH @ AGILE TOUR VIENNA 2014 AGILE & LEAN – THE REAL LIFE
- 2. TOM MANTSCH @ AGILE TOUR VIENNA 2014 AGILE & LEAN – THE REAL LIFE Company Culture 9 November 2014
- 3. 9 November 2014 Company Standup TOM MANTSCH @ AGILE TOUR VIENNA 2014 AGILE & LEAN – THE REAL LIFE CTO CEO
- 4. 9 November 2014 Tech Talks & Brown Bag Sessions • Tech Talk – Every week on Tuesday for one hour • QA Brown Bag Session – Every 2nd week • Architecture Meeting TOM MANTSCH @ AGILE TOUR VIENNA 2014 AGILE & LEAN – THE REAL LIFE
- 5. Hackathon (Fedex Day) 9 November 2014 TOM MANTSCH @ AGILE TOUR VIENNA 2014 AGILE & LEAN – THE REAL LIFE
- 6. Company and Team Events • Project Drinks • Summer Party • Table Tennis (Tournament) • Xmas Party + Secret Santa • Beer o’clock 9 November 2014 TOM MANTSCH @ AGILE TOUR VIENNA 2014 AGILE & LEAN – THE REAL LIFE
- 7. TOM MANTSCH @ AGILE TOUR VIENNA 2014 AGILE & LEAN – THE REAL LIFE Team Spirit 9 November 2014
- 8. Success through Honesty 9 November 2014 TOM MANTSCH @ AGILE TOUR VIENNA 2014 AGILE & LEAN – THE REAL LIFE Why was the project successful? PO: “I don’t think there was s single trigger that enabled this really, but if I really had to think of one then I’d say it was honesty!”
- 9. Distributed Team 9 November 2014 TOM MANTSCH @ AGILE TOUR VIENNA 2014 AGILE & LEAN – THE REAL LIFE
- 10. Scrum/Kanban Board 9 November 2014 TOM MANTSCH @ AGILE TOUR VIENNA 2014 AGILE & LEAN – THE REAL LIFE
- 11. Product Backlog 9 November 2014 TOM MANTSCH @ AGILE TOUR VIENNA 2014 AGILE & LEAN – THE REAL LIFE Rest Next 13 Next 8 Next 5 Next 3 DEFECT STORY TECHNICAL TASK
- 12. Board Evolution 9 November 2014 TOM MANTSCH @ AGILE TOUR VIENNA 2014 AGILE & LEAN – THE REAL LIFE
- 13. Additional Team Boards 9 November 2014 TOM MANTSCH @ AGILE TOUR VIENNA 2014 AGILE & LEAN – THE REAL LIFE
- 14. Track the Flow of Work 9 November 2014 TOM MANTSCH @ AGILE TOUR VIENNA 2014 AGILE & LEAN – THE REAL LIFE
- 15. CI Build Visualization 9 November 2014 TOM MANTSCH @ AGILE TOUR VIENNA 2014 AGILE & LEAN – THE REAL LIFE
- 16. Standup Meeting 9 November 2014 TOM MANTSCH @ AGILE TOUR VIENNA 2014 AGILE & LEAN – THE REAL LIFE
- 17. Retrospectives • Glad – Sad – Mad • Analyze the flow of tasks • Bug Root-Cause-Analysis • Ban working over-time 9 November 2014 TOM MANTSCH @ AGILE TOUR VIENNA 2014 AGILE & LEAN – THE REAL LIFE
- 18. Story Workshop 9 November 2014 TOM MANTSCH @ AGILE TOUR VIENNA 2014 AGILE & LEAN – THE REAL LIFE
- 19. 9 November 2014 TOM MANTSCH @ AGILE TOUR VIENNA 2014 AGILE & LEAN – THE REAL LIFE Thomas Mantsch IT Consultant EBCONT proconsult GmbH „Knowledge has to be improved, chal lenged, and increased constant ly or i t vanishes. “ Millennium Tower, Handelskai 94-96, Stock 34, 1200 Wien M +43 664 60651668, F +43 2772 512 69-9 thomas.mantsch@ebcont.com | @tomMantsch | www.ebcont.com ( P e t e r Dr u c k e r )
Editor's Notes
- #2: http://www.themagazine.ca/cms/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/IN-REAL-LIFE.jpg Agile and Lean in Real Life Caplin Systems, tech company in the city of London Clients like Barclays, Citi, RBS etc. 2 parts of the presentation: Company Culture and Team Spirit
- #3: Company Culture that helped teams and people to perform at their best. Top-Down approach
- #4: Every fortnight 9-9:15 am Even people on client-site dialed in via Skype Additionally there were bigger, more detailed Company Meetings twice a year.
- #5: Knowledge and information sharing in teams and across teams Bring up ideas about new technologies, new ways of working, experiences in teams etc.
- #6: Hackathon to drive innovation by a given topic/context.
- #7: Project drinks to celebrate signing new projects, releases, go-live etc. Summer party with fancy dress-code Table Tennis with a ranking
- #10: Virtual Beer Session
- #11: Columns Road-Map UX Screenshots Holiday Calendar Glad-Sad-Mad Most important Test Scenarios
- #20: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/95125399/AgileAndLean-TheRealLife-tmantsch.pdf