How to fail with agile
- 1. Agile practice How to fail with Agile Filip Spirkoski Igor Stojanovski 1
- 2. IN YOUR ZONE •Scrum is a silver bullet •Who cares about management support •Hierarchy, Micromanagement, Scrum roles •Feel free to blindly follow or do things your way •Estimations are relative •Keep the vision of the project a top secret. •The commitment is only a guideline •Improvement is for amateurs! •Q &A Agenda : Postulates of failure
- 3. IN YOUR ZONE 3 Do not look any further. Scrum is the solution to all your problems. The ultimate silver bullet… Postulate of failure: Scrum is a silver bullet
- 4. IN YOUR ZONE 4 Scrum is so easy you need no experience or training. Anyone can do it! Postulate of failure : You need no training…
- 5. IN YOUR ZONE Postulate of failure : Who cares about management support 5 Don't care about management support. What do they know after all?
- 6. IN YOUR ZONE Postulate of failure : Hierarchy 6 Make sure your tech, team, dev and other lead types are very good at making orders. Make sure all of the others are good at following them … Development team
- 7. IN YOUR ZONE 7 Postulate of failure : Micromanagement Micromanage everything! Those juniors are going to screw everything up if you don't control every aspect of their work. And that new guy, who the hell knows what he's up to?!
- 8. IN YOUR ZONE 8 Postulate of failure : Team size does not matter… Try to get as much people in your team as you can! The more we are, the chances someone will know how to solve out all problems is much bigger.
- 9. IN YOUR ZONE 9 Postulate of failure : Feel free to blindly follow… Don’t ask why, just do it.
- 10. IN YOUR ZONE 10 ….or do things your way! Scrum is about agility! Feel free to change everything, meetings, ceremonies, roles. Be the master of your own destiny!
- 11. IN YOUR ZONE 11 Postulate of failure : Estimations are relative… Tell the client what he wants to hear. If you cant really make it, you can always add some overtime hours. By the way, story points? What’s that..?!
- 12. IN YOUR ZONE 12 Postulate of failure : Keep everyone in the dark… Why would you need to know where we're really heading? A couple of steps ahead is quite enough of info. The client considers this project a top secret anyway!
- 13. IN YOUR ZONE 13 Postulate of failure : Who invented time- boxing?! I mean really.. Time boxing is for people who haven't heard that The devil is in the detail! Don’t let a single meeting end until all the details have been defined! …or somebody die!
- 14. IN YOUR ZONE 14 Postulate of failure : Commitment it’s just a noun… We can only promise the client that he will get... somewhere. We can't promise anything. Its agile. Things are effervescent , constantly changing, fluctuating!
- 15. IN YOUR ZONE 15 Postulate of failure : Improvement is for amateurs! Hulk does not improve… … Hulk smash!
- 16. IN YOUR ZONE 16 Conclusion …let’s set up a new meeting
- 17. IN YOUR ZONE Q & A 17 Q & A
- 18. IN YOUR ZONE The end 18 Survivor 1: Filip Spirkoski filip.spirkoski@endava.com Skype: en_fspirkoski Survivor 2: Igor Stojanovski igor.stojanovski@endava.com Skype: en_istojanovski thank you