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why agile?
Tiago Garcez
@tcgarcez
Agile Tour Brussels
September 2013
Saturday 28 September 13
it just works !
Saturday 28 September 13
not
started
in
progress
done
bjorgsjö taskboard
färgrik burndownrotvik backlog
product backlog
varmluft user stories
user
stories
IKEA agile
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IKEA agile
=
agile
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what is agile?
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group of software development practices
iterative & incremental
evolving requirements & solutions
self-organizing, cross-functional teams
time-boxed
adaptive planning and responsive to change
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a set of values & principles
holistic view of the organization
shuns local optimums throughput
people
non-predictive
in the present
non-heroic
anarchic
value
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“we are uncovering
better ways...”
non-dogmatic
continuously improving
co-evolving
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Kanban
Scrum
Lean Software
Development
Crystal
Clear
XP
Lean Startup
Complex Adaptive
Systems
Beyond Budgeting
eXtreme Manufacturing
Context-Driven
Testing
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think beyond software
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what is agile?
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agile is what good
companies do when the
sh*t hits the fan
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team 1 team 2 team 3 team 4 team 5
face to face communication
email communication
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Source: Harvard Business Review,April 2012,
“The New Science of Building Great Teams”
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agile is what good
companies do when the
sh*t hits the fan
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agile is what good
companies do when the
sh*t hits the fan
great
all the time
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why agile?
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agile is about teams
the basic building block of organizations
in the knowledge economy
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group exchanges are short
and to the point
small teams
face to face communication up to
35% impact on performance
co-located
one-on-one
exchanges
Source: Harvard Business Review,April 2012,
“The New Science of Building Great Teams”
communication as key
predictor of success
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agile is non-predictive
prediction = guess
opportunity cost
manage today, not tomorrow
distribution of cognition
evolutionary not deterministic
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agile loves failure
fast & cheap
continual improvement
exploration
pivot & innovate
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agile is anti-fragile
nimble, lean organizations
comfortable with uncertainty
small bets with huge upside
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agile is about small wins
big is out (complexity) the hero myth
the knowledge economy is about the start-up mentality
continual improvement
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agile is universal
it can benefit any team or organization
from charities to modular cars
and everything
in between
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innovation
operational
excellence
wild west
highly
regulated
fast
teamwork
pivot
collaboration
risk management
continuous alignment
lead time
flexible
responsive to market
quality
craftsmanship
waste reduction
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innovation
operational
excellence
wild west
highly
regulated
everybody?
aircraft manufacturing
energy
electronics manufacturing
less-regulated manufacturing?
traditional manufacturing
mining
open-source
xp / scrum
lean-startup
scrum
lean / beyond budgeting
kanban / scrum
lean
open-source / scrum
wikispeed valve, spotify, ...
toyota morning star
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agile is a big enough
umbrella
tribes generate diversity and an eco-system of ideas
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agile is about value
cost has a limit, value does not - agile exploits this asymmetry
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agile is fun !
“morale as multiplier of velocity”
- j. justice
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individualism
(heroes)
team culture
(collaboration)
mythology / philosophy
intrinsic
motivation
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agile is simplicity
not the same thing as simple
it’s about limiting the amount of guesses
(i.e. your exposure to black swans)
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agile is about reality
we leave utopia to the predictive planning guys
“I don’t know”
illusion of control
craftsmanship
manage today
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what is impossible ?
impossible is the predictive, command &
control mentality creating great companies
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why agile ?
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because surviving is just
not good enough
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the king is dead,
long live the king
R.I.P.
Predictive
Management
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because we can change the
world of work
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because we can change the
world of work
must
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@tcgarcez
www.slideshare.net/tgarcez
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toyota production system “meals p/ hour”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtTQff7Uf_w
harvard business review (apr, 2012):“the new science of building great teams”:
http://hbr.org/2012/04/the-new-science-of-building-great-teams
wikispeed (extreme manufacturing):
joe justice ALE 2013 keynote - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbHgWCnttsc
homepage - http://wikispeed.org/
“anti-fragile”, nassim nicholas taleb
“black swan”, nassim nicholas taleb
“wisdom of crowds”, james surowiecki
Bibliography
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