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FR AGILE

Breaking Agile. http://www.npowersoftware.com/gallery/4GlassShaterLarge.jpg. FR AGILE. Handle with care. Dan Clausing CBAP, CSM Nationwide. There are no shortcuts. Co-location Communication Immediate Response. Agile Values. Breaking Agile. Easier to break than create/maintain

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FR AGILE

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  1. Breaking Agile http://www.npowersoftware.com/gallery/4GlassShaterLarge.jpg FRAGILE Handle with care Dan Clausing CBAP, CSM Nationwide

  2. There are no shortcuts • Co-location • Communication • Immediate Response

  3. Agile Values

  4. Breaking Agile • Easier to break than create/maintain • Not just in the team, whole organization • Time independent • Agile is not formulaic; it is necessarily organic, ever changing within the environment in which it occurs Dan Clausing 2010

  5. Breaking Points • Senior Management • Stakeholders • Project Management • Development Team

  6. Senior Management • ROI • Values • Certification • Metrics

  7. Senior Management - ROI Agile Methods require non-traditional measures. Traditional Methods were optimized for productivity and quality, which rewards them using total lifecycle cost analysis; but Agile methods should focus on project success and customer satisfaction where they shine best. http://davidfrico.com/rico08b.pdf

  8. Senior Management - ROI Jeff Sutherland Says… (Co-founder of SCRUM) http://agile.scumniotales.com/agile-roi/

  9. Senior Management – Values/Certification

  10. Senior Management – Metrics The Hawthorne Effect • Change of behaviors as a result of being measured • Impact of other things on what is being measured SystemsThinking

  11. Stakeholders – Beliefs Perception versus Reality • Everything is Quicker • Expectations in conflict with needs • Changing Views • Availability (Conduit) Eugene Oberst 1901 - 1991

  12. Project Management - Metrics Limit Control

  13. Project Management - Behaviors Support the Team • Be in the team room • Know the process • Communicate Risks and Issues • Don’t push scope • Agile is not an excuse • ASK WHY!

  14. Development Team Build the Team • The Best of the Best • Environment • Team Mindset • Motivation • Communication • Documentation • Testing

  15. Development Team – The Players Best of the Best • All roles must be filled • The best doesn’t mean the best • People skills are essential • Mindset • Audition

  16. Development Team – Environment Environment Matters • One centralized room • One roof • No cube walls • Headphones • Perimeter walls • Pairing

  17. Development Team – Mindset The Right Mind • In it together • The story… • Motivation

  18. Development Team – Communication How Do We Interact • Non-Emotional • Emotional • Using the wrong collaboration media to communicate messages “In fact, the effort to fastidiously eliminate all emotion from the workplace is a very strong sign that the team is a machine. Machine parts don't have to have emotions and machine parts don't have to deal with emotions.” Daryl Kulak. "Agile in the Bloodstream”. Yet to be published

  19. Development Team – Communication Type of Communication

  20. Development Team Team Dynamics

  21. Development Team Documentation • Longevity • Will it be used? • What is needed? • How can it be conveyed?

  22. Development Team Testing …Defects can be Good!

  23. Final Thoughts… You Might Break Agile if You… • think Agile is an excuse • don’t have management commitment • need reams of documentation • can’t play well in the sandbox • don’t have time • have an irrational fear of thumbtacks • can’t see your teammates daily • rely on metrics for all decisions

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