Carmen Munteanu - Agile & Lean: What I've Learnt

AGILE & LEAN: What I’ve learnt Carmen Munteanu

Iasi , the 31st of March 2012

… worked in telecom industry for 15 years

… been interested in Agile for about 4.5 years

… been internal Agile coach for 1 year

Who am I? I ‘ve …

we are developing telecom solutions

the biggest corporation ever engaged on the journey towards Agility

distributed teams

multiculturalism

bureaucracy

existing organizational culture

Challenges in my company

What I’ve learnt?

What I’ve learnt?

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What I’ve learnt?

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What I’ve learnt?

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What I’ve learnt?

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Learn LEAN

All for one and one for all

faster the creation of organizational culture enabling the transformation

address to all levels in the company

L L

Understanding why we are doing it and what are the expectations

Give a common goal to all personnel

Provide updates on success stories

Communicate the ChangeC C

Sales

HR department

Purchasing

Financial

Real estate

including

Customer

Break the silos and let the value flow.

Educate EverybodyE E

Increase teams knowledge on practices like:

Continuous integration

Test driven development

Behavior driven development

Code clean

Refactoring

and tools to put them in place.

Use different learning techniques:

Coding Dojo

Code Retreat

Teaching ToolsT T

Bring customer and teams together

Deliver as often as you can

Encourage learning by experiment

Continuously adapt

Protect the self-organization

AGILE AttitudeA A

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Carmen.Munteanu@alcatel-lucent.com