How to be the Dale Earnhardt Jr. of Agile By: James Cannings (UK), MMT Digital

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How to supercharge your agile teams James Cannings, Co-founder

A fairy gives you one wish…

  Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

  Working software over comprehensive documentation

  Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

  Responding to change over following a plan

The Agile Manifesto

Scrum

The Benefits of Agile

The Benefits of Agile

The Tennis Ball versus the Marshmallow challenge

The Tennis Ball Challenge

The Rules Each ball must end with the team member with whom it began

Everyone must touch the ball

Each ball must have “air time”

Balls cannot be passed to neighbouring team members

Dropped balls can be left or must return to the start

The entire process is time-boxed at two minutes and repeated 4 times

There will be a 1 minute pause between rounds to discuss improvements.

That was fun but we learnt nothing!

The Rules Build the tallest freestanding structure (i.e. you can’t hold it up!)

You will be measured from the table top to the top of the marshmallow

The entire marshmallow must be on top

Use as much or as little of the kit

Break up the spaghetti, string or tape

You have 18 minutes

What does this game tell us?

Tips for supercharging your agile project team

Moving beyond the mechanics

Certified Team Members

Learn and Blend Agile Techniques

Have a fun kick-off day

Have a team name

Have fun! Build your team

Discipline, Discipline, Discipline

Have a strong PO

Test Driven Development

Solutions to agile leadership and management challenges

What are your main challenges? Groups of 2 or 3

Write your own top 3 (ish) challenges of a post-it

Try to come up with solutions to each others’ challenges.

Vote on the most critical challenges

Present the top 3 (ish) solutions to the groups

Levels of governance required for Agile projects

Daily    plan  

Sprint  goal  

Product  roadmap  

Product  strategy  

Service  strategy  

Vision  for  ini8a8ve  

Product  vision,    plan  for  1-­‐5  years  

Release  plan,  plan  for  1-­‐12  months  

Leadership  work  

Agile leadership

Daily    plan  

Sprint  goal  

Product  roadmap  

Product  strategy  

Service  strategy  

Vision  for  ini8a8ve  

Product  vision,    plan  for  1-­‐5  years  

Release  plan,  plan  for  1-­‐12  months  

Managing  Agile management

A startup is a human institution designed to create a product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

– Eric Ries

“ ”

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

– Peter Drucker

The Lean Startup in Government

Build > Measure > Learn

PRINCE2 Agile

PRINCE2 (Themes) -> Agile Business Case

Organisation

Quality

Plans

Risk

Change

Progress

Agile Business Case

Agile Roles & Responsibilities

TDD, DoR, DoD, BDD, etc

Story points, release plans, etc

Scrums, Demos, Burndowns, Spikes

Managing change in agile

Burn charts, etc

Scrum / Kanban / XP

The Lean Spectrum

What are your main challenges Groups of 2 or 3

Write your own top 3 (ish) challenges of a post-it

Try to come up with solutions to each others’ challenges.

Vote on the most critical challenges

Present the top 3 (ish) solutions to the groups

Empower and train your agile project teams

Ensure senior management understands the benefits and helps to create

the right culture.

Blend agile techniques to suit your project needs.

Consider Lean Startup, PRINCE2 Agile, SAFe and Scrum of Scrums in

order to apply scale and governance without damaging the agile principles.

Have fun and remember the skateboard.

Summary

The Agile Cheat Sheet

Thanks for coming Any Questions? http://mmtdigital.co.uk @MMT_Digital @JC_CTO James.c@mmtdigital.co.uk

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