radtac: consultancyAgile Anti-Patterns

Darren Wilmshurst ACIB CITP MBCS

@dazzawilmshurst

http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/darren-wilmshurst/1/93/89b/

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Who am I?

We believe in challenging the status quo and in the innate ability of people to rise

to the challenges of their organisation

16YEARS

Culture Consultancy Delivery Training

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What is Agile?

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Agile is not about Cost Cutting

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What is an Anti-Pattern?

An anti-pattern (or antipattern) is a common response to a recurring

problem that is usually ineffective and risks being highly counterproductive

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An Agile Anti-Pattern?

Something that at first blush may seem harmless but in practise is

usually damaging to an agile initiative.

Its important to be able to identify these quickly since they can hurt

your team and organisation

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Waterfall should never have existed!

I believe in this concept, but the implementation described above is risky and

invites failure. Theproblem is illustrated in Figure 4.

“Managing the Development of Large Software Systems” – Winston Royce 1970

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Agile is not a….!

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Agile is not Scrum!

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Umbrella, Ella, Ella

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Agile is not a Religion

So don’t be a Zealot

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One size fits all – really?

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Methodology Failure!

“About 50% of agile programs struggle or fail. One major cause of this is simply bad Scrum.” -- Jeff Sutherland. Scrum Days Berlin, June 2013

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Cargo Cult

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Doing Agile, Being Agile

‘Opening minds: Cultural change with the introduction of open-source collaboration methods’ - A. Neus and P. Scherf,

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What’s your Culture

“The Reengineering Alternative” - William Schneider © RADTAC 2014

Agile Friendly Culture

47%

41% 9%

3%

Culture Survey of Agile [Spayd]. © RADTAC 2014

Agile Anomaly

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Agile by Stealth

Michael Sahota, An Agile Adoption and Transformation Survival Guide © RADTAC 2014

Don’t do waterfall sprints

This is a intra-sprint waterfallSprint 1 Sprint 2 Sprint 3 Sprint 4 Sprint 5

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This is an inter-sprint waterfallSprint 1 Sprint 2 Sprint 3 Sprint 4 Sprint 5DefineDefine BuildBuild TestTest

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These are cross-functional sprintsSprint 1 Sprint 2 Sprint 3 Sprint 4 Sprint 5

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Limit WIP

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TEL AVIV IN THE MORNING

TEL AVIV IN THE AFTERNOON

Revolution

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Absent Product Owner

Four Attributes of the Ideal Pilot Project, Mike Cohn November 16th 2009 © RADTAC 2014

My Anti -Patterns

World accordingly to Darren Wilmshurst

Agile is a Silver Bullet

Agile is SCRUM

Agile is a Religion

Doing Agile is being Agile

Create an Agile Anomaly

Do Waterfall Sprints

Don’t limit WIP

Revolution Comrades

One-Size Fits All

Don’t worry about Business Sponsorship

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Conclusion

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SHOP FOR AGILE’

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training, coaching & delivery via Culture and

Agile practices

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