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As agile adoption gains momentum across teams, business units, and entire enterprises, scaling a culture of collaboration is more important than ever before. If you’re interested learning how your organization can successfully coordinate across development teams, executive stakeholders, program and project managers, users, and customers, then you’ll want to tune in to this two-part webinar series. Part 1: Join David Hussman, well-known agility coach, instructor, and practitioner, for insights into the essentials you need to know to successfully expand the power of effective collaboration and the delivery of great software.
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Part 1 July 17, 2013 David Hussman Agility Coach, Instructor, Owner, DevJam
Andy Powell Product Evangelist, VersionOne
Collaboration that Scales
Connecting Teams and Programs via
Essential Conversations
The CDS (Chief Discussion Starter)
https://sites.google.com/site/twincitiespracticalagility/
Scaled Collaboration Varies
Collaboration Starts with Conversation
Within
(a team)
Across
(teams)
Outside
(teams)
Project
Program
Portfolio
Product Conversations
Daily Conversations
Learning Conversations
Reflective Conversations
Cross Product
Cross Team Conversations
Dependency Conversations
Ideation Conversations
Investment Conversations
Leadership Conversations
1
2
3
Within
( a team or a project )
Growing Collaboration in Context
Developing Products
Iterative Learning
Dealing w/ Adversity
Maintaining Health
Designing Agility
Discovering / Delivering
Continuous Delivery
Reflective Correction
Evolving the Process
Getting Productive
Staying Productive
Getting Ready
Product Thinking
Developing Products
Iterative Learning
Dealing w/ Adversity
Maintaining Health
Designing Agility
Discovering / Delivering
Continuous Delivery
Reflective Correction
Evolving the Process
Getting Productive
Staying Productive
Getting Ready
Essential Product Discussions
- Story Telling -
- Product Context - - Distributed Ideation -
What are your story telling tools?
personas - story maps - sketches
How does context matter?
System Context
Product Context
How do you do distributed discovery?
“If Google Docs and Post It Notes had a child, it would be CardBoard”
www.cardboardit.com
Pragmatic Planning and Standing
Developing Products
Iterative Learning
Dealing w/ Adversity
Maintaining Health
Designing Agility
Discovering / Delivering
Continuous Delivery
Reflective Correction
Evolving the Process
Getting Productive
Staying Productive
Getting Ready
How much planning is enough?
Where is the value?
What is the cost?
Are standups feeding the team?
Are you collaborating or just reporting?
Are you discovering or solving?
Dude’s Law: Value = Why / How
V= W H
I = V R
How much process is enough?
How much planning is enough?
What is the least amount of process that adds the most
real value? – Consider throwing out “The Book”
Why are they standing there?
Talk to the wall
Discover but don’t solve
Ask 5 Silent Why’s
Starting distributed connections
Rotate who goes first Press ‘3’ Key to speak
Use name to humanize people
Pair people across locations
Raj
Maria Ivan
Susan
Use humor to focus on outcomes
How do you talk about value delivered?
Measuring, Learning and Adapting
Developing Products
Iterative Learning
Dealing w/ Adversity
Maintaining Health
Designing Agility
Discovering / Delivering
Continuous Delivery
Reflective Correction
Evolving the Process
Getting Productive
Staying Productive
Getting Ready
How often are we watching real users?
What is the best product direction?
What is the next best investment?
What can we learn from the past?
How can we apply it to the future?
How are you learning about users?
What’s your next best investment?
Are people reflecting and learning?
How do can you spark reflective dialog?
Across
( many teams or a program )
Don’t mistake crowds for collaboration
Cross cutting conversations require effort
Checklist Thinking (and leaning)
Cross cutting collaboration at scale
Cross Cutting Collaboration
People
Products
Technology
Cross Cutting ( teams and people )
Cross Cutting ( products )
Cross Cutting ( complexity )
How adaptive is your eco-system?
Outside
( teams and across portfolios )
Who’s on the outside and why?
Connecting to the Outsiders
Ideators
Investors
Leaders
Ideators
What is the next best investment?
Investors
Leaders
Are your skeptics on the outside?
Avoid Epistemic Arrogance
“The difference between what you know
and what you think you know”
So what now? ( putting these questions to work )
Reframing Our Learning
Building for the future Building to adapt
Talking about code Talking about tests
Late integration Continuous Deployment
What’s required? What’s needed?
How many hours? How much product?
How much cost? How much opportunity?
(from) Last Millennia (to) This Millennia
How big? Too big?
Learning to estimate Learning from estimates
Completing work Validating value delivered
If you are looking for more …
http://devjam.com/2013/07/12/cutting-an-agile-groove-overview/
http://www.versionone.com/product/agile-
project-management-tool-overview/
Questions?
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