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