Easy to add, hard to remove. It is the case in many situations including software development, process improvements etc. How we can stay lean eliminating unnecessaries and be agile? We’ll explore the solutions with pattern mining workshop sessions. Stay Lean, Be Agile! AgileRoots 2014

1. Produced by Tsuyoshi Ushio
Kiro Harada

2. Facilitator
Tsuyoshi Ushio
(Agile Consultant, Business Analysis,
DevOps)
Kiro Harada
(Agile Coach, Domain Modeler,
SCM Consultant)

3. Build Less Patterns
• Know why we come here.
• Know about Build Less.
• Share and exchange ideas with AWESOME experts.
• Form a team (4 people in each team)
• Mining some Build Less Patterns in your team.
• Write your ideas and share these.
In this workshop, you will …
What will you do?
Ranking
Gold Stars

4. Story
Why we come here?
http://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/the-great-salt-lake/

5. Japan
A country of …

6. Japan is a country of …
http://net1.ist.psu.edu/chu/wcm/vc/company.htm
http://ww.amazon.co.jp/ルーツ・トレーディング-みんな
でクルクル～すしパーティ！くるりんお寿司
/dp/B004GWZDNC
Sushi
Toyota
Hiranabe

7. Japan is a country of …
http://blog-imgs-47.fc2.com/s/a/n/santensokuhou/thumb5.jpg
“How”
職人芸

8. HATSUNE MIKU
http://miku.sega.jp/

9. HATSUNE MIKU LIVE
http://www.mi7.co.jp/story/kei.suzuki.php
How to use
No such thing like Objectives

10. Sharp 912SH
In 2007

11. iPhone 1st
In 2007
Which product rules the world?

12. Japan is a country of
Build Mass Hell Give My Regards to Black Jack
SHUHO SATO Manga on Web

13. Like this…

14. Could you help us, PLEASE!
It happens EVERYTIME!
You may be 1000 times better than us

15. But it could happen in your …
Dilbert, Scott Adams

16. Build Less Patterns
Easy to add, hard to remove

17. • Increase effectiveness of integrating software functions
• making them leaner
A pattern catalog for
how to remove software functions.
What is BLP?
Or how to prevent
to add…

18. Repeatedly more than 3 times…
Removal makes significant values!
Standish Group Study Reported at XP2002 by Jim Johnson, Chairman

19. Why Build Less?
Remove first, add last.
Less software is easy to manage.
Less software keeps codebase small, this means
You’ve never been busy for maintenance.
Less software reduce cost and embrace change.
Less software has less bugs.
Less software reduces the operational cost.
Getting Real, 37 signals

20. #1 Operation feature later
Context : A sprint planning
Force : A sales division did not want to cut features
Problem : Every stories seem mandatory
Solution : Postpone implementing features used
in operation. These doesn’t need now.
Result : Easy to order stories.
Related : Concierge
By SonicGarden

21. #2 Hire an Ikemen(イケメン)
Context : a hiring process of the project
Force : Feeling of not being able to get enough value
Problem : the product owner requests to implement too
much functions
Solution : hire an ikemen
Result : The ikemen satisfied the product owner for
their value and gave them advice less mass.
Ikemen is a programmer who …
- has great technical skills
- can provide value makes the PO satisfy
- has great negotiation skill related build less

22. Other Build Less Patterns
Business flow
on a white board
Prioritize by user role
Preach Build Less No Velocity Utilizing Available
Service
Share vision/rule before
hand

23. BLP Pattern mining
workshop
mini
Easy to add, hard to remove

24. Thank you!
We will upload these patterns on the Wiki
Easy to add, hard to remove