Presented by Elad Ash at Agile Practitioners 2015

1. Elad Ash, VP of R&D
STARTING UP AND
IMPROVING
ON THE WAY

2. Let’s start easy:
What do you need to
do?

3. IMPROVE.

4. Velocity.
Quality.
Scalability.
Engagement.
Performance.
Infrastructures.
Recruitment.
User Experience.
Stability
Etc....
Improve what?

5. Change for the better.
But change introduces problems
1. Antagonism.
2. Inconvenience.
3. Risk.
4. Convincing.
Improve - definition

6. Hard:
How to make sure we
change for the
better?

7. Answer:
You can’t!

8. YES YOU CAN!
Tweak - How to make
sure we change for
the better QUICKLY

9. YES YOU CAN!
By doing:
Small, Measurable
Changes.

10. Step 1:
Educate for
ownership and
flexibility

11. Bottom up
Workers knows better than managers.
Handle the pains of the one that are required to
change.
Expect and listen to objections.
Mentor and Delegate
This will create ownership

12. Be Flexible
You don’t know where you’ll end, so:
Build a flexible structure
That can scale.

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Human beings, who are almost unique in having
the ability to learn from the experience of others,
are also remarkable for their apparent
disinclination to do so
Douglas Adams

14. Learn and study
Learn from others and use consultants
But… take only what you need.

15. Step 2:
Change something

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Insanity: Doing the same thing over and
over again and expecting different results
Albert Einstein

17. Step 3:
Expect mistakes

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Anyone who has never made a mistake
never tried anything new
Albert Einstein

19. Step 4:
Learn from your
mistakes

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An American monkey, after getting drunk on
brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is
much wiser than most men
Charles Darwin

21. Step 5:
Doubt your beliefs

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I never said half the crap
people say I did.
Albert Einstein

23. Step 6:
Repeat the process

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To improve is to change, to
be perfect is to change often
Winston Churchill

25. Fine tuning
1. Educate for flexibility and ownership.
2. Change something small with care.
3. Measure, expect mistakes and learn from results
4. Doubt your beliefs.
5. Repeat
a.k.a - Small
measureable

26. The promise
OR
What’s in it for you.

27. You will
1. Reduce risks.
2. Change faster.
3. To the better.
4. Prove your right by doing, rather than by
arguing.
5. Lower credit burn.
But mostly, build an organization that has…

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Flexibility to change
Charles Darwin
It is not the strongest or
intelligent of the species
that survive, it is the one
most adaptive to change

29. Did you ever stop to think, and
then forget to start again…
AA Milne

30. Questions ?
AA Milne