This is a lecture on Agile values, principles and practices which was presented by Hillel Glazer as part of AgileTour 2010, an international conference that was organized by Ignite and held in the Computer Science Faculty of the Technion, Israeli leading academic institute for technological studies

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Values
Principles
Practices
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Hillel Glazer

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Values, Principles, Practices, a Hierarchy

3. VALUES
Characteristics of things to which we can place attributes of priority or
worth.
E.g., We value life, freedom and justice over fear, oppression, and cruelty.
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4. Values: Improvement
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5. Values: Improvement
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6. Value:
NOT Improvement
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7. PRINCIPLES
Thoughts/behaviors that guide us when applying our values.
E.g., In principle, we want people to be free to make choices about how
they live their lives. We want people’s rights protected. And, we want
people do pursue the way to live that suits them best.
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8. Principles: Improvement
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9. Principles: Improvement
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10. Principles: NOT Improvement
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11. PRACTICES
Day-to-day activities that carry out principles that reflect the values.
E.g., We have laws to protect us in the event that someone wants to
prevent us from expressing ourselves, but we also have laws to stop us
from expressing ourselves in ways that harm others.
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12. Practices: Improvement
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13. Practices: Improvement
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14. Practices: NOT Improvement
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15. What’s the Point?
It takes many practices to embody
even a single principle…
And
Many principles to fully
characterize a simple value….
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16. What’s the Point?
Practices are the easiest to:
See
Teach
Copy
Audit
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17. What’s the Point?
Practices are a very narrow
instantiation of a principle or
value.
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18. What’s the Point?
Practices mask (hide) the true
principles and values they come
from.
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19. What’s the Point?
Practices are an incomplete
picture.
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20. What’s the Point?
ISO 9000, CMMI, ITIL, ISO 20000,
FDA, MDD, Agile, DFSS, etc.
Are merely practices!
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21. What’s the Point?
Focusing on the practices misses
out on the principles and values!
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22. Manifesto for Performance Improvement
We value improvement over compliance.
We value understanding over audits.
We value learning over habit.
We value lean over artifacts.
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23. Performance Improvement
Practices alone have FAILED.
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24. Performance Improvement
Starts with culture towards these
improvement values.
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25. Performance Improvement
Values and Principles must be
known to and by everyone.
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26. Performance Improvement
Empowerment.
Communication.
Learning.
DO “sweat the small stuff”.
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27. VALUES
Characteristics of things to which we can place attributes of priority or
worth.
E.g., We value improvement over compliance.
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28. PRINCIPLES
Thoughts/behaviors that guide us when applying our values.
E.g., In principle, work should be done the best way possible and people
should be free to experiment to find what is that best way and they should
then be free to change their minds.
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29. PRACTICES
Day-to-day activities that carry out principles that reflect the values.
E.g., We identify our work flow so that everyone knows their job and
knows what to expect from everyone they interact with. We don’t let
“small stuff” become “big stuff” and we communicate to each other what
works and how we fix what doesn’t. And, our leaders let this happen
because they know that this is what keeps us ahead of everyone else.
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30. Discussion?
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31. Don’t forget to write!
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