Asia Agile Forum'16 Dhaka - Starting Agile journey – becoming pioneer at your organization by Mizanur Rehman

1. Starting Agile Journey
Becoming pioneer at your organization
M. Mizanur Rahman
Informatix Technologies, Techmasters

2. Do you recognize them?

3. Or him?

4. Why do people think they are pioneer?
• They created history by climbing the Everest peak and first
footstep in the moon
• They injected the idea to others that it can be done.
• They showed the courage and their achievements made them
immortal in the history.

5. You know Agile, now what?
• You want to use agile in every projects you are working on
or going to work in future
• You love self managed teams
• You love following best engineering practices
• You love simplicity and iterative nature of agile
• You want everyone of your organization to follow Agile

6. Then what is blocking you?
• I am just a developer/project manager, I do not have
authority to talk to my top management about changes
• I have reached top management, but they do not
understand agile or have no interest to understand it
• My team members are reluctant to adopt agile
• May be we can pick something good from few frameworks
and make it a hybrid agile framework to suite us.

7. There are more problems
Agile Principle #4: Close, daily
cooperation between business
people and developers
1. My client is not available for
meeting.
2. He lives in USA/Canada, its not
an option for him to do such
meetings.
3. my client does not understand
agile

8. There are more problems
Principle #11: Self-organizing
teams
wait a second, do you mean there
is no manager in the team to
ensure the delivery on time by
hook or by crook?
Are you crazy? This guys can’t
even make their tea by
themselves, how can they be self
organized?

9. Now here is the
opportunity to
become a Pioneer

10. How?
• Make sure you understood agile principles and chosen your
framework.
• Try to identify the lags in your current practices and
approaches.
• Try to understand team culture and their working
philosophy
• Do some research on the impact of agile on similar
organizations.

11. How to approach to my company?
• Should I go top - down?
• Or should I go bottom - up?

12. The approach for top management
• Perform a SWOT analysis
• strength
• Weakness
• Opportunity
• Threat
• Present your proposal for the change
• Show them ROI
• Investment of time
• Investment of money
• Investment of energy

13. The approach for the team

14. Ensure team members are ready
• To be self managed
• To be responsible
• To be reliable
• To be trusted
• To work as a team – not just individuals
• To learn agile practices and follow them

15. Your approach can make it or break it

16. Choose & act wisely
• Do not go for multiple options for agile frameworks.
• Choose only one framework to start with based on your
companies nature of work
• Choose a team to pilot the project. Don’t go for overall
organization. Only a small team to start with
• Do not try to achieve everything overnight, remember slow
and steady wins the race
• Learn from the certified professionals, not just random
xyz.com

17. Try to establish within the team
• Discipline
• Synergy
• Transparency
• Adaptation
• Empowerment

18. Your activity can have two impact

19. Or the other way around

20. Thank you
M. Mizanur Rahman
C.E.O
Informatix Technologies, TechMasters
CSM, CSPO, CSD, CSP