My presentation at mini IAD Trento 2014. In this presentation I give my definition of Agile. (spoiler: is not a based on a set of practices :)

1. mini IAD
Marco Trincardi - Trento 2014

2. About Me
Marco Trincardi
Agile Coach @ XPeppers
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marco.trincardi@xpeppers.com
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Twitter: @Trink0

3. What is Agile?

4. My Definition
Business Driven
Empirical Process
(that shapes an)
Organization Culture

5. Business Driven

6. Business is changing
Steady Decline of Traditional Economy

7. Business has changed
New economy model has emerged

8. Creative Economy
"It exploits an Interconnected Costellation
of technological innovations and brings to
the marketplace drammatic reductions in
cost, size, time and convenience"
Steve Denning

9. Management
"Coherent constellation of different principles
in leadership and management has emerged"

10. Innovation
Innovation is not an option: it's an imperative.
The only question is how.

11. Destructive
Innovation could be Destructive!
(for Traditional Economy)

12. Focus
Focus on what’s really Valuable
Engage Customer
Less is more

13. Some Examples
• Electronic Payment
• Mobiles
• Messaging systems
• Cloud
• Startup Ecosystem
• Opensource

14. What’s needed
A process and culture that enable Innovation

15. Empirical Process

16. Empirical Process
“The empirical model of process control
provides and exercises control through
frequent inspection and adaptation for
processes that are imperfectly defined and
generate unpredictable and unrepeatable
outputs”

17. Key principles
• Few simple starting rules
• Inspect the outcome
• Adapt the process
• Do it Frequently

18. Scientific Method
“A method or procedure
consisting in systematic
observation, measurement,
and experiment, and the
formulation, testing, and
modification of
hypotheses”
Oxford English Dictionary

19. Learning Process
“software development is
a discovery and
a learning process”
Steve Blank

20. Creativity
Innovation needs Creativity
Learning leeds to Creativity

21. Creativity in software?

22. How we discover a model

23. How we design UX

24. How we write code

25. How we make systems comunicate

26. Organization Culture

27. Team Oriented
“The sum is more than the sum of its parts”
Aristotele

28. Whole Process
People has a broad view on entire process
and product

29. Empower People
Create the condition to
let people perform

30. Let Problems Emerge

31. Our Culture is based on
Collaboration and Cultivation

32. Instead of
Control & Roles

33. How we do it

34. How we Inspect
• Generate feedback, and collect data
• Let the problems emerge

35. Feedback Loop
Planning
BusinessCode

36. Code
• Test Driven Development
• Continuous Integration
• Acceptance Criteria

37. Plan
• Short Iteration
• Flow Based
• Process Metrics

38. Business
• Business Metrics
• Customer Involvement

39. How we Adapt
• Iteration Plan
• Retrospective
• Continuous Improvement

40. Iteration Plan
• Change Priority
• Change Scope
• Change Time
• Change Budget

41. Retrospective
• We discover action to be implemented
• Process
• Technical
• Business
• And We measure the outcome

42. Continuous Improvement
Adopt well known practices
Ex: Standup meeting

43. Continuous Improvement
Create new practice based on your needs
Ex: Continuos Delivery

44. Continuous Improvement
Drop no more useful practices
Ex: no estimate

45. Agile is more than a set of
practices

46. Agile is a Culture

47. Be Agile!

48. Image Credits
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/photolupi/2348775035/sizes/l/
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