Talk about Agile Methods and the cultural changes it provides in a company after a couple of years of adoption

1. Agile Culture
De Masiʼs Dream
Daniel Cukier
www.agileandart.com
@danicuki

2. Who am I and my experience in Locaweb implementing agile methods

3. culture |ˈkəl ch ər|
1 the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual
achievement regarded collectively.
• a refined understanding or appreciation of this.
• the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of
a particular nation, people, or other social group.
• [with adj.] the attitudes and behavior characteristic of a
particular social group
2 Biology the cultivation of bacteria, tissue cells, etc., in
an artificial medium containing nutrients.
• a preparation of cells obtained in such a way: the
bacterium was isolated in two blood cultures.
• the cultivation of plants: this variety of lettuce is popular
for its ease of culture.
ORIGIN: In late Middle English the sense was [cultivation
of the soil] and from this (early 16th cent.) arose [cultivation
(of the mind, faculties, or manners)]

4. move

5. change

6. Agile Culture

7. Agile is air
Culture is earth
heavy, difficult to change, inertia, grow slowly

8. Agile is air
Culture is earth
changeable, adaptable, light, simplicity

9. Programmers are not interchangeable resources
there are no software factories

10. - story: phone / non approved medicine, huge dosag /
unknown doctor / 95% did continue
- its safer not take decisions

11. Work Study
Creative
Idleness
Play

12. Individuals and interactions
over
processes and tools

13. “One who has mastered the art of living makes
little distinction between work and free time,
between mind and body, between education and
recreation, between love and religion.
Distinguishes one from the other with difficulty.
Aims simply to excel in whatever he do, leaving
to others the task of deciding whether he is
working or playing. He believes he is always
doing both at the same time”
Domenico De Masi

14. Why changing is so difficult?

16. aversion
something you don’t want to happen happens

17. clinging
clinging - something you want doesn’t happen

18. change will happen,
so accept this fact
something you don’t want to happen happens

19. Strategies

20. Patterns: big jolt, guru at your side, right time, ask for help, just do it, Involve Everyone

21. Patience
Have patience, meditate

22. Do your
job
Do your job and show people you deliver!

23. Have fun

24. Humor and Arts
Arts are agents of change

25. Melô do Teste Automatizado
De tanto enfiar, gambiarra pra funcionar
Meu código até parece, sabe o que?
Ma-ca-rro-na-da da mama
Eu vou ter que refatorar, assim não pode ficar
Se esse método for colocado na classe acima
Esse outro a gente lima,
vou com teste completando
Vou testar, pra acabar com esse sofrimento
Eu não aguento, vou fazer o teste automatizado

26. Changes

27. Informative Space
- white boards
- history: director that didnt want white boards

28. Informative Space
- white boards
- history: director that didnt want white boards

29. Dojo
Dojo, study groups

30. Tests
Tests

31. problems come to the surface, more transparency and visibility

32. Theory of Constrains (ToC)
What happens when technology area starts to deliver?
45+90+15=150

33. Theory of Constrains (ToC)
What happens when technology area starts to deliver?
45+60+15=120

34. Theory of Constrains (ToC)
What happens when technology area starts to deliver?

35. daily stand-up meetings

36. hiring

37. participative management and
flexible work-time

38. Did we really
changed?

39. Ilusion
Worse than being agile is not to be agile thinking that you are

40. roots
Not just the practices, but deep rooted principles

41. Changing takes time, the change happens slowly, organically and almost always
unconsciously

42. Mistakes we take

43. agreement
is not enough
some assimilates agile as a flag, not by heart

44. experience is everything - no sheep dip training - 10000 hours

45. Daniel Cukier
training and certification is not sufficient

46. continuous improvement forever,
other people will come,
the work is never over

47. sponsorship comes hardly
and goes away easily

48. nobody fully understands the whole

49. Conclusions
• Weʼve already passed the industrial age
• Culture is hard to change and takes time
• Changing is hard because of suffering
• Accepts the reality of every change
• Use know strategies or create yours
• Have fun and DO ARTS
• Look strait to whatʼs wrong
• Donʼt believe in sheep dip trainings
• and...

50. Keep working
Keep working

51. References
• Fearless Change - Patterns for introducing new ideas
• Creative Illness - Domenico De Masi
• Extreme Programming 1st and 2nd Editions
• Pragmatic Thinking and Learning - Andy Hunt
• www.agileandart.com
• www.codingdojo.org
• www.danicuki.com.br/dissertacao-revisada.pdf
• vimeo.com/4766693

52. Agile Culture
De Masiʼs Dream
Daniel Cukier
www.agileandart.com
@danicuki