Slides from my session at Agile India 2012. If you are a manager, an aspiring manager or someone who wants to know how to get more value from the role of a manager in Agile teams.
1. TURNING INTO AN
AGILE
ENGINEERING
MANAGER
February 2012
Debashis Banerjee (deba_ban@rediffmail.com)
2. 1902 or 2012?
Are we all variations of Rodin’s Thinker
VersionOne 2011 Stage of Agile Survey says:
“64% of Agile Champions are in the management
layer”
In larger companies (>500 people)
•27% said lack of management support
•26% said “general resistance to change”
were major barriers to agile adoption.
This drops to 10% in smaller companies
3. Who is an Agile Engineering Manager
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/jun/06/gary-kirsten-south-africa-coach http://www.itsonlycricket.com/entry/548/ http://cricblitz.blogspot.com/2011/02/2011-cricket-world-cup-word-from.html
4. Today’s Agenda
Arm yourself with The 4 Is and 3 Ps
Scenario Walkthrough; Leveraging the 4Is and 3 Ps
in agile (Scrum)
Separation Anxiety
Extinction Anxiety
UN-Certainity
xe-NO-phobia
A “?” on every face
Changing Lanes
Agile Behaviors managers can support
5. Arming yourself with the 4 Is
4Is
http://www.questforanewperspective.com/personal-development/who-do-you-influence/
6. Learn the 3 Ps and apply the 4Is
People – Who are the people doing it?
Project – When and How are they doing it?
Product – How is it built?
EM
4Is
:http://www.zdnet.com/blog/doc/do-young-people-prefer-print-marketi http://www.bestlogcabinhomes.com/how-to-build-a-log-cabin.html ng/1651
7. “Agile EM” Scenario Walkthroughs
Agile Methodology assumed
Scrum with 2 week sprints in a cross functional team
Scrum Team – Cross Functional (Dev,QA, Product Owners
Service Engg) Engineering Manager
External Scrum teams Other company stakeholders (Directors/CEO)
Scrum Master
8. Scenario 1: Separation Anxiety
One of the key members of the team decides to leave
or has to be let go? The team member is handling
critical sprint deliverables
9. Scenario 2 : Extinction Anxiety
The scrum team is informed that the product has to be
scrapped in the middle of the sprint?
http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/172706/enlarge
10. Scenario 3 : UN…Certainity
The scrum team is informed the company will be
acquired but is in the middle of a major product?
http://despair.com/acquisition.html
11. Scenario 4 : xe-NO-phobia?
(Fear of Strangers…) You are a single location team but
now with new members across multiple geo locations
and also an outsourced vendor?
http://www.spanishdict.com/answers/148945/a-z-same-word-or-almost-the-same-both-languages
12. Scenario 5 : A “?” On every face
The product has no concrete roadmap and product
owner appears disengaged and scrum team is not
happy
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/redir/PN000064365.aspx?lc=en%2DUS&CTT=102&qu=road&xc=MP900438811&Origin=MP900438811
13. Scenario 6 : Changing Lanes
The technology stack needs to be changed
http://www.drivingschool.ca/drivereducation/page6.html
14. Agile Behaviors managers can support!
People:
People own backlogs as “Team” not function
Team pick their own tasks
Cross functional team members are open and give ongoing
peer feedback and use retrospectives effectively
Product
The product is built right in iterations
PO can release product versions at sprints if needed
Project:
Product owner sets backlog priority and changes
Timelines are committed by team
There is a single backlog
