1. The Agile Vision
Ionel Condor
@ionel_condor
November 2012

2. The Agile Body
 The Brain:
Agile Leadership, Self Organization and
personal agile mindset
 The Heart: Short Time Box in everything
 The Legs: Running Lean, use MVPs and
have alternatives(pivot)
 The Senses: you cannot improve if you do
not measure
 The Family: Scaling Agile in teams using
Agile Release Trains
 A Protector: Risk Management

3. Agile Leadership
Did you miss opportunities?
Do the Do the
Agile
right thing
Leadership thing right
Do it
Is this low quality? fast
Is this too expensive?
Anyone use/likes it?
Is this a quick ….crap?
Is this high quality quick …crap?

4. Self Org & Delegation
Chaos Complexity Order
Anarchy Governance
D
Good intentions What we delegate:
are not an excuse Inquire Authority or Tasks
for incompetence ! ?
Advice
Agree
Consult
Sell
Tell
See: “Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn))”

5. Agile mindset
 Agile Adoption or Agile Transformation ?
- Agile Principles – please re read them
- An Agile Adoption and Transformation Survival Guide
 Do we react to things, or move things ?
 Two traps during OUR transformation
- Personal: get to know me better (SWOT, priorities,…)
- Team: Vulnerability at the middle of the road
 Video summary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqjKyyP_kT

6. Short time box
 Iterations
 Releases
 Meetings
 …
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 Time box & Creativity
 Remember the PM triangle of Scope/Time/Cost

7. Running Lean
See: “Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit”
• Is this valuable ? (for customer, …),
Eliminate Waste Am I efficient with resources ?
7 Key Principles of Lean
Software Development
Build Quality In • Do you learn (Inspect& Adapt) enough ?
• Do you have habits or processes to store and
Create Knowledge spread the knowledge?
• Delay decisions until assumptions become
Defer Commitment facts
Deliver Fast • Quicker delivery of results and fast feedback
• Perceived and Conceptual Integrity of the
Build integrity in system, easy refactoring, CI/CD
• See everything as a whole not as a sum of its
Optimize the Whole parts
Video summary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3kKechcwYM

8. Use MVPs and Pivots
 Running Lean: iterations from Plan A to a plan that
works, before running out of resources
- speed, learning and focus
- continuous testing and measuring if your vision is still OK
- make sure the team/your colleagues are engaged
- discipline and rigor / focus
 Lean Startup: use smaller and faster iterations to test your
vision
 Run experiments
 MVP is not a product, but a strategy
see also: http://radoff.com/blog/2010/05/04/minimum-viable-product-rant/

9. Measure and Observe
1. Metrics
2. Some metrics I found relevant
 personal efficiency / productivity
 team agility : running tested features

10. Agile release trains
1. Why ?

11. Agile release trains
2. What?

12. Agile release trains
3. What what?
Source: http://www.jrothman.com/2011/01/not-ready-for-agile-start-your-journey-with-release-trains/

13. Agile release trains
2. What are not?

14. Risk Management
Estimation
Complexity
Scale
Interaction
Change
Innovation
Concurrency
Location
Experience
Resources
Contingency
Third Parties
Users
Standards
Phase
Relationships
Timescales
Objectives
Expectations
Administration
Techniques
Dependencies
Attitudes
Communication
Management
Training
Expertise
Organization
Incentives
See: “Risk Analysis For Agile”

15. Thank you
 Q&A
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