The slides from the kickoff of the #WomenInAgile workshop with facilitator Natalie Warnert and keynote speaker Cindy Morse of Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Agile2016, Atlanta, GA
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Research Question
What are the reasons that prevent female Agile
practitioners from achieving higher levels of
involvement in the Agile community, and what
strategies can overcome them?
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What is Involvement?
External to daily job responsibilities
Blogging
Conference attendance
Submitting to present at conferences
Submitting work for publication
User group attendance, membership, participation
Earning certifications
…
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Survey Questions
What prevents you from being more involved in the
Agile community?
When you think about the Agile community, in your
opinion why are men more involved than women?
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Reasons that prevent women from
achieving higher levels of involvement
Competing priorities for time
Organizational and career reasons
Lack of confidence, fear of perception from others
Intimidation from lack of diversity
Some event or interaction has deterred my
involvement interest
I am not interested in being more involved
11. “What are our Engineers working on?”
“Who should be on a Squad?”
12. Prioritization
Deliver the MOST
valuable software to
customers.
Why is MC Going Agile?
The Evolution of our Sense of Urgency
Visibility
What are Engineers/Our
Teams Working on?
Predictability
Better set customer
expectations
Quality
Customer Satisfaction, Scale,
Salesforce Tolerance
13. Go Forward Strategy
Theme #7 Theme #3
Transform by Product
Augment the
Transformation Team
Create a Roadmap
(A Playbook)
Train Leadership,
Increase Involvement
Change ManagementClear, Meaningful
Vision
Theme #3Scrum Roles &
Responsibilities
Metrics
14. “No longer solely the domain of startups”
>24% of respondents work in 20,000+ person companies (21% LY)
Going Global
25% of Organizations have been Agile 5+ yrs
17% of Teams are Mature in Practice
33% Extremely Knowledgeable (5+ yrs)
10th Annual State of Agile Survey, VERSIONONE, 3,844 respondents
A New Space for Women (and everyone) in T&P
17. Taking Advantage of The Changing Face of Agile
17% of Teams are Mature in Practice
33% Extremely Knowledgeable (5+ yrs)
Leadership Needs (and wants) Help
SME: “The fundamental building block”
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Research Findings: Strategies to
Support Women’s Involvement
Immediate:
Extend a personal invitation to participate
Mid-Range:
Increase company support to participate
Promote and seek out diversity in Agile community activities
Encourage and facilitate networking among women
Long Term:
Increase early recruitment efforts of girls/women in Science
Technology Engineering & Math (STEM) fields
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Table read outs
What stood out to you?
Action items to share
Twitter: #WomenInAgile
LinkedIn: Women in Agile group
Slack: womeninagile.slack.com
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Agile manifesto in 2001
Men are the only signatories
Very structured and led to many misconceptions
And this is what Agile is centered around
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How I got started in IT and became involved in Agile. Realized there were fewer women present and of those present, fewer involved. Group to address the issue, but it lacked strategy and understanding of the underlying issues that are preventing women from being more involved.
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What are the reasons that prevent female Agile practitioners from achieving higher levels of involvement in the Agile community, and what strategies can overcome them?
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Start at the bottom – not interested is not a strong reason
How does your organization support this? FTE, contractor etc…finances to come to these conferences, more involved if companies support
Lack of confidence – fear of perception from others – judged by how you look
Intimidation from lack of diversity - diversity of the answers, feelings at conferences
1: Barraza JA, Zak PJ. Empathy toward strangers triggers oxytocin release and subsequent generosity. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2009 Jun;1167:182-9. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04504.x. PubMed PMID: 19580564.
1: van Exel E, Gussekloo J, de Craen AJ, Bootsma-van der Wiel A, Houx P, Knook DL, Westendorp RG. Cognitive function in the oldest old: women perform better than men. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2001 Jul;71(1):29-32. PubMed PMID:11413258; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1737441.
1: van Exel E, Gussekloo J, de Craen AJ, Bootsma-van der Wiel A, Houx P, Knook DL, Westendorp RG. Cognitive function in the oldest old: women perform better than men. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2001 Jul;71(1):29-32. PubMed PMID:11413258; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1737441.
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Remind again what involvement is, we just learned the reasons women have for lower involvement levels as stated by themselves and perceived by others, the next portion of the research was to determine how to increase involvement levels.
Personal invitation story at user group meeting
Networking – beer quote?