This was the presentation I did at Agile Tour Brussels (Sept-2013). In it, I highlight / discuss:
1. the evolutionary nature of Agile (the manifesto is awesome, but there's more to Agile than it as we continue to uncover better ways to deliver value)
2. the reasons why every organization and team should be learning about Agile and trying to find out what Agile looks like in their environment
6. group of software development practices
iterative & incremental
evolving requirements & solutions
self-organizing, cross-functional teams
time-boxed
adaptive planning and responsive to change
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7. a set of values & principles
holistic view of the organization
shuns local optimums throughput
people
non-predictive
in the present
non-heroic
anarchic
value
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8. “we are uncovering
better ways...”
non-dogmatic
continuously improving
co-evolving
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18. agile is about teams
the basic building block of organizations
in the knowledge economy
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19. group exchanges are short
and to the point
small teams
face to face communication up to
35% impact on performance
co-located
one-on-one
exchanges
Source: Harvard Business Review,April 2012,
“The New Science of Building Great Teams”
communication as key
predictor of success
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20. agile is non-predictive
prediction = guess
opportunity cost
manage today, not tomorrow
distribution of cognition
evolutionary not deterministic
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21. agile loves failure
fast & cheap
continual improvement
exploration
pivot & innovate
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22. agile is anti-fragile
nimble, lean organizations
comfortable with uncertainty
small bets with huge upside
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23. agile is about small wins
big is out (complexity) the hero myth
the knowledge economy is about the start-up mentality
continual improvement
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24. agile is universal
it can benefit any team or organization
from charities to modular cars
and everything
in between
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32. agile is simplicity
not the same thing as simple
it’s about limiting the amount of guesses
(i.e. your exposure to black swans)
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33. agile is about reality
we leave utopia to the predictive planning guys
“I don’t know”
illusion of control
craftsmanship
manage today
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34. what is impossible ?
impossible is the predictive, command &
control mentality creating great companies
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41. toyota production system “meals p/ hour”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtTQff7Uf_w
harvard business review (apr, 2012):“the new science of building great teams”:
http://hbr.org/2012/04/the-new-science-of-building-great-teams
wikispeed (extreme manufacturing):
joe justice ALE 2013 keynote - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbHgWCnttsc
homepage - http://wikispeed.org/
“anti-fragile”, nassim nicholas taleb
“black swan”, nassim nicholas taleb
“wisdom of crowds”, james surowiecki
Bibliography
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