The time has come to once again to shift our focus away from process to products and people. Ten years into the agile movement, the original ideals around lightweight process are gaining weight and calcifying in dangerous ways. More and more people spend time talking about “doing agile” instead of simply using agile methods to their advantage. More at http://webexpo.net/talk/products-and-people-over-process-and-dogma/

1. Mechanics
ActionProducts
over
Process

2. Products and People
over
Process and Dogma

3. What’s your story?
How do those words
help your product?
Choose a few words to
describe your process

4. Share, Compare, Learn

5. Learning
by
Comparing

7. Heart SurgeryBrown M and Ms
Why compare these?

8. B-17 Rialto Restaurant
Or these?

10. Simple - Complicated - Complex

11. Complex Adaptive Systems
Dave Snowden

12. Complexities We Face

13. Agility and Complexity
Creating Community (Common Vision)
Form
Communi*es
(Chartering)
Composing
Product
(Personas
-­‐
Story
maps
-­‐
Sketching)
Create
an
Eco-­‐System
(Itera*on
0
-­‐
Common
Workspace)
Delivery (Iterating)
Staying
Connected
(Daily
Standup
-­‐
Common
Workspace)
Tracking
Progress
(Task
Walls
-­‐
Burncharts
-­‐
Velocity)
Technical
Agility
(Con*nuous
Integra*on
-­‐
Test
Driven)
Delivering
Value
(Acceptance
Tests
-­‐
Con*nuous
Deploy)
Learning (Tuning)
Valida*ng
Progress
(Itera*on
Reviews
-­‐
Users
-­‐
User
Tes*ng)
Reflect
and
Improve
(Retrospec*ve
–
Market
Feedback)
Discovery (Planning)
Product
Releases
(Value
-­‐
Effort
-­‐
Dependencies)
Itera*ve
Delivery
(Itera*ons
(cycles)
-­‐
Kanban
(flow))

14. Discovery Delivery
What and Why How and When
Continuous (Product) Learning
“Pivot”

15. Do You Have a Good Story to Tell?
User Centered Delivery

16. When are you ready to iterate?
( an iteration checklist )

17. Rethinking Development
( product development )

18. Continuous Deployment
(extremely crazy or extremely powerful?)

19. Imagine your project is a start up?
How would your approach differ?
Where would you invest your money?
process (how) vs. product (why)
Intentional Investments

20. Build – Measure - Learn

21. A “Customer Checklist”
Customer Development

22. How do you measure progress?
Do you develop customer knowledge?

23. The Red Threads (so far)
Learning by Comparison
Checklists and Complexity
Product / User Focused Process
Customer Development

24. The Story of Brown M & Ms
( complex calls for simple )
So what about brown M & Ms?

25. Atul Gawande
(author Checklist Manifesto)Simple Process / Complex Environments

26. Learning From Scientists
( validate assumptions with evidence )

27. Wendy Freedman
(on the laws of gravity )
“Gravity is just a theory … there is always testing.”
V = GT F = MG

28. Earthly (Common) Laws
George
Ohm
Ohm’s
Law

29. What are the laws for agility?
What guides our thinking?

30. Dude’s Law

31. Discussions around ”are we doing Agile?”
{ Meaning = Intent / Action }
{ Worth = Purpose / Practice }
“Why are we doing what we are doing?”

32. Dude’s Law: Value = Why / How
V=
W
HV=
W
H
Ques%ons?

33. Share, Compare, Learn
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