The SCRUM and the willpower:

how neuroscience can boost

your productivity

Topconf Tallinn

November 2013

Anna Obukhova,

Agile Coach

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Customers want the 400% increase!

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What the productivity is?

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Willpower energy is not endless

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The willpower fuels are: Sugar and Lysine

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Lysine – what it affects and regulates:

Regulates

Energy metabolism and body recovery

Lipids metabolism

Immune system

Short-term memory

Attention concentration, focus

Not enough Lysine

Anxiety, nervousness, cannot feel happiness

Lower height or bad powerlifting results

Allopecia – less hair on the head

Problems with potency

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1 - Don’t spend Lysine

2 - Don’t allow others to spend our Lysine

3 - Get Results and be Happy

Strategies for productivity:

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Why it is about Scrum?

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Flow 1 - Don’t spend Willpower and Lysine

Habit

Ritual

Flow

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Flow 1 in Scrum: Don’t Spend willpower

1. Standup

2. Sprint Pulse

3. Pick the task

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Flow 2- Don’t allow others to spend your Lysine

Anxiety

Uncertainty

Stress

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Flow 2 in Scrum: reduce uncertainty

4. PBR meetings

5. Story tests and

DOD

6. Change

Requests

7. UT and Test

Automation

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Flow 3 – Get the result and get happy

Get the result

Authorize the result

Sell the result

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Flow 3 in Scrum: Success well

8. Story - done

9. Tasks <= 1

day

10.Fixed Price

Agile

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Compound effect

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What hyperproductivity potential you have?

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1. Standup - identical

2. Sprint Pulse present and constant

3. Tasks picked by developers

4. PBR meetings prepare for commitment

5. Story tests used for Demo

6. Change Requests – Request for new

result

7. UT and Test Automation – green tick

8. Story Done – visible acceptance

9. Tasks <= 1 day

10.Fixed Price Agile - result >money

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Is 400% productivity

in Scrum

a myth,

a luck

…or?

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Anna.Obukhova@luxoft.com

Anna.Obukhova@mail.ru

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