Overcoming Impediments to Agile Transformation

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Agile Transformations Your Impediments

Questions as We Go

Original Commitment

• 5 segments• 8 minutes each

Scrum For Webinars

Hybrid Projects

Managers Role

Adopting Agile development practices

How can Agile work with offshore or non-colocated teams?Scaling Agile

Cultural issues / "That's not how we do it here"What is the best way to get team members to take ownership for sprint backlog?How does Agile work with non-software development projects?

EstimatedHybrid Projects ???

Managers Role 8

Adopting Agile development practices 13

How can Agile work with offshore or non-colocated teams?

8

Scaling Agile 13

Cultural issues / "That's not how we do it here"

5

What is the best way to get team members to take ownership for sprint backlog?

2

How does Agile work with non-software development projects?

8

CommitmentHybrid Projects ???

Managers Role 8

Adopting Agile development practices 13

How can Agile work with offshore or non-colocated teams?

8

Scaling Agile 13

Cultural issues / "That's not how we do it here"

5

What is the best way to get team members to take ownership for sprint backlog?

2

How does Agile work with non-software development projects?

8

Background

Doesn’t Solve Problems

Simple and Incomplete

Stable Teams

Communications

Managers Role in Scrum

Don’t

Set Goal

Constraints/Boundaries

Time

Listen

Observe

Ask

Safe to Fail

Grow People

Hire/Fire

Strategy

Project Portfolio

Remove Organizational Impediments

Transition Team

References

Role of the Manager in Scrum – Pete Deemer: http://www.infoq.com/articles/scrum-management-deemer/

Rethinking Manager’s Relationship with Agile Teams – Esther Derby: http://www.estherderby.com/2011/08/rethinking-managers-relationship-with-agile-teams.html

What Do Middle Managers Do? – Esther Derby: http://www.estherderby.com/2012/04/what-do-middle-managers-do.html

Books Mentioned

The Wisdom of Teams - Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith

Group Genius – Keith Sawyer

Managers Role

• Complete?• 8 of 29 pts done!!!

Managers Role 8

Adopting Agile development practices 13

How can Agile work with offshore or non-colocated teams?

8

Resistance to Practices

Don’t Sell

Mindset

Systems Thinking

Understand Their Problems

• Status• Certainty• Autonomy• Relatedness• Fairness

Make it Easy to Start

Make it Safe to Fail

Experiments 6-8 weeks

Community of Practice

Learning Time

Coding Dojo

Coaching and Mentoring

• Internal and External

Buy Books

Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests – Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce

Working Effectively with Legacy Code - Michael Feathers

…More:

http://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2011/08/books-for-newly-minted-scrum-masters.html

References

Making TDD Stick: Problems and Solutions for Adopters - Mark Levison: http://www.infoq.com/articles/levison-TDD-adoption-strategy

SCARF (Status, Certainty, …) Model – David Rock:

http://www.your-brain-at-work.com/files/NLJ_SCARFUS.pdf

References

Resistance as a Resource – Dale Emery: http://dhemery.com/articles/resistance_as_a_resource/

Systems Thinking Overview – Daniel Aronson: http://www.thinking.net/Systems_Thinking/OverviewSTarticle.pdf

References

Your Brain at Work – David Rock

Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman

Sprint Review

Managers Role 5

Adopting Agile development practices 13

How can Agile work with offshore or non-colocated teams?

8

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