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The Need for Continuous Improvement in Agile
Keynote 1stConf MelbourneFebruary 15, 2016
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Agile, Lean, Quality & Continuous Improvement
Retrospectives Facilitator Agile Coach/Mentor/TrainerCMMI & People-CMM Assessor
Freelance Editor for InfoQ.com
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Co-Author Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives English Dutch French Japanese Spanish Italian Chinese Russian Polish German Greek TurkishAuthor: What Drives Quality & Continuous Improvement
eBook: Download from Amazon, InfoQ or LeanpubPrint: Buy on Amazon or Lulu
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Continuous Improvement
Continuous Improvement is the act of continuously doing whatever helps to become better and thus more valuable.
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Origins
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Agile Manifesto
“We are uncovering better ways of developingsoftware by doing it and helping others do it”
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Agile Principle
“At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its
behavior accordingly”
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Why improve?• No “one best way”• No “first time right”• Things will change• Self organization,
empower your teams
Mindset: Continuously look for improvements
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You need to improve! Continuous Improvement is essential
if you want to really become agile!
The Impact and Value of Agile
Agile Value Creation
Business Value of Agile Retrospectives
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Embedded Improvement Agile values, principles, practices, and methods
support continuous improvement
• Frequently Inspect and Adapt• Scrum master, focus on process• Stand-up, focus on impediments• Agile Retrospectives, learn and improve• Coaching to support your agile journey
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Unfinished User Story
1 hr of work left, not finished• Problem clearly visible• Address in Stand-up, Review,
Retrospective or by Coaching?
Best thing coach can do
Agile has built-in improvement opportunities
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How to Improve Continuously
You need:• skilled people• methods and tools to do sustainable improvement
Soft Skills Matter Listening to deal with resistance Teamwork: Feelings matter
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Agile Coaching
Help people to find and do improvements
Give FeedbackProvide Ideas Inspire PeopleEstablish Safety
Agile Needs Coaching
Develop Coaching Skills
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Process Improvement
CMMI Roadmaps
Business Focused CMMI
Agile SPI
SPI, the Agile way
ITMPI Webinar
Better Improvement
Agile/Lean Improvement
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People over Processes
People CMM RoadmapWork EnvironmentCompensationStaffingCompetency
DevelopmentCommunication & Coord.Participatory Culture
Agile People (AC 2011)
Implementing Agile
SQP Paper Agile-PCMM
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Golden Rules for Improvement• Dare to share, early and frequently• Result depends on team, not individuals• The one who checks out a task is not necessarily
the one who has to finish it• The one’s working on a task are the right people• You may critique anything,
but never criticize anyone
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Measuring ImprovementAssessments Done SD Trend 12 months
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Making Improvement Visible – ICSPI 2006
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Root Cause Analysis
Analyze major and repeating problemsFind Root CausesPreventive Actions
Problem SelectionKnowledge & SkillsAction Visibility Keynote QA&Test 2011
Key Success Factors
Business Value RCA
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Agile Retrospectives
amazon.com/dp/B00SWJO1DI benlinders.com/exercises/
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KanbanStart where you arePull based changeExperiment
Short Cycled Improvement
Learning from Mistakes
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Agile & ImprovementContinuous Improvement is essential if you want
to increase your agility
Agile values, principles, practices, and methods support continuous improvement
You need skilled people with methods and tools to get sustainable effective improvement done
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Start TodayKeep your eyes and ears open, pick one improvement idea, think of a practical way to do it, start doing it!
Continuous improvement journey starts today!
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Continuous Improvement
Become aware of importance of continuous improvement,
Explore how it’s engrained in agile software development
Suggestions that you can use in your daily work to improve continuously
Increase your organization's agility!
Leanpub.com/continuousimprovement
“Continuous Improvement is the act of continuously doing whatever helps to become better and thus more valuable”
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Questions?Questions?
Ben LindersIndependent Consultant Agile, Lean,Quality & Continuous Improvement
[email protected]@BenLinders.com @BenLinders www.linkedin.com/in/benlinderswww.linkedin.com/in/benlinders www.facebook.com/BenLindersAdvieswww.facebook.com/BenLindersAdvies www.benlinders.comwww.benlinders.com
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Background Information
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Retrospectives BookGetting Value out of Agile RetrospectivesBy Luis Gonçalves & Ben Linders
Download from InfoQ or LeanpubBuy on Amazon or Lulu
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Mailinglist: eepurl.com/Mem7H
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Retrospectives Book BundleSix successful retrospectives books• Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives• Fun Retrospectives• Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your Retrospectives• The Retrospective Handbook• Retrospectives for Organizational Change• The Retrospectives Kickstarter
These books will make your agile retrospectives rock!Teams will love to do them :-).
leanpub.com/b/agileretrospectivesDiscounted price: $30,48 (excl. VAT)
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Getting More out of Agile & Lean Practices for teams and stakeholders to develop the right
products, deliver faster, increase quality, and create happy high performing teams.
Full Day Workshop:Deploying practices effectively Improve CollaborationTips & Trick for Agile & Lean Improve Continuously
Increase your organization's agility!
BenLinders.com/agilelean
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Assessing your Agility
Over 40 tools:• Self-Assessment checklists• Readyness checks• Maturity assessments• Agile health checks• Measurements• And much more! Agile Self-Assessments
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Measure & Control QualityProject Defect Model:• Inserted & detected defects• Improve reviews,
inspections & testing• Prevent defects
Design & Test CollaborateVisible ImprovementBusiness case support
PDM (SEPG Europe 2003)
Project Performance (PQST 2005)
Monte Carlo (SEPG 2009)
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Articles on Effective Agile• Self-assessing how Agile you are• Sustainable Improvement through Agile Retrospectives• Working in a Sustainable Pace• Becoming Agile and Lean • Succes Factors for Using Scrum and Getting Benefits• Process Improvement: The Agile Way• Golden Rules for Agile Process Improvement• How to deal with Resistance when Implementing Agile• Managing Projects with Agile Teams• Agile Project Management• Establishing and Maintaining Stable Teams• Getting Business Value out of Agile Retrospectives• Sharing Knowledge is Power• Are your Professionals Empowered?
