The Big Picture of Agile: How to Pitch the Agile Mindset to Stakeholders
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The Big Picture of Agile
Four Fallacies or: How to Pitch the ‘Agile Mindset’ProductCamp Berlin 2016
There’s Plenty of “Agile”
There’s Plenty of “Agile”
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
Manifesto for Agile Software Development
Source: http://www.agilemanifesto.org/
“Sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception
of the situation or facts.”
Common Sense \ˈkä-mən-ˈsen(t)s\
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/common+sense
Doing “Agile” or Being Agile?Worldwide Scrum Alliance members:
• Certified Scrum Masters: 389.706• Certified Scrum Product Owners: 85.575 • Certified Scrum Professionals: 4.705• Certified Scrum Developers: 4.264• Certified Scrum Trainers: 215
Source: https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/certificant-directory.aspx?
Processes & Tools
Practices
Principles
Values
Mindset
Agile Onion
Source: http://www.adventureswithagile.com/2016/08/10/what-is-agile/
This can be adoptedC&C style
This requires cultural & organizational change
Move to a learning organization
Less powerful,more visible
More powerful,less visible
How come then that “Agile”
is so hard to master in practice?
Fallacy #1: Everyone Loves “Agile”
What-is-in-for-me syndrome: • Autonomy, mastery & purpose kill
jobs…• …and applying Taylorism still pays
well:• Personal agendas• Career optimization• Politics
Source: https://memegenerator.net/instance/23491837
Fallacy #2: One C-Level Can Sponsor Change
Source: https://age-of-product.com/agile-micromanagement/
Change needs to be fundamental:• Traits of the ‘learning organization’:• Running experiments• Embracing failure• Abandoning the “heroic inventor”
mental model• Effectiveness over efficiency • Self-organizing teams leading to…• … a ‘Team of teams’ structure
Fallacy #3: We Scale Like Spotify
Henrik Kniberg:
“…wasn’t a big re-make, more like a continuous stream of small iterative improvements to our organization and process. We have been growing for three years, and the way we work today has evolved naturally over time.”
Source: https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/10/no-spotify-model
Fallacy #4: We’re all Software Companies Now
Marc Andreessen:
“In short, software is eating the world.”
Source: http://a16z.com/2016/08/20/why-software-is-eating-the-world/
Source: https://age-of-product.com/big-picture-agile/
A Simplified Big Picture of “Agile”
Product discovery:
• Ideas and “requirements” long-list, competing for engineering resources• Application of the “valuable,
feasible, and usable” filter…• …thus identifying the short-list of
test-worthy hypotheses• Running (lean) experiments to…• …validate hypotheses.
A Simplified Big Picture of “Agile” (II)Product delivery:
• POs as the gatekeepers of the product backlog• The product backlog, representing at any given
time the most valuable set of tasks for a Scrum team• The continuous product backlog refinement
process…• …leading to the next set of user stories, tech
tasks, spikes, or bugs. Source: https://age-of-product.com/big-picture-agile/
Winning Hearts & Minds of Stakeholders
App building w/ newbies:
• Works for sales, marketing, customer care, finance, HR…• Workshop takes about 5-6 hours• Have them built a clickable
prototype• Example here: Team event
organization app
Source: https://age-of-product.com/app-prototyping-with-absolute-beginners-agile-experiments//
How to Get in Touch: Email: [email protected]: https://age-of-product.comTwitter: @AgeofProductTwitter: @StefanWSlack: hands-onagile.slack.com