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Beyond breaking bad. The current state of agile in ten (and a half) easy lessonsSander Hoogendoornditisagile.nlMentoring ▪ Consulting ▪ TrainingAgile ▪ Software architecture ▪ Code

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Sander Hoogendoorn

MeDad, mentor, trainer, software architect, programmer, speaker, writerBooks, articles, international conferences

WorkOwner ditisagile.nlFormer CTO insurance companyFormer global agile thoughtleader Capgemini

Webwww.sanderhoogendoorn.com@aahoogendoornsander@ditisagile.nl

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The waterfall model and why it should have never existedLesson 1

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We’ve got a plan and we’ll stick to it

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Boehm’s lawTesting is always too late

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Agile is no silver bulleteitherLesson 2

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Is agile dead?

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Agile conferences… and why I stopped going

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“Make sure you don’t miss the agile elephant versus the waterfall elephant in the lobby.”

“During this session we are going to discuss the Happiness Index of projects.”

“Add Ready for Celebration before the Done column on your Kanban board”

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Zenifying Agile

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The manifesto for what again?

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The agile suitsLesson 2b

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There’s money in agile

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Street credibility versus boardroom visibility

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All that jazz ...Boardroom visibilty

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Creating street credibility

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Vendor lock-inNothing new

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A scrum master is not always a true masterLesson 3

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Lowering our fences

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Dogmagile

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Scrumdamentalism

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Become a scrum master? What on earth is a servant-leader-master?

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Scrumman

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We are not manufacturingLesson 4

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The law of large numbersThe law of large numbers is a principle of probability according to which the frequencies of events with the same likelihood of occurrence even out, given enough trials or instances. As the number of experiments increases, the actual ratio of outcomes will converge on the theoretical, or expected, ratio of outcomes.

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We are using the wrong metaphors

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Manufacturing? Construction?

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Manufacturing and construction are mostly linear processes. Software development is a creative process and it is very much non-linear. Sorry.Sander

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Self-organizationis pretty toughLesson 5

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What if your organizational chart looks like this?

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assertThat(standup.getDuration(), is(lessThan(15)))

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The check-in quarter versus the check-in hat

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The check-in quarter versus the check-in hat

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A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other.Simon Sinek

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Allow the team to learn continuouslyLesson 6

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You are not Usain BoltLesson 7

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SprintsScrum’s mini-projects

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The red sprint anti-pattern

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Reverse planning

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Get rid of yourstereotypicalScrum boardLesson 8

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What’s the real status?

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Visualize your flow instead

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There is no suchthing as one-size-fits-allagileLesson 9

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Process? What process?

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Having a little process isn’t bad

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What do you mean Scrum is not a process?

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Is large scale agile just multiple copies?

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Or does large scale require a large scale process?

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Does agile scale?If you don’t succeed at agile in a team 5-person team, what makes you think you’ll succeed at enterprise level?

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Build agile from the ground up

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There’s no such thing as a best practicePractices only work within their context

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Do we really need projects?Lesson 10

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Do we really need projects?

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The Project Management Institute (PMI) has defined success as onTime, onBudget, and onTarget also known as the Triple Constraints and the Iron Triangle. However, we have seen many projects that have met the Triple Constraints and did not return value to the organization or the users and executive sponsor were unsatisfied.

The Standish Group has redefined project success as onTime, onBudget with a satisfactory result.

The Standish Group

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Small increments or big releases?What if Twitter…

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Minimal viable product

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Roadmaps over plansWhile there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more

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In retrospectiveSome final thoughts

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Growth is painful. Change is painful.But being stuck in a place you don’t want to be is extremely painful.

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