failed agile?

Failed Agile? On agile tech, agile process,

and agile organisationDan Bergh Johnsson

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Manifesto for Agile Software Development

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.

http://www.halfarsedagilemanifesto.org

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Agenda

• Hip-hop • Agile technology

• State of the Art • Bang for the Buck • Books

• Agile process • Agile organisation

• … and a travel 5

Four Elements of Hip-Hop

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Three Elements of Agile

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Organisation

Process

Technology

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Three Maslow-pyramids for Agile

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Avant-garde

Well-known

Established

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The Manifest, again

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.

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Organisation

Process

TechnologyWe build systems that rock!

Technology

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unit testsbuild server

domain-based code (DDD)automated acceptance tests

platform as code- vagrant, puppet TDD

context-based test/ exploratory testing

daily releaseversioned databases

feature toggletwo generation architecture

build pipeline

system quality testing

Bang for the BuckAgile Testing

• Human testning á la Exploratory Testing in sprint • A few automated acceptance tests

Controlled Technical Debt • Quality reports e g Sonar • Automated acceptance tests • Daily release - eventually

A database in each mans pot • Automated rigging of test data • Automated rigging of structure - versioned DB • (spice with) Vagrant/Puppet, or bash-script

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Books

Implementing Domain Driven Design [Vernon]

Refactoring Databases [Ambler/Sadalage]

97 Things Every Programmer Should Know [antologi]

Continuous Delivery [Humble/Farley]

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Organisation

Teknik

Process

We ensure things get done without waste or detours!

Process

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test in team / test in sprint

sprint retrospective

forecast-based planning

MVP-releasedomain modelling a la DDD

hypothesis-driven, A/B-testning

project retrospectiveeffect-governed project

demo

non-functional requirements

sprint 1-2 wkanban

Specification by Example

Bang for the Buck

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lojalty relevancescale PV/UV (w) #shares

rod GA Tw+FBnow/base 20 1000ROI 25 1000ambition 50 5000

project retrospective

1/3-release; MVP

Books

Succeeding with Agile [Cohn]

Lean Software Development [Poppendieck]

Domain Driven Design [Evans]

Specification by Example [Adzic]

Impact Mapping [Adzic] Agile Estimation and

Planning [Cohn]

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Process

Technology

Organisation

We create an organisation where people work by inner drive, and direct that drive toward a purpose!

Organisation

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self-organised team

portfolio management

destilled processes and standards

sociocracy Beyond Budgeting

”Ambition to Action”

flexible work-hours

multi-team coordination

open salarieslattice-

organisations

Bang for the Buck

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Frederick Winslow Taylor

(1856 - 1915)([1904]1911 – still going

strong)

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Drive á la Daniel Pink

Autonomy

MasteryPurpose

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ἐκκλησία - responsible autonomi

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Process office of SVTi

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SVTi: ecclesia + double loop learning

Bang for the Buck

Central targets - Specific, measurable, possible to monitor - Interpreted locally by each team

Management meeting agenda - What can we do specifically right now to support ”autonomy, mastery, purpose”?

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Books

LESS! Essays on Business Transformations [antologi]

Principles of Scientific Management [Taylor]

The Human Side of Enterprise [McGregor]

Drive [Pink] Implementing Beyond

Budgeting [Bogsnes] Radical Management

[Denning]

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Take-away

Three elements in balance: Technology, Process,

Organisation Not making progress in one element

might depend on state of another element

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Dan Bergh Johnsson @danbjson

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