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Xebia B

asic Inverse Corporate

How to win a solar race using Scrum

Building the right things, with the right people, faster and with more fun.

Jeroen MolenaarEmployment:Agile organisation consultant &

Trainer at Xebia Netherlands

Contact: jmolenaar@xebia.com +31 6 4185 6434@mc_raze linkedin.com/in/jmolenaar/

I work to make every day a little bit better for me and the people around me

Xebia B

asic Inverse Corporate

How did it start ?

Forze and the dream hall

Xebia B

asic Inverse Corporate

Why start with Agile?

Cooperate

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asic Inverse Corporate

How did we approach it?

Training

Create an overview as a team

Implement cadence

Visualize the work

Experiment

Experiment

Test ASAP

The failure demo

The Silo burn-out

Feedback as a team

The ScrumMaster

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asic Inverse Corporate

What were the results?

They won…by eight minutes

This year

Stopped by police Advantage 173 km

Sjoerd Stevens: “Wij hebben het afgelopen jaar extra gefocust op de functionering van ons team en de verschillende rollen die iedereen daarin speelt. Daar hebben we nu de vruchten van geplukt.”

Preparing for the race in Australia

The value system > minutes

The value system

The team mantra system

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asic Inverse Corporate

Differences from IT

It’s a car

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asic Inverse Corporate

And what we could take back to our organization

What I learned

Lessons learned 1-2

• Having a shared goal is key

• The 1 value system is beneficial everywhere

• Individual vs team targets

Lessons learned 2-2

• Engineers are very calculating people

• Simple group coaching is already very helpful

• Visualization is everything

Xebia B

asic Inverse Corporate

Winning a solar race

When you build a high-tech car with low-tech Post-Its…the most adaptable to change will survive,

but will only win when they are the fastest

- Jeroen Molenaar

Jeroen Molenaar

jmolenaar@xebia.com m +31 6 4185 6434@mc_raze linkedin.com/in/jmolenaar/

Questions? Let me know!