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Is Agile:
The best way to run a project? OR
The way best people want to run a project?
Behaviors are fairly predictable. It doesn’t help to blame the people.
Is Agile:
Best way? OR
Best people?
Observation: Proclivity to band-aid the broken bones. Opinion: New normal. Bad normal.
If people are more valuable, shouldn’t we be paying more attention to them?
Continuous Integration
Collective Ownership
Frequent and small Releases
Adaptive Planning Methods
Customer Involvement
Empowered Teams
Minimal Documentation
TDD
Refactoring
Simple Design
Automated Testing
Continuous Integration
Collective Ownership
Frequent and small Releases
Adaptive Planning Methods
Customer Involvement
Empowered Teams
Minimal Documentation
TDD
Refactoring
Simple Design
Enables
Enables Requires
Requires Allows
Allows
Produces
Triggers
Automated Testing
Allows
Enables
Allows
Deep Down
TDD Pair
Programming Refactoring Simple Design
In the Middle
Collective Ownership
Coding Standards
Continuous Integration
Sustainable Pace
Adaptive Planning
On the Surface
Minimal Documentation
Planning Game Daily Standup Frequent and
Small Releases
MANAGEMENT
Lack of courage it often demonstrates
ORGANIZATION
Strengths that sometimes become their weaknesses
TEAM
Struggles they constantly have but do very little about
INDIVIDUAL
Problems people often don’t know of and ignore
MANAGEMENT
• Squirrel Agile • Lack of Team Design • Agile without Agility
• Cherry-Pick Agile • Misguided Command and Control • Struggle with New Metrics
ORGANIZATION
• Instant Agile • Behavior Driven Values
• Corporate Policies and Structures • Strong Identity
TEAM
• Extending Iterations • Increase Iteration Length • Regular Hangovers
• Issues repeat in Retrospectives • Incorrect Accounting of Velocity • Homework in Iteration Planning
INDIVIDUAL
• Estimation Scales • Lone Wolf Syndrome • Broken Window Syndrome
• Uninterested in ‘Why’ of Agile • Behaviors that Block Acceptance • Neuro-linguistic Tendencies
P R OB L EM
P R OB L EM
SOLUTION
Experts live in the problem space. 5 Why’s, A3 reports, etc.
We are rewarded (conditioned) to focus on solutions.
Risk: Non-reflective mode of thinking. Agile playbooks / cookbooks. Assumption: We do not continue to learn.
Your Heroes likely are Novices
Memorize Understand Reflect Question
Preconventional Agility Postconventional Agility
Agile Stroll Agile Transformation
Chasm of Curiosity
Best Practices
An Untenable Notion
Employee Satisfaction
Empowerment
Leadership
Mentorship
Continuous Improvement
Bias for conventional
Success
“Misguided” Command and
Control
Stigma
Management is Fraught With
Social Identity Autonomy
Self-Efficacy
Agile’s Holy Grail
Cult of Restraint Foundation of Agility
Stigma
Command and Control
Bias for Conventional Success
Self Efficacy
Autonomy
Social Identity
Unmotivated people
Process fanatics
Weak at addressing people issues
AGILE Don’t Blame
Mindset Method Media
Socratic Inspect,
adapt, and vary
Tools contribute, not drive
Demonstrate “Why”
Useful to Wasteful
Demonstrate Self Direction/Organization
Avoid “tool trap”
There’s no end zone
Balance Shock and Maintenance Learning
Varied approach
Current Structures
One Per Month
Excel
2 Weeks to 2 Years
Estimates
Secret Sauce
