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Connecting Improvers in June DAREs you to improve!
DARE conference 2013Luke Firth, Improvement Office, Engineering
Luke will be reporting back from the DARE conference which has the motto- Be Agile, Scale up, Stay Happy. The conference focuses on how can you change your organization to a more productive, creative, and engaging environment for everybody involved and continue to improve your product at great speed.
DARE13 is a Happy Melly production in its first year
Its an Improvement gathering for the software industry
Focusing on SMEs and the companies that support them
Delegates were typically scrumcoaches, agile coaches, consultants, or organisations wanting to sell services and software products
Held in a converted shipping hanger in the port area of Antwerp, Belgium
Showcasing an eclectic band of speakers and interests…..
Improvement
Ideology
Philosophical
Co
nve
nti
on
al
Ap
plic
atio
n
Rad
ical
Cult of Seddon
Free spirits
Scrum’ers
Kanbanistas
Blueprint for a Tribal business- Jurgen Appelo
Inner Innovation- Peter Moreno
The Art of Culture Hacking- Stefan Haas
Happiness at work: you deserve it!- Laurence Vanhee
Are we solving the right problem?- Richard Moir
Kanban: isn’t it just common sense?- Karl Scotland
Taming the flow- Steve Tendon
“Just do it” approach to change management- Wouter Lagerweij
Scaling Agile @ Spotify- Jimmy Janlen
Be Agile. Scale Up. Stay Lean- Dean Leffingwell
Lean Innovation at Atlassian- Tony Atkins
Habits of Kanban- Hakan Forss
Cohesion and complexity- Chris Young
My first 2 years with Kanban- Paul Klipp
The conference topics and agenda could be organised into 4 distinct groupings
5 themes reoccurred throughout the two days in a variety of discussions
Semi-autonomous teams
Scaling up
Vanguard method
Experiments
DARE13 in quotes….
We didn’t do status updates, we simply
asked the team which squad was holding them
back- Jimmy Janlen
If things seem under control, you’re not going
fast enough- Mario Andretti The shorter the sprint cycles the
more responsive you are, but the larger the administrative overhead
becomes- Dean Leffingwell
Increasingly networks are replacing
hierarchies within organisations-Jurgen Appelo
I don’t criticize waterfall, it got us this far- Dean
LeffingwellI’ve taken the oath of non-allegiance- Steve Tendon
We got the company focused on reducing the number of calls
they received not on the number they resolved- Richard
Moir
We’re aiming for 80% time not 20%-
Atlassian
I gave the Unions a limit of 3 meetings on a particular
topic, before I took it off the agenda for good-
Laurence Vanhee
Experiments: expect to be wrong 50% of the time,
this is where the learning happens- Haken Forss
We didn’t want to scale our team in line with call volume as that would’ve meant we
spent too much time on hiring and not on working with customers- Tony Atkins
We don’t learn from mistakes or best practice, but from experimentation- Jurgen Appelo
Kill the backlog, the PO knows the next most important thing-
Paul Klipps
Did you know?
1/5 people consider themselves engaged at their current job?
It takes 4/5 sprints to gain basic adoption of Agile in a team?
Google have a personal growth programme?
Changing culture is the equivalent of changing personality?
Agile was designed for small teams?
The root French for the word for “work” is torture?
The root Dutch for the word for “work” is slave?