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Beyond breaking bad The current state of agile in ten easy lessons

Sander Hoogendoornditisagile.nl


Sander Hoogendoorn

MeIndependent dad, agile coach, programmer, trainer, speaker, writerCTO ANVAFormer CTO insurance companyFormer global agile thoughtleader Capgemini

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The waterfall model and why it should have never existedLesson 1





Agile is no silver bulleteitherLesson 2




Is agile dead?


Agile conferences… and why I stopped going



“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”


Zenifying Agile


The manifesto for what again?



A scrum master is not always a true masterLesson 3


Lowering our fences


Dogmagile


Scrumdamentalism


Scrumman




We are not manufacturingLesson 4



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.


We are using the wrong metaphors



Self-organizationis pretty toughLesson 5


What if your organizational chart looks like this?


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


The check-in quarter versus the check-in hat


The check-in quarter versus the check-in hat




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



Allow the team to learn continuouslyLesson 6








You are not Usain BoltLesson 7


SprintsScrum’s mini-projects


The red sprint anti-pattern



Get rid of yourstereotypicalScrum boardLesson 8


What’s the real status?


Visualize your flow instead




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


Having a little process isn’t bad


What do you mean Scrum is not a process?


Does agile scale?Is large scale agile just multiple copies of Scrum?


Or does large scale require a large scale process?


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?


Build agile from the ground up



Do we really need projects?Lesson 10


Small increments or big releases?What if Twitter…


Minimal viable product


Do we need this

NOW?


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




In retrospectiveSome final thoughts


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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