Debugging the organisation with Scrum

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Geir Amsjø@gamsjo

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A software bug is an error, flaw, failure, or fault in a

computer program or system that causes it to produce an incorrect or unexpected result, or to behave in unintended ways

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CEO

VP Sales VP Marketing VP Accounting VP Operations VP IT

Pre-Sales

Churn

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Strategy

Service

Campaigns

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Controlling

Payment

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Service

Support

Stability

QA

…. SW Development

Architecture

Security

Test

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An organisational bug is an error, flaw, failure, or fault in the

system that causes it to behave in unintended ways

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… unintended ways ?

The most valuable property of a software development system is …

==> everything in the system that hinders reliable feedback is a bug

Accountability?

Reliability?Efficiency? Speed?

Effectiveness?… its ability to produce reliable feedback,

so that we can learn from it

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SW Development

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Ideation Analysis Planning

Deploy-ment Accep-tance Inte-gration

Need

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Need

Tada !

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Scrum workflow and artefacts

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Scrum Master

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“Dear Chief Architect, do you think we could sit down and discuss how we can collaborate better, right now we are not able to work fast

enough?”“Dear CEO, do you think we could sit down and discuss budgeting, right

now we are committing too early?”

“Dear Operations Manager, do you think we could sit down and discuss how we can deploy more often?”

“Dear Project Manager, do you think we could sit down and discuss how we can get enough time available to avoid technical debt?”

“Dear Test Manager, do you think we could sit down and discuss how we can automate regression tests so we can deploy more often?”

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Focus Courage

Openness

Commitment Respect

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SummaryUse the transparency provided by

Scrum to analyse the system and find bugs

“De-nicify” the Scrum Master!

Dare to challenge the system

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Thank You!

Questions? @gamsjo