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Agile

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  • Agile is a set of human values

  • Agile is about simplicity

one important question

  • how do i get better?

  • what did i do to get better?

  • measurment is at the heart of agile

  • we need to measure the process

    • learn to measure the process

  • copying is good

    • call it borrowing brilliance

  • Agile uses wisdom of the team to get the best solution

  • Leadership

    • anyone can show leadership
    • everyone is a leader

  • take time to think and learn

Team dynamics:

  • you need to trust eachother
  • 2 important values:
    • courage
    • openness

Agile principles

  • Begin with clarity about the outcome, and let it guide every step along the way
    • ask the customer what they want, find out what is uselss and what is important
  • Listen, iterate, learn and course correct rather than wait until it's perfect
  • encourage self-direction for teams to unleash innovation instead of concentrating leadership in the hands of a select few
    • hard: we are used to be told what to do. leadership is in everyone's hands
  • focus on the customer and business vlaue
  • iterative and fast
  • flexible, adaptive, and continuously improving
  • collaboration and teamwork
  • empowered and self directed teams

Agile values

  • trust
  • respect
  • openness
  • courage
  • culture

Trust is a set of expectations

Importance of conflicts

  • have conflicts while also respecting the person.
  • this is how innovation happens

Your values are the ones that you walk past

Example:

  • if you see someone disrespecting someone on the street and you just walk by, disrespect is one of your values
    • nobody is calling it up

You can only deliver as fast as the slowest part of your process

  • the trick is for you to find the bottleneck then address it.

Focus on one thing at a time

  • phenomen is called switching loss

  • when you change from one task to another, you get less done

  • manage the funnel

  • prioritize backlog

  • work smarter

Leaders need to focus on doing the right work and the work right

Work in progress limit. Don't do too many things at a time

Agile is about time boxing

  • sprints are important
  • if a task is given 3 months, it takes 3 months to do even if it can be done in one week

Agile frameworks

  • less
  • scrum

Stand-ups - daily meetings

  • be punctual
  • talk to the card
  • what did they do yesterday
  • what's planned and left to-do
  • blockers in reaching deadline
  • make notes to discuss offline
  • keep it short and to the point
  • take longer discussions offline
  • make a note of who does not have work
  • move the card only after talking to it
  • pull a new card if needed
  • never embarass anyone in public
  • have the hard conversation in private
  • update the virtual wall later

Retrospectives

  • think what you can do better
  • iteration managers should keep retrospectives safe without blame
  • 5 why's
  • every iteration
  • we hold retrospectives to learn and improve

Identify and fix bottlenecks

  • you are as fast as your bottleneck
    • reasons for bottlenecks are many.. Either skills are lacking or no motivation to work on it
  • lean pdca model
    • plan - do - check - act