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“That’s How Things Work Here”

“Too Busy to Make Changes Right Now”

First, Understand Spend time observing and gently inquiring Discover what others see as the challenges and solutions

Start Small

Be the Change You Want to See Personal Kanban Let others see your change in behavior and results Personal Kanban can help you be more effective It can also help you organize your change efforts

Explaining Agile Without Jargon OVERALL PROJECT GOAL Team only works on work planned for the timebox and all work must be deliverable at the end of the timebox, no work in progress at the end. What is the highest value deliverable software that this team can produce in two weeks for this goal? CROSS FUNCTIONAL TEAM At end of each cycle Review results with customer(s) Incorporate feedback Repeat cycle

Write Your Own User Stories Android user wants to save/restore notes data for simple backup 2.3.1.15 The system shall… 2.3.1.16 The system shall… 2.3.1.17 The system shall… 2.3.1.18 The system shall… 2.3.1.19 The system shall… 2.3.1.20 The system shall… 2.3.1.21 The system shall… 2.3.1.22 The system shall… 2.3.1.23 The system shall… 2.3.1.24 The system shall… Whatever work you are going to do, describe it in user stories Ask questions, get clarification to help you write better stories Involve other project members to get their opinion Use the stories to aid learning, understanding, and communication Encourage product people to use stories Admin wants automated daily reports on storage usage to help spot trends iOS user wants redundant copy of data on device in case of accidental changes

Influencing with User Stories Example 1: you show a new feature to the product person, they say it should respond faster, you ask “how fast is good enough?” They say “1 second”. You show them that you are adding an acceptance criteria for that story. Example 2: you show a new feature to the product person and they say it should also do something that wasn’t asked for. You show them the user story and ask if it fulfills the story. If they say yes, you write a new user story for their new request, show them the other stories you are working on and ask if you should work on this next or something else. Example 3: a QA person says that a new feature isn’t working right, but the right behavior isn’t clear from the spec and the spec writer isn’t available. The dev and QA decide what makes sense to them and update the user story. Later, if a product person disagrees, explain the value of being available and better user stories.

Promote Interaction and Feedback Encourage project members to get together several times a week informally to touch base. If you can’t do it in person, consider one of the many free options. Make it easy for others to see your user stories, enter their own, and collaborate more easily. You can just use sticky notes, or consider one of the many free options There are many fun ways to get a group together to talk about how things are going and look for ways to make things better. “Retromat”

Influencing Change

Catalyst

Change Agent “Super Vision” What you see What they see ICAGILELO: 4.1.3

The Butterfly Effect

ADKAR Awareness Desire Knowledge Ability Reinforcement

Using Adkar Survey people to find out what sorts of things they are aware of and have a desire to try. Look for items that have a high degree of overlap on awareness and desire. High levels of knowledge and ability are nice to haves. Pick one or two things and work with the interested parties to implement the change(s). Get management support if you can.

It Takes a Community

Find and Build an Internal Agile Community of Practice Invite People to Local Agile Meetups Create a Book Club Organize lunch and learns Provides educational opportunities Helps to find and connect other folk interested in Agile

Additional Tactics Break user stories down, advocate for best parts Create a working agreement Try to figure out order/backlog Pair up with another discipline, eg: Dev and QA person Demo to somebody for feedback Many technical practices don’t require anybody else, can just start doing them

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