1. @DamonPoole Highlights
Independent Agile Consulting and Software Startup
Chief Agilist
Enterprise Transformation
Built Agile Delivery team
800 Team Transformation
Acquired by
Founder, CEO, CTO
Past President

2. “Add-hoc Priority Management”
Nexxle
“Add-hoc Priority Management”
Free for users
Businesses pay for business-oriented features
Personal todos
Work projects
Share by list or individual items
View everything from your perspective
Web app, works on PC, Android, Apple, major browsers

3. “That’s How Things Work Here”

4. “Too Busy to Make Changes Right Now”

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

6. Start Small

7. 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

8. 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

9. Write Your Own User Stories
Android user wants to save/restore notes data for simple backup
The system shall…
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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

10. 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.

11. 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”

12. Influencing Change

13. Catalyst

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

15. The Butterfly Effect

16. ADKAR
Awareness
Desire
Knowledge
Ability
Reinforcement

17. 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.

18. It Takes a Community

19. 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

20. 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

21. https://nexxle.com/agile/downloads/
Suggested Resources
User Story Game

22. Q&A

23. Subu Sankara 23

24. Synerzip
Your trusted outsourcing partner for Agile software product development.
Accelerate the delivery of your product roadmap
Address technology skill gaps
Save at least 50% with offshore software development
Augment your team with optional on-site professionals

25. Synerzip Clients

26. Connect with Synerzip @Synerzip linkedin.com/company/synerzip
facebook.com/Synerzip

27. Continuous Delivery Pipeline To Build an Engaging UX
Next Webinar
Continuous Delivery Pipeline To Build an Engaging UX
Presented by
Vinayak Joglekar, CTO, Synerzip
Thursday, November 16, 2017
10am CT | 8am PT