1. Presentation copyright © 2009-2010 AccuRev, Inc. May be used with permission only. Contact dpoole@accurev.com for permission. Damon Poole – CTO, AccuRev True Agility Requires a Re-examination of Our Beliefs

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3. Mental Barriers

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5. “Value for individuals?” “Value for organizations?” “Value for individuals?” “Value for organizations?”

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9. Presentation copyright © 2009-2010 AccuRev, Inc. May be used with permission only. Contact dpoole@accurev.com for permission. Is Traditional Development Really “Tried and True?”  Poll: How long does it take to learn “the process” when you start a new job?  What are the mainstream practices?  How well does it scale?  Consider the following examples of mainstream adoption that scales Java C# HTML

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12. Removing Impediments is the Heavy Lifting 1 2 3 4 5 6 Months Impediments 1 week 7

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15. True Agility Requires Learning and Experience

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17. Phrases From the Agile Manifesto “satisfy the customer” “ competitive advantage ” “Deliver working software frequently ” “become more effective” “ uncovering better ways” “Responding to change” “valuable software”

18. Presentation copyright © 2009-2010 AccuRev, Inc. May be used with permission only. Contact dpoole@accurev.com for permission. Realtime Feedback Velocity 135 791113151719 10 20 30 40 0 Story Points Time Burn Down Build & Test Results Backlog Taskboard Iteration Burnup 10/2 10/4 10/9 10/11 10/1510/1710/1910/2310/25 10 20 30 40 0 Story Points Time

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23. Presentation copyright © 2009-2010 AccuRev, Inc. May be used with permission only. Contact dpoole@accurev.com for permission. True Agility  Focus on customer value  Constant improvement  Significant improvement in work life  Significant improvement in organization viability  Whole organization aligned around all of the above

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25. Presentation copyright © 2009-2010 AccuRev, Inc. May be used with permission only. Contact dpoole@accurev.com for permission. Agile Scope Upper Management Middle Management Line Management Individual Contributors Agile technical practices (XP) Agile project management (Scrum) Agile program management and PPM Agile Lean

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34. Presentation copyright © 2009-2010 AccuRev, Inc. May be used with permission only. Contact dpoole@accurev.com for permission. $$$ Results Todo Bank Account Shelved Cancelled Unused Customer Value Tangible Value Revenue You new old Strategy Product Mgmt Market/Customers People Knowledge

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36. Presentation copyright © 2009-2010 AccuRev, Inc. May be used with permission only. Contact dpoole@accurev.com for permission. Agile Development Int Product owner Master Backlog Colo Teams Cross Functional Continuous Integration Limited WIP Daily Standups Unit Tests Refactoring User Stories One Piece Flow Scrum Master Frequent Demos Retrospectives Task board

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38. Presentation copyright © 2009-2010 AccuRev, Inc. May be used with permission only. Contact dpoole@accurev.com for permission. Top Ten Agile Blindspots “We’re already Agile” “Agile is easy, we’ve done all that before” “There’s no real benefit for individuals” “There’s no real benefit for organizations” “Traditional development is tried and true” “The value of work is the work itself” “Agile only affects the development teams” “Reducing costs works, improvement efforts don’t” “Individuals are the cause of the problems” “People can’t be trusted/aren’t self-motivated” “We’re already Agile” “Agile is easy, we’ve done all that before” “There’s no real benefit for individuals” “There’s no real benefit for organizations” “Traditional development is tried and true” “The value of work is the work itself” “Agile only affects the development teams” “Reducing costs works, improvement efforts don’t” “Individuals are the cause of the problems” “People can’t be trusted/aren’t self-motivated”

39. Presentation copyright © 2009-2010 AccuRev, Inc. May be used with permission only. Contact dpoole@accurev.com for permission. Conclusion  True Agility is a tremendous value creation and process improvement engine  Agile allows you to uncover and address blindspots as part of that engine

40. Presentation copyright © 2009-2010 AccuRev, Inc. May be used with permission only. Contact dpoole@accurev.com for permission. Resources/Q&A  Damon Poole (dpoole@accurev.com) http://damonpoole.blogspot.comdpoole@accurev.com http://damonpoole.blogspot.com  Extreme Programming Explained 2nd Edition, Kent Beck  Agile Software Development with Scrum Ken Schwaber & Mike Beedle  Lean Software Development, Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck DIY Agile