1. Why We Like Love Agile Selena Hriz Melissa Branam

2. 2 Agenda Agile Overview – What it means to us How to develop a scrum team in healthy and trusting environment –Actors –Roadblock Language Perception Commitment Co-location –Benefits of Overcoming your Roadblocks Consistently moving forward adding business value –Walmart Agile Summit PMI Presentation June 16, 2014

3. 3 Agile Manifesto Value Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Overall: We do care about processes and tools. We just value individuals and interactions more! Inner Team: Much easier, but still challenging External Teams: Riddled with obstacles due to paradigm of Waterfall versus Agile within the organization Specifically: Establish a belief system Every individual must be fully committed to being open minded Interaction must occur on an unprecedented level (frequent & ad hoc) Benefit: In the end, individuals interacting in this manner will build better, more efficient and successful processes and tools. PMI Presentation June 16, 2014

4. 4 Agile Manifesto Value Working software over comprehensive documentation Overall: We do care about documentation (and do a LOT of it), but we value working software more. Inner Team: Critical for self-esteem, motivation, and passion. External Teams: Excessive documentation brings about deluded goals and missed opportunity for transparency and achieving business value. Specifically: Important to document purposeful project information Documenting unused information merely clouds the overall goal and obscures otherwise obvious collaborative opportunities Wasted time on documentation that only enhance ambiguity Benefit: We do have documentation to lead the project to a successful end, AND when that end comes, the software works! Best of both worlds PMI Presentation June 16, 2014

5. 5 Part of the Picture PMI Presentation June 16, 2014

6. 6 Evolution

7. 7 PMI Presentation June 16, 2014 Evolution

8. 8 PMI Presentation June 16, 2014 Evolution

9. 9 Agile Manifesto Value Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Overall: Contract negotiation is important, but customer collaboration is imperative Inner Team: Hard External Teams: EXTREMELY HARD Specifically: Most important piece of the puzzle Engagement issues due to Waterfall mentality Important to establish partnerships Use/respect methodology to facilitate customer interaction Benefit: Success! PMI Presentation June 16, 2014

10. 10 Why Collaboration with ALL Matters

11. 11 Agile Manifesto Value Responding to change over following a plan Overall: Plans set the vision, but failure to see change indicates lack of valuable feedback and failure to respond to change means lack of collaboration Inner Team: Easy once communication barriers are down External Teams: Difficult due to rigidity inherent in certain methodologies. Specifically: Change is a force for good and should not be seen as failure or poor planning Change represents progress Responding to change requires selfless and a desire to do what is best for the business Benefit: Added value and minimize waste PMI Presentation June 16, 2014

12. 12 Players (Actors) Business Customer Business Analyst Product Manager Product Owner Scrum Master Technical Lead Developers Quality Assurance Architects (Consult) PMI Presentation June 16, 2014

13. 13 The Journey PMI Presentation June 16, 2014

14. 14 Roadblocks - Language Start simple: Greet each other and smile! Be respectful. Leave your biases at the door Listen, but don’t be afraid to speak Use pictures and examples when words fail Don’t give up! “The limits of my language means the limits of my world.” ― Ludwig Wittgenstein

15. 15 Roadblocks - Perception Respect Differences Acknowledge strengths Unify and move forward Use each person’s strengths “Every (person) takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer PMI Presentation June 16, 2014

16. 16 Roadblocks - Commitment No one left behind: They will do you no good standing on the shoreline! Everyone working toward the same goal Bickering is counter-productive Do not blindly follow; now is the time to bring everything you have to the table Think outside the box and innovate “What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.” ― C.S. Lewis PMI Presentation June 16, 2014

17. 17 Roadblocks – Co-location Collaboration can only be established through co-location These are HARD concepts to build and deterring avoidance is essential to success Perception is difficult to change in the best of circumstances To tear down the barriers, the team must interact with each other on a personal level “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” ― Wayne W. Dyer PMI Presentation June 16, 2014

18. 18 Benefits to Overcoming Roadblocks Trust Informed decision making Good project management Joint ownership Working software Foundation for change Self-esteem Mutual respect “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” ― Henry Ford PMI Presentation June 16, 2014