Faster Cheaper Better the Agile / Lean Way

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Faster, Cheaper, Better the Agile/Lean Way

Agile is not “the latest rage” or just a tech buzzword; Agile methodologies have been transforming organizations all over the world since the unveiling of The Agile Manifesto in 2001. Agile philosophies are helping companies of all sizes create and maintain a tremendous competitive edge in today’s intense global marketplace. Agile is the wave of right now and the wave of the future; helping successful companies eliminate waste and forge a clear path to continuous improvement.


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Faster, Cheaper, Better

● Focus on improving key "end-to-end" process● "Most people want to do a good job" and "Value for the customer is not

created by a job, it is created by a series of jobs that together form the end-to-end process”

● It’s about building the right product, at the right time, with the right price and quality.

Source: Faster, Cheaper, Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done by Michael Hammer and Lisa Hershman


The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

5 process enablers:

● The process design. Design new end-to-end processes focused on the needs of customers and eliminate redundancy in the processes.

● Metrics. Use customer-focused process measures.

● Process owners. Designate formal process owners - with the responsibility and the authority to improve the entire process - to work with the traditional functional leaders.

● Performers. Redesigning processes changes the way people work. Performers must see their job as part of the whole value-creating process.

● Infrastructure. A new approach to work by the performers requires a new infrastructure to support them — including new compensation plans, new training and development opportunities, a new reporting structure and the necessary tools.

4 enterprise capabilities:

● Leadership. The leadership of the company needs to think in process terms, not functional terms, and to align their efforts to improve end-to-end processes.

● Culture. The best companies will have a process-based culture that is relentlessly focused on the customer.

● Expertise. Process management and redesign need to be core competencies within the organization.

● Governance. A formal governing infrastructure needs to be in place to implement end-to-end processes, such as a PMO that includes a Chief Process Officer or a Process Council at the top of the organization.

Source: Faster, Cheaper, Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done by Michael Hammer and Lisa Hershman


Smarter Faster Better & The Power of Habit

● The “Saturday Night Live” theory… how a group interacts is more important than who is in the group

● Productivity relies on the choices and the way we make these choices.

Source: Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg

The Power of Habit explains why managing how you think is more important than what you think. The key is to understanding how habits work.

Source: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg


The Agile & Lean Mindset

● The Agile Manifesto● The Paradigm Shift from Waterfall to Agile● Lean Thinking


The Agile Manifesto - 4 Values

We are uncovering better ways of developing

software by doing it and helping others do it.

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on

the right, we value the items on the left more.

Source: www.agilemanifesto.org


The Agile Manifesto - 12 Principles

1. Satisfy the Customer

2. Welcome Change

3. Deliver Frequently

4. Work as a Team

5. Motivate People

6. Communicate Face-to-Face

Source: www.agilemanifesto.org

7. Measure Working Software

8. Keep a Sustainable Pace

9. Excel at Quality

10. Keep it Simple

11. Self-Organize

12. Reflect and Adjust Regularly


The Triple Constraint

PlanDriven

ValueDriven

Constraints Scope (requirements) Cost Time

Estimates Cost Time Scope (features)

Waterfall Predictive Process

AgileAdaptive Process

The plan creates cost /schedule estimates

The vision creates feature estimates


The difference between Waterfall & Agile

Waterfall - Death MarchExhausted team and dead...

Agile - Sustainable Pace Happy team and alive...


The differences between Waterfall & Agile

WATERFALL AGILE


Lean thinking

Coined by James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones, it describes how to organize

human activities to deliver more benefits to society and value to individuals

while eliminating waste, by focusing on these concepts:

● Value

● Value streams

● Flow

● Pull

● Perfection


Organizational Agility

● It’s all about communication● Start with WHY and leave HOW to the end● Find the best way to scale your agility● Establish your FLOW● Create a culture of innovation


It’s all about communication

People who want IT must communicate with people who can build IT.


Why, What & How

●WHY are we doing this?Voice of the stakeholder (Stakeholders)

●WHAT needs to be done?Voice of the user (Product Owner, Subject Matter Expert)

●HOW do we build it?Voice of the developers (Agile Team)


Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Source: http://scaledagileframework.com/

http://scaledagileframework.com/


Flow in psychology

Flow is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.

being in the zone


Flow in the workplace

Flow has been used in the software world as being "wired in", “hack mode”, or simply “The Zone”.

The 3 conditions to achieve Flow by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi’s

1. Goals are clear 2. Feedback is immediate 3. A balance between opportunity and capacity

Group Flow or group cohesion can be achieved through● Creative spatial arrangements● Playground design● Parallel, organized working● Target group focus

● Advancement of existing one with prototyping● Increase in efficiency through visualization● Using differences among participants as an

opportunity, rather than an obstacle


The Innovator’s Dilemma

● How a successful company with established products keeps from being pushed aside by newer, cheaper products that will, over time, get better and become a serious threat.

● Most R&D, in most industries, and for most companies, is spent trying to sustain an existing technology – not identify or develop a disruptive technology that would have far higher rates of return.

● Defend & extend spending - Microsoft is a textbook example of over-investing in existing technology, in an effort to defend & extend an existing product line, to the point of “over-serving” customer needs (i.e. : Clippy).


Ship it like FedEx

24 hours to innovate...

1. Work on whatever you want2. Assemble your crew3. You've got 24 hours... go

This approach has been coined by Atlassian. It has now been renamed to ShipIt.

Source: www.atlassian.com/company/shipit

Other organizations conduct a Hackathon or a Hack Day to generate innovation.

http://www.atlassian.com/company/shipit


Adobe Kickbox - Personal Innovation Kit

What’s the story behind Kickbox?● Money - pre-paid credit card in the amount of US$1,000● Instructions - quick reference cards outlining the six levels in the red box● Innovation tools - scorecards, frameworks, exercises to develop ideas● Caffeine and sugar - Starbucks gift card and a candy bar

Source: https://kickbox.adobe.com/

https://kickbox.adobe.com/


Faster, Cheaper, Better

● FASTER ○ Time to market○ Feedback loops

● CHEAPER○ Eliminate waste○ Automating your processes

● BETTER○ Continuously improve everything you do○ Celebrate and be happy!


2016 State of Agile Survey

Source: http://stateofagile.versionone.com/

http://stateofagile.versionone.com/


FASTER - Time to Market

DesignAnalysis TestingDevelopment

Analysis

DesignDevelopment

Testing

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WATERFALL

AGILE


FASTER - Time to Market

DesignAnalysis TestingDevelopment

Analysis

DesignDevelopment

Testing

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WATERFALL

AGILE


FASTER - Feedback Loops

Engineering

Feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop.

eXtreme Programing


CHEAPER - Eliminate WasteTypes of waste - The 3M Model from the Toyota Production System (TPS)

● Muda = wastefulness, futility, uselessness● Mura = unevenness, irregularity, lack of uniformity, inequality● Muri = overburdening, unreasonableness, forcibly, excessiveness

BETTER CHEAPER FASTER


CHEAPER - Automate

● Continuous Integration (CI)● Continuous Delivery (CD)● Testing

○ Unit Tests○ Smoke Tests○ Regression Tests○ Functional Tests○ Etc…

● Monitoring (security, databases, services, environments, etc…)● Change Management● Release Management● Etc…

Value Stream Mapping

Manual Automated


BETTER - Continuous Improvement


BETTER - Be Happy and Celebrate More!

Source: Top 10 reasons why happiness at work is the ultimate productivity booster by Alexander Kjerulfhttp://positivesharing.com/2007/03/top-10-reasons-why-happiness-at-work-is-the-ultimate-productivity-booster/

Kool & The Gang - Celebration

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M

http://positivesharing.com/2007/03/top-10-reasons-why-happiness-at-work-is-the-ultimate-productivity-booster/

http://positivesharing.com/2007/03/top-10-reasons-why-happiness-at-work-is-the-ultimate-productivity-booster/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M


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