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Agileee 2011 & Management 3.0Summary from:

Monika Kovachka-Dimitrova

Boris Spasov

Basic information

3rd edition conference

Excellent key note speakers

4 parallel master classes

Conference – 370 people from over 20 countries (including 1 from South Africa)

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Africa)

www.agileee.com

Master class Management 3.0 from Jurgen Appelo based on the book

http://www.management30.com/

Impressions and organization


Key notes (1) Alistair Cockburn

Beginners want 1 answer that fits all, Journey man collects practices, Masters create practices because it all depends!

“People are solving a complex problem that keeps changing all the time and they

don’t understand, they are creating a solution that they don’t completely understand because they just started and keeps changing and expressing ideas in language that often is not understand and keep changing.”

Team based design – how teams make better design – rules of nature

1) Craft


1) Craft

2) Cooperative Game

3) Flow management

4) Knowledge acquisition

5) Self-awareness (personalities)

Craft – “Craft teaches us to pay attention to skills” “In craft profession you learn all the time”

1. Shu – Learn 1 technique and just do 1-2-3 step, needs 1 answer only, stop learning

2. Ha – Collect techniques and experiment (Journey man)

3. Ri – Master – invent special blended techniques “It depends”

Key note – Elisabeth Hendrickson (Test Obsessed)

Agile teams: deliver value in frequent release of software at a sustainable pace, while adapting to changing needs of the business.

J.B. quote “Agile practices reduce the accidental complexity in the project.”

Speculation is the lack of alignment of the Intentions to the Implementation to the Actual Need and Risks are the places were this differs. Speculations


the Actual Need and Risks are the places were this differs. Speculations accumulate through the project phases.

There is an ideal level of knowledge (gap).

Learn fast and get empirical evidence.

Continuous Integration is the heartbeat between expectations and implementation.

Letter & Spirit

Day 1 – sessions (Monika)

Vasco Duarte – How agile is your project? – Check list for the beginning, middle

and end of the project to check what are you doing in the project. There is no easy

answer because we see the world from our “cave”.

http://bit.ly/agilesScoreSheet

Francois Bachmann – “Myths, Monsters and Legends” – Myths are told on


Francois Bachmann – “Myths, Monsters and Legends” – Myths are told on

ceremonies their goal is to federate the values and involves superheroes. Legends are the official shape of rumors and their purpose is education. Monsters

impersonates the resistance and require the hero to go beyond it.

Henrik Berglund - Is Scrum incompatible with your brain? Responsibility process

go through Denial, Lay Blame, Justify, Shame, Obligation to Quit or take

Responsibility. (Bad day is when you got stuck, Good day 75% think is when you

made progress and fixed problems) www.christopheravery.com - Leadership gift.

Day 2 – sessions Monika

Petra Scappa – Large Scale Agile Transformation – 4 case studies of large

companies transformation were show. The successful tips: 1) Pilot a group, use

volunteers, have a strong sponsor, take risks (tear down walls); 2) Just do Scrum at large (Larmans’ book); centralized support and coaches that can travel to each

location, local leaders to make sure it happens, visibility, CoPs on different level –

local and global (First 0 bug release); 3) Agile roadmap – holistic approach, Chief Agilest who gathers experts to build plan for development, testing, continuous


Agilest who gathers experts to build plan for development, testing, continuous builds, etc.; 4) It is not just for the stamp, because it is fancy.

Timofey Yevgrashyn – Musketeers game – Card game for taking out the

problems and finding solutions – good for retrospectives.

Max Griponov - Paper prototyping – stencils and printouts, transparent films –

you can think, create, change and test. Testing with Facilitator and Watchman.

Key note – J.B.Rainsberger

Will try – the saddest words of a developer

When we describe something the human brain looks for:

1) To find similarities;

2) Abstract them out & look to describe the differences

The LEMON example


The LEMON example

Getting things done – David Alan – enough for test list:

1) Free your mind for great work

2) Estimating work for making a flow and short cycles (how do we eat an

elephant?)

3) How quickly we actually go

Bill Caputo – “XP is in here (heart), not out there” XP is what you do when you master the basics, and you have discipline and the attitude, approach and philosophy.

Day 1 – sessions (Bobi)

Talk “Challenging requirements”

http://agileee.org/2011/05/31/talk-challenging-requirements/

Key message focus on real customer requirements.

Cut scope; Challenge requirements; Refuse solutions to unknown problems.


Refuse suggestions to use technology – you know it better ☺

Don’t rush to solve the first problem they give you.

Start with very high level example of how people will use the system.

Great products come from understanding the real problem and who’s problem is

Facilitation technique – 4 questions while drawing a mind map

What is the desired business change?Who are the people that can create desired effects?

What does the target group want, need, should do?

How should the product or operation be designed to fulfill that?



Multiple speakers (en)lightening talks

If things in the team are not running - perform retrospective only on positive achievements.

Accidental cost > 10 than normal – no craftsmanship, no techniques – TDD ->

scrum without XP can not work.


scrum without XP can not work.

Barry O’Reilly I don’t do agile, I am agile – ask your self why are we doing it.


Andrea Provagilo

Overcoming self organization blocks


Overcoming self organization blocks

Software is intangible and complex and we need to collaborate

Why do we do agile - > software dev is empirical -> feedback loops

Teams are systems – people sitting in the room – anthropological system

We come form waterfall -> result of industry -> education system is not designed to collaborate -> to support industry

We need to evolve -> self-organization

Organizations - structure

You are accountable and report to.

There are interactions between levels

Levels of influence – seniority, tech competence



Danny Kovatch

Motivation 3.0 and Agile

http://agileee.org/2011/05/31/talk-motivation-3-0/

Reward improves routine work but it kills creativity.


Management: Consider workers are volunteers

If you want to motivate someone -> mastery, purpose + let the folks do the work

Lasse Koskela Agile and versioning control – source versioning should support the

goal not vice versa

Alexey Krivitsky Offshore In Ukraine – primitive but with big potential

Antonio Terreno Programming anarchy – extreme case of development and customers collaboration. Start up incubator.

Key note – Juergen Appelo(How to change the world?)

Change of Complex Adaptive System

1) Consider the system

1) PDCA cycle - Plan (What is your goal? Where it is going well?); Do (What are the

crucial steps? When and where do you start?); Check (How do you get feedback? How

do you measure results?); Act (How do you accelerate Results?)

2) Good KPIs – 1) Relative to stakeholder purpose; 2) Helps to improve an aspect of the

system; 3) Part of the work of those who are interested in it (NOT bound to Incentives)


system; 3) Part of the work of those who are interested in it (NOT bound to Incentives)

3) Agile managers are friendly monsters

2) Consider individuals

1) ADKAR model – AWARENESS, DESIRE, KNOWLEDGE, ABILITY & REINFORCEMENT all the time

3) Consider the interactions

1) Adoption Curve model

4) Consider the environment

1) 5 I’s model – Information, Identity, Incentives, Infrastructure, Institutions

Management 3.0 Teaser


Thank You!

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