Agile HR An Experience Report Presented by Doc List, Senior Coach and Trainer for Agile Velocity 2016 HR Summit, Dallas
Agile HRAn Experience Report
Presented by Doc List, Senior Coach and Trainer for Agile Velocity 2016 HR Summit, Dallas
Nice to meet you!
• Senior Agile Trainer and Enterprise Agile Coach for Agile Velocity
• Photographer
• Love People, Learning
A Brief Explanation of Agile
• Origins in Software Development
• Focused on Short-Cycle Delivery
• Highly Team-centric
• Intensely Collaborative
Background
• Gap, Inc., San Francisco, California
• Training and Planning (2014)
• “We want to streamline our recruiting and hiring process.”
• Three champions: co-head of HR, VP, manager
Value Stream
“Craft the team”Best chance for success - kicked off in March 2015 - four months later
“North Star”The team’s BHAG
Working Agile-ly
Key Characteristics• Collocated - one room
• No barriers
• Open communication
• Focused on a clear goal
• Shared CARGO™
Their Journey
- colocation
- Agile training
- Backlog
- team liftoff
- Continuous improvement
- Agility health
- Skepticism
- Reflect and Retrospect
- WORK
- Agile outside IT
- Scrumban
- Switch tools
- sprint 1
- distributed team
- sprint planning
- user story and
decomposition workshop
- value stream map review
- sprint 0
- “product vision”
- Backlog grooming
- Retrospective
Wk. 12Start
What happens when you mix Human Resources with an Agile Workflow?
...a serious lesson in flexibility
Wk. 1 - 3: Liftoff and Visualize
• “we're the first of our kind: a self-organized, self-directed team - using agile methodology to blow the roof off of traditional HR practices”
• Team Chartering - Team Ocelots
• Where is flow blocked
Wk. 4 - 6: Sprinting To The North Star
• Wk: 4: Product Discover
• Wk. 5: Working as a distributed team, Sprint Planning
• First Sprint!
“What will cut the hiring process time in half and result in better candidates?”
“North Star”: One-Day Hiring
• Background checks
• Coffee chats
• Hiring center
• Focus on delays, not events
Wk. 7 - 9: Continuous Improvement
• Wk. 7: From Scrum to Scrumban
• Wk. 8: What did it feel like to be the first HR team to use Agile?
• Wk. 9: Product Review
Wk. 10 - 12: Customer Is Always First
• Wk. 10: Delivering value to our “customers”
• Wk. 11: Backlog Grooming
• Wk. 12: Retrospect
Evolution
• Sprints (Scrum) vs. Flow (Kanban)
• Flexible roles
• Out of the box thinking and working
Big Thanks To…
• Team Ocelots
• Read more about their Agile journey here: www.HRAgileSolutions.com