Agile revolution reboot

AGILE REVOLUTION

REBOOTLucas Olczyk

Agile PortugalLeiria, June 6th 2014

Lucas Olczyk(@Lukoletz)

(World’s Happiest) CoachNDA count: 11PetrolheadHates sugarcoating

You can teach people how to program,but you can’t teach them to be

programmers

Animal FarmGeorge Orwell

Animalism

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings,

is a friend.No animal shall wear clothes.No animal shall sleep in a bed.No animal shall drink alcohol.No animal shall kill any other animal.All animals are equal.

Animalism 2.0

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings,

is a friend.No animal shall wear clothes.No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets.No animal shall drink alcohol in excess.No animal shall kill any other animal without

reason.All animals are equal.

Animalism 3.0

All animals are equal but some animals aremore equal than others.

Agile Manifesto

Individuals and interactions over Processes and tools

Working software over Comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over Contract negotiation

Responding to change over Following a plan

Agile Manifesto

Individuals and interactions over Processes and toolsbut Scrum process is above all

Working software over Comprehensive documentationbut we want to have it designed

Customer collaboration over Contract negotiationbut we have no idea how to sell Agile

Responding to change over Following a planbut ’’We have a Sprint plan!!’’

Whydo we have Agile?

Diffusion of innovation

The Actual Reason

(How) can it be fixed?

Get aconsultant!

You’re likely to get:Off the shelf solutionComplex solutionSolution that you willnot want to implement(most likely: 3 in 1 combo!)

Another way

Name the country

Vietnam

How would you fightkids’ malnutritionin Vietnamiesecountryside?

Consultant’s solution:Ensure proper educationProvide better hygieneImprove economic conditions

Jerry Sternin(director of Save the Children in Vietnam)

Positive Deviance

Deviance(as in people doing things differently)

Positive(as in: deviant behaivor yields good results)

The Algorithm1. Find positive results within existing environment2. Eliminate exceptional cases3. Analize the deviance4. Let them spread it!

If you’d like to know more:Simon Sinek ’’Start with why’’

George Orwell ’’Animal Farm’’

Chip & Dan Heath ’’Switch’’

Richard Nelson, Sidney Winter ’’An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change’’

Ever tried.Ever failed.No matter.Tried again.Failed again.

Failed BETTER.

THANK

YOU