Agility @ the Speed of Thought

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agility @ the speed of thought

Tathagat VarmaSr. Director

Yahoo!

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14-Apr-1912

• Titanic gets 7 iceberg warnings

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• Iceberg spotted dead ahead

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• Titanic hits iceberg

11:50pm

• 14ft of water in front part of ship

2:17am

• “Every man for himself”

2:20am

• Titanic sank

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• First lifeboat picked by Carpathia

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Opened first store in 1975

6,000 stores, opening one a

day

$14.4B in 2012,

+17% y-o-y

Net profits $2.7B

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• creativity, quality design and rapid turnaround to adjust to changing market demands -- has…generated an excellent public response to our retailers' collections.”

Design

• Give customers what they want

• Get it to them faster than anyone else

Rules

• Every store in the world receives new models twice a week

• Product reaches European stores in 24-36 hours and rest of the world within 48 hours. Since 1970s!

Logistics

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The difference…

• Conventional manufacturing teams gather requirements, design the solution, build the solution, test the solution, then deliver the solution. In automotive companies, the design portion alone takes 3 to 12 years, and then the vehicle design is built for 5 to 14 years.

• WIKISPEED follows the model of Agile software teams…We iterate the entire car every 7 days, meaning that every 7 days we reevaluate each part of the car and reinvent the highest-priority aspects, instead of waiting 8 to 26 years to upgrade. 

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The Wikispeed

Process

Lean Software Design: Use

less stuff

XP: Pairing and Swarming

Agile: Reducing costs

to make changes

Scrum: Clearly defined team

roles and responsibilities

TDD: start with failing tests and develop

solutions

OOP: contract-first

development

Agile in Business Conference (c)http://www.wikispeed.com/press

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• On ‘good days’, Flickr releases a new version every half an hour (Jun 20, 2005)

• IMVU pushes a revision of code to the website every nine minutes (Feb 10, 2009)

• The other day we passed product release number 25,000 for WordPress. That means we’ve averaged about 16 product releases a day, every day for the last four and a half years! (May 19, 2010)

• A new version of Google Chrome now due every six weeks (Jul 22, 2010)

• Facebook does code push twice a day (Aug 4, 2012)

What do these amazing stories tell us?

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Agile in Business Conference (c)https://37signals.com/svn/posts/3289-some-advice-from-jeff-bezos

“…people who were right a lot of the time were people

who often changed their minds.”

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So…how fast can you respond, move and deliver?...how fast

can you…change your mind?

Agile in Business Conference (c)http://www.slideshare.net/agiledays/linda-rising-the-power-of-an-agile-mindset

Agile in Business Conference (c)http://www.slideshare.net/agiledays/linda-rising-the-power-of-an-agile-mindset

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Basics remain the same!

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Wastes in Lean

http://nantachit.exteen.com/20120131/muda-muri-mura

How they manifest?

https://leanandkanban.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/lean-is-about-eliminating-waste-right/

Wastes in Software DevelopmentWastes in Manufacturing Wastes in Software DevelopmentInventory Partially done workExtra Processing Extra processesOverproduction Extra featuresTransportation Task SwitchingWaiting WaitingMotion MotionDefects Defects

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What are we learning?

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“The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else” – Eric Ries, The Lean Startup

“Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“I Don’t look to jump 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.” – Warren Buffet

References• http://blogs.forbes.com/stevedenning/• http://wikispeed.com• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

US_Airways_Flight_1549 • http://cf.agilealliance.org/program/files/12694.pdf • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W47rcJowx7k • http://www.testingmentor.com/imtesty/2010/06/20/

agile-is-not-a-process-agile-is-a-mindset/

• http://theleanstartup.com/ • http://steveblank.com/ • http://stevedenning.com

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Tathagat Varmahttp://managewell.net

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