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‘Building Innovation In’Colm O’hEocha - AgileInnovation

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You get back to that cubicle and start thinking outside the box!

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Agile is a change in beliefs and culture, not methods or tools. The focus of any agile change effort must be on the heart, not the head or the hands

Scrum

Kanban

Lean

Scaling

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Software Development is Design, not Production

• Every line of Code represents Cost• More code means more cost

• Not every Application represents Value• the world has far too much unused code


Innovation is Key to Value• ’Outlearn the Competition’• Faster, More Effective Learning -> ↑ Value• Learning is the Bedrock of Innovation

We need to become more productive in generating knowledge, not code.

+Agile is as much about Learning as it is

Delivering


What is Innovation?‘The ideation, design and concrete

implementation of valuable solutions’

• Ideation/Exploration• How can I help my customer?• What are the Opportunities in my market?

• Design - a solution (what would solve the problem?).

• Concrete Implementation - Deliver working software


eg User Stories, Refinement Conversations and Sprint Reviews

eg All Team Design, Three Amigos, Sprint Planning

eg Potentially Releasable Product Increments

Knowledge is Validated Learning(‘the truth’)

• Idea -> Theory (Hypothesis) -> Fact (Knowledge)• Feedback Essential - The Empirical Process• Feedback should be High Fidelity, Focused,

Fast


First-hand, immediate Feedback on Sprint output


Designing Work for Maximum Learning(Experiments)

100% Chanceof Success

100% Chanceof Failure

Information Generated

by the Experiment

% Chance of Experiment Succeeding50%/50% Chanceof Success/Failure

Experimentation Design for Maximum Learning


From Individual to Organisational LearningThe SECI Model

Nonaka & Takeuchi - SECICopyright AgileInnovation (c) 2009-2017


Individual Contexteg Product Owner Shared

Context-Goal-Space-Time

Creating a Space for Innovation

Individual Contexteg Programmer

Individual Contexteg Stakeholder

Single Team Goal, Co-Located (continuous interaction), ‘All at Once’ development in a Timeboxed

Commanders Intent: ‘Take that Hill’

Rules of Engagement (How we’ll operate as a team)

• Keep close to your platoon• One target, one bullet• No man left behind

Activities, Tasks• Evolve as Reality unfolds• Sense and Respond to Emerging Facts• Learn by doing and Innovate

Sprint Goal, Product Vision

eg Scrum Framework, Team Constitution, DoD

The (Dynamic) Sprint Plan

(Outcome Driven)


Creative Chaos

Comfort Zone - no need to come up with anything new - tweak the status quo

Learning Zone - Need to Unlearn the old way and Learn a new way

Panic Zone - Give Up, Retreat, Overwhelmed

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Deliver a business Outcome within a Timebox, Chance to do something new, make a


Information Redundancy• Team members have overlapping knowledge• Team Resilience & Dynamic Leadership• Enables absorption & exchange of tacit

knowledge, expands possible solution space• Encourages empathy, trust & collaboration

Siloed Knowledge → DependanciesShared Knowledge → Collaboration

Generalising Specialists, no Demarcation

No Hierarchy, We all Lead

We Talk a Lot!

We can see others problems and know enough to help them



Mutual Accountability: • I need to Share with you so

you know I’m OK• You need to share with me

so I know your OK

Trust & Mutual Accountability

↓ Trust = ↓ Sharing,↓ Speed, ↑ Cost↑ Trust = ↑ Sharing,↑ Speed, ↓ Cost Trust encourages Openness, Information Sharing, Safe to Fail Culture

Joint Goal, Joint Destiny, Long life Teams

Sure glad the hole isn’t at our end

People not ‘rewarded’ for poking holes in others ideas, peer-to-peer mentoring

Build Innovation In with Agile• Successful ‘Projects’ rarely turn out as we

expected• Software Development is about:• Understanding the problem or opportunity• Designing the best Solution• Implementing the Design in code

If failure is not an option, then innovation is not an option


• Explore• Explore• Design

• Explore• Design• Implement


You know you’re learning when you always make new mistakes

Agile Transformation [email protected]@ColmOhEochawww.agileinnovation.ie

AgileInnovation has been Sponsoring AgileTour since 2009

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