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Elephants in the Agile Room www.synerzip.com
Reflections on 10 Years of Agility
Todd Little Sr. Development Manager Landmark Graphics
Manifesto for Agile Software Development
We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.
Kent Beck Mike Beedle Arie van Bennekum Alistair Cockburn Ward Cunningham Martin Fowler James Grenning Jim Highsmith Andrew Hunt Ron Jeffries Jon Kern Brian Marick Robert C. Martin Steve Mellor Ken Schwaber Jeff Sutherland Dave Thomas
Manifesto for Agile Software Development
We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.
Kent Beck Mike Beedle Arie van Bennekum Alistair Cockburn Ward Cunningham Martin Fowler James Grenning Jim Highsmith Andrew Hunt Ron Jeffries Jon Kern Brian Marick Robert C. Martin Steve Mellor Ken Schwaber Jeff Sutherland Dave Thomas
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The Mirror at Snowbird February 12 th , 2011
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The Retrospective and the Look Into the Future
“There’s an Elephant in the Room”
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What does Community Leadership Look Like?
A Group of 15 Decided to Hunt Elephants
Phillipe Krutchen Ghennipher Weeks David Andersen Kay Johansen Not Pictured Tracy Bialik Mike Hugos Zhon Johansen Nate Jones Janice Linden-Reed Kay Johansen Todd Little Russ Rufer Ryan Martens The Elephant Hunters Erik Huddleston Jeff Patton Andrew Shafer
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Some Elephants
Pretending Agile is not a business • • • •
Commercial interests censoring failures Failure to dampen negative behaviors Dogma sells Hypocrisy
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Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools
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Anarchism in the community
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Managers are bad
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Self Organization
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Collaboration is great, but can lead to groupthink
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Elitism as an Excuse for Failures
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Distributed Teams are a Reality
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Context gets in the way of Dogma
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Politics are a huge cultural issue
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Many people would rather be wrong than uncertain
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Perception Trumps Reality
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Agile needs to adopt to culture as much or more than culture needs to adopt to agility
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The Voice of THE Customer
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Business Value
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Technical Excellence over Technical Debt
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Certification (the “zombie elephant”)
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Agile Successes!
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Heightened Focus on Unit Testing and Automation
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Transparency, Reporting and Tracking
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Emphasis on Shipping and Feedback
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Software Development is a Team Sport
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Teams are Enjoying Developing Software
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Global Spread – 91 Countries
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It’s OK to be Agile
To Agility and Beyond Four Value Propositions • • • • Demand Technical Excellence Promote Individual Change and Lead Organizational Change Organize Knowledge and Improve Education Maximize Value Creation Across the Entire Process www.synerzip.com
Relevant Blog Postings from the 10 Year Event • • • http://pkruchten.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/t he-elephants-in-the-agile-room/ http://agilemanagement.net/index.php/Blog/re flections_on_10_years_of_agile/ http://www.dennisstevens.com/2011/02/13/wh ats-next-for-the-agile-manifesto/ www.synerzip.com
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Contact • Todd Little – [email protected]
– www.toddlittleweb.com
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Synerzip in a Nut-shell
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