1. Teaching Agile Principles
Through Experiential Exercises
Andy Brown, U-M Medical School
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2. Tell a story*: Worst injury or most embarrassing moment
*NOT the funniest thing that ever happened (takes too long and you almost
always had to be there)

3. Key details go missing
New elements get added
Sometimes the story changes altogether
http://www.flickr.com/photos/96037254@N00/4770392109/

4. Meetings
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7567658@N04/3503394977/
Documentation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34252364@N00/369893824/

5. The most efficient and effective method of
conveying information to and within a development
team is face-to-face conversation.
Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer
through early and continuous delivery
of valuable software.
At regular intervals, the team reflects on how
to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts
its behavior accordingly.

6. Form pairs. One person is
a Product Owner, the other
is a Developer.
Developers have their
backs to the screen.
The Product Owner
describes the product on
the slide WITHOUT saying
the words next to it.
The developer draws the
product.

7. Do NOT use these words:
tea
pot
short
spout
coffee
water
heat

8. Do NOT use these words:
motorcycle
bike
camper
recreational
vehicle (RV)
chopper
Harley

9. Business people and developers must work
together daily throughout the project.
Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount
of work not done--is essential.
The best architectures, requirements, and designs
emerge from self-organizing teams.

10. Get into groups of 68
One person will
facilitate and needs
to come up front for
special instructions.
One person needs
to keep time.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66028951@N00/6104481058/
The rest of the
group gets to
participate.

11. Sequences
A, B, C, D…Z
3, 6, 9, 12…42
5, 10, 15, 20…60

12. ““There is time enough for everything in the course of the day,
if you do but one thing at once, but there is not time enough in
the year, if you will do two things at a time.” – Lord
Chesterfield, 1740
“The research is almost unanimous, which is very rare in social
science, and it says that people who chronically multitask show
an enormous range of deficits. They're basically terrible at all
sorts of cognitive tasks, including multitasking.” – Dr. Clifford
Nass, 2013
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48600090482@N01/22584430/

13. Build projects around motivated individuals.
Give them the environment and support they need,
and trust them to get the job done.
Agile processes promote sustainable development.
The sponsors, developers, and users should be able
to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
Deliver working software frequently, from a
couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a
preference to the shorter timescale.

14. Credits
Storytelling Exercise - Jessie Shternshus,
@TheImprovEffect http://www.improveffect.com/
Drawing Exercise – Don McGreal, @donmcgreal
– http://tastycupcakes.org
Multitasking Exercise – Peter Saddington,
@agilescout – http://myai.org

15. Thank you!
Andy Brown
turbobrown
in/andyjbrown