How would you build a team from scratch? What techniques would you use? What metrics should you respond to?
In this talk you’ll see how we assembled a team, embedded agile values, a DevOps mindset and a clear purpose to create a squad with an infectious, high performing culture.
We’ll demonstrate the coaching and visualisation techniques we used to reduce batch size and improve quality. You’ll see how to reveal ‘hidden’ product backlogs, make the invisible visible, and use domain driven design, theory of constraints and language to optimise team resilience.
29. Which thing first?
•More difficult to maintain…yes, that’s reality
•Everything in one place
•Better conversations about Priority
•It’s everyone’s backlog, it’s everyone's priority
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30. Which thing first?
•More difficult to maintain…yes, that’s reality
•Everything in one place
•Better conversations about Priority
•It’s everyone’s backlog, it’s everyone's priority
@thatAgile
34. The Physics Break Down
•More people does not increase agile experience
•Everyone’s got a different world
•Everyone’s speaking a different language
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35. “my guru is more
effective than your
guru”
Alan Watts@thatAgile
39. @thatAgile
We pair up
We are
empowered
Build
knowledge
Stay focused
Make things
smaller
Open and
Honest
Respect
each other
A good job
first time
Don’t tie
things
together
The pipeline
is everyone's
problem
40. Culture
“the ideas, customs, and
social behaviour of a
particular people or
society”
•Resilience
•Growth
Culture
Automation
Lean
Metrics
Sharing
Oxford Living Dictionary. 2015. Culture.
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55. Which thing first
•More difficult to maintain…yes, that’s reality
•Everything in one place
•Better conversations about Priority
•It’s everyone’s backlog, it’s everyone's priority
@thatAgile
56. Which thing first
•More difficult to maintain…yes, that’s reality
•Everything in one place
•Better conversations about Value
•Maximising the value at the top of the backlog
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112. Shift Left on Agile
•Work is big
•We don’t like big work
•Think Value Chain
•Let’s help make our
work smaller together
Culture
Automation
Lean
Metrics
Sharing
@thatAgile
119. Oops…forgot Ops
•Ops is a 1st class citizen
•Bring it into the backlog
•Shift conversations left
Culture
Automation
Lean
Metrics
Sharing
@thatAgile
126. We’ve come a long long way together
•One backlog
•Workstreams
•Domain Driven Design
•Language
•Paired Working
•Better Standups
•Culture and Identity
•Lower Cycle Time
•Higher throughput
•Value Stream Thinking
•Sashimi Slicing
•Happiness Index
•Defect Reduction
•Blah, blah, blah
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