How the agile principles align with motivational factors

1. The enthusiastic
programmer
@PaulSWilliamsUK

2. About me

7. Agile

8. Lean

9. Clojure

10. Ruby

11. Java + JVM

12. The passionate programmer

13. The passion gospel

14. Enthusiasm credentials

15. On top of my day job…

16. @agilestaffs

18. 4 years old!

19. @wmrug

20. Agile Coventry

21. Hackathons

22. Software Craftsmanship

23. XPDay

24. Twitter, blogs etc

25. Why?

26. Enthusiasm

27. However

28. I have been demotivated

29. Retrospective

30. Ever answered the wrong question?

31. Producing the wrong thing

32. Will it integrate?

33. What if it doesn’t?

34. The 95% problem

35. When will it end?

36. MTBA* (Cycle time)
*Achievements

37. Big risky releases

38. Doing things manually

39. Treading on toes

40. So?

41. A little theory

42. McGregor, Maslow & Hertzberg

43. Dan Pink

44. Intrinsic / Extrinsic motivation

45. Autonomy

46. Mastery

47. Purpose

48. Agile to the rescue?

49. No but

50. Addresses my concerns

51. And yours?

52. Producing the wrong thing

53. Agile is all about ‘producing the right thing’

54. “But in the end, for something this complicated,
it's really hard to design products by focus
groups. A lot of times, people don't know what
they want until you show it to them.”
Steve Jobs, Business Week, 1998

55. Fail fast, fail often

56. Will it integrate?

57. Vertical slices

59. Each slice enables feedback

60. Feedback redirects to right product

61. When will it end?

62. Transparency

63. Traceability

64. Backlog == entire task list

65. MTBA* (Cycle time)
*Achievements

66. Regular cadence

67. Achieving often

68. Big risky releases

69. Frequent releases are less risky

70. but done more often

71. and thus require automation

72. which is fun

73. and less risky

74. Treading on toes

75. DOING ALL THE
THINGS

77. Limiting WIP

78. One thing at a time

79. Personal Kanban

80. Personal Kanban
* Wished I knew this at Uni

81. 15 years into industry and
I’ve never been more
enthusiastic, nor happier

82. Can agile help you?

83. @agilestaffs
Thursday 30th October - K102?

84. http://paulswilliams.me.uk
http://blackpepper.co.uk
https://pragprog.com/book/cfcar2/the-passionate-programmer
http://devblog.avdi.org/2014/02/10/the-passion-gospel/
http://agilemanifesto.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-factor_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_X_and_Theory_Y
http://personalkanban.com/pk/