From the Codeweavers Automotive Vision Conference 2017. Paul Boocock, Academy Leader at Codeweavers, will share his experiences on what an agile working environment looks like and how these techniques can help you create a fast-paced, adaptive and forward thinking company. He will also share his visions for how this approach can benefit everybody going into the future.

1. Creating an Agile, Adaptive,
and Forward Thinking
Company
@paul_boocock
paulboocock@codeweavers.net

2. The most overused word in our
industry

3. Agile

4. What does it mean to us?

6. There is no one methodology

7. What’s important to us?

8. Lean

9. Reduce waste

10. Build quality in

11. Amplify learning

12. Decide as late as possible
Deliver as fast as possible

13. Empower the team

14. See the whole

15. Goals

16. Align team goals with organisations
goals

17. Prioritise backlogs

18. Communication

19. Finding the right model

20. Agile Manifesto

22. Collaboration

23. Alignment

24. Be ready

25. Speed

26. Not about working faster
It’s about working smarter

27. Level out the workload
(work like the tortoise, not the hare)

28. Not because people are racing
around chaotically
It’s because they’re doing things
more efficiently AND more
intelligently

29. Continuous(ness)

30. Continuous
Integration

31. Bringing our work together several
times a day

32. Continuous Delivery

33. Delivering new features to
customers…
...continuously

34. Automation!

35. Cycle Time

36. How low can you go?

37. Continuous
Improvement

38. Kaizen

39. Scientific Method

40. Be experimental

41. “It doesn’t matter how intelligent you
are, if you guess and that guess
cannot be backed up by experimental
evidence then it is still a guess.”
- Richard Feynman

42. Characterisation
Make a guess (based on experience)

43. Hypothesis
Propose an explanation

44. Deduction
Make a prediction

45. Experiment
Test the prediction

46. Repeat!

47. NASA

48. “I believe that this nation should
commit itself to achieving the goal,
before this decade is out, of landing a
man on the moon and returning him
safely to the earth”- John F. Kennedy
(1961)

49. Small steps

50. Giant leaps

51. Ranger Program

52. Ranger 1, launched 23 August 1961, lunar prototype, launch failure
Ranger 2, launched 18 November 1961, lunar prototype, launch failure
Ranger 3, launched 26 January 1962, lunar probe, spacecraft failed,
missed Moon
Ranger 4, launched 23 April 1962, lunar probe, spacecraft failed, impact
Ranger 5, launched 18 October 1962, lunar probe, spacecraft failed,
missed
Ranger 6, launched 30 January 1964, lunar probe, impact, cameras failed
Ranger 7, Launched 28 July 1964, Impacted Moon 31 July 1964 at
13:25:49 UT
Ranger 8, Launched 17 February 1965, Impacted Moon 20 February 1965
at 09:57:37 UT
Ranger 9, Launched 21 March 1965, Impacted Moon 24 March 1965 at
14:08:20 UT

53. The Future

54. I have no idea

55. Keep making small iterative changes

56. Scientifically analyse those changes

57. The End
Thank you
Q&A