After we finally seem to have settled the agile wars, between XP, Scrum and Kanban, the market now starts to flood with enterprise agile frameworks, such as SAFe, DAD and Agility Path. However, many organizations are still struggling with how to implement agile, even in straightforward projects. During this vivid talk Sander Hoogendoorn, independent agile mentor, software architect and developer, will share his years of experiences in implementing agile principles and techniques in organizations, from the ground up, one step at the time. Sander does not shy away from criticizing agile – especially enterprise agile – and will go through a series of anti-patterns, pitfalls and roadblocks organizations encounter when moving towards agile, Scrum and Kanban. He also shows how to get around them, illustrated with many real-life and examples, and how to implement agile in baby steps.

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SCALING AGILE
FROM THE GROUND UP
Sander Hoogendoorn
ditisagile.nl
Mentoring ▪ Consulting ▪ Training ▪ Agile ▪ Software architecture ▪ Code

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Sander Hoogendoorn
Me
 Dad
 Mentor, trainer, software architect, programmer
 Books, articles, conferences
Work
 Owner, ditisagile.nl
 PTO Capgemini
 Global design authority agile Capgemini
 CTO insurance company
Web
 www.sanderhoogendoorn.com
 www.smartusecase.com
 www.speedbird9.com
 @aahoogendoorn
 sander@ditisagile.nl

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INSURANCE GOES AGILE

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Command and Conquer Culture

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The rabbit hole

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Agile is taken the red pill

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HAVING SOME PROCESS
IS NOT NECESSARILY BAD

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The agile manifesto

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What do you mean Scrum is not a process?

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Is large scale agile just multiple copies?

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Or does large scale require a large scale process?

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Does agile scale?

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At the wrong enactment

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Building agile from the ground up

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HAVING SOME X
IS NOT NECESSARILY BAD

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YOUR TASK BOARD
IS NOT ALWAYS RIGHT
Not exactly Scrum? So what? It works for us

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What’s the real status?

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Visualizing your work item life cycle

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MOVE TOWARDS FLOW

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ALLOW YOUR TEAMS TO LEARN

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GERALD WEINBERG

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Learning how to play pinball

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Learning how to play pinball

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Learning how to play pinball

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Learning how to play pinball

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Continuous improvement means taking baby steps

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YOU ARE NOT
USAIN BOLT

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Sprints. Scrum’s mini-projects
The teams commit
to deliver

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The red sprint anti-pattern

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Again, move towards flow

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DEAR PROJECT MANAGER
PLEASE STOP PLANNING

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The inability to plan large scale projects

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How long do you need to
build this feature?
Eh .. I don’t know.
It depends I guess
20 hours.

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Please for once give
me an exact number
you silly nerd!
Stop asking me
these things I don’t
really have an
answer to

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We are using the wrong metaphors
How long do you need
to build this feature?
How long do you need
to build this feature?

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Manufacturing? Construction?
Manufacturing and construction are linear processes
Software development is a creative process and it is very much non-linear
Software isn’t Built, it’s Invented
Coding is a creative problem. Every time a
developer writes code, he is taking a non-
deterministic path towards an unknown solution —
a unique solution that has never been created
before. If the work weren’t unique, he wouldn’t need
to write it, he’d simply copy and paste it.

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Learn to live with ambiguity

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What feature should
be build first?
Eh .. I don’t know.
It depends I guess
Good question!

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Work from roadmaps

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Do we really need projects?

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IN RETROSPECTIVE?

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Non-linear baby steps

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Scaling agile from the ground up

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Be contagious

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Be contagious

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We are contagious!

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THERE IS NO SO THING AS
ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL AGILE

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AND HAVE FUN…

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THIS IS
AGILE
www.createspace.com/4747266
Password: agilescrum
Discount code: KGNWKKWG

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www.sanderhoogendoorn.com
www.ditisagile.nl
www.speedbird9.com
sander@ditisagile.nl
@aahoogendoorn
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