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What Does Good Agile Look Like?
Kevin Goldsmith
Chief Technology Officer
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Life before agile
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Agile
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1999
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Manifesto for Agile Software Development (2001)
We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.
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but then…
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What happened?!?
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Agile was
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Agile became Agile®
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what is Agile really?
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A mindset, not a rulebook
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Frequent Delivery instead of Big
Bang Projects
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Iteration instead of trying to get
it right the first time
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Continuous improvement instead
of maintaining the status quo
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Teamwork instead of individuals
working in parallel
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Cross-functional teams instead
of functional silos
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Team Autonomy instead of
Command-and-Control
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Failure as learning instead of
failure as reason for punishment
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Product Release Calendar
Spec Code Test Release
ProductInnovation
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Misconceptions of agile
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Scrum = Agile
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Agile Estimation: “Why can’t we
just use hours?”
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<X> doesn’t make sense for agile
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You need <ToolX>
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Not Minimum Viable Product,
but Minimum Lovable Product
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Agile doesn’t work for
distributed teams
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Iteration versus Product Vision
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Scrum master = project
manager
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Too many meetings
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Agile frameworks versus Agile
Thinking
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No Testing in Agile
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No UX in Agile
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Agile doesn’t scale
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It’s all kum ba yah / drum
circle / hippy-dippy stuff
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So what does good agile
look like?
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Why I love Agile
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I get paid to deliver product
value to customers.
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Agile is the fastest way to
deliver value to customers.
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Questions?
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I would love your feedback!

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