Beyond breaking bad. The current state of agile in ten easy lessons

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Beyond breaking bad.
The current state of
agile in ten (and a
half) easy lessons
Sander Hoogendoorn
ditisagile.nl
Mentoring ▪ Consulting ▪ Training
Agile ▪ Software architecture ▪ Code

Sander Hoogendoorn
Me
Dad, mentor, trainer, software architect,
programmer, speaker, writer
Books, articles, international conferences
Work
Owner ditisagile.nl
Former CTO insurance company
Former global agile thoughtleader Capgemini
Web
www.sanderhoogendoorn.com
@aahoogendoorn
sander@ditisagile.nl

The waterfall
model and why it
should have never
existed
Lesson 1

We’ve got a plan and we’ll stick to it

Boehm’s law
Testing is always too late

Agile is
no silver bullet
either
Lesson 2

Is agile dead?

Agile conferences
… and why I stopped going

“Make sure you don’t miss the agile elephant versus the waterfall
elephant in the lobby.”
“During this session we are going to discuss the Happiness Index of
projects.”
“Add Ready for Celebration before the Done column on your Kanban
board”

Zenifying Agile

The manifesto for what again?

The agile suits
Lesson 2b

There’s money in agile

Street credibility versus boardroom visibility

All that jazz ...
Boardroom visibilty

Creating street credibility

Vendor lock-in
Nothing new

A scrum master
is not always
a true master
Lesson 3

Lowering our fences

Dogmagile

Scrumdamentalism

Become a scrum master?
What on earth is a servant-leader-master?

Scrumman

We are not
manufacturing
Lesson 4

The law of large numbers
The law of large numbers is a principle of probability according to which the
frequencies of events with the same likelihood of occurrence even out, given
enough trials or instances. As the number of experiments increases, the actual
ratio of outcomes will converge on the theoretical, or expected, ratio of
outcomes.

We are using the wrong metaphors

Manufacturing? Construction?
—

Manufacturing and construction
are mostly linear processes.
Software development is a
creative process and it is very
much non-linear. Sorry.
Sander
Hoogendoorn

Self-organization
is pretty tough
Lesson 5

What if your organizational chart looks like this?

assertThat(standup.getDuration(), is(lessThan(15)))

The check-in quarter versus the check-in hat

A team is not a group of
people who work together.
A team is a group of people
who trust each other.Simon Sinek

Allow the team to
learn continuously
Lesson 6

You are not
Usain Bolt
Lesson 7

Sprints
Scrum’s mini-projects

The red sprint anti-pattern

Reverse planning

Get rid of your
stereotypical
Scrum board
Lesson 8

What’s the real status?

Visualize your flow instead

There is no such
thing as
one-size-fits-all
agile
Lesson 9

Process? What process?

Having a little process isn’t bad

What do you mean Scrum is not a process?

Is large scale agile just multiple copies?

Or does large scale require a large scale process?

Does agile scale?
If you don’t succeed at agile in a team 5-person team, what makes you think you’ll succeed at enterprise level?

Build agile from the ground up

There’s no such thing as a best practice
Practices only work within their context

Do we really
need projects?
Lesson 10

Do we really need projects?

The Project Management Institute (PMI) has defined success as onTime, onBudget, and
onTarget also known as the Triple Constraints and the Iron Triangle. However, we have
seen many projects that have met the Triple Constraints and did not return value to the
organization or the users and executive sponsor were unsatisfied.
The Standish Group has redefined project success as onTime, onBudget with a
satisfactory result.
The Standish Group

Small increments or big releases?
What if Twitter…

Minimal viable product

Roadmaps over plans
While there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more

In retrospective
Some final thoughts

Growth is painful. Change is painful.
But being stuck in a place you don’t want to be is extremely painful.

References
and questions
www.sanderhoogendoorn.com
www.smartusecase.com
www.speedbird9.com
sander@ditisagile.nl
@aahoogendoorn

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