lean for agilists by cheryl hammond

Cheryl Hammond

@bsktcase

Northwest Cadencecheryl.hammond@nwcadence.com

lean for agilists

me

Cheryl Hammond16+ years’ experience in software

development, team leadership, and

organizational transformation

Passionate about agile, lean, and

making software delivery humane;

not afraid to look silly doing it

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Speaker at Agile Games 2015, ALM

Forum, TechEds 2013, Agile 2015 …

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agreements and asks

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pinterest.com/bsktcase89/leanagile-resourcesLots more to read and do

law of two feet

topics

Water-Scrum-fall

History of agile & lean

Connections

Extensions

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why?

water-scrum-fall

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a better way

a very brief history of agile & lean

XP, 1999

Agile Manifesto, 2001

TPS, 1953

The Toyota Way, 2001

Kanban, 2010

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return to the principles

Stop trying to teach them agile;

teach yourself lean.

Agile works

because it’s lean.

Lean works

because it’s math.

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alignments

potato, potahtoagile lean

Welcome change Embrace variability

Self-organization Respect for people

Sprint Batch size

Sprint backlog Limit Work in Process (WIP)

Remove impediments Eliminate waste

YAGNI Just-in-time

Product owner, stack ranking Economic prioritization

DevOps Jidoka

Inspect and adapt Safe-to-fail experiments

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…and beyond

value

Busy-ness (utilization) doesn’t create value

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visualize work

queues

Queues are expensive

Queues make you look bad

Queues are evil

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case study: queues

strategies

you want the same things

Limit work in processThey get: lower cycle times, less waste

You get: less context-switching, lower stress

Deliver small items frequentlyThey get: fast feedback, accommodate change

You get: fast feedback, manage risk

Build quality inThey get: stakeholder happiness, more time for features

You get: maintainability, more trust@bsktcase #lean4agile

speak their language

Agile leanWork in process

Reduce waste

Cycle time

Lean simplifyFast feedback

Focus

Finish what we start

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questions?

Cheryl Hammond

@bsktcase

Northwest Cadencecheryl.hammond@nwcadence.com

thank you!