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Title: Fr-agile without good thinking
Proposer: Balog Pal
Type: Tutorial/Workshop
Duration: 90 mins
Description:
At my previous workplace supposedly SCRUM was used but I soon discovered that while the formal
elements are there it's really something else, and doesn't work either. So I held a series of seminar sessions
to look at the thinking patterns, the underlying philosophy it was originally built on. What in surprisingly
short time lead to streamlining the process and extreme boost to the productivity, while the team found that
work changed from grind to be fun.
Here I try for a condensed version. I introduce the Lean thinking house http://scalingsoftwareagilityblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/picture-3.png
(respect for people and continuous improvement). Discuss the agile and SCRUM values (openness,
focus, courage, commitment, respect) and the agile manifesto to dig for the true meaning and the usual
misrepresentations. And how all that maps to an actual development process making or breaking it.
Another focus point is 'self managing team', what is tricky to get at, especially if old command&control
habits are kept in effect.
The session is interactive, addressing practical objections, looking at success and failure stories from
experience. I hope the audience will join in, those who were sitting in that chair, are there now, or play with
the idea of a process change. I hope collectively we can come out a little wiser and more enlightened.
I especially invite skeptics and those with bad experience with 'turning agile' or just breaking from direct
leadership forms.
