SFA2010 Presentation V8 Slide Share Version

Sunday, July 25, 2010
Bill Gaiennie
Trained over 5,000 people in Agile methods
Agile Trainer over the last 5 years
Personally coached 30 different teams in various

Agile Coach industries to successfully transition to an Agile approach
Davisbase Consulting Developing People Who Develop Software.
Website: davisbase.org Agile Blog: theagileadvisors.com Email: bill@davisbase.org

“Whether
you
believe
“Because a “Success is
you thing
can seems determined by
do
a diﬃcult those whom prove
thing for you,
or the impossible,
do not
not,
you think it possible.”
- James W. Pence
Agile sounds great, but... are impossible
"We the willing,
Agile sounds great, but...
Agile sounds great, but... right.” for anyone else
led by the unknowing,
Agile sounds great, but... - Henry Ford
are doing the impossible
to accomplish.” We
for the ungrateful.
Agile sounds great, but... - Marcus Aurelius
can’t
We have done so much,
Agile sounds great, but... But, we tried do
with ,
“Impossible only
so little
it,
for so l o n g ,
means that you haven’t we

we are now qualified
to do anything,
with nothing." are
found the solution yet.”
Agile sounds great, but... - Mother Theresa
too
Agile sounds great, but... different!
“Whether
you
believe
“Because a “Success is
you thing
can seems determined by
do
a diﬃcult those whom prove
thing for you,
or the impossible,
do not
you
not,
think it possible.”
The only thing we can do consistently, are
it seems, is get it wrong when
- James W. Pence
Agile sounds great, but... impossible
it"We
comes to predicting our inability
the willing,
right. ” to overcome the impossible.
led by the unknowing,
Agile sounds great, but... for anyone else
- Henry Ford
are doing the impossible
to accomplish.” We
for the ungrateful.
Agile sounds great, but... - Marcus Aurelius
can’t
We have done so much,
Agile sounds great, but... But, we tried do
with ,
“Impossible only
so little
it,
for so l o n g ,
means that you haven’t we

we are now qualified
to do anything,
with nothing." are
found the solution yet.”
Agile sounds great, but... - Mother Theresa
too
Agile sounds great, but... different!
“Inventions have long since reached their limit,
and I see no hope for future improvements.”
- Julius Frontenus
10 A.D.

“What can be more palpably absurd than the
prospect held out of locomotives traveling
twice the speed of stagecoaches?”
1825
- Quarterly Review

“This ‘telephone’
has too many
shortcomings
to be seriously
considered as a
means of
communication.
The device is
inherently of
no value
to us.”
- Western Union internal memo
1876
“The ordinary
‘horseless carriage’
is at present a luxury
for the wealthy;
although its prices
will probably fall in
the future, it will
never, of course,
come into as
common use as
the bicycle.”

- Literary Digest 1899
“The ordinary “The actual building
‘horseless carriage’ of roads devoted
is at present a luxury to motor cars
for the wealthy;
is not likely to
although its prices
ever happen,
will probably fall in
the future, it will in spite of many
never, of course, rumors to that effect. ”
- Harper’s Weekly
come into as
common use as
the bicycle.”

- Literary Digest 1899 1902
Flight
by
machines
heavier
than
air
is
and
IMPRACTICAL
if
INSIGNIFICANT
not
utterly
IMPOSSIBLE
1902
- Simon Newcomb, Director, U.S. Naval Observatory
"There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the
Moon because of insurmountable barriers
1932
to escaping the Earth's gravity." - Forest Ray Moulton
Astronomer
"Landing and moving about on the moon offers so many

serious problems for human beings that it may take
1948
science another 200 years to lick them."
- Science Digest
Where would we be
today
if the many
chose to be convinced
by the limiting beliefs
of the few?

561 540 582
461 488 510
288 314 426

CULTIVATE THIS
582
561
540
510
488
461 The Belief
Secret Intention
426 For Support
314 Astonishing Teach
Team Perseverance
288 Success... Forgive Failure
Agile
Baked In Over Time
Reactive He Knows
Responsive How His
Orientation World Works
Corporate Initiatives Prescribed Processes
Project Processes Project Failures
Governance A CYA Expert
Compliance Must Satisfy Process
Process Engineering Don’t Question
Specifications Things Don’t Change
Etc. Etc. Etc. Be a Good Soldier
World View Set
Tucker
Average
Corporate
Citizen
What Tucker is told Agile
IMPROVEMENT
Current
State

?
Agile =
Another corporate
IMPROVEMENT
THIS initiative IS STUPID!! A friend
WHY?
THIS
What’s wrongIS STUPID!!
I’ll go along with of mine
tried this
with what
THIS IS this STUPID!!
until
we’re doing NOW? and it will!
it fails,
and it failed!
THIS
This ISlike everything
is going to fail, STUPID!! else we try!
"Scratch the surface of most

cynics and you find a frustrated
idealist, someone who made
the mistake of converting
ideals into expectations."
- Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline
What Tucker believes Agile

Current
State

PAST = FUTURE
EXPERIENCES P O S S I B I L I T I E S

IMPROVEMENT
Agile
io n
ens
e T
tiv
r e a
C
BELIEF
e
sti iv
Po
Current
State

Short-Term Belief Building
(this state has a short life span, use it wisely)
Faith Hoping Imagining

...that my organization will ...that the success that others ...what success will look like,
forgive small failures in our have found will also be how we might try to achieve it,
quest for better results. Success experienced by our team. and how we will know we
rarely happens overnight. found it.
Long Term Belief Building

Long Term Belief Building
Companies must invest enough time
and patience in the transition process.
Provide guidance, training,
and effective tools for teams to
have the best chance at success.
Be aware of the effect this type of change
will have on the corporate culture.
Those unprepared for this specific change
will likely fail.
But Most Important of All...

Communicate consistently
that Agile is the chosen
direction of the company.
Problems will need to be

solved, no other possible
way forward except
through our challenges.
Expect your teams to fall

down, then help pick
them up.
Reward a team’s ability to

risk a small failure in turn
for the possibility for a
better result.
Put in place a mechanism

the teams can use to
achieve continuous
improvement.
A deficiency of knowledge A deficiency of execution
You Must Also Resolve

“Organization learning and change
is eventually always about action.
One basic reflective skill involves
using the gaps between what we say
and what we do as a vehicle for
becoming more aware.
Until the gap between Organizations
espoused theory and that struggle with
current behavior is recognized, learning how to
do old things in
no learning can occur.” new ways, will
- Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline
struggle with Agile.
What What
We We
Say Do
All
You
Need
To
Know
Is
That
It’s
Possible
To
Go
From
Here
to
Here
...And if your team or
organization chooses to stay
in the desert, they will need to
recognize that it is a decision,
not an unavoidable circumstance.

Break the law of organizational inertia.
Necessity may be the mother of invention,
but imagination for something better is the
fountainhead for greatness.
All That You Need To Know Is That It’s Possible
Bill Gaiennie bill@davisbase.ORG


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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Personally coached 30 different teams in various

Davisbase Consulting Developing People Who Develop Software.

Website: davisbase.org Agile Blog: theagileadvisors.com Email: bill@davisbase.org

Sunday, July 25, 2010

means that you haven’t we

means that you haven’t we

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"Landing and moving about on the moon offers so many

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461 488 510

288 314 426

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"Scratch the surface of most

What Tucker believes Agile

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Faith Hoping Imagining

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But Most Important of All...

Problems will need to be

Expect your teams to fall

Reward a team’s ability to

Put in place a mechanism

You Must Also Resolve

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Bill Gaiennie bill@davisbase.ORG

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