Agile in a Nutshell

with a spice of Lean

Why Agile
What we don't
know we don't
know

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

Agile Approach

Fail Fast 2
Succeed Sooner

The unknown

That is, while there is value

in the items on the right, we
value the items on the left more.

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Ways of Working

Waterfall Approach

T-shaped people

2001 - Agile Manifesto

To Be Agile

Less visible
- more powerful

Mindset

Learn

Development

Values

Graphic Design
Measure

Interaction Design

50%

Architecture

What we know
in the beginning

Business Analysis

Goal

Value

Practices

of knowledge
gets lost
in handoffs

Experts doing all their

work, then handing over,
never looking back.
When problems arise
it is too late to rethink.

Waterfall
- or Faith Driven Development

Principles

Build

More visible
- less powerful

Modern Agile

Teamwork to find Value

Incremental Delivery

Cost

Usable

sk

Ri

Sellable

Agile
- or Incremental Development

Valuable

Product
Backlog

Goal

Value

sk

Ri

Time

Make Safety
a Prerequisite

The Scrum Team

The awesome X-functional Team,
Co-located, with mandate
to make decisions on business& user value and tech solutions.
They have the competences
needed to build and ship it.

PO owns
the PB.

UX

Tester

Product
Owner

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Sprint Backlog

Content
Social Media

Prio

User Story
Task
DoD

Move
towards
learning
organisation
Requires
structural
and cultural
change

Can be
adopted
in command
and control

Cynefin
Complex

Complicated

Probe
Sense
Respond
Emergent

Sense
Analyze
Respond
Good Practices
DISORDER

Client

Chaos

Server

Act
Sense
Respond
Novel

DB schema

Obvious

Sense
Categorise
Respond
Best Practises

Sprints

Agile Heartbeat - Cadence

Week 1

Backend
Dev
Frontend Dev

To do Doing Done

GUI

Deliver Value
Continuously

Experiment &
Learn Rapidly

Time

Make People
Awesome

Feasible

Tools and
Processes

X-functional Team effectively

solving problems together.

Scrum is here

What we know
we don't know

Cost

We are uncovering better ways

of developing software by doing
it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come
to value:

Week 2

Daily Standups 15 min

Backlog Refinement to find Value
Demo
Sprint Planning
Retrospective
Sprint Goal
Working Agreement

Discovery

Delivery

Agile Onion by AWA, Simon Powers

Cynefin by Dave Snowden
Modern Agile by Joshua Kerievsky