What is not Agile?

Change me if I am not working

Usman Bin Rashid

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Agile is a buzz word

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Old days
WATERFALL MODEL

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Power
WATERFALL MODEL

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Then it came Agile
Agile

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Waterfall Agile

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No body took interest in daily meetings- Status Update – Fancy Designation called Scrum Master

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• Pressure all the time

• Daily Firefighting

• No Collaboration

• Lack of Trust

• Little room for failure

• It was only the rat race of following Agile when no one actually not finding the assens

• You may not get the business if you say you don’t know Agile

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Then I met a guy
• Agile is a mindset and a culture that we create

• Self organizing team who is always performing, always ready to help each other

• Work should not be assigned , it should be pull by individuals Lack of Trust

• Failure should not be punished

• It is not about the hierarchy or structure, its about the servant leadership

• Most of the people are stuck in doing Agile , few got to reach being agile state

• Agile itself says that change me if I am not working

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Empower your children with Scrum

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Empower your children with Scrum
• Family consists to 3 kids , mom and father

• 7,5 and 3 year old and with the fourth one of the way, we need a change

• Scrum- No. 1 development Model

• One of the best thing is it uses Scrum Board

• Need to do, doing or you already have done

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The Scrum board
To Do In Progress Done

Take picture of audience Present at Agile Rehearse presentation

Conference
Post picture on Insta Make Presentation

Write blogpost about Scrum

@ home

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The Scrum board
To Do In Progress Done

Post picture on Insta Present at Agile Take picture of audience

Conference
Rehearse presentation

Make Presentation

Write blogpost about Scrum

@ home

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Office Scrum board

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• If scrum at the workplace works so well …

• Would it work at home with kids?

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• One day we sat down and talk to our kids about the evening routine and we told
them that it took too long sometime up and hour an half

• They didn’t like the discussion and hassling

• So I explain them the scrum process

• We will take little cards and write down the tasks. They were excited

• They were all thinking what they need to do in the evening

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They created this board

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• First evening went amazing

• There were no discussion, they only saw what they need to do. After getting the items
done they move it to other side of bedroom door

• Second thing is the retrospective

• What went great and what can be improved

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• Elder daughter (7 years old) said that we need to do this for morning routine as well

• 3 years old was glad that she is sticking the stuff on the bedroom, but because it
made visible what needed to be done she understood what she need to do instead
for us telling her what to do again and again

• The following evenings , we tried several stuff . We added some for cards and todos if
it works it was great if it didn’t we move it to next evening

• We became a self learning team not afraid to experiment

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• If it doesn’t work tonight, we can try it again tomorrow

• So that repeating feedback loop was amazing

• And in this way , we manage to take down the time and the effort for evening routine
from 50 mins to 40 minutes and even to 30 minutes

That was a big change and we need it

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• We have learned that we as a family

• Wife, PO knows that she can leave stuff to kids and they will pick it up by themselves

• So definitely Scrum can work in your home

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Thank You For Your Time

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