tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135382542024-03-23T12:16:43.892-06:00PROJECTIZED..Successful Project Managers Facilitates the Talents and contributions of diverse functional staff, from Techies to Marketers and everyone in-between..Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger186125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538254.post-29835624915513806932012-10-02T11:58:00.001-06:002012-10-02T11:58:44.960-06:00Managing an agile project portfolio. – Part 3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Coming soon! </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538254.post-35741363659988814952012-10-02T11:54:00.002-06:002012-10-02T11:54:41.932-06:00Managing an agile project portfolio. – Part 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My next focus area is the team model. Especially in the
context of distributed software engineering, I have to work with many projects where there are
distributed teams involved. So I try to capture some of the key information
about the team models used in each project.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Team collaboration
model </b></div>
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The team collaboration model can be tightly integrated team
member concept with all the locations (working on 1 vertical) , or loosely
integrated teams from different locations running scrum of scrum<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(working on multiple verticals) or even it
can be independent teams in each location. So I would capture the collaboration
model based on geography distribution.</div>
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Further I would find how many members are involved in each
location for each project/team. That will give me a good overview about the
developer distribution of the projects across geographies in each project.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Role of Product owner</b> </div>
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Do you have a product owner?</div>
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In most projects we work with, there is a product owner or
owners working with the team. In some of the projects, there are no Product
owners and the team owns the product. </div>
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Is the product owner role effective?</div>
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Better to know. Mostly with offshore development teams, the
success of the product is highly dependent on the guidance of the onsite
product owner who is closer to the real users of the system and market
conditions. I try to get the teams to score this in a scale of 1-5(1 as the
least effective and 5 as sufficient). There are many factors we can consider to
rate the effectiveness of the PO role. (Ex: prioritization, ownership of the functional
requirements, participation for grooming meetings, timely decisions, ownership
of the backlog etc.)</div>
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Use of Product owner proxies<br />
Not very popular, however not very uncommon either in most offshore-onshore
engagements. Better to know which projects of yours use Proxies for distant
team members.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Role of Team
Lead/Scrum master</b></div>
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Its important to know whether there is a scrum master in
each location, each team or whether the scrum master is located in a different location.
This needs to be figured out with the team collaboration model as well.
However, from the project office perspective, you will know that when you have
distant scrum masters in the team, you need more facilitation to the team members in other locations.
Its hard for a remote scrum master to feel the pain of his or her team members.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Testers role</b></div>
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Do you have designated testers within each project team?</div>
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Do you use any external test teams before releases?</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538254.post-89178615159319270862012-10-02T11:14:00.001-06:002012-10-02T11:14:32.624-06:00Managing an agile project portfolio. – Part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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If your project office is growing with multiple agile
projects, its important to have a picture about the different methods and
models you use to run various projects across the organization. The days we thought that one process
can be applied to all our projects across the project office are long gone. Its
required to model the right approach to the right project. <br /><br />When you are done
with the following matrix I explain here, you will be able to have good 1<sup>st</sup> hand
insights about your portfolio. Further, it will help you to spot the projects
which need more assistance from your PMO to make them successful.</div>
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Following are some of the records I find its important to
maintain across the project portfolio to get a glance at all the projects we
execute.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would list all my
project list horizontally and have following questions vertically in my matrix. so I can discuss with all the teams to fill the matrix with proper info. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Agile method used:</b></div>
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What sort of process followed by each project?.. mostly I want to
findlout whether the process ‘looks more like’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>SCRUM/KANBAN/XP<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>( these are the
mostly used agile methods across our project organization)</div>
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Many would say .. Ok I don’t follow exactly Scrum because we don’t do this this
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When I glance at the project portfolio I can see many
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Product Vision</b></div>
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Do you have a proper product vision ?</div>
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Are all the key stakeholders in agreement with the product
vision?</div>
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Of-course 'NO' is an acceptable answer.. still from the project
governance perspective its better to know that how many of your teams develop
products without knowing why they develop it or where the light of the tunnel
is . Various stakeholders may see various different lights and the teams will
have total confused situations. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Do you have a product roadmap</b></div>
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Your vision may be clear. But how about the way to go there?
Have you got a high-level product roadmap<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>in each project.? Or you have no idea about the roadmap at least for few
iterations ahead ? </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538254.post-75582817969598769242012-05-05T19:42:00.000-06:002012-05-10T04:54:21.762-06:00Software craftsmanship skills<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When it comes to agile engineering
practices, software craftsmanship skills are very important. Today, our
engineering approaches with less documentation, team collaboration and
incremental continuous deliveries demand your craftsmanship skills as never
before. </div>
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There have been many initiatives by many software companies
and organizations recently to help our industry for acquiring such skills. It’s
so better than just complaining about lacking skills in our own industry. </div>
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<a href="http://www.coderetreat.lk/">www.coderetreat.lk</a>
is such an initiative taken by us, We have invited a reputed community expert
to come to Sri Lanka and do pair programming with our software engineers to
improve their coding styles. As a contribution
to the industry, we decided to open such event to public so that many
developers out there also can gain the benefit of the event. </div>
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This will happen on <sup>2nd </sup>June, It’s a long weekend
in Sri Lanka. However, all what matters is your passion! </div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538254.post-62974990826463288912012-03-20T18:35:00.003-06:002012-03-20T21:21:02.545-06:00Sprint 0 (0th Sprint)<p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#E36C0A;mso-thememso-themeshade:191font-size:100%;color:accent6;" >What is it?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">'Sprint 0' means the only sprint where we deliver 0 business value in scrum process.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Recently I attended to a session @Exilesoft when Fincyka<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>talked about 0<sup>th</sup> Sprint in projects and her team's experience with it. That was an awesome presentation and I was happy to be there because it made me to re think about this so called 0<sup>th</sup> Sprint.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><span style="color:#E36C0A;mso-thememso-themeshade:191color:accent6;" >How long is it ?</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">So if the 0<sup>th</sup> Sprint is a 0 business value sprint, how long this sprint should be ?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>If you search, you will find many sources which says its around 5 – 10 days sprint. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But is it true?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">I can remember Scott Amber ( IBM) mentioned in one of his talks @AgileIndia that, in average, the 0 sprint is 4- 6 weeks. Its based on his research.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">I’ve seen many teams trying hard to fix their 0<sup>th</sup> sprint within this 5- 10 days time box.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But my opinion is based on my experience with agile. I advise teams not to get in to this trap. I believe that 0<sup>th</sup> sprint duration should be completely depended on your project context. Only rule to remember is that if you do agile, you need to start producing some working software pretty fast.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>So if you understand the basic theory behind agility and your project context, these rules won’t matter anymore. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#E36C0A;mso-thememso-themeshade:191font-size:100%;color:accent6;" >When we start 0<sup>th</sup> Sprint.?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Good Question.. </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings;font-size:100%;" ><span style="mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings;" >J</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I have seen many new scrum teams trying to derive the backlog within the 0<sup>th</sup> sprint. Then they wonder what this scrum is all about. How do you get the idea of a huge system you got to develop within few days? At least how do you identify even enough epics within that time? Obviously something is wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><br /><br />Usual scrum process starts from the time you have a product vision and a backlog. – Remember <em><span style="font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italicfont-family:";" >Ken</span></em></span><span class="st" style="font-size:100%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style=" mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";" > </span></i></span><span class="st" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";" >Schwaber</span></span><span class="st" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";" > </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">once mentioned that the minimum requirement to start a Scrum project is to have a Product backlog and a product vision. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>So there you get the point.<br /><br />My experience after practicing agile for many years (and still trying to understand it) is that 0<sup>th</sup> sprint is used mostly to do the agile modeling, be prepared for next few sprints with enough base to build up on, sometimes even writing a piece of code to prove some architecture aspect. 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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538254.post-19468041644920401412011-12-13T18:30:00.008-07:002011-12-14T06:02:48.264-07:00Lean Coffee.I first experienced Lean Coffee at <a href="http://www.oredev.org/">Oredev 2011</a> in Malmo. I was introduced to Lean coffee by Jim Benson (Author of the famous book – Personal KANBAN). One morning we had Lean Coffee with some awesome bunch of people including Jim, <a href="http://www.marcusoft.net/">Marcus Hammarberg </a>and <a href="http://joakimsunden.com/">Joakim Sunden</a>. My bad I forget many other names. ☺<br /><br />Thinking back, I wonder what really motivated me to participate this lean coffee session at 7.30 in the morning? I had no obligation to do this.<br />I can think of 3 reasons;<br />1. I was curious about it and wanted to learn what lean coffee means.<br />2. No one pushed me to do so (therefore I couldn’t make the excuse “oh that’s way too early ☺” )<br />3. People around me inspired me; I knew I could have had a good discussion with some knowledgeable people I met there.<br /><br />But I didn’t have an agenda sent to me. What are they going to do in this lean coffee meeting? The interesting thing is, because I didn’t have an agenda I couldn’t find the items which I think are boring to me, or I couldn’t find faults with the agenda. :). I couldn’t set my expectations out of this meeting in advance either.. Hmm… Interesting.. definitely I wanted to see what this was all about.<br /><br />The Technique was very simple. We make a usual KABNAN chart and keep it on the coffee table. As usual this has 3 columns, Stack, WIP, Done. We had loads of sticky notes and coffee too. This was a very causal gathering and the whole set up made everyone feel free and comfortable.<br /><br />Jim became the facilitator; he asked all of us to write something what we wanted to talk about in a sticky note. We all did so within 2-3 mins. Then we pasted our sticky notes to the stack column on the KANBAN sheet. ( Remember 1 note for 1 topic)<br /><br />It was the time to vote. He asked each of us to vote 2 notes in the stack. (What we tried to achieve here is the democracy, we got to talk about whats useful to the majority not to a single person. At the same time, by considering the votes we could find the topics, which most the people can talk about freely. We voted for a particular topic because not only we can learn about them, but because we loved to talk about them too.)<br /><br />Once voted, the facilitator moved the most voted 3 stickies to the WIP column (WIP is limited and the work flow is visible). It was time to start talking about them.<br /><br />First note: The person who wrote the note described what he meant about it. Then someone else in the group started talking about that and added his idea to the topic, once he finished another person in the group added his 2 cents. Likewise we all talked about the topic we picked,. I saw lots of insights and great ideas adding to the discussion. We didn’t talk cos we had to defend our poker card or because it was mandatory to talk. We talked about the topic and added our thinking because we found the discussion was helpful and inspiring.<br /><br />One person in the group noted that we have been discussing about the first topic almost for 3o mins. So the facilitator asked whether we want to continue or to stop it or whether we don’t care if its continued or stopped. Most the people signed that they want to stop the topic now and move to next one. So likewise we managed to discuss 2 topics we voted before finishing the lean coffee in order to attend to the conference sessions.<br /><br />This was very simple, but the level of energy flowing through the meeting amazed me. I was surprised about the amount of information we managed to dig during such a short time about those 2 topics we discussed. I didn’t have agendas or expectations set in advanced, but I felt its time well spent with some knowledgeable passionate people.<br /><br />I got to know that there are good lean coffee sessions happening among Lean enthusiastic people in Seattle, Sydney and many other cities…<br /><br />Here you can find about Seattle Lean Coffee sessions:<br />http://seattle.leancoffee.org/Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538254.post-38550907824759826502011-11-13T08:08:00.010-07:002012-02-22T20:43:05.581-07:00After Oredev 2011<style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Wingdings; panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:2; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:0 268435456 0 0 -2147483648 0;} @font-face {font-family:"MS 明朝"; mso-font-charset:78; mso-generic-font-family:auto; 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mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings;font-size:11.0pt;" ><span style="mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings;" >:)</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Last week was so technicolor and surrounded by hundreds of geeks and freaks. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Pieces of memories are still buzzing in my head, Oredev is one of the best conferences Ive ever been to. You will understand what Im talking about if you just check twitter for #Oredev </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">I reached Malmo on Monday, as usual another 20 hours long trip from Sri Lanka. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">1<sup>st</sup> day was so boring to me, I didn’t know anyone around.. in fact no one was around to see </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings;font-size:11.0pt;" ><span style="mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings;" >:)</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I was not in mood to go to Sauna event or to the dinner at night. So as usual I did my favorite task in Scandinavia.. that’s “sleeping for 13 hours” </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">When I went to have my breakfast on Tuesday morning, I saw some of the speakers there, So I fell in to conversation with </span><span class="screen-name"><span style=" mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >@testertested, @arungupta from Oracle and few others. We had a brief discussion about our markets in general.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="screen-name"><span style=" mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" > </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="screen-name"><span style=" mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >A short introduction to Malmo was good for any 1<sup>st</sup> time visitor. I met few other speakers and the week stared to happen from there.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="screen-name"><span style=" mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" > </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="screen-name"><span style=" mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >The speaker dinner was glamorous, wish if I had a camera with me, but I found this video done by @yfrog. see that here. <a href="http://yfrog.com/0nlhobz">http://yfrog.com/0nlhobz</a>. This beautiful place is a 500 years old building as explained by the Mayor of Malmo. In this video Im next to @ourfounder and covered to some people </span></span><span class="screen-name"><span style="font-family:Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings;font-size:11.0pt;" ><span style="mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings;" >J</span></span></span><span class="screen-name"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" ></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="screen-name"><span style=" mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" > </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="screen-name"><span style=" mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >On Wednesday, the conference started officially. I enjoyed the keynote by </span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >Alexis Ohanian ( “only your mom visit your website”) the co-founder of </span><span style=" mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >reddit. It was an awsome speech by such a young professional with loads of humor, the passion he has in him is unbelievable.</span></p> <h2><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: boldfont-family:Cambria;font-size:11.0pt;" >I attended three sessions on Wednesday: the presentations by Jean Tabaka at Rally Software, Patrick Kua at thoughtworks and Potia Tung. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I enjoyed pairing exercise by Doc (</span><span class="screen-name"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >@athought) a lot.</span></span><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:Cambria;font-size:11.0pt;" ></span></h2> <h2><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: boldfont-family:Cambria;font-size:11.0pt;" >I was to go to dinner with a group of speakers that day night, but I was bit pressured with my talk to be done on the next day, as well as Peter (from Exilesoft Sweden) had a lot to catch-up with me. So I decided not to go out at night.</span></h2> <h2><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: boldfont-family:Cambria;font-size:11.0pt;" >During the morning hours on Thursday, I spent time for preparing my talk. After lunch I attended to Jean Tabaka’s another session “Golden circle” where she presented <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>many slides about agile adoption @ Cochlear Australia.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>She used pictures of @rrottier and his colleague’s speech at agile conference in Australia.</span></h2> <h2><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: boldfont-family:Cambria;font-size:11.0pt;" >The session before mine was done by </span><span style=" font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >Jeff Patton and he discussed many interesting points about todays fake agile practices.</span></h2> <h2><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >Here comes my turn….. Im in the stage, in front of a room full of audience.. I remembered to breath as I thought that will take my breath away, then I started to have all the fun as I never thought before…</span></h2> <h2><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >My session was focused on team collaboration in distributed environment; I made it a point to be focused on my experience with Scandinavian context with distributed teams in Sri Lanka. (This is my day to day life at Exilesoft), so I think the audience managed to relate it with their experience better and I managed to be so relaxed in the stage as never before. I structured my presentation based following 5 aspects;<br /><br />1. Talent distribution is the number one reason to use distributed teams.</span></h2> <h2><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >2. Arguments about complexities based on geographical zones are subjective to their own experiences.</span></h2> <h2><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >3. Agile adoption and feature teams in highly integrated environments help to avoid most the traditional issue in the context, but introduce some new challenges.</span></h2> <h2><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >4. There are good people everywhere, if we have the right way and attitude to work with them, they will work if not they cannot. </span></h2> <h2><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >5. Faking agile is the worst thing one can do when dealing with distributed teams; it adds loads of confusion to all the parties.</span></h2> <h2><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >I used a case study to model distributed teams in various ways such as component teams, knowledge teams and feature teams. ( 2 min is given to the audience to think through their solutions too). Then I spoke about few other aspects such as project initiation when using distributed teams, culture aspect, high expectations of commonsense, employee retention issues when the work is not interested and the relationships become sour, Layers of trust and the danger of building trust based on the facts which doesn’t exists (OP: check the code by yourself) and importance of collocation and AAR. </span></h2> <h2><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >I shouldn’t have stopped talking, but the coordinator signaled me and said that there is only 5 min left. So I had to stop there. </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:Wingdings;font-size:11.0pt;" ><span style="mso-char-type: symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings;" >J</span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" ></span></h2> <h2><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >I like the feedback I got and the questions thrown to me.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Im so happy to see one of the tweet about my talk on the twitter canvas by @imagethink.</span></h2> <h2><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >Thanks to Oredev for donating money to children in Africa behalf of me talking at Oredev. As per most the speakers, this is the best thing you guys did.</span></h2> <h2><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >Friday Morning lean coffee was really interesting. I think this is something I need to try out with my colleagues at Exilesoft.</span></h2> <h2><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >I liked the Healthy projects by Jim ( @outfounder : the author of personal KANBAN and many other books) and Dan’s(</span><span class="screen-name"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >@</span></span><span class="screen-name"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >tastapod</span></span><span style=" font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >) session about patterns was really interesting, I couldn’t stop laughing throughout his session. I didn’t like the fact I missed his keynote.</span></h2> <h2><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >I enjoyed the closing keynote by Amber Case about the future of interfaces.</span></h2> <h2><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >Friday night we had a good dinner and so much fun with some of the speakers.<br /></span></h2> <h2><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >My overall takeaway points from the sessions I participated:</span></h2> <h2 style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin; font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:Cambria;font-size:11.0pt;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >Its time to think towards user experiences and interactions in new ways, or we will be obsolete with our products.</span></h2> <h2 style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin; font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:Cambria;font-size:11.0pt;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >BDD and agile testing: lot more to learn.</span></h2> <h2 style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin; font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:Cambria;font-size:11.0pt;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >Rally software organization wide agile adoption, Need to think through how we can relate with it.</span></h2> <h2 style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin; font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:Cambria;font-size:11.0pt;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >Future of scrum seems to be blur. Software professionals have started to hate scrum due to organizations adopting to rules of scrum but not the real agile values.. values without scrum has become a pain to most the people. Everyone sounded very enthusiastic about KANBAN as it promotes agile/lean values within itself.</span></h2> <h2 style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin; font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:Cambria;font-size:11.0pt;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: boldfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;" >Most the Scandinavian IT professionals are very passionate about what they do and they read a lot. This is what we need to encourage within our offshore teams to make them good teammates with each other.</span></h2> <h2><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight: boldfont-family:";font-size:12.0pt;" > </span></h2>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538254.post-43901340696967976072011-08-20T12:31:00.014-06:002011-08-21T03:38:21.098-06:00My thoughts on PMI agile ( PMI-ACP ) <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"MS 明朝"; mso-font-charset:78; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;} @font-face {font-family:"MS 明朝"; mso-font-charset:78; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; 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mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;} @list l0:level6 {mso-level-number-format:roman-lower; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:right; text-indent:-9.0pt;} @list l0:level7 {mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;} @list l0:level8 {mso-level-number-format:alpha-lower; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;} @list l0:level9 {mso-level-number-format:roman-lower; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:right; text-indent:-9.0pt;} ol {margin-bottom:0cm;} ul {margin-bottom:0cm;} - </style> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">When I first heard of PMI agile, I was really skeptical about it. I never thought I would explore it. My initial thought was, how much agile PMI can be?.. I’m sure I’m not alone; there are many others who thought the same, or may be still thinking the same.
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<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal">When Dave discussed with me about the upcoming ACP+ CSM class we were to teach together in NY, was the first time I got any interest to walk through the PMI agile course content.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>When I read the content, I was impressed. They have thought of so many aspects to agile engineering and agile in general.
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<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">About the Exam:</p> <p class="MsoNormal">As usual, Tools and Techniques cover 50% of the exam. These tools and Techniques are divided in to10 different knowledge areas. Rest of the 50% is allocated for the candidate’s knowledge and skills in agile project context, covering 3 levels based on importance. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">When I read the content in detail, I can see that it covers lots of stuff, which we should know when we do agile engineering.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It talks about many practical aspects including agile modeling, story mapping, estimation techniques and even EVM and ROI calculations in agile context. It’s pretty detail. these materials are available at PMI site.
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<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">However, these are my concerns;</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">1 . In a CSM class, No one can fail the assessment, so the class is not conducted to aim for grades but to learn the concepts. I know almost all CSTs are very keen on transferring basic agile concepts to their students. But looking at the nature of PMI exams, if PMI agile learning hours focuses on teaching tools and techniques to the candidates to score pass marks, then the whole concept of agile will be lost. In that case, how many ACPs will be truly passionate about agile will be a question. In the worst-case scenario, they will be learning to pass the exam but not to practice agile. This has a greater risk in South Asia where there is a highly certification-focused culture.
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<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">2. Who is going to conduct these classes? There are only very few CSTs available, so I’m sure PMI will allow PMP trainers to do PMI agile courses ( may be Im wrong, Im not very clear about the eligibility criteria yet), but some of the PMP trainers may haven't really experienced agile or seen the value of agile to teach agile. If they are going to read a book and teach agile without any practical experience that’s going to be a disaster.
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<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">3. How rigid the exam questions can be in an agile exam? That’s another aspect to think through when preparing ACP examination questions. Examiners may need to bring up more concepts in to test rather than the theory, which can be learned by reading the course content. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Of course there are prerequisites to take up the ACP exam. This requires sufficient work experience in doing agile projects. I only wish the candidates will follow the protocols instead using workarounds to complete the eligibility criteria.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">During last 2 weeks, I met many people who talked about PMI agile. They all had their own opinions about PMI going agile. Following are some of the points I gathered from these small talks:)
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<br />Positive points;</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latinfont-family:Cambria;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>Many agreed that It’s a good move. PMI is known by every part of the world, but agile alliance is not so big as yet outside USA. Therefore this is a good move to bring agile in to a vast community.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latinfont-family:Cambria;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>Some said that they would never consider doing anything with PMI if not ACP</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latinfont-family:Cambria;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>Many agreed that collaborating with PMI, Agile alliance would achieve its vision by changing the way that people work.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latinfont-family:Cambria;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>Some of the PMI folks also mentioned that it’s a good move at the right time. Many large enterprises are moving towards agile, if PMI doesn’t collaborate, it could have been much more difficult for them.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latinfont-family:Cambria;" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>I heard some comments from real enterprise project managers that their techies get in to agile and talk more about agile nowadays, so ACP will help them to bridge the gap.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Negative thoughts were;</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Some saw ACP as mainly a money making effort by Just introducing another certification while some agile folks thought that ACP may kill the whole concept of agile and there will be a hardcore new agile group to come up soon.
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<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">However, I really enjoyed doing our CSM/PMI Agile class in NY with Dave and some really cool 19 participants (most are PMPs) from various industries. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Co-Training with an experienced CST was an amazing opportunity to improve my training skills. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It was an exhausting exercise to cover-up most the stuff in 3 days. But we had lots of learning and fun. (Thanks to them for criticizing my white board skills so badly, every time I go in-front of the white board I remember you guys :) I really enjoy this group's enthusiasm on agile after taking this class, this group even started a <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4033010&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr">new LinkedIn group</a> to discuss matters among peers. I think they got the concept right; agile is all about sharing, learning and adapting.</p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538254.post-15520471724148456182011-08-19T06:22:00.006-06:002011-08-19T06:34:57.238-06:00Graffiti by Geeks
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<br />This is taken from Exilesoft Lunch room. How creative our geeks can be? .. they can scribble when ever they want to..Paint buckets are placed there for them.. I love this office... But I wish none of you will spot my spot on this wall.. :) Do you think this is a good stress relief activity ?
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<br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Back from agile 2o11, long flight back home and still I cannot sleep. I think I’m seriously jet lagged or tired. So I thought to write a small note on what I’ve experienced.</span>
<br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">I like the venue, the hotel Grand America and Little America. It’s an extremely nice place. Salt Lake City was a very nice place to cruise around after the sessions with lots of local bars, restaurants and unforgettable local coffee places.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">The conference organizers mentioned that there were 1600 attendees from 48 countries around the world this year. Of course it’s huge. Organizing a conference in this scale could have been really hard work.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">I honestly think the number of parallel sessions could have been lesser than what we had this year. In most the sessions I noticed that there were very minimal attendees, the rooms were empty. By reducing the sessions, they could maintain the quality of the sessions too. Still I know some may not agree with me, as there are more options and topics, attendees will have a better choice to make.</span>
<br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">I enjoyed all most all the sessions I attended, there were quite lots of useful things to learn. Most sessions were very interactive. Looking at some of the sessions, I still feel its better if they try to go deeper in to the subject matters instead discussing the problems what everybody knows about, because the agile users have matured over the years. I felt this in some of the sessions such as performance appraisals and agile coaching. This is something that review committees should discuss next year. </span>
<br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Incremental budgeting was one of the sessions I really expected to turn out well. </span>
<br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">As a general comment from attendees, what I heard was that the technical sessions delivered met the expectations of the attendees compared to the sessions of the management track. Still, agile contracts and agile decisions were some of the good ones that I attended in the management track. </span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">My session this year was about KANBAN and use of it in the organizational facilitating functions such as HR department. Its an experience stage presentation, so most the work had to be done before the conference. The paper is published in IEEE and it’s included in the conference CD with loads of other conference papers. Actually there are pretty good papers I spotted in this CD, I need more time to read them. </span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">One of the highlights this year was 10-year anniversary of the signing of the Agile Manifesto "Park Bench" event where most of the original signatories presented in one stage, answering the questions from the attendees. I think that was an inspiring moment to agile enthusiastic.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">I enjoyed the round table discussion by agile thought leaders. Once again I got the opportunity to enjoy listening to Dave West, a speaker I admire the most. His true passion, natural style and humor makes him an awesome speaker (that’s my personal view anyway :) ) However thanks to the lady who asked the question about their new research areas, I heard a lot of new stuff which I need to Google and learn more. What excited me the most was to know that use of agile in operational management was one of the new research areas they do (they mentioned some acronym which I cannot remember) My experience report this time was related to that, may be I need to work more on the same paper and practice it for one more year to advance it to the next conference. I don’t know.. Its just a thought..</span>
<br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Out of all 3 key note speeches, I managed to listen to only one which is about psychology: positive thinking.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Conference party was quite a nice experience. I think most the attendees had lots of fun.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">I heard there were some really cool sessions in open Jam, one of it has been to present a technique to learn foreign languages without using translations, I wish if I could be in the session, but thankful to my friend who taught me about the technique later. I wish if I could catch up Norwegian language a bit using the same technique.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Using the conference for marketing activities has tremendously increased from last year to this year. Sometimes some of the agile coaches overselling themselves were quite disturbing.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Anyway it was a great conference. This is where I really absorb energy by meeting lots of passionate and enthusiastic people. I really enjoy it. I heard that next year conference chair is Mitch Lacey, Im sure he will do a great job and I look forward to agile 2012 in Texas.</span>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538254.post-49797104479575409342011-06-30T10:48:00.000-06:002011-06-30T10:50:22.299-06:00Agile Project Management (CSM / PMI Agile)<p><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 12px; line-height: 27px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,'Sans Serif';"> </span></p> <p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,'Sans Serif';">This 3-day intensive workshop provides instructions on the key areas necessary to take on the role of leading or participating in teams utilizing Scrum and Agile. The session will cover the Scrum framework as defined by Scrum Alliance and include a review the material defined by the Project Management Institute’s PMI Agile Certification Examination Content Outline. The material will be presented through lecture, group discussion of case studies, and group exercises. Successful completion of this workshop will satisfy the requirements necessary to apply for Scrum Master Certification as well as the provide attendees with the Agile training hours required for the PMI Agile Certification Exam.</p> <p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,'Sans Serif';">The course will be faciliated by <a href="http://www.scrumalliance.org/profiles/14153-dave-prior" target="_blank">Dave Prior</a>, CST, PMP and <a href="http://www.scrumalliance.org/profiles/63200-thushara-wijewardena" target="_blank">Thushara Wijewardena</a>, CSM, PMP</p> <div><span style="line-height: 27px;"> <p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,'Sans Serif';">Participants who successfully complete this course will:</p> <ul style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,'Sans Serif';"><li style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,'Sans Serif';">Understand the dynamics of the Scrum framework and how to make use of the practices necessary to realize the benefits of an Agile approach</li><li style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,'Sans Serif';">Understand how to begin developing a plan to implement Scrum in their current work environment</li><li style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,'Sans Serif';">Understand the differences between Agile and a traditional “waterfall” approach to leading projects</li><li style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,'Sans Serif';">Understand the basic differences that are necessary in leadership style when managing projects using Scrum as opposed to a traditional approach</li><li style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,'Sans Serif';">Understand the structure PMI has defined for their Agile Certification Exam</li><li style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,'Sans Serif';">Understand key Tools and Techniques defined by PMI for their Agile Certification Exam</li><li style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,'Sans Serif';">Understand the Knowledge and Skills defined by PMI for their Agile Certification Exam</li><li style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,'Sans Serif';">Understand the Domains and Tasks defined by PMI for their Agile Certification Exam</li><li style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,'Sans Serif';">Meet the requirements for Certified Scrum Master</li><li style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,'Sans Serif';">Meet the training requirements for PMI Agile Certification</li></ul> </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538254.post-6588595079992123512011-06-02T03:17:00.004-06:002011-06-02T03:22:44.390-06:00Lecture in Stockholm<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.exilesoft.com/Leaflets/June_14_Stockholm.htm"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh406YrIlavSn3wZrw6a1-Z2u_cftk4wJPZ8ajgDJfHAflQfhoGLolD18dqUR_Lz8aYY0PpF4Aq7knLUWWI6qNxl_SkNxNZFWjMsJKjXZK3xSrOuuiGHPhohGCLbC6y1pe_xcYQ/s400/Agile+in+Offshore+Software+Engineering_1307006363660.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613549956319500786" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538254.post-35423537827949737452011-03-06T09:33:00.001-07:002011-03-06T09:47:57.710-07:00Just a short update ...I realized that its been a while and Ive not posted anything to the blog. Sorry for that, simply I was too tired to think or to write anything new due to many things happened lately.<br /><br />After Exilesoft acquired Teamwork Technologies in Jan, the biggest challenge we’ve got is to merge 2 project offices with 2 different work cultures, project models and even new markets. Working towards building one agile project model across the new project office is interesting, still very much challenging. There are many aspects to it, such as<br /><br />1. Change of thinking process<br /><br />2. Time to build trust between each other in such merger( new colleagues and existing colleagues / with sales offices and new customers)<br /><br />3. Effort involved in getting our new sales offices to buy in to agile models which were quite different to their existing sales model ( and doing it for the right reason, otherwise it will be really messy)<br /><br />4. Level of agile maturity needed to be achieved by the staff and across the new organization.<br /><br />5. Establishing agile Engineering practices across technical teams<br /><br />......And many other.. More than anything..... the biggest challenge is to prove some clear benefit to techies, to the customers, to the management and to the sales offices of such transition. This will take lots of effort and time. Still I’m sure I will have stuff for a book when that’s achieved :)<br /><br />I’m happy that we got a really good team working towards such exhausting, but interesting exercise for everyone.<br /><br />Other than this extremely busy day today office life, there were few things I’ve been doing.. The paper I submitted to agile 2011 is now selected to present. Which is the biggest achievement of the year so far.. Ive got a very experienced “Shepherd” to help me with it (He works for MacAfee and expect to learn a lot from him) . Thanks to the stage producers for that.<br /><br />I was planning to do PgMP this year .. still I couldn’t spend any quality time on that. So Im not too sure where I stand with it.<br /><br />Further @mrsungo is working on some exciting stuff which I hope to participate in New York, on my way to Salt Lake city in August. That’s going to be an excellent experience to me.<br />So .. its all going good..Will post some interesting stuff soon ! :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538254.post-67658483158547461732010-11-06T11:43:00.012-06:002010-11-06T12:39:23.309-06:00Lean concepts for the operations management - part 5 – HR KANBAN BoardLet’s talk about the HR KANBAN board. I explained the user stories which will go to the stack in my previous post. <p class="MsoNormal">We all met on the 1<sup>st</sup> day, <span style=""> </span>in front of the HR office<span style=""> </span>glass wall. 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{}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvbCNQWDqbP1b47IUF0CIPCztjiLhpUQNSJKc3XskYPjoT_iVeJe8KFXKDlmomFORPyftpx7cYUNi7jeNTnO_ixx2_LekQqpLmyiaN1liZM4zU7tlZwrx8EvPvG-joiP4cOHEb/s1600/KANBAN_mgmt-0628.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 166px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvbCNQWDqbP1b47IUF0CIPCztjiLhpUQNSJKc3XskYPjoT_iVeJe8KFXKDlmomFORPyftpx7cYUNi7jeNTnO_ixx2_LekQqpLmyiaN1liZM4zU7tlZwrx8EvPvG-joiP4cOHEb/s320/KANBAN_mgmt-0628.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536495809008330626" border="0" /></a>We pasted all the prepared user stories in the stack. Now we go to do the following</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style=""><span style=""><br />1.</span></span>Prioritize them </p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Prioritization is important, due to 2 things.. There can be very important user stories but still we could wait some time before we act on them. As an example, we have decided to create a new appraisal process for employees which will support agile team concepts in the organization. That’s a very important user story, but still we can have some lead time to start it due to the current process in place for this year.<span style=""> </span>Let’s look at another user story; issuing the new version of “onsite travel guide” to the staff was a very high priority story as we had some upcoming onsite visits planned in some projects. So we managed to prioritize the stories based on the urgency as well as the importance of them.<br /></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-weight: bold;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Here we go prioritizing them...</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi39vGRWyjhpn3U0IVnppQRCsIUgvk59VC3pXCdXZshPKAdv-OiV34oa_OZloIMMi3OcmzFlRxRnJpirWFmbwjQSq06_kSr3X3-k3-FBH_MFoIIJgLbGSslM1sHSmTKT7zZirxl/s1600/KANBAN_mgmt-0630.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 144px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi39vGRWyjhpn3U0IVnppQRCsIUgvk59VC3pXCdXZshPKAdv-OiV34oa_OZloIMMi3OcmzFlRxRnJpirWFmbwjQSq06_kSr3X3-k3-FBH_MFoIIJgLbGSslM1sHSmTKT7zZirxl/s320/KANBAN_mgmt-0630.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536495501710801810" border="0" /></a><br /></div><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">2. Split them as smaller stories if they are too big to move. </p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">This was a challenge. Can you imagine that.. ? Look at the previous user story I explained.. If we say “we need a new appraisal process which supports agile team concepts” that’s a very big user story..It will be harder to move the user story across the board. So its needed to decompose it in to a smaller level stories at the time of moving to “To Do”</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">If you look at the tasks under this appraisal user story, you can make few more sticky notes such as;</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style=""><span style="">1.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span>Review the existing appraisal process so that we can have a good idea about how people are appraised currently.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style=""><span style="">2.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span>Discuss with the staff and find the areas where they like to be changed so that we can get good insights from stakeholders who will be appraised by the process</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style=""><span style="">3.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span>HR manager needs to talk with the Project organization so that she can understand the gap between the current process and the new process requirements.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in;">Likewise.. We faced some big user stories which had to be decomposed.. and some smaller user stories which doesn’t need to be decomposed.<br /><br /></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="">3.</span> To do and WIP</span><br /></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">How do we do that? Interesting.. initially we tried to limit the To do to 10 and WIP to 6. Any logic in that? <span style=""> </span>NO.. We wanted to avoid committing to too many things which we cannot deliver but still to have sufficient amount of work and urgent work needed to get going.. But still .. we have not mastered the limiting skills <span style="font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="">J</span></span> I will observe this further.. (Inspect and adapt ;-) )</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"> <span style=""><span style="">4.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span>Understand that there are tasks which will not be in the KANBAN board</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">due to 2 reasons;</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style=""><span style="">1.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span>Those tasks are way too small and routine.. so you anyway attend to them </p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in;">It’s important to understand where we will draw the line for the KANBAN board otherwise you may flood it with all the smaller things you have to do during the day.. the purpose of us is not that.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style=""><span style="">2.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span>When it comes to HR. In reality, there will be few tasks where visibility of them will be challenging even at management level. </p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in;"> </p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Initially I explained one of the major challenges in our operations is that as its recognized as internal work.Unlike in projects, some of the initiatives never get completed due to other prioritized commitments … or drag too long..I think thats a common problem in any organization. But now.. all these stories are so visible..what we need is to measure the cycle time..<br /></p><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBo6GtoMn-hCRzQdFS86LWSitAqz9iWRvdJilwPr1Aix8iEQtJhTEe1FFqTLSBTXqtJyLVw0lu5e6AYkEujpDpraQjP3RwSGHMz38FhUpknqSveXJa8XHRyyVpcaJduzch6EVo/s1600/Cycle.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBo6GtoMn-hCRzQdFS86LWSitAqz9iWRvdJilwPr1Aix8iEQtJhTEe1FFqTLSBTXqtJyLVw0lu5e6AYkEujpDpraQjP3RwSGHMz38FhUpknqSveXJa8XHRyyVpcaJduzch6EVo/s320/Cycle.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536500285270082034" border="0" /></a><br />In my next post I will explain the challenges, benefits and other observations we had of our KANBAN board when we were proceeding daily..<br /><br />Next:<br /><br /><br />Previous:<br /><br /><a href="http://projectized.blogspot.com/2010/10/lean-concepts-for-operations-management.html">Lean concepts for the operations management - part 1 – How did it start?</a><br /><br /><a href="http://projectized.blogspot.com/2010/10/lean-concepts-for-operations-management_16.html">Lean concepts for the operations management - part 2 – Why not scrum..?</a><br /><br /><a href="http://projectized.blogspot.com/2010/11/lean-concepts-for-operations-management.html">Lean concepts for the operations management - part 3 – Looking at KANBAN..</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://projectized.blogspot.com/2010/11/lean-concepts-for-operations-management_04.html">Lean concepts for the operations management - part 4 – How did we implement it ?</a></span><br /><br /><a href="http://projectized.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size: 100%;"></span></a><br /><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538254.post-67181038347178249922010-11-04T10:38:00.009-06:002010-11-06T03:35:29.261-06:00Lean concepts for the operations management - part 4 – How did we impliment it ?I think now I have come to the first part of the most important chapter of the story… How did we implement it.?<br />First of all I must mention that .. this whole thing is an experiment we do. (Didn’t you hear someone telling that “agile” is all about experimenting?)<br /><br />Further, I have few emails asking questions about this whole implementation.. so I will try to be descriptive as much as I can.<br />I must admit that I usually get little carried away with concepts, especially when I start loving them a lot ;-) So when we were discussing our model, Finn (Our CEO) had to give me few reminders that it’s not about doing KANBAN, it’s about us being more lean and us making more productive management model. Sure! I agree.<br /><br />Now… few challenges to face.. How do we get the operations management in to this thinking as they were not exposed to agile thinking before..?<br /><br />To do that, we made a small presentation to the whole management team. We openly discussed about;<br />1. Our Vision to achieve<br />2. The importance of organization wide visibility of what we do<br />3. Why we need the whole management teams to move together, meet for daily standup<br />4. Focused areas which need improvements<br />5. Agile thinking which will give us drastic improvements, what our technical teams and customers achieved after being agile<br />6. How management can help each other across departments and work as one team.<br />7. Then we were open with the question.. do we go for this..?<br /><br />The answer was.."idea sounds interesting.. Let’s try out and see.." We may face issues.. so lets start with one department first.. May be our Human Resource dept ....<br /><br />That was encouraging.. So now what do we need ? We need a backlog.. Yeah I know how to make a product backlog.. But.. a HR backlog. ???. sounds weird.. Still we tried to come up with some sample stories to have a better idea..<br /><br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrMs6RFL8OjErOLqSCvIzfc6JbXsFwQ_Bza5mXt1nD7g5NMrsedguT5gdmpPRYHH-vsA6i7nPyuWn2HeoGCbGrkyxzwlrUWb9PidqT91_LQQ4MdN8-STuwqAkcHDlEV8IBH3cl/s1600/kanban.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px; display: block; height: 241px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535870982535133522" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrMs6RFL8OjErOLqSCvIzfc6JbXsFwQ_Bza5mXt1nD7g5NMrsedguT5gdmpPRYHH-vsA6i7nPyuWn2HeoGCbGrkyxzwlrUWb9PidqT91_LQQ4MdN8-STuwqAkcHDlEV8IBH3cl/s320/kanban.png" border="0" /></a><br />Hmm.. Not bad.. the stories were flowing at no time.. Yeah we discuss what is "done" in each story..<br /><br />Ex: what is done in 3rd user story?<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgthXd5kpt0KTNXNNpfcJrCpHZ3VcwGDlciduwgtixIwbwSntJ19km77h-xGiRgSe8JWlCwWDht1g5ywEbclMbBaHeKtBdUop241nPG7qa4w0VsR2aosbLOqWHXeI4F-Et39aKO/s1600/done.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px; display: block; height: 242px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535871439375677714" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgthXd5kpt0KTNXNNpfcJrCpHZ3VcwGDlciduwgtixIwbwSntJ19km77h-xGiRgSe8JWlCwWDht1g5ywEbclMbBaHeKtBdUop241nPG7qa4w0VsR2aosbLOqWHXeI4F-Et39aKO/s320/done.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />We had a good understanding about our stories to be going to the stack (Backlog). Now we need to keep them prioritized. So We got some stickies, wrote them in the sticky notes, prioritized them and pasted on one wall of the HR area what we called the stack.<br /><br />The glass wall had to have 4 sections as follows;<br />Stack | To Do | WIP | Done</p><div>I think this post is becoming way too long..:-) So I will continue the rest of it in a new post about the wall !<br /><br />Next:<br /><br /><a href="http://projectized.blogspot.com"><span style="font-size:100%;">Lean concepts for the operations management - part 5 – HR KANBAN Board</span></a><br /><br />Previous:<br /><br /><a href="http://projectized.blogspot.com/2010/10/lean-concepts-for-operations-management.html">Lean concepts for the operations management - part 1 – How did it start?</a><br /><br /><a href="http://projectized.blogspot.com/2010/10/lean-concepts-for-operations-management_16.html">Lean concepts for the operations management - part 2 – Why not scrum..?</a><br /><br /><a href="http://projectized.blogspot.com/2010/11/lean-concepts-for-operations-management.html">Lean concepts for the operations management - part 3 – Looking at KANBAN..</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538254.post-40268678242912163032010-11-03T10:31:00.017-06:002010-11-06T09:09:49.983-06:00Lean concepts for the operations management - part 3 – Looking at KANBAN<span style="font-size:100%;">Ok.. now you know what we need... we definitely need something more flexible..and something which works!. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />Looking at KANBAN, we found that it aligns with our thinking in most the areas we are concerned about..<br /><br />KANBAN allows us to</span> ;<br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="font-size:100%;">- Be more flexible </span></div><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:+0;">- </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">We didn’t fix any sprint, plan days, time boxing or release days.. we wanted to plan everyday, discard plans we made yesterday, make new plans today, deliver all the time, allow most prioritized stories to flow in at any time. Unlike in SCRUM we cannot think of completing all stories what we have committed to do ( remaining story points = 0) in order to start a new set of commitments.<br /></span></p><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT3kMYJruylKk19ro_v0HGYlS9Wrr8l9DBMj1XCzzKUT_Nl3zb1tamDMGpsCIkU71MbOjuZ7cI0ne1ZxuICpECsg1Z3shLj9Fn7Wkc9_dLXc8iQGIiQ-RDPUHRoWriYWHBelMO/s1600/Kanban+VS+SCRUM.png"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 241px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535363774635306962" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT3kMYJruylKk19ro_v0HGYlS9Wrr8l9DBMj1XCzzKUT_Nl3zb1tamDMGpsCIkU71MbOjuZ7cI0ne1ZxuICpECsg1Z3shLj9Fn7Wkc9_dLXc8iQGIiQ-RDPUHRoWriYWHBelMO/s320/Kanban+VS+SCRUM.png" /></a><span style="font-family:';font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">(Diagrams taken from www.versionone.com website)</span></span></span><br /></div><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-LEFT: 1in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:';font-size:100%;"></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:+0;">·</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Be More lean<br /></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; MARGIN-LEFT: 1in" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">- <span style="font-size:100%;">We wanted to be lean.. and more lean.. That’s why we initiated this ..</span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:+0;">·<span style="font-family:';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Monitor cycle time</span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; MARGIN-LEFT: 1in" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">- <span style="font-size:100%;">Yes we don’t want to estimate each of our management user story, Simply that doesn't make sense (I explained it in one of my previous posts)..Still we want to see when that’s raised, when its taken in to action, when it was in execution and when it was done, the total time period we spent to get it going.</span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:+0;">·<span style="font-family:';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Limit the WIP</span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; MARGIN-LEFT: 1in" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">- <span style="font-size:100%;">I think I explained this before.. Every one of us had too much in our plates.. So some items were not moving out or at least not at the speed they should have been. Now that if we find a way to limit things based on our capacity, at-least we know we are not adding so much in to our workload unless we push some stuff we have already had.</span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:+0;">·<span style="font-family:';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Have more visibility</span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; MARGIN-LEFT: 1in" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">- <span style="font-size:100%;">This is really interesting.. As a manager or a senior manager, how do you feel about this much of visibility of your responsibilities and visibility of your deliveries among your peers?<br />Amazingly that worked well with us.. as far as we all understood the benefit of this visibility of things we got to do across different departments/Sections. <span style="font-size:+0;"></span>But I agree when it comes to areas such as HR, there are user stories which shouldn’t paste on the wall. In this case we have to be selective with what level of visibility is needed with certain stories. I usually don't like tools.. I prefer simple stickies on the walls. But in this case I understand a need of a good tool.<br /></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:+0;">·<span style="font-family:';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Purge the backlog</span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; MARGIN-LEFT: 1in" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast">- <span style="font-size:100%;">If there are many less priority stories not delivered over time, their value of delivering them will be reduced or those stories may not be valid anymore. So KANBAN will allow us to purge the backlog in every 3 months or so to clear out those items.</span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; MARGIN-LEFT: 1in" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><br /></p>Next:<br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><a href="http://projectized.blogspot.com/2010/11/lean-concepts-for-operations-management_04.html">Lean concepts for the operations management - part 4 – How did we implement it ?</a></span><br /><br />Previous:<br /><br /><a href="http://projectized.blogspot.com/2010/10/lean-concepts-for-operations-management.html">Lean concepts for the operations management - part 1 – How did it start?</a><br /><br /><a href="http://projectized.blogspot.com/2010/10/lean-concepts-for-operations-management_16.html">Lean concepts for the operations management - part 2 – Why not scrum..?</a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br 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When it comes to agile, we are quite keen on SCRUM as disciplines scrum brings to the project teams as well as to the customers help a lot in our offshore project context. <span style=""> </span>In our organization, some teams pushing it to the extreme while others take the process bit relaxed..We believe that if something works right that’s the way to do it!</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Ok.. This is the story… 3 weeks back, while having a discussion with my CEO over lunch.. we came up this idea of getting our management in to agile.. It started with a simple conversation … “Let’s think loud….Why can’t we have a backlog for our management and work as a management team across our departments to be more solution focused...”<span style=""> </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="">:-)</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Great idea …but hell ..it will be really challenging to do that.. There are challenges when implementing such concepts with the management in an organization.. how far we can use the transparency..can we have all management tasks on the wall…? how about layers within the management ? (Of course we don’t have huge hierarchy),<span style=""> </span>is it only the management concepts of lean we need to add up..? <span style=""> </span>…lot to think about….. I will discuss them later..</p> <p class="MsoNormal">One thing I love working at <a href="http://www.exilesoft.com/">Exilesoft </a>(may be most SME level software companies) is that, no matter who that is, if anyone got any good ideas we can execute them in no time..( One of the recent examples is our recent job advertisement campaign<span style=""> </span>which was quite successful. Few engineers came up with this new idea for a recruitment campaign and we changed our standard recruitment campaign over night. it worked!)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Ok..Coming back to the story.. We need<span style=""> </span>our management to go agile.. But how do we do that.. ? Its challenging than implementing agile in a software development team.<span style=""> </span><br /><br />First we had to convince ourselves why we need our management to go lean.. Of-course there were quite good reasons;</p> <ul><li><span style=""><span style="">1.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span>We have a challenge.. Our CEO spend time in Sri Lanka and Norway.. so most the time its challenging to have that transparency of the management activities while he is in Norway. Simple rule.. Status reports doesn’t work.. we all know that…<br /><br /></li><li><span style=""><span style="">2.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span>Some of the team members in the management team also travel frequently, so again how do we have that same transparency of work just like when we were collocated?<br /><br /></li><li><span style=""><span style="">3.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span>There are certain tasks in the HR dept, IT dept, which are always dragging due to other commitments (Which are not marked as “Critical” )such as Employee handbook, some New backup process etc. which needs to be finished at some point , instead more tasks are adding in to the list and sometimes we lose track of time of these long term tasks.<br /><br /></li><li><span style=""><span style="">4.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span>Management needs to be cross functional too to deliver the best and help each other.<br /><br /></li><li><span style=""><span style="">5.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span>Maximize the time utilization, if someone has got some time he or she should be able to pick a task or help another to get a task going..<br /><br /></li><li><span style=""><span style="">6.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span>We are a start-up.., so I don’t have to tell you the challenge.. we need to deliver more with less.</li></ul> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast">Ok we had enough reasons to go lean..go agile.. 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95.75pt;" width="128" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">The bird to carry the logo</p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 173.9pt;" width="232" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">We can brand it as our own toy</p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;" width="90" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p> <br /></td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 45.9pt;" width="61" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p> <br /></td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border-style: none solid solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 95.75pt;" width="128" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">Sales person</p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 95.75pt;" width="128" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">The bird to have red color feathers</p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 173.9pt;" width="232" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">It will be more appealing to young girls</p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;" width="90" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p> <br /></td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 45.9pt;" width="61" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p> <br /></td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border-style: none solid solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 95.75pt;" width="128" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">Marketing manager</p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 95.75pt;" width="128" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">The bird to have blue eyes</p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 173.9pt;" width="232" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">The bird will be more appealing to the kids</p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;" width="90" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p> <br /></td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 45.9pt;" width="61" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p> <br /></td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border-style: none solid solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 95.75pt;" width="128" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">Production manager</p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 95.75pt;" width="128" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">The documentation on how to make the bird</p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 173.9pt;" width="232" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">I can train more people to produce birds like this</p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;" width="90" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p> <br /></td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 45.9pt;" width="61" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p> <br /></td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border-style: none solid solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 95.75pt;" width="128" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">Marketing manager</p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 95.75pt;" width="128" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">The bird to have 2 legs</p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 173.9pt;" width="232" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">The bird will be able to stand</p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;" width="90" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p> <br /></td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 45.9pt;" width="61" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p> <br /></td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border-style: none solid solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 95.75pt;" width="128" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">Marketing manager</p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 95.75pt;" width="128" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">The bird to be bundled with a cage</p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 173.9pt;" width="232" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">We can add more value in the market</p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;" width="90" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p> <br /></td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 45.9pt;" width="61" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p> <br /></td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border-style: none solid solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 95.75pt;" width="128" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">Brand manager</p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 95.75pt;" width="128" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">A catchy name to the bird</p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 173.9pt;" width="232" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">The bird will be popular among the kids</p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;" width="90" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p> <br /></td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 45.9pt;" width="61" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p> <br /></td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border-style: none solid solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 95.75pt;" width="128" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">Angry kid</p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 95.75pt;" width="128" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">Soak the bird in water</p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 173.9pt;" width="232" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">The bird will be destroyed easily</p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.5pt;" width="90" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p> <br /></td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 45.9pt;" width="61" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"> </p> <br /></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <b style=""><br />The product vision</b>: to produce a toy bird to the market, this can compete with other toy birds in the market. <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Product backlog</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""> </b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""> </b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""> </b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""> </b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""> </b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">You may notice few points in the product backlog user stories. There are some functional requirements which is a must to deliver and some nice to have features too. With the angry child user story, I wanted them to get the idea of having user stories from hacker’s perspective to come up with security related user stories too to the product backlog. Documentation user story was brought in to the picture, so that team will understand if the documentation is needed by stakeholders to treat it as a user story and deliver it.<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal">We had 8 members, so we split the team to two. My colleagues Shamira Dias and Manujaya Kuruppu volunteered to play the product owner role for the 2 teams. Thanks to them they did a great job of taking teams through the product backlog and helping them to learn estimation techniques.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Shamira and Manujaya prioritized the stories to their teams after having a discussion with them. They prioritized the highest market value items first. <span style=""> </span>Both the teams played planning poker to estimate the user stories with their product owners which helped them to get the real idea about relative estimation using story points.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">After that.. They decided 2 releases for the backlog. First release within 15 min and other release within 20 min. which is the final release of the bird. Product owners mentioned to their teams what they need for the release one.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Here they are busy making this bird… Team A<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8VOn0cpOGPBXbvGiDgpKbTfZMtyq0q6DxFD7MUP03FlnUbqYplYuhSM2OSOJRiLQNuB18imtWqzfRLVo5cmolgM1q1-njuMeKtFVahvjJ816cfFewQFJ5AAwmCT4jFoGVpiyg/s1600/DSC03064.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8VOn0cpOGPBXbvGiDgpKbTfZMtyq0q6DxFD7MUP03FlnUbqYplYuhSM2OSOJRiLQNuB18imtWqzfRLVo5cmolgM1q1-njuMeKtFVahvjJ816cfFewQFJ5AAwmCT4jFoGVpiyg/s320/DSC03064.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514924828986028242" border="0" /></a><br />Team B - Making the bird<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidfbdS6tGDXCrAHVXPGpZ0jv1RKdgZ_kAmfi7RD2b1ZBQLyzGHgPtwYd6-sQliSqEBphjjKJJLVZd3uxojm9LEDAy7vzZ-bS1oS29Es-FEHmE7MGm8ycJ8Pvu798R5cHcGoXjG/s1600/DSC03065.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidfbdS6tGDXCrAHVXPGpZ0jv1RKdgZ_kAmfi7RD2b1ZBQLyzGHgPtwYd6-sQliSqEBphjjKJJLVZd3uxojm9LEDAy7vzZ-bS1oS29Es-FEHmE7MGm8ycJ8Pvu798R5cHcGoXjG/s320/DSC03065.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514927027688803218" border="0" /></a><br />When they did the final release, Navin came as the customer and he had to make a hard decision about buying one bird. He bought Duckybird <span style="font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="">J</span></span> because it could fly perfectly and he was fascinated about his flying skills.<p class="MsoNormal">Here is the Mountain bird by team B at the final release :-)</p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinjkSC_WzmoNljbJ6SLn6w3ZqyshQJIvPGg98T2Q7wsoEZWspig_k1xVdaxG3q4PQfhasustzL-te2K4T9Ko7tmRez7ZDryCWJhNvwNjsl4KDJqeAgBAaR_bntu6U5e3rR4XHI/s1600/DSC03069.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinjkSC_WzmoNljbJ6SLn6w3ZqyshQJIvPGg98T2Q7wsoEZWspig_k1xVdaxG3q4PQfhasustzL-te2K4T9Ko7tmRez7ZDryCWJhNvwNjsl4KDJqeAgBAaR_bntu6U5e3rR4XHI/s320/DSC03069.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514929021715671970" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal">Here is the Ducky bird by team A at the final release :-)</p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcwxQjCn3ZQJy2Bv52LTLOqW_-zYbTnMYTb4OZCAsdDhIvOxeP-itNTGwIhg-NzL3OZVZnoFEWRkWq9EdyzXWtXC3Uz8hR9HHg-D7tWObOQnC8km4lIZ7craPgVwmlptdjtdpx/s1600/DSC03068.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcwxQjCn3ZQJy2Bv52LTLOqW_-zYbTnMYTb4OZCAsdDhIvOxeP-itNTGwIhg-NzL3OZVZnoFEWRkWq9EdyzXWtXC3Uz8hR9HHg-D7tWObOQnC8km4lIZ7craPgVwmlptdjtdpx/s320/DSC03068.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514930212287306002" border="0" /></a><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal">After that we did a retrospective with the teams...( we had no time to do a retro after the release 1 which could have been the perfect scenario.)</p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">The findings </p> <ul><li><span style=""><span style="">1.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span>In release 1, team A failed to do the product release on time even with minimal required features. So they saw how their competition came to the market.</li><li><span style=""><span style="">2.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span>Team B prioritized the red feather story for the release 1 , so they had no time to deliver a stable product which is a bird who could stand.</li><li><span style=""><span style="">3.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span>Team B delivered extra (Gold plating??)_ nice decoration on bird which was not included as a user story in the backlog and they totally forgot about the flying feature of the bird which made them to loose their opportunity <span style=""> </span>in the market against the competition</li><li><span style=""><span style="">4.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span>Team B – the whole team spent time on doing documentation and didn’t deliver the cage and the fence. – there scrum master was too involved in building and forgot to get his team guided towards signing in to various tasks to improve the utilization of time. which can happen in real development projects.</li><li><span style=""><span style="">5.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span>Testers of both teams didn’t add much value to the team from testing perspective. </li><li><span style=""><span style="">6.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span>They learn the difference of a scrum master from the Project Manager</li><li><span style=""><span style="">7.<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span>They learned how the team culture works in agile organizations.</li></ul> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"> </p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Rewards</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast">After that , I rewarded the scrum master of team A as his product owner managed to make a sale based on what his team produced.. The team accepted that they didn’t feel very happy about it as they felt he was rewarded at their cost and instead the management could have rewarded the whole team because the whole team worked hard to release a nice toy bird to the market.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Thanks to all who participated the training.. it was a great experience to share knowledge with a team from another company. I'm sure my colleagues also enjoyed it a lot.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Update: you can see the PB user story about flying is missing.. This is how the PB was at the initial stage.. which I wanted the teams to learn that PB is not perfect at once.. there are so many hidden things which will come out when PO refines it again and when the team ask the question. Team knows that many birds fly and this is a question I expected them to ask with their domain knowledge. Thank you <a href="http://twitter.com/michelesliger" target="_blank">@michelesliger </a>for notifying this to me<span style="text-decoration: underline;">. This is an addition I did when posting it.</span><a href="http://twitter.com/michelesliger" target="_blank"><br /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://twitter.com/michelesliger" target="_blank"><br /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538254.post-37864183192033599862010-09-03T21:35:00.013-06:002010-09-04T02:03:17.202-06:00Agile2010 - Part 4 - Why you suck at offshoring even with agile<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfp52zR3hwCRwNa19i5QlBOT-2WcsleZ3-JwyFe_bAdMdJqkoTf9IOliB2neV9nAY2XracztBSOeGDq4fbY6uJ9r4F6aFNi4zKX_MVmwmohZJR6eNuw-AWBS3u5ROmuWI6vBEK/s1600/agile1.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512897949711373090" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfp52zR3hwCRwNa19i5QlBOT-2WcsleZ3-JwyFe_bAdMdJqkoTf9IOliB2neV9nAY2XracztBSOeGDq4fbY6uJ9r4F6aFNi4zKX_MVmwmohZJR6eNuw-AWBS3u5ROmuWI6vBEK/s320/agile1.jpg" /></a><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Needless to say that this is the biggest challenge I faced so far in my career life.. To speak at agile 2010 conference for the 1<sup>st</sup> time.<br /><br />Everything sounded challenging form the day 1, first to be one of the few selected speakers out of closer to 1000 proposals, 2<sup>nd</sup> it was in US, 3<sup>rd</sup>, it was a pair presentation which I have never used to do before, 4<sup>th</sup> I knew and heard that Agile conference is really a challenging place to be in as people who come there coming for a real purpose, they are tough, in thrust of knowledge and very interactive in sessions… It all proved true to me from the day 1 at the conference.</p><br /><p class="MsoNormal">So with all these.. <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo">Dave</a> and myself prepared the presentation ( all virtual ;-) ).., Which was an interesting story.. We will discuss this on Monday (6<sup>th</sup> Sep) during the retrospective we are going to do. </p><br /><p class="MsoNormal">On Thursday 2<sup>nd</sup> morning session under “Distributed and large scale agile stage” <span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-size:0;"></span>was ours.. It was again challenging to decide how to dress for the presentation.. (Sounds more feminine? )<br />The challenge was that in agile conference most the presenters wore T shirts , shorts and Jeans..They looked very causal.. .. I knew Dave would do the same.. But still I’m not used to this. So I thought of wearing my usual pair of Grey jeans and a Black office shirt.. (Sigh.. I wish if I had some pictures or recording of the presentation… <span style="font-size:0;"></span>After the presentation only we realized that we couldn’t request for a single picture.. which was terrible.. and I’m sorry for that…)</p><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Few good signs</b> : Room was getting full.. which was cool.. I would not make up myself to present in an empty room.. </p><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Bad things</b>.. this huge projector stand covered some of the audience..and top of that Dave had to use one fixed mike while I was using the wireless mike. So he had to stand still while I was all over. One attendee mentioned that my voice was low for few times … I think the way I fixed the mike to my shirt.... it was moving a bit…</p><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Not too sure good or bad thing :)</span> Dave started his tweeting via iphone.. Which made me creepy :-) Uh.. Commooonnn You are tweeting while we are in the presentation.. Give me a break.. But he was so cool... He just wanted to tweet..<br /><br />Getting ready to present "Why You Suck At Offshoring- Even with Agile" with @Thush at #Agile2010 would be a good reminder to other attendees<br /><br />After disappointing you all about recording and pictures I have one good news to you... We are doing a video conference on retro as Dave is in US and Im in Sri Lanka., So possibly we will record it for you.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>Stay tuned for that ;-)<br /><br />Here for you .. Some of the interesting slides which helped us to get the audience interactions effortlessly..<br /></p><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDbfNC6rapfVmafVEz1TA0WJC-7yL0sFXwG1VOcafJZKE0AMtH14WVEaeLNhxDuxIjbyK3SBR0JGxxbUlYAGJ_ndqfTstRbhX6MUhh6nxC7x_mv2htw5-X4CeHc7J2uZLdEzj8/s1600/agile2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512898806864839730" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDbfNC6rapfVmafVEz1TA0WJC-7yL0sFXwG1VOcafJZKE0AMtH14WVEaeLNhxDuxIjbyK3SBR0JGxxbUlYAGJ_ndqfTstRbhX6MUhh6nxC7x_mv2htw5-X4CeHc7J2uZLdEzj8/s320/agile2.jpg" /></a><br />We discussed the important points anyone should consider in an agile offshore project initiation, and the areas where you can go wrong easily... loads of examples here...<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9d0KA4wJGBW19N688sw4lNa-XQ5Zzan2RvMXgOxzfo_wvhMI3xr1edUD_vSNgjrvQEGEG5St5JUsgczdCO42wZYNKjYGZ1hSwFKW41Yiap0h_BBBJtfMhPiTZujpvVTi-TJNB/s1600/agile+10.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512954361710988354" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9d0KA4wJGBW19N688sw4lNa-XQ5Zzan2RvMXgOxzfo_wvhMI3xr1edUD_vSNgjrvQEGEG5St5JUsgczdCO42wZYNKjYGZ1hSwFKW41Yiap0h_BBBJtfMhPiTZujpvVTi-TJNB/s320/agile+10.jpg" /></a><br />Dave brought up some real cool examples of working with Asian team while he is working in USA.. the point here was.. "We both have layers" as Shrek said to Donkey..<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGHJzsm7G-XAGmoMtWpk0AAfRA822l-TXVeX0gdavvPMeu91QSTP8Uy2PrYENwsQzrw4iNgXGclBM9ORWyz27O2-3yJNYCObp77HbyotJQ06ur4A9B96Lm04bR9ASOl-2LzIzc/s1600/agile7.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512899704400206018" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGHJzsm7G-XAGmoMtWpk0AAfRA822l-TXVeX0gdavvPMeu91QSTP8Uy2PrYENwsQzrw4iNgXGclBM9ORWyz27O2-3yJNYCObp77HbyotJQ06ur4A9B96Lm04bR9ASOl-2LzIzc/s320/agile7.jpg" /></a><br /><br />This was an interesting debate.. how you should position your contracts in offshore market without killing the idea of being agile.. what will do and not do..<br /><br /><br />The important one ;-)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwJi_dM3F9fzF6FSRQaGymZrJkSW8jdbg-zJI_0y-q_SPZKzXUAa_07z9LBVMP46CxqKdxUd21kBomXKIzwdxjU2HMW31zL7dZd-DJdmREEzrKM3UZWgapZKp2B86TlMYDa9KD/s1600/agile4.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512900007952166578" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwJi_dM3F9fzF6FSRQaGymZrJkSW8jdbg-zJI_0y-q_SPZKzXUAa_07z9LBVMP46CxqKdxUd21kBomXKIzwdxjU2HMW31zL7dZd-DJdmREEzrKM3UZWgapZKp2B86TlMYDa9KD/s320/agile4.jpg" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538254.post-11779009598194666462010-08-29T01:36:00.007-06:002010-08-29T05:26:19.111-06:00Agile 2010 -Part 3Here we go about my 2nd day there. and bit of day 3 too..<br /><br />In the morning I wanted to attend to some of the agile game sessions..<br />If you ask me why I attended to gaming sessions in such conference, I would say its due to 2 reasons..<br /><br />1. We have many new recruits joining <a href="http://www.exilesoft.com/">Exilesoft</a> project organization frequently. They are coming from various project development/management environments. Getting them to agile thinking is fun but I must admit that its always challenging..Because we always have a limited time to get things going with new colleagues. So its time to learn some interesting games which helps us to get the people up to speed of agile thinking by adding more fun in to it.<br /><br />2. At this time Ive realized how badly Jetlagged I am.. so it was becoming impossible for me to sit in a lecture room session.<br /><br />In the whole conference I managed to attend to 2 gaming sessions. However there were too many games in this conference and made me realized how much games are integrated with agile training. One game session I attended was conducted by <a href="http://www.agilitrix.com/blog/">Michael Sahota</a> and <a href="http://www.thoughtcorp.com/page.asp?PageId=330">Gino Marckx</a>.<br />Their game was about teaching strategies which will help to understand the backlog and prioritizing it.<br />The understanding of “must have” , “what can be negotiated” and how to fulfill stakeholder satisfaction was demonstrated by them.<br /><br />The other gaming session I attended to was done by <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/ppl/webprofile?vmi=&id=10693560&pvs=pp&authToken=csCz&authType=name&locale=en_US&trk=ppro_viewmore&lnk=vw_pprofile">Michele Sliger</a> at <a href="http://innovationgames.com/">Innovation Games</a><br /><br />In her session, each group had to volunteer to take care of a kennel during a holiday. She gave the same product backlog to each group. User stories were all about cleaning dogs, cats, brushing them, updating the database, cleaning equipments, feeding, walking dogs etc. It was a time box. We had to calculate the number of hours we have in hand to do the maximum must do ones. When we look at the backlog we understood that it was way too much hours needed. So we had to prioritize and each of us had to sign in to what we had to do during the day.<br /><br />The most interesting part was the retrospective she conducted by asking everyone’s experience.. I couldn’t believe it...Some of the ladies in the class have taken this game way too serious.. they were very emotional about not having enough time to walk the dogs.. :D Some didn’t like Cats so they have refused to do the jobs related to cats.. :D I like that enthusiasm ;-)<br /><br />Key“take home point” to me was that.., we need to have more games at office to get the concepts going.. That will add lots of energy to the teams.. But sure Dog Kennel is not something we see often in Sri Lanka.. ( Oops.. I hope those ladies will not read my blog.., Otherwise I will be in trouble. ) So I need to do some games wich they can relate more with their experience.. we are already planning to do one session in October.. which I will share with you for sure.<br />2nd day evening… .. what did I do.. Hmmm… Oh ok.. Dave arrived on Tuesday.. so we met with some friends..and we enjoyed Casino night by Rally and Reception by Version One. After that some of us had an awesome time playing dice but not cheating…<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0OpwHhmvc2Q2dtj_XoBB_PEen-gAUmKR9KUQ_t0lU2FTpy7bIht-eBVzIEJaRmwedC42h5Rzwcd-xzjYibatUUbG4svbRBPElEGhnw6ZTXtBYRJO4UwZioGXi4ybScURJQhj5/s1600/DSC02923.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5510735515789857874" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0OpwHhmvc2Q2dtj_XoBB_PEen-gAUmKR9KUQ_t0lU2FTpy7bIht-eBVzIEJaRmwedC42h5Rzwcd-xzjYibatUUbG4svbRBPElEGhnw6ZTXtBYRJO4UwZioGXi4ybScURJQhj5/s320/DSC02923.JPG" /></a><br /><br />When it comes to 3rd day.. I really felt the pressure of our presentation to be done on Thursday.. and most the time I spent thinking of it and getting some points organised..talking with Dave about it... which I will explain in my next post.. Afterall this is my very first time at an Agile conference.. which made me little nervous.. but all the awsome people around me were so supportive to keep me going without getting exited..Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538254.post-85123141738956481412010-08-28T23:51:00.005-06:002010-08-29T00:26:29.786-06:00Agile 2010 - Part 2Selecting which session to go after lunch was much more challenging... Many known industry experts such as Martin Fowler, Mike Cohn, Johanna Rothman, Alistair Cockburn, Robot Martin and many others had parallel sessions from 1.30 PM to 5 PM.<br /><a href="http://www.agile2010.com/schedule.html">You can view the schedule here </a><br /><br />Ok .. I selected to go to Agile Estimating & Planning: From Basics to Brain Stumpers by Mike Cohn because agile estimation and planning is never a “Done” topic and still challenging.<br />Now let me dig my memory a bit…<br />I can remember that I enjoyed the session a lot.. Audience involvement was so much that I thought he will run out of time to finish his presentation ( I expected it to be.. Because all of us who are in to agile estimation have our own share of confusion :) )<br />Many practical problems were discussed in the session.. Some stuff I remember even after 2 weeks are as follows;<br /><br />- Talking about working with larger backlogs and estimating them upfront…<br />One of the ideas I picked at the session was that if the product is large, don’t go in to the entire user story capturing at once. First identify themes, epics and come up with a budget for the project. Not estimation. Because unless you are the “god of estimation” you will never come up with a right figure for any software project at this time.<br />Working with fixed price contracts was also discussed up to an extent, but not in detailed level.. still signing the contract with a budget of Min to Max would be a very good idea if you can get your customer understanding the same reality about software development as you are.<br />Once I noticed Mike was surprised that one attendee was mentioning about his huge backlog where they have realized user stories to be implemented for over a quarter of the year<br /><br />- Estimation is not a commitment<br />I agree with his example to prove that estimation is not a commitment. You need to estimate. and you need to commit.. but its 2 different things and you don’t commit to the estimate. Still if you explain this to your manager or customer.. I want to know how long you have to find the next job……:-).. Anyway this is a lengthy explanation to do on how it works.. <a href="http://blog.mountaingoatsoftware.com/tag/agile-estimation">you can find some good explanation here.<br /><br /></a>- Estimating stories without hours<br />He went in to detail with the audience about estimating user stories only with story points without getting in to hours. Then he explained how to arrive at calendar estimation based on the average team velocity calculation.<br />There he got the question which anyone could foresee coming… How do you do this with new teams or new team members in a team.,. His answer was that in a situation like this you need few practice sprints to arrive in such facts.<br />I see a problem in this when we don’t have the same team continuing projects for a longer time.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxY88YH_6gErhMKIiCcnwYhFHSsMzWn95V9TfhVhPY4uiMTl0FP6IPD24ZqllAAGHJ1IVQqeBentZEthlmB_cBRMxz5k2Uc3EPiBChZ3Ash34rWw8tHlHvn3N8lGH0V92VPDwx/s1600/DSC02922.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5510706986176805666" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxY88YH_6gErhMKIiCcnwYhFHSsMzWn95V9TfhVhPY4uiMTl0FP6IPD24ZqllAAGHJ1IVQqeBentZEthlmB_cBRMxz5k2Uc3EPiBChZ3Ash34rWw8tHlHvn3N8lGH0V92VPDwx/s320/DSC02922.JPG" /></a><br /><br />In the evening we had the Ice breaking party again a network session provided by the conference. There I got involved over a discussion with some of the CSTS from Argentina, USA, Canada and Belgium. They had some discussions about how they think about agile alliance and their practical issues.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538254.post-48877677274701833622010-08-28T08:54:00.010-06:002010-09-10T08:26:10.533-06:00Agile 2010 – Part 1<span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Im Just thinking back 2 weeks, to refresh my memory in order to write something about Agile 2010. The longest waiting post in my blog so far:-) As I said before.. Lots of memories and lot to write about..Top of that, all my colleagues accuse me for being so silent about the whole experience.:-). So I will try to summarize my thoughts in very short form here.</span><span style=";font-family:webdings;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Im sorry that I have no much pictures to share.. But if you need any pictures.., <a href="http://www.poppendieck.com/photogallery/Agile2010.htm">here is the link for you </a></span> <span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/sets/72157624655349895">And I see few pics here too</a></span><span style=";font-family:webdings;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Conference was very well organized I think. Organizing 15+ Stages is no simple task. I like the casual environment they created, very good networking with all the people around the world ( Mostly USA ;-) ) and almost every person I met there was passionate, knowledgeable, so friendly and so down to earth.. Needless to say that Ive made lots of new friends who are willing to share their ideas about agile software development and challenge each other’s thinking.</span><span style=";font-family:webdings;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br />Starting from the beginning.. It was quite a long long long flight to me as I traveled all the way from Sri Lanka.. ( Am I the only Sri Lankan who was in the conference?? I think so…) I reached Orlando by Saturday midnight..dead tired.. But still got up early on Sunday morning… looked outside…Here my Beautiful view from the room at Disney Dolphin resort… Sure I was back in my full energy in no delays.. </span><span style=";font-family:webdings;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEJnbkFoBHmCctaFbaRi-xNKVP_E0j7nYOQ9TiWG4r1msYNvwuxRCFFDikBe2YPHvhBV5x8_ZoVi0qUnNpawbUlxyJaxm0syZ7LlwmIcMQ-GWxkM48BJq5w3a367em2MvEw8FA/s1600/DSC02914.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEJnbkFoBHmCctaFbaRi-xNKVP_E0j7nYOQ9TiWG4r1msYNvwuxRCFFDikBe2YPHvhBV5x8_ZoVi0qUnNpawbUlxyJaxm0syZ7LlwmIcMQ-GWxkM48BJq5w3a367em2MvEw8FA/s320/DSC02914.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5510475409410984706" border="0" /></a><br /></span> <span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Thanks to my friend Caryl, I spent the day with her and her mom by going around and doing some shopping in Orlando on Sunday..I was so late to arrive back in the hotel. so I missed the “Dinner with a Stranger” event organized to facilitate networking among attendees. </span> <span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >But it was an unbelievable experience to meet many people in real world whom I have been interacting online for a long time. </span> <span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br />Monday was the first day.. It was hard to decide which lecture I should attend to as almost all the lined up parallel lectures sounded interesting. So for the morning session, I selected to go to <a href="http://www.infoq.com/author/Mary-Poppendieck">Mary Poppendieck’s</a> lecture on “Making Change Happen and Making it Stick”<br /><br />I selected this session due to 2 reasons<br /></span> <span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >1. Of-course she is a well known speaker and that was my idea for a while to see her presenting<br /></span> <span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >2. At <a href="http://www.exilesoft.com/">Exilesoft</a> we have done the big change.. We have changed the whole project organization to agile. Now its time to learn how we stick with the change.</span><span style=";font-family:webdings;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><a href="http://www.rotnetix.com/2010/08/30/agile2010---making-change-happen-and-making-it-stick/"><br />This is an informative post written by one of the attendees about her lecture</a>. So I think I shouldn’t try to write about the whole lecture here. ( Im not that disciplined person who makes any notes.still I try to listen during the sessions. :-) </span><span style=";font-family:webdings;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Just to summarize my own thoughts about the lecture;</span><span style=";font-family:webdings;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >- It was not tiring at all to listen to her for 3 hours</span><span style=";font-family:webdings;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >- She took lots of real examples from many corporate which really helped to relate her theories in real world</span><span style=";font-family:webdings;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >- She stressed the point, for corporate to be more successful for getting the maximum productivity out of employees is by treating employees as volunteers. There she had many examples from Opensource community and how that works. We had a small exercise with each group members discussing about our own experience about an assignment where we worked as volunteers and led volunteers.. however there were some contradicting thoughts among the team members;</span> <span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> o – When people volunteer they have more personal agendas than when they work for a fee and its sometimes more painful to manage – Some examples were taken from some of the team members local PMI chapter work</span></span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /> o - This theory depends on the context and some of the asian cultures where the “Pay” and “title” define your social status will find it difficult to implement</span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /> o - Will the corporate management will act with the attitude of “Sharing the pain” with teams who are volunteering and working so hard while management act differently to them.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /> o - However all agreed that they have contributed to the best when they have volunteered to something in the past.</span> <span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br />- She mentioned that there is nothing called a project is technically successful.. If project has no business success, its not a successful project at all. All geeks.. listen well.. This is very true !!!! –<br /></span> <span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >- Further she mentioned the importance of teams making decisions.. she mentioned that there can be mistakes of teams when they make decisions.. but in long term those mistakes are better than the huge problems which can be created by the decisions made by management without knowing exact details as much as teams do.. she said it best !<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLkmRHSFQlJZIsBY7Qjc9BHInFEV-woTOhwjJS0ky0ywEpmJAMxwS6vSxf6Yw6F2czXQgSG0BJB0GqKwLwEa_VGjLnfwVIOB6hixUe3SQKHcWczd-sVu-vIr9bC6BuK-c1XXoB/s1600/DSC02920.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLkmRHSFQlJZIsBY7Qjc9BHInFEV-woTOhwjJS0ky0ywEpmJAMxwS6vSxf6Yw6F2czXQgSG0BJB0GqKwLwEa_VGjLnfwVIOB6hixUe3SQKHcWczd-sVu-vIr9bC6BuK-c1XXoB/s320/DSC02920.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5510483159014952466" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Oh Boy.. Mid of the day.. I was sooo tired and never been so badly Jet-lagged before..</span> <span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br />Lessons learned: if the event is in USA – reach there at least 3 days before.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4