Become a Better Agile Practitioner: Learn from other sources
Add to calendarWant to improve your team? Take a drama class! Want to measure how your agile adoption is going, take a business course!! This session explores the often overlooked practices in other industries for inspiration on improving agile practice in software development. From waste management and lean manufacturing to understanding motivational and sustainable development with NLP, I want to help people begin to look at things differently and perhaps find their own fixes from the rich variety of disciplines in everyday life that they can apply to agile software development.
I will open the talk with a short (15 min) description of what I have learnt from Lean, Kanban, NLP and Impro and conduct short exercises to illustrate them in practice. Then I facilitate discussion amongst the attendees, in a series of 1 minute lightning talks, to share at least one area where their agile practice is informed by another discipline (e.g. martial arts!)
My primary aim is to share what I have learnt and to encourage others to seek out inspiration for improvement from other disciplines.
Update 21/02: Increased the proposal time to 90 mins because the discussions I hope to encourage could take a little longer to flourish.
- How NLP can help identify your team members primary motivations;
- How lean thinking can help improve your backlog management;
- How Kanban can improve your ability to coach multiple teams simultaneously.
- How dramatic improvisation aids effective communication.
- Why opening your mind to other disciplines can significantly improve your agile practice.
- The eagerness to explore the rich variety of life to discover new ways of thinking about old problems and crafting your own fixes.
- An understanding of agile triangulation - an evolving frame of reference points by which to cross-validate strategies and decisions.
