The 7 Deadly Sins of Almost Being Agile
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Add to calendarBeing nearly agile has caused a number of new words to enter our vocabulary. They include “mini-waterfaull”, “Scrum-but”, “XP’ish”, “w-agile”, “fr-agile” and a host of others. While agility cannot be defined by a particular set of principles or practices, going down a particular agile path only part-way is almost always a recipe for an eventual disaster. This session will focus on exposing the 7 deadly sins that may apply: lack of customer voice, manual testing, never integrating, no incremental deliveries, no feedback loop, silo’d teams and unrealistic deadlines. Learn why each is deadly!
This workshop will be focused on each of the 7 sins in detail. Each will take approximately 20 minutes of the overall session. The 20 minutes will be broken up into 10 minutes of presentation/discussion followed by 10 minutes of small group exercises/discussions pertaining to the particular sin that was described. The exercises and discussions focus on what to do about the problem and may include coming up with a convincing argument for change, a top-10 list of issues, creating a 30 second pitch for why the problem is bad, etc. For each issue the attendees will get a sense for what level of the organization needs to address the problem, and how serious it could be. The remaining 40 minutes of the session will be split with 10 minutes of up front presentation of the overall issue of “near-agility”, 10 minutes Q&A at the end, and an additional 20 minutes allotted for extending any/all discussions around the 7 issues.
The goal is to make this session as interative and engaging as possible. This is a workshop session designed to help grow industry knowledge about real world problems people are facing with these seven particular issues.
- Knowing the downfalls of “near-agility” in general
- In depth understanding of the 7 sins
- Ability to recognize various forms of the 7 sins
- Knowledge of how to attack and eliminate each of the 7 sins