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| More Effective Agile by Steve McConnell | 2025-01-13 | 2025-01-13 |
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More Effective Agile by Steve McConnell
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Enjoy the Fruits of Your Labor
The agile mindset is about decriminalising mistakes and develop a Growth Mindset. Use mistakes as learning opportunities, Inspect and Adapt, and gradually become better. The main benefits for your organisation:
- teams that stay focused on goals and that are responsive when things change
- teams that monitor the effectiveness in order to replace ineffective practices with better ones meaning throughput increases over time
- teams that monitor workflows. they will know where the work is and if it's progressing as it should. Increasing visibility and keeping delivery promises with high quality
- teams work well with other teams and outside world
- constant discoveries, but few disruptive surprises. If they appear you find them early and can react to them
- high quality work at all times and identify opportunities for improvement. High motivation
Maturation Phases
- several sprints to learn scrum, learn small increment,
- over time focus shifts to organisations interaction with teams
- iteratively teams are transformed. They deliver quickly and change direction quickly, meaning the organization has strategic opportunities to plan and execute differently and better
- meaning everything gets better and better over time.
Summary of Key principles
- Inspect and Adapt: Agile is empirical with focus on learning from experience. Meaning the framework should create opportunities to reflect periodically and make adjustments based on experience.
- Start with Scrum: might not be the final journey, but is the best structured and best supported place to start.
- Build Cross-Functional Teams: The teams should be self managed, meaning they need to include a full skillset to make well informed decisions that are binding to the organisation.
- Integrate Testers into the Development Team: Close feedback loop between development and test by having the people work together.
- Motivate Teams Through Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose: Motivation factors are inherently supported: Teams work with Autonomy and to become better over time (Mastery). healthy Agile team and motivated Agile team are strongly intertwined.
- Develop a Growth Mindset: Agile teams have a big steady focus on getting better.
- Develop Business Focus: Developers should understand the business to fill the gaps in requirements.
- Tighten Feedback Loops: Don't take any longer to learn lessons than you need to. This supports more rapid progress from Inspect and Adapt and faster imporvements in Effectiveness.
- Fix the System, Not the Individual: If a developer is not performing look for the system problem that is frustrating the person. Usually it's the system, not the people.
- Increase Team Capacity by Building Individual Capacity: Team attributes are the combination of individual members attributes and interactions. By strengthening the people, you strengthen the team.
- Keep Projects Small: They are easier and more often successful. Not all work can be structured like this, but if you can you should do it.
- Keep Sprints Short: they support a frequent inspect and adapt feedback loop and expose problems quickly before they grow into large problems
- Deliver in Vertical Slices: Feedback is important and teams get better feedback on their product in vertical slices and thus improve more. This means the business improves more as well.
- Manage Technical Debt: Focus on Quality. Managing technical debt supports higher team morale, faster progress and higher quality products.
- Support Large Agile Projects Through Architecture: Good architecture even allows large projects to use agile. Good architecture can make a large project feel smaller
- Minimize the Defect Detection Gap: The cost of fixing a defect grows with the age of the defect. --> Detecting early and fixing it is cheaper and increases quality.
- Create and Use a Definition of Done: a good definition of done helps catch incomplete or faulty work early, minimizing the gap between defect insertion and detection.
- Maintain a Releasable Level of Quality: High quality helps catching additional defects that slip through
- Use Automated Test, Created by the Development Team: Helps minimizing the defect detection gap. Everyone on the team feels responsible and reinforces that quality is the responsibility of everyone.
- Refine the Product Backlog: this ensures the team tackles high priority tasks first and doesn't invent new requirements
- Create and Use a Definition of Ready: make sure requirements are truly ready before the team begins implementing them.
- Automate Repetitive Activities: You have more benefits when automating repetitive tasks.
- manage to Outcomes, Not De
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