What Is Agile and Why Do I Care? Blacks in Technology 2018

@alexbernardin #agilewhat #bitcon2018
And Why Do I Care?

1
MINDSET
VALUES
PRINCIPLES
PRACTICES
Small cross-functional teams, trusted and empowered, striving to deliver value
to customers early and often.
Who
Me You ?
● Project Manager, People Manager ● Agile-savvy?
● Of Pirate Descent ○ Using it? Heard of it? N00b?
● @alexbernardin ● Experience?
○ BIT Slack - http://bit.ly/joinbitslack ○ New to field? Or established in career
○ Twitter, at conferences... ● Role?

● #queerBIT ○ Dev? Or other?
● Fast talker!
Where
1: Agile in Theory
2: Agile in Practice
3: Implications
THEORY TIME!
Engineering physical structures Engineering virtual systems

So, we did it this way for … a few decades. Finally, in 2001 ...
Agile Manifesto
MINDSET
Individuals and interactions
Working software
Customer collaboration
Responding to change
VALUES
AgileManifesto.org
Agile Principles
● Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and

continuous delivery of valuable software.
● Welcome changing requirements, even late in development...
● Deliver working software frequently...
PRINCIPLES ● Business people and devs must work together daily...
● Build projects around motivated individuals.
● Give them the environment and support they need, and trust
them to get the job done.
AgileManifesto.org/principles
Agile Principles cont.
● The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a
development team is face-to-face conversation.
● Working software is the primary measure of progress.
● Agile processes promote sustainable development.
● The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace
indefinitely.
PRINCIPLES ● Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
● Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.
● The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing
teams.
● At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes
and adjusts its behavior accordingly.
AgileManifesto.org/principles
ESSENTIALS
There are a number of practices/elements that derive from the Agile Principles, and are a part of almost every
Agile-identified methodology.
Team: A small group collaborating on a project or effort, preferably full-time, preferably including everyone who
needs to contribute to getting an idea from concept to customer - eg. Product, Design, Dev, QA
Incremental Development: Each successive version of the product is usable, and each builds upon the previous
version by adding user-visible functionality.
Daily Meeting: Each day at the same time, the team meets briefly to sync up their progress: each team member
describes any "completed" contributions and any obstacles that stand in their way.
ESSENTIALS
User Stories: These are what the team focuses on delivering in each work cycle. “As a user, I can do X, Y, Z, so
that I can accomplish 1, 2, 3”
Iterative Development: Intentionally allow for "repeating" software development activities, and for potentially
"revisiting" the same work products.
Retrospective: The team regularly discusses how they work, with an emphasis on working together more
smoothly / more effectively
Waterfall vs Agile Delivery Cadence

Graphic by
Lynne Cazaly
Modern Agile
exceptional outcomes
outstanding culture
ModernAgile.org
MINDSET
VALUES
MINDSET
VALUES
PRINCIPLES
PRACTICES
Small cross-functional teams, trusted and empowered, striving to deliver value to
customers early and often.
PRACTICE
Graphic by
Lynne Cazaly
Common
● Scrum
● Kanban
● water-Scrum-fall-ban
Scrum
I’m pretty sure this is the original Twitter dev team
Oh, wait, no, there’s a black guy in there

Scrum
Scrum
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS:
Backlog
The ordered list of everything that is known to be needed in a product
Constantly evolving and never complete.
The Sprint
The heart of Scrum is a Sprint, during which a useable and potentially releasable
product Increment is created. Sprints can be one week to one month in length and
happen one right after the other to keep projects moving.
Scrum
ROLES:
Scrum Master
Product Owner
The Development Team

Scrum
CEREMONIES:
Planning
Standups
Review
Retrospective
Scrum Boards
Image by Dr ian
mitchell courtesy
WikiCommons
Scrum
WHO USES SCRUM:

Kanban
Image by Bertel
Schmitt courtesy
WikiCommons
Kanban
ESSENTIAL:
flow systems
existing workflow
visualizing the flow limiting work in progress

Kanban
ROLES:
Service Request Manager
Service Delivery Manager

Kanban
CEREMONIES:
The Kanban Meeting
Delivery Planning Meeting
Replenishment Meeting
Service Delivery Review

Kanban
MORE CEREMONIES:
Risk Review
Operations Review
Strategy Review
Kanban Board
Image by Dr ian
mitchell courtesy
WikiCommons
Common
● Scrum
○ Feature-focused teams
● Kanban
○ Highly responsive teams
● … what’s #3 ?
Common
● Scrum
○ Feature-focused teams
● Kanban
○ Highly responsive teams
● Scrum-but, Water-scrum-fall, etc etc
○ Are these “Agile” ?
MINDSET
VALUES
PRINCIPLES
PRACTICES
Small cross-functional teams, trusted and empowered,

striving to deliver value to customers early and often.
IMPLICATIONS
What does this mean for Us?
Potentially Awesome Potentially Terrible

● Skill building ● Toxic teams
● Opportunities to shine ● Culture gaps
● Space to build relationships ● Hiring bias
● Lack of oversight
Bias? Blind spots?

What does this mean for You?
Questions to Ask Warning Signs

● Team’s influence on hiring ● The Usual Bias
● Scrum Master? Agile Coach? ● Agile in name only
● Performance feedback loop? ● No Continuous Improvement

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@alexbernardin #agilewhat #bitcon2018

And Why Do I Care?

○ Twitter, at conferences... ● Role?

Engineering physical structures Engineering virtual systems

● Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and

Agile Principles cont.

Waterfall vs Agile Delivery Cadence

I’m pretty sure this is the original Twitter dev team

Oh, wait, no, there’s a black guy in there

The Development Team

WHO USES SCRUM:

visualizing the flow limiting work in progress

Service Request Manager

Service Delivery Manager

The Kanban Meeting

Delivery Planning Meeting

Service Delivery Review

Small cross-functional teams, trusted and empowered,

What does this mean for Us?

Potentially Awesome Potentially Terrible

● Opportunities to shine ● Culture gaps

● Space to build relationships ● Hiring bias

Bias? Blind spots?

What does this mean for You?

Questions to Ask Warning Signs

● Scrum Master? Agile Coach? ● Agile in name only

● Performance feedback loop? ● No Continuous Improvement

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