1. agility @
the speed of thought
Tathagat Varma
Sr. Director
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2. 14-Apr-1912 11:40pm +37s 11:50pm 2:17am 2:20am 4:10am
• Titanic gets • Iceberg • Titanic hits • 14ft of • “Every • Titanic • First
7 iceberg spotted iceberg water in man for sank lifeboat
warnings dead front part himself” picked by
ahead of ship
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3. US Airways 1549. 15 Jan 2009. The Miracle on the Hudson
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4. 6,000 stores, $14.4B in
Opened first Net profits
opening one a 2012,
store in 1975 $2.7B
day +17% y-o-y
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5. • creativity, quality design • Give customers what they • Every store in the world
and rapid turnaround to want receives new models twice
adjust to changing market • Get it to them faster than a week
demands -- has…generated anyone else • Product reaches European
an excellent public stores in 24-36 hours and
response to our retailers' rest of the world within 48
collections.” hours. Since 1970s!
Design Rules Logistics
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7. The difference…
• Conventional manufacturing teams gather
requirements, design the solution, build the
solution, test the solution, then deliver the
solution. In automotive companies, the design
portion alone takes 3 to 12 years, and then
the vehicle design is built for 5 to 14 years.
• WIKISPEED follows the model of Agile software
teams…We iterate the entire car every 7
days, meaning that every 7 days we reevaluate
each part of the car and reinvent the highest-
priority aspects, instead of waiting 8 to 26 years to
upgrade. Agile in Business Conference (c)
8. Scrum: Clearly
Agile: Reducing
defined team
costs to make
roles and
changes
responsibilities
TDD: start with
XP: Pairing and failing tests
Swarming and develop
solutions
Lean Software The OOP: contract-
Design: Use Wikispeed first
less stuff development
Process
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10. • On ‘good days’, Flickr releases a new version
every half an hour (Jun 20, 2005)
• IMVU pushes a revision of code to the website
every nine minutes (Feb 10, 2009)
• The other day we passed product release number
25,000 for WordPress. That means
we’ve averaged about 16 product releases a
day, every day for the last four and a half years!
(May 19, 2010)
• A new version of Google Chrome now due every
six weeks (Jul 22, 2010)
• Facebook does code push twice a day (Aug 4,
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11. What do these amazing
stories tell us?
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12. “…people who were
right a lot of the time
were people who often
changed their minds.”
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https://37signals.com/svn/posts/3289-some-advice-from-jeff-bezos
13. So…how fast can you
respond, move and
deliver?...how fast can
you…change your mind?
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24. Wastes in Software Development
Wastes in Manufacturing Wastes in Software Development
Inventory Partially done work
Extra Processing Extra processes
Overproduction Extra features
Transportation Task Switching
Waiting Waiting
Motion Motion
Defects Defects
27. What are we learning?
“The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone
else” – Eric Ries, The Lean Startup
“Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking
stuff, you are not moving fast enough.” – Mark
Zuckerberg
“I Don’t look to jump 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-
foot bars that I can step over.” – Warren Buffet
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