Agile communities know that the sooner they deliver a working product the sooner they can determine the value it provides. Yet while the ability to deliver frequently is valuable, if you don’t know where you are going, it is easy to iteratively not get there. This talk will RI-examine the balance of discovery and delivery techniques in use by agile communities today. Specifically, we will discuss how can design thinking help agile communities discover deeper product value before iterative delivery begins. Also, after the first iteration, how can agile communities use design tools to keep the users alive and well and part of every story, acceptance tests, and iteration of development and delivery.

2. Who Are You?
- introduce yourself as if you
were your product -

3. I am an Anthropological Coach

4. Contextual DevJam Agility

5. A Blast from the Past
( how did we get here? )

6. Investors Were Being Cheated

7. We Overdesigned the Wrong Thing

8. Train Wrecks Were Common

9. Feedback was Lacking
Validation was Absent

10. Change Happened!
( hello agile )

11. We deliver(?)

12. We collaborate(?)

13. We track(?)

14. So What’s Wrong?

15. My Dinners with Andre

16. Sometimes we succeed

17. Other times we miss the mark
“how far?” over “how helpful?”

18. Rushing to iterate,
we often miss
“the big picture”

19. Too often, we over focus on
< delivery >

20. Augmented Agility
( discovery )

21. Beg, Borrow and Steal

22. DevJam Ri-designs
Creating Community and Common Vision
Form Communities (Chartering)
Composing a Product (Personas – Story maps)
Create an Eco-System (Iteration 0 – Common Workspace)
Prioritizing and Planning
Product Releases (Releases - Priorities - Estimates)
Iterative Delivery (Iterations – Stories/Tasks - Estimates)
Iterative Delivery and Tuning
Staying Connected (Daily Standup – Common Workspace)
Tracking Progress (Task Wall - Burnchart - Velocity)
Technical Agility (Continuous Integration – Test Driven)
Delivering Value (Acceptance Test - Story Sign Off)
Tuning and Improving
Validating Progress (Iteration Review – Usability testing)
Reflect and Improve (Retrospective)

23. Skills and Connections over Roles

24. User Centered over User Stories

25. When are you ready to iterate?

26. Growing a Blended Trend

27. User Centered - User Advocate

28. Cross Cutting Value

29. Pragmatic
user
connections

30. Pragmatic design connections

31. Continuous Usability Testing

32. Post Modern Agilism
( what’s next for you? )

33. Questions?
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Coaching and Developing Agility
david.hussman@devjam.com
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