slides from my talk at Agile Tour Dublin 2017

1. crafting a sense of purpose
in agile teams

2. CTO DesignWizard
Aidan Casey
@aidanjcasey

6. –Agile Manefesto Principle #11
“The best architectures, requirements,
and designs emerge from
self-organizing teams.”

8. Organisational Team Structure
product owner
dev / test engineers
ProdOps engineers
product owner
dev / test engineers
ProdOps engineers
product owner
dev / test engineers
ProdOps engineers

9. set the boundaries then set the team free

10. open honest communication

11. asking leadership style

14. continuous delivery == continuous learning

15. the power of the retrospective

16. communities of practice

17. regular one-on-one meetings

18. uncompromising kickass engineering and
craftsmanship

19. allocate time for self improvement

20. Useful Techniques
• brown bags
• tech popcorn
• communities of practice
• pair programming
• kata’s - game of life
• hackathons
• attend conferences
• contributing to open source
• wife swap !

22. clear inspiring vision and direction

23. information radiators

24. backlog and persona’s
are intimately understood
by everyone

25. speak openly about the future
- risks and opportunities

26. celebrate customer feedback!

27. Sense of Urgency Sense of Purpose
constant deadlines
countdown’s
awarding fast workers
understanding
the why
craftsmanship
single focus teams
celebrate failure
continuous
learning
constant changing
of priorities
always behind where
we should be

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