Agile practices that are less known of and can potentially improve your team, organization, yourself or your sex life. We are going to look at 15 little crazy agile ideas and how you might take them back to your organization. If you haven't heard of "MVP vNext", "MVE", "God mode design", MDD and "Hypothesis Driven Development" you should come along and spice up your work life.

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15 Explosive Things You
Should Try As An Agilist
Peter Gfader
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About You

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What do you do in software?
• Analyze
• Design
• Code
• Test
• Architect
• Document
• Coach
• Manage

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About Me

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6 years ago..
http://copycat.apphb.com

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The plan
How we work?
# God mode design thinking
# Mob Programming
# Cut the Sprint
Team
# Core protocols
# Definition of Awesome
# Failure Bow
# Personal Retrospectives
# Improv Theater
Users & Value
# MVE
# MVA
# Job Stories
Approach work
# Working Backwards
# MDD
# HDD
# Via Negativa

11. MVP
Not 1st release
Don’t build something

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MVP  # MVE
Minimum Viable “Experiment(s)”
• No prediction of outcome
oExpectations and assumptions
• No matter who's idea -> lets validate it
• Different thought process -> brain
• For the Enterprise
http://blog.alpha-ux.co/making-the-case-for-minimum-viable-experiments

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14. Concierge MVP
From the book

15. Magic Test
ConciergeMVP for web

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When MVP doesn’t work?
1. Used by my peers?
2. Stick to the *next* launch

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When MVP doesn’t work?
1. Used by my peers?
2. Stick to the launch
 Build an audience
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/11/when-minimal-viable-product-doesnt-work.html

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# MVA
Minimum Viable Audience
what people are willing to buy.
http://www.copyblogger.com/unfair-business-advantage/

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“People only truly tell you
what they want to buy…
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“People only truly tell you
what they want to buy…
…by buying it”

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http://copycat.apphb.com

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# MVA
1. What is your MVA?
2. How?
o Free content
o Crowdfunding Kickstarter
o Invite Only
•Eg https://number26.de

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Inspire by
What exists already
• http://37signals.com/bootstrapped
• http://www.producthunt.com/
• http://betalist.com/

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Inspire by
Failure & Feedback
• http://autopsy.io/
• https://collapsed.co/
• Amazon 2 ** reviews

26. User Stories
As a user
I want a button
So that I can log in

27. User Stories
As a user
I want a button
So that I can log in
WTF!?!

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# Job Stories
http://popcornflow.com/

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31. Elevator Pitch
We're giving (people) (this benefit) so that they can (do this)
For (ppl) who () [product is a ----- that---- unlike ---
(competitor/product)
Our [Product] is Uber for (service)

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# Working Backwards
• Start with the Press Release
• ½ pager
http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2006/11/working_backwards.html

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http://www.indiegamegirl.com/press-release-template/

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35. Product Backlog
filled with
● Stories
● Features
● Epics
● Bugs

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# HDD
Replace “req” with hypotheses
Right product?
Riskiest assumption 1st
http://www.hackerchick.com/2012/04/hypothesis-driven-development.html

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# HDD
• Hypothesis Driven Development

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How many experiments do you
run?
How often do you deploy to Production?

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How many experiments do you
run?
How often do you deploy to Production?
From Thoughtworks

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# MDD
• Metrics Driven Development
http://blog.librato.com/posts/2014/7/16/metrics-driven-development

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# MDD
• What system hypothesis are you testing
• Bugs? -> Effect on metrics

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# of purchase / min
Avg basket $$$
# of new signups
https://youtu.be/TMyhhuQPEow

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Experiments
&
Data
Arguments
&
Opinions

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47. More more more

48. # Via Negativa
Adding to Your Life By Removing

49. # Via Negativa
New Year's resolution for next year
What are you stopping to do?

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52. Six Thinking Hats

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# God mode design thinking
“What would god do?”

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How close can you come?
Ideal design

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58. Voting

59. Pair Programming

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# Mob Programming
• Whole team
• Work on same thing
• Same time
• Same space
• Same computer
http://mobprogramming.org/

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# Mob Programming
http://mobprogramming.org/

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63. Long Sprints

64. 1 Month Sprints?
30 or 31 days Sprint?

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# Cut the Sprint in half
From 4 weeks to 2 weeks
From 2 weeks to 1 week
From 1 week to 2 days
Kent Beck: Effects of Acceleration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIkUWG5ACFY
10 things to try in your Scrum project
http://gfader.tumblr.com/post/28690978260/10-things-to-try-out-in-your-scrum-project-via

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67. Self organizing Teams

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# Core protocols
Team commitments
• “Ask for Help”
• “Perfection Game”
• “Check In”
• “Click”
http://www.mccarthyshow.com/online/

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70. Definition of Done

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# Definition of Awesome
“What would Awesome look like for your
Team? Product feature?”
“What would take you 1 step closer
to Awesome?”
Toyota Katahttp://blog.crisp.se/2012/08/23/henrikkniberg/problem-solving-template

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73. Voting

74. “Learn from failure”
Fail fast

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Celebrate Failure – with a bow
http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/The-Failure-Bow-Matt-Smith-at-T

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Failure bow as an observer
Benjamin Zander on mindset and teaching… https://vimeo.com/18625943

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78. Retrospectives

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# Personal Retrospectives

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81. Theater

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# Improv Theater
Improvisational Theater
• live theatre
• plot, characters and dialogue
are made up in the moment

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# Improv Theater
What is it not
• !being funny
• !natural performer
• !hard to learn

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# Improv Theater
• Turn off conscious brain
• Idea creation
• Commit to whatever happens
• Improvisation is everywhere

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# Improv Theater
my lessons
1. Try something crazy hard…
makes normal easy
2. Doing > reading
3. “Yes And” attitude
“Move forward” attitude
4. “You are not alone” mindset

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Done
How we work?
# God mode design thinking
# Mob Programming
# Cut the Sprint
Team
# Core Protocols
# Definition of Awesome
# Failure Bow
# Personal Retrospectives
# Improv Theater
Users & Value
# MVE
# MVA
# Job Stories
Approach work
# Working Backwards
# MDD
# HDD
# Via Negativa

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Thank you!
Peter Gfader
@peitor

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What do you start
tomorrow?