This highly interactive session mines attendee and facilitator experiences for ~10 minutes per topic: 1: New Frontiers: Transforming to and Championing Agile How to get customer, product owner, and your team's Buy-In for your new Agile Project Processes... and for Agile Implementations. We will discuss how to drive adoption of an Agile mindset. 2: Well begun is half done! How to set customer, product owner, support teams, and other expectations on Agile processes, deliverables, ceremonies, and roles and responsibilities. We will discuss how to drive engagement to ensure your first few iterations are successful. 3: Ensuring Team Engagement for your Retrospective Processes How to plan for and deliver effective and relevant Retrospectives without wasting time, ignoring process improvement opportunities, or alienating customers, product owners, or your Agile team. We will discuss how to choose and implement process improvements in your Agile environment.

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Authored by Darrel Raynor, PMP, MBA
President/CEO & Founder, Data Analysis & Results, Inc.
and the Data Analysis & Results Team
www.DataAnalysis.com | +1-512-850-4402 | Info@DataAnalysis.com
3 Agile Team Challenges &
Process Solutions
- Hybrid Thinking

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Abstract
This highly interactive session mines attendee and facilitator experiences
for ~10 minutes per topic:
1: New Frontiers: Transforming to and Championing Agile
How to get customer, product owner, and your team's Buy-In for your new
Agile Project Processes... and for Agile Implementations. We will discuss
how to drive adoption of an Agile mindset.
2: Well begun is half done!
How to set customer, product owner, support teams, and other
expectations on Agile processes, deliverables, ceremonies, and roles and
responsibilities. We will discuss how to drive engagement to ensure your
first few iterations are successful.
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Abstract
This highly interactive session mines attendee and facilitator experiences
for ~10 minutes per topic:
3: Ensuring Team Engagement for your Retrospective Processes
How to plan for and deliver effective and relevant Retrospectives without
wasting time, ignoring process improvement opportunities, or alienating
customers, product owners, or your Agile team. We will discuss how to
choose and implement process improvements in your Agile environment.
page 3

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Before We Begin
Questions?
Comments?
For this format to work, we
have to move fast…
Please be ready for a show
of hands.
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1. New Frontiers: Transforming to and Championing Agile
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Moving to Agile is a large Business Transformation effort!

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Our Research on Agile Transformation
Reasons for Fail or Hassle
● Management pushes Agile yet is
not willing to adapt processes
including planning and reporting.
● Team adopts Agile with little
Business Transformation Change
Management effort to persuade
others…
● Treating an Agile Transformation as
a Sprint rather than a project...
2 Flavors of Success
1. Grassroots - Team adopts
Agile. Customers support.
Org leaves them alone…
2. Top Down - Management
pushes Agile. Teams are
given support and time to
normalize. Org processes
adapt including planning and
reporting.
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This highly interactive session mines attendee and facilitator experiences
for ~10 minutes per topic:
How to get customer, product owner, and your team's Buy-In for your new
Agile Project Processes... and for Agile Implementations. We will discuss
how to drive adoption of an Agile mindset.
● Pick up all handouts (last few, some already picked up…)
● Read until we center on 3 ideas - 2 minutes
Show of hands for:
● Idea 1 - 3 minutes
● Idea 2 - 3 minutes
● Idea 3 - 3 minutes
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1. New Frontiers: Transforming to and Championing Agile

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● Summary and Retrospective
- 2 minutes
● Who wants to add a
quick point for our summary?
We will share a link to the presentation and the
summary points after the presentation. Leave a
card or your name and email on our form.
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1. New Frontiers: Transforming to and Championing Agile

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2. Well begun is half done!
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How to start a great Agile effort!
On your mark!
Get set!
Go!
No, wait, let’s plan!!!

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Our Research on Agile ‘Starting’
Important during Start
● Systems Thinking: Who are all the
stakeholders including those who authorize
projects through implementation and Ops?
● Goals: What is reasonable to expect in
terms of product and process?
● Engage: Involve Everyone with small tasks
and communication. This will really set new
process expectations and roles and
responsibilities.
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2. Well begun is half done!
Reminder: ~10 minutes
How to set customer, product owner, support teams, and other
expectations on Agile processes, deliverables, ceremonies, and roles and
responsibilities. We will discuss how to drive engagement to ensure your
first few iterations are successful.
● Pick up last few handouts, some already picked up…
● Read until we center on 3 ideas - 2 minutes
Show of hands for:
● Idea 1 - 3 minutes
● Idea 2 - 3 minutes
● Idea 3 - 3 minutes
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2. Well begun is half done!
● Summary and Retrospective
- 2 minutes
● Who wants to add a
quick point for our summary?
We will share a link to the presentation and the
summary points after the presentation. Leave a
card or your name and email on our form.
page 12

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3. Ensuring Team Engagement for your
Retrospective Processes
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Build a great process for positive change!

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Our Research on Agile Retrospective
Team Engagement
What does NOT work
● Meeting after every Sprint to
‘discuss’ good and bad.
● Creating a Retrospective
document or meeting minutes
will all things good and bad.
(Hint: do the math for 2 week
Sprints, 25 teams, over a year,
could yield 600 docs a year…)
What works
● Document Your Processes and
Templates - Every process
should have a document or
section…
● Edit Your Processes,
Templates and Product
Backlog - In your Retrospective
meetings! Update what you
control and add Backlog items
for the ones taking extra effort.
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3. Ensuring Team Engagement for your
Retrospective Processes
Reminder: ~10 minutes
How to plan for and deliver effective and relevant Retrospectives without
wasting time, ignoring process improvement opportunities, or alienating
customers, product owners, or your Agile team. We will discuss how to
choose and implement process improvements in your Agile environment.
● Pick up last few handouts, some already picked up…
● Read until we center on 3 ideas - 2 minutes
Show of hands for:
● Idea 1 - 3 minutes
● Idea 2 - 3 minutes
● Idea 3 - 3 minutes
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3. Ensuring Team Engagement for your
Retrospective Processes
● Summary and Retrospective
- 2 minutes
● Who wants to add a
quick point for our summary?
We will share a link to the presentation and the
summary points after the presentation. Leave a
card or your name and email on our form.
page 16

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Authored by Darrel Raynor, PMP, MBA
President/CEO & Founder, Data Analysis & Results, Inc.
and the Data Analysis & Results Team
www.DataAnalysis.com | +1-512-850-4402 | Info@DataAnalysis.com
Summary for 3 Agile Team
Challenges & Process
Solutions
- Hybrid Thinking

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