Most of the times Agile is described as a set of practices. In this presentation I will give a different point of view of Agile, where practices are just a means to build an effective working culture.

1. Agile@Work

2. What is Agile?

3. My Definition
Business Driven
Empirical Process
(that shapes an)
Organization Culture

4. Business Driven

5. Business is changing
Steady Decline of Traditional Economy

6. Business has changed
New economy model has emerged

7. Creative Economy
Steve Denning
"It exploits an Interconnected Costellation
of technological innovations and brings to
the marketplace drammatic reductions in
cost, size, time and convenience"

8. Management
"Coherent constellation of different principles
in leadership and management has emerged"

9. Innovation
Innovation is not an option: it's an
imperative. The only question is how.

10. Destructive
Innovation could be Destructive!
(for Traditional Economy)

11. Some Examples
Electronic Payment
Mobiles
Messaging systems
Cloud
Startup Ecosystem
Opensource

12. Focus
Focus on what’s really Valuable
Engage Customer
Less is more

13. What’s needed
A process and culture that enable Innovation

14. Empirical Process

15. Empirical Process
“The empirical model of process control provides and
exercises control through frequent inspection and
adaptation for processes that are imperfectly defined
and generate unpredictable and unrepeatable outputs”

16. Key principles
Few simple starting rules & Inspect the
outcome
Adapt the process & Do it Frequently

17. Scientific Method
“A method or
procedure consisting in
systematic
observation,
measurement, and
experiment, and the
formulation, testing,
and modification of
hypotheses”
Oxford English Dictionary

18. Learning Process
“software development is a discovery and learning
process” Steve Blank

19. Creativity
Learning leeds to Creativity
Innovation needs Creativity

20. Creativity in IT?

21. How we discover a model

22. How we design UX

23. How we write code

24. How systems comunicate

25. Organization Culture

26. Team Oriented
“The sum is more than the sum of its parts” Aristotele

27. Whole Process
People has a broad view on entire process and product

28. Empower People
Create the condition to let people perform

29. Let Problems Emerge

30. Our Culture is based on
Collaboration and Cultivation

31. Instead of
Control & Roles

32. How we do it

33. How we Inspect
Generate feedback, and collect data

34. Feedback Loop
Planning
BusinessCode

35. Code
Test Driven Development
Continuous Integration
Acceptance Criteria

36. Plan
Short Iteration
Flow Based
Process Metrics

37. Business
Business Metrics
Customer Involvement

38. How we Adapt
Iteration Plan
Retrospective
Continuous Improvement

39. Iteration Plan
Change Priority
Change Scope
Change Time
Change Budget

40. Retrospective
We discover action to be implemented
Process
Technical
Business
And We measure the outcome

41. Continuous Improvement
Adopt well known practices

42. Continuous Improvement
Create new practice based on your needs

43. Continuous Improvement
Drop no more useful practices

44. Agile is more than a
set of practices

45. Agile is a Culture

46. Be Agile!

47. Marco Trincardi
Agile Coach
marco.trincardi@xpeppers.com
@Trink0
https://it.linkedin.com/pub/marco-trincardi/0/717/656