Applying Agile toEveryday Work

Will Oleksy Lead Agile Coach IT Services an ERM IT Center for Excellence

Agile Manifesto for every day work

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Actual product over extensive planning

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

Agile Principles for every day work• Our highest priority is to satisfy the

customer through early and continuous delivery

• Welcome changes, even late in the project

• Deliver frequently

• You and your client must work together daily throughout the project.

• Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.

• The most efficient and effective method of conveying information is face-to-face conversation.

• Agile processes promote sustainable work. Everyone should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.

• Continuous attention to excellence and good design enhances agility.

• Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.

• The best results emerge from self-organizing teams/individuals.

• At regular intervals, reflect on how to become more effective, then tune and adjust behavior accordingly.

“The pain that comes with action is acute, gives you scars, and makes you grow.

The pain that comes from inaction is low-grade, makes you soft, and makes you decay.”

• Prioritization• Focus • Feedback• Small tasks• Collaboration• Continuous

improvement

• Action

Keys to an agile approach

Value

Ideas

Feedback

How do you apply Scrum to every day business:

• Small prioritized tasks• Short term commitment • Review• Collaboration• Daily review• Feedback• Improvement

Exercise 1

Draw a House….

• There is a door on the lower floor in the middle of the house.

• On each side of the door there is a window.• On the upper floor, there are three windows evenly

spaced across the house.• The house has a pitched roof.• There is a chimney.• The house has a garage.• The house has a fence around a garden.• The fence has a gate.• There is a path from the door of the house to the gate.• The garden has a tree.

Focus

The Myth of Multi-Tasking

• When most people talk about multitasking they really mean switching tasks.

• No matter how they do it switching rapidly between two things is not as efficient as focusing on one thing to completion

• A brain attempting to perform two tasks simultaneously will, because of the back-and-forth stress exhibit a substantial lag in information processing

Kanban

Stop Starting things and Start Finishing them.

Organizing your work

Visualize your Tasks Improve Minimize your WIP

Visualize the Workflow

WIP

Retrospect

Resources • Coaching/Training

braintrustgroup.com

• Online tools – www.trello.com

• Online learning and blogs– www.Personalkanban.com – www.Scrumalliance.com – http://agilemanifesto.org/

Contact Me:

• Will Oleksy IT Services Lead Agile Coach – wroleksy@ucdavis.edu

• IT Services An ERM Center for Excellence – Itservices.ucdavis.edu