Xebia B

asic Inverse Corporate

How to win a solar race using Scrum

Building the right things, with the right people, faster and with more fun.

Jeroen MolenaarEmployment:Agile organisation consultant &

Trainer at Xebia Netherlands

Contact: jmolenaar@xebia.com +31 6 4185 6434@mc_raze linkedin.com/in/jmolenaar/

I work to make every day a little bit better for me and the people around me

Xebia B

asic Inverse Corporate

How did it start ?

Forze and the dream hall

Xebia B

asic Inverse Corporate

Why start with Agile?

Cooperate

Xebia B

asic Inverse Corporate

How did we approach it?

Training

Create an overview as a team

Implement cadence

Visualize the work

Experiment

Experiment

Test ASAP

The failure demo

The Silo burn-out

Feedback as a team

The ScrumMaster

Xebia B

asic Inverse Corporate

What were the results?

They won…by eight minutes

Preparing for the race in Australia

The value system > minutes

The value system

The team mantra system

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asic Inverse Corporate

Differences from IT

It’s a car

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asic Inverse Corporate

And what we could take back to our organization

What I learned

Lessons learned 1-2

• Having a shared goal is key

• The 1 value system is the most valuable

• Individual vs team targets

Lessons learned 2-2

• Engineers are very calculating people

• Simple group coaching is already very helpful

• Visualization is everything

Xebia B

asic Inverse Corporate

Winning a solar race

When you build a high-tech car with low-tech Post-Its…the most adaptable to change will survive,

but will only win when they are the fastest

- Jeroen Molenaar

Jeroen Molenaar

jmolenaar@xebia.com m +31 6 4185 6434@mc_raze linkedin.com/in/jmolenaar/

Questions? Let me know!