Bring agility back to developers!

PREFACE Written in 2019, still relevant in 2023… Teams autonomy & self-organisation Cry of alarm / warning Only 6 sketches today…but 2048 possibles

CHARACTERS Lily, hero React developer 2 years’ experience You & I, readers Manager Project manager Agile coach Developer Client Ops … 1

THE STORY Lily has just started a new job at Sogreat. Her objective: to join a team which produce an ecommerce site for VerySweet, a company specialising in the sale of masks. We are the Manager, we choose to: Start Lily immediately: time is money! Go to page 3 Take the time to introduce Lily to your team, your environment… Go to page 5 2

THE START OF WORK Lily goes to work: 3

THE START OF WORK Take the time to welcome and make Lily feel part of the team Go to page 5 4

THE INTRODUCTIONS Jack Tester Dave Product Owner Chris Back-end TechLead 5

THE INTRODUCTIONS Well done, Manager! You have given your agile team its first key! 6

FEATURES MONITORING Documentation Tools GO to 1st iteration! Roles Objectives 7

FEATURES MONITORING Documentation Tools GO to 1st iteration! Roles Objectives We are the PMO, we choose to: Continue to use Giraffe, licences are expensive and need to be amortised! Go to page 8 OK use Grello, as long as I still get my crossfunctional indicators! Go to page 10 7

FEATURES MONITORING 8

FEATURES MONITORING Take the time to test new ways of doing things, tools and processes. Go to page 10 9

TEAM’S AUTONOMY 10

TEAM’S AUTONOMY Well done, PMO! You have given your agile team its second key! 11

AGILE COACHING 12

AGILE COACHING We are Agile Coach, we choose to: Suggest to Lily’s team a WIP limit. Go to page 14 Suggest to Lily’s team to take some time to find their own solutions. Go to page 16 12

AGILE COACHING WIP limit = 2 14

AGILE COACHING Take the time to listen to the team, their calls for help and their needs. Go to page 16 15

SELF-EVALUATION 16

SELF-EVALUATION Well done, Agile Coach! You have given your agile team its third key! 17

ONGOING ITERATION 18

ONGOING ITERATION We are Lily, developer, we choose to: Concentrate on our task: we will achieve our individual KPI of 100%! Go to page 19 Help Jack & Chris, as far as we can! Go to page 21 18

ONGOING ITERATION 19

ONGOING ITERATION Take the time to listen to the team, their calls for help and their needs. Go to page 21 20

ONGOING ITERATION 21

ONGOING ITERATION Well done Developer! You have given your agile team its fourth key! 22

PRODUCT EVOLUTION We are the Customer, we choose to: Trust Lily’s team and validate all the functionalities later. Go to page 24 Make ourself available to be sure that the product meets our expectations. Go to page 27 23

PRODUCT EVOLUTION 24

PRODUCT EVOLUTION 25

PRODUCT EVOLUTION Take the time to give constructive feedback on what has been achieved. Go to page 27 26

INCREMENTAL PRODUCT Sprint review no. 1 27

INCREMENTAL PRODUCT Sprint review no. 2 27

INCREMENTAL PRODUCT Sprint review no. 3 27

INCREMENTAL PRODUCT Well done Customer! You have given your agile team its fifth key! 30

DEPLOYMENT PROCESS We are Ops, we choose to: Add the package to the next cross-company delivery shot in the IT department Go to page 32 Support the team in the ongoing deployment of its deliveries Go to page 35 31

DEPLOYMENT PROCESS Week 1 32

DEPLOYMENT PROCESS Week 2 32

DEPLOYMENT PROCESS 33

DEPLOYMENT PROCESS Wall of confusion 33

DEPLOYMENT PROCESS Take the time to optimise the value chain from the initial idea to postproduction. Go to page 35 34

CROSS-FUNCTIONNAL TEAM CI/CD Integration tests Code quality DOD … 35

CROSS-FUNCTIONNAL TEAM Well done Ops! You have given your agile team its final key! 36

Congratulations! You have brought agility back to the developers! 1 Take the time to welcome and make the members feel part of the agile team 2 Take the time to test new ways of doing things, tools and processes 3 Take the time to sit back and think about how best to create, implement and test… 4 Take the time to listen to the team, their calls for help and their needs 5 Take the time to give constructive feedback on what has been achieved 6 Take the time to optimise the value chain from the initial idea to post-production 37

We all have a role to play in a team’s transition to agile! Manager PMO Ops Agile Coach Customer Developer 38

We all have a role to play in a team’s transition to agile! Manager TechLead PMO HR Trainer Ops Sales representative Agile Coach Tester Customer Developer … 38

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