A presentation at PRDC Deliver Conference in in Winnipeg, MB, Canada by Senthilkumar Gopal
My Our Agile Pursuit of Happyness Senthilkumar Gopal @sengopal
Every team is unique !2 https://cdn.empireonline.com/jpg/80/0/0/1000/563/0/north/0/0/0/0/0/c/features/583485ee394eca14054bc60a/Lord-Of-The-Rings.jpg
Are you an “expert”? “An expert tells you a simple thing in a confused way as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.” - William Castle https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/286395-an-expert-is-a-man-who-tells-you-a-simple
Day 0 - Training !4 http://dilbert.com/strip/2007-11-26
Transformation !5 https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/harrypotter/images/4/40/DivinationHarryRon.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/2000?cb=20161207020758
Day 1 - Diving into the deep end !6 https://unsplash.com/photos/tN63HVT_Jxw
Day 2 - Chaos !7 https://unsplash.com/photos/8osoVBQWWHc
Retrospective Problems !8 https://media.giphy.com/media/4W4WIRTYaRuMM/giphy.gif
Begins with you Be a Rock. Be Vulnerable. Be the bad guy. !9 http://vrpe.me/quote/best-45-tactueux-funny-leadership-quotes/
Being a leader
Being a leader - A Leader with no title No-one is special. Empathy. Everyone is special. Not Equal, but Equivalent. !11 https://twitter.com/theleaddev/status/1012292472993656832
Path not goalpost “Kids Team don’t listen, but watch” Question Everything. With Confidence. Being Confused is ok. !12 https://unsplash.com/photos/riEiamlDV4Y
Remember how you started? !13 https://unsplash.com/photos/LrPKL7jOldI
How we built a “Happy” team?
Identity Crisis Create your Own Identity. !15 https://img00.deviantart.net/4275/i/2012/263/2/2/identity_crisis_cat_by_sebreg-d5fcofy.jpg
Trust instead of Control Plan Early. Trust to do the “right” thing. Foster conflicts. Feedback. !16 https://www.tripsavvy.com/krishna-janmashtami-govinda-festival-1539288
Predictability Predictable hours. New skills. Personal Growth. Celebrate wins. !17 http://mycollectwallpapers.blogspot.com/2011/11/winnie-pooh-thanksgiving-wallpapers.html
Avoid
Avoid Meetings Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. - Anonymous No Invites. !19 “Office” Hours. No decks.
Avoid Ultimatums Experimentation. Decision Making. !20 https://www.pexels.com/photo/toddler-with-red-adidas-sweat-shirt-783941/
Avoid Context Switching !21 https://thetomorrowlab.com/2015/01/why-developers-hate-being-interrupted/
Day 30 Trust in you and each other. !22 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201508/the-neuroscience-trust
JIRA , Backlog and a story Workflow. !23 Definition of Done. https://www.agitma.nl/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Dilbert_Give_me_all_Features.png
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Planning and Execution Sprint Goals. Relevant DoD. Evident Quality. Technical Debt. Circle of Knowledge. Your job. !25
A simple story. !26
A “simpler” story !27
Mob Programming Common understanding. Branching. Testing. Conventions. 911. !28 https://cdns.klimg.com/kapanlagi.com/wallpaper/img/computer-game.jpg
Code Reviews Github. Pull Requests. !29 Code Style. Patterns. Your own. Unit tests. Jenkins - Pipeline.
Jenkins - Pipeline Coverage Report. Standards. Static Analysis. Security Review. Continuous Deployment. !30
BDD - Behavior Driven Development Intuitive TDD. Focus on feature. Behavior, not implementation. Conversation in common language. Everyone is QE. !31 https://applause-prodmktg.s3.amazonaws.com/2017/01/23/04/31/37/bbdc5e0b-b565-42d8-b345-4ed746399927/567177108c19137368315d380430d37c.jpg
BDD - Cucumber !32
BDD - Cucumber !33 https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Cucumber+Reports+Plugin
Deployment & Communication Jenkins - Pipeline Integration Tests Deployment Feature Deployment Common Stage * !34 ✚ ✚
Day 60 - Keep improving
Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler - Albert Einstein
RTB - Run the business An Unchanging Constant. !37
How to support this … Documentation. Support Channels. Publish-Subscribe Channels. Migrate Legacy Systems. Align Roadmap. !38 https://grondamorin.com/2017/04/14/computer-malfunction-break/
Make them better…. One small step at a time. Code. Documentation. Process. “Always leave the code cleaner than you found it.” !39 https://pixabay.com/en/boy-scout-scouting-asia-same-1822621/
Difficult to make mistakes Make it easy to do the right thing and hard to do the wrong thing Ground Rules. Centralize the right things. !40
Day 120 - Ultra Agile
Culture of Learning “Learning” Deadline Culture of sharing Rates of learning Learn & Consolidate !42
Need for a safe space Childlike fearlessness True to themselves Crazy and weird Everyone acts as everybody !43 https://ifunny.co/fun/IynpG5X41
Newbie and Juniors !44 Mentoring. Ask questions. Positive reinforcement. Praise thirst of knowledge. http://dilbert.com/strip/1993-12-02
Experienced Developers Responsible partners. !45 © 2018 eBay. All rights reserved. Feature leaders.
Measurement "Happyness" vs. !46 https://unsplash.com/photos/TU1b56dfn2A
Consistency is the playground of dull minds. - Yuval Noah Harari
Evolve. Re-invent yourself. Inspect and Adapt. Incorporate Discomfort. The Gardener. “Kaizen” !48 https://unsplash.com/photos/3u51-uLQICc
Thank You! http://go.sengopal.me/agile !49 @sengopal
A "happy" team is an "Efficient" team. The intended audience are developers, leads, managers and any individual part of a group or aspiring to lead a group.
This talk discusses how eBay embraced Agile methodology and as part of this effort, how we formed a new team to manage Identity Infrastructure. This talk takes the audience through the journey of how a group of individuals got together and transformed to an efficient and highly productive group. The journey is wrought with hurdles, battles and conquests and this talk bares the details of how a team rallies together against a common enemy. This talk identifies the key points of what keeps the team cohesive, motivated and challenged and the lessons learnt on how to keep a team "Happy" and always in the pursuit of its "Happiness"
We will discussing some of the ground rules, how to centralize the right things, how to breed a culture of learning, need for a safe space etc., How high levels of automation help achieve better quality of life. We would be talking about how everyone acts as everybody and flexible to take up any role and much more."
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