How do you take Agility to the next level? How do you go beyond looking at internal measures of success and seek to make your users and buyers Agile? Lean what is means to Amplify Your Agility.

1. Joshua Kerievsky
Founder, CEO
joshua@industriallogic.com
Twitter: @JoshuaKerievsky

3. 1. expand (using detail or
closer analysis)

4. 1. expand (using detail or
closer analysis)
2a. intensify

5. 1. expand (using detail or
closer analysis)
2a. intensify
b. make louder

7. Agile (M-W.com)

8. Agile (M-W.com)
•
marked by ready ability to
move with quick easy
grace.
•
having a quick resourceful
and adaptable character.

9. Amplify
Your
Agility?

10. “Successful Agile
Development
Begins with the
Individual.”
-Ashley Johnson

12. Product Community
Management Customers
Executives & Board Members, Product and/or Project Manager,
Product & Product Line Domain Experts , Analysts (market,
Management, Sales & Marketing technical, etc.), Testers/QA,
Management, Project & Functional End Users / Beta Sites,
Management, QA Management Sales, Marketing & Service Support,
Usability Experts, Technical Support,
Educational Services
Support
Coaches, Software Services, Development
Facilities, Human Resources,
Legal, Auditors, Finance, Programmers, Technical writers,
3rd party vendors Database Designers & Administrators,
Architects

13. Virginia Satir Change Model
Image by Jurgen Appelo

15. When Is A
User Story Done?

16. Definition of Done:
• Code is integrated
• All automated tests pass
• Functionality meets
expectations of user story
author(s)

17. Amplifying Done

18. Kathy Sierra

19. More Kathy Wisdom

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by Service!

23. Cost Actual
of CoC
Change
(CoC) Release
Optimal CoC
1 2 3 4 5
Years Model courtesy of Jim Highsmith

24. Cost Actual
of CoC
Change
(CoC) Release
Technical Debt
Optimal CoC
1 2 3 4 5
Years Model courtesy of Jim Highsmith

25. Customer
Responsiveness
Cost Actual
of CoC
Change
(CoC) Release
Technical Debt
Optimal CoC
1 2 3 4 5
Years Model courtesy of Jim Highsmith

27. 3gr > 25

29. 25 > 180

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31. Organization Wide
Transition?
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32. 5.2 Release Plan (X Person Months)
Suite Story (i.e. Sized Headline)
Release Stories
Platform Release (X Person Months) Scheduling Release (X Person Months)
Product Stories
Master Rotations Release Budgeting Release
Platform Stories
Iteration Iteration Iteration
Iteration Stories
Engineering Tasks

33. Amplifying
Integration

34. Doing The Impossible
50 Times A Day
Tests running on 36 machines at IMVU

36. Amplifying Learning

37. Removing Risks

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40. Testing on the Toilet

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43. Retrospective At Scale

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