How do you build a solar car? Okay and how do you win a race with a superlight solar car? We as agile coaches had no clue. Never the less we started helping out an engineering team to build their car from scratch in a year and win the most prestige’s solar race in Australia (http://www.worldsolarchallenge.org/). We want to share our experiences with coaching this team. We share what we have learned from coaching a vehicle building team instead of software. Most importantly, we learned couple of awesome things we would have never learned by only staying in the software teams. All we learned is directly applicable (back) to software teams. And of course, 'our' guys won the race! So how did scrum or we (as coaches) help? Learning Outcomes: - How to apply scrum in engineering? - How to create a doing mindset - What difference does a tangible product make? - How did scrum made the difference? - What were the challenges we solved (fun, overtime, cooperation, planning, making it happen etc)

1. How to win a solar
race using agile
building the right things, with the right people, faster and with more fun.

4. Jeroen Molenaar
Jobs
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Consultant & Trainer at Xebia NL
Major Clients
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ANWB, ING, ABN Amro, AEGON, AH
Contact
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jmolenaar@xebia.com
•
m +31 6 41 85 64 34
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@mc_raze
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http://nl.linkedin.com/in/jmolenaar/

5. HOW DID IT START?

6. Forze and the dream hall

7. WHY START WITH
AGILE?

9. Cooperate

11. HOW DID WE
APPROACH IT

12. Training

13. create an overview as a team

14. visualize the work

15. implement cadans

16. experiment

17. feedback as a team

18. WHAT ARE THE
RESULTS

19. They won…. By 8 minutes

20. preparing for the race. In Australia

21. The value system > Minutes

22. The team mantra system

23. DIFFERENCES WITH IT

24. its a car

25. WHAT I LEARNED
And what could we take back to our organization

26. Lessons learned 1-2
Having a goal is key
The 1 value system is the most
valuable
Individual vs team targets

27. Lessons learned 2-2
Engineers are very calculating people
Simple group coaching is already very
helpful
Visualization is everything
Not every team is scrumable

28. Q&A
What would you like me to elaborate on some more?

29. Jeroen Molenaar
Jobs
•
Consultant & Trainer at Xebia NL
Major Clients
•
ANWB, ING, ABN Amro, AEGON, AH
Contact
•
jmolenaar@xebia.com
•
m +31 6 41 85 64 34
•
@mc_raze
•
http://nl.linkedin.com/in/jmolenaar/
Questions? Let me know!