Abstract:
Sudipta will explain what our problem was and then share experiences of what they have done to drive an Agile mindset in the team. He will cover what behavior patterns he was looking for and then share how they made progress.
2. About Digité
■ Pioneer inWeb-based Collaborative Products/ Solutions for Geographically Distributed
Teams
– Headquartered in Cupertino, CA
■ Products that cover Lean/ Kanban,Agile ALM, Project/ Portfolio Management
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3. About myself
– Head of Engineering and Products @ Digité
– 3 decades in the industry, from Services to Sales to Engineering
– Passionate about Lean-Agile
– Speaker, Conference and Meetup Organizer
– Kanban India 2020
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Sudipta Lahiri (Sudi)
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5. From Mindset… to Culture
https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/12/culture-eats-strategy-for-breakfast/
6. 1. Set a vision… and “SELL” the vision!
World Class Engineering
■ Optimize for Speed
■ Is Awesome!
■ Automates Everything
■ Builds on “Clean”Arch
■ Is a “Kick-Ass”Team
■ Nurtures our place where we “craft”
■ Learns and Shares
What’s in it for me?
■ Benefits to their career
■ Learning world-class technology and
practices
■ Work-life balance
Repeat Reinforce!
7. 2. Detailed training in Lean-Agile
2-day training program
■ Why Lean-Agile
■ Agile Manifesto, Principles
■ Lean Principles
■ Agile Requirements
■ AgileTracking and Monitoring
■ AgileTesting
■ DevOps; CI/CD
■ SCRUM
■ Kanban
Explain what’s in it for them!
■ Get their buy-in
■ How life changes for them
■ What is expected from them?
■ What is expected from their
managers?
8. 3. Story Owners
■ FromTasks to Stories
■ Responsible for the full value stream
till Deployment
■ Full visibility for their Stories
■ Responsible for Delivered Quality
– All layers of Automation
■ Responsible of estimates
– Not delivering to someone else’s
estimate
9. 4. Re(define) the Lead role
■ FromWork Planning andTaskAllocation to
Technical Mentoring and Story Grooming
■ Discourage them from filling in for their people
in the Stand-up
– It gives confidence to the hands-on
contributor
■ Do not defend or sell the hands-on contributor
■ Contribute themselves => Reduces politics
■ Encourages self-organizing
– If Sprint Scope confidence <4,
the team is encouraged to
regroup and replan!
10. 5. Emphasis a Lean mindset…
■ Making all work visible
– Creation ofTickets to track non-SDLC tasks/work items
– Release level activities, not directly linked to a User Story
■ FollowValue Stream strictly; UserWIP limits (not mature enough to go toVS level)
– If you cannot work on something for whatever reason, BLOCK on Board!
11. 6. Agile Appraisals
■ From Individual focused appraisals toTeam Contribution focused appraisals
■ Individuals can appraise for their assessment of their performance; organization’s
rating is based on what you did demonstrably for the team
■ 3600 feedback
– Use the F4P approach to get their feedback about us, anonymously
12. 7. Reward and recognition process
■ Democratize the process
– Use of Kudo Cards
■ Encourage peer group “Mentors”
– During the Self Introspection and
Appraisal process, we ask people
who their peer group mentors are
– Recognize those who standout in
such a process
– Let people see that peer level
mentoring is officially appreciated
and recognized
13. ■ Reach me at:
– @sudiptal
– slahiri@digite.com
– lahiri.sudipta@gmail.com
THANK
YOU!
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“Absorb what is useful, discard
what is useless and add what is
specifically your own”
Bruce Lee
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