Slides from AgileEastarnEurope 2017 speech: "VALUES: «ON WORDS» VS «IN HEARTS» OR HOW TO F*CK UP WITH PROCESSES WITHOUT CULTURE." Not so long ago, the new version of Scrum Guide were announced and Agile community had discussed a lot of variants of what should be added or changed in current version, trying to predict the changes… but many where surprised after release of the document.. e.g.: «What? And that is all?», «Values? Really? Is Scrum a religion or framework», …, etc But as for me — it is very important update which adds sentence that should be placed on the 1st page of Guide: «Successful use of Scrum depends on people becoming more proficient in living these five values.» These is the key to puzzle which many managers, CEO’s, consultants and other trying to solve during introduction of Scrum/Agile to their companies/teams. I’ve seen so many failed attempts during my carreer and now want to share the key points based on my learnings and experience. Contact me via: www.abykovets.com

1. VALUES: «ON WORDS» VS «IN
HEARTS» OR HOW TO F*CK UP
WITH PROCESSES WITHOUT
CULTURE.
ARTEM BYKOVETS
(AGILE COACH & CONSULTANT)

2. Few words about myself
• Agile Coach at ”Levi9” and www.abykovets.com
• CEO and coach/mentor at "StartIT”
• CSM, CSPO, CSP, CAL-1 by Scrum Alliance
• Certified Kanban System Design (KMP I) by LKU.
• Best QA specialist of Ukraine by IT Awards 2015
• “Software quality and testing” lecturer at KPI
• Happy father of Sophiia J

3. Quick Voting
Have anybody faced
with skepticism about
Scrum?

4. Reasons?

5. Impediments for Scrum
WHY DO WE FAIL

6. You can be Agile inside this triangle…

7. Evolution or Revolution?

8. Structure of organization:

9. Manager as firefighter

10. And what about Values?
ARE THEY REALLY THAT IMPORTANT?

11. Waiting for new Guide:
Many Teams?..
Agile at Scale?..
New Roles?..
How to make Release
Planning?

12. 6 July 2016:

13. First reactions:
And it's all?!
Only words…
Is it a religion?
What are we kids in an
army camp?
Where is Scaling?

14. Insight:
”Successful use of Scrum
depends on people becoming
more proficient in living
these five values” ©

15. SCRUM VALUES & EMPIRICAL PROCESS CONTROL PILLARS

16. Imaginary situation (or not):
Courage to not deliver
undone software
Commit to the Definition of
Done and creating working
software
Focus on the work of the
Sprint and the goals
Open about progress
Respect each other

17. Lack of Commitment:
ScrumMaster is not faithfully
committed to the principles
and values of Scrum.

18. Lack of Commitment:
PO tries to push Dev Team,
imposing more tasks than by
forces and requires
"Commitment" for a certain
scope and deadlines.

19. Lack of Courage:
Team members avoid
COURAGE and OPEN
discussion about sore points
with each other

20. Lack of Openness:
Nobody speaks OPENLY
about major dysfunctions,
because "it is not accepted”
here

21. Lack of Openness:
Scrum team does not speak
OPENLY about existing and
identified problems on Sprint
Reviews, preferring to deliver
only sweet pills to
stakeholders.

22. Lack of Respect:
Team members do not
RESPECT each other,
sometimes hiding critical
information.

23. Lack of Focus:
Team often loses FOCUS and
works on less valuable tasks
during the Sprint

24. Lack of Focus:
PO can not formulate the
Sprint goal on Planning
because of the loss of FOCUS

25. Mechanical Scrum:

26. What do we lose?

27. So what to do?
FEW POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

28. Stop implementing – Start growing

29. Coach your Team and explain the Values

30. Find Change Agents

31. Hire members who would fit the culture:

32. Ideas how to improve?

33. Contacts:
My site: www.abykovets.com
Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/abykovets/
Facebook: https://facebook.com/artem.bykovets
Mail: a.bykovets@start-it.com.ua
+38 063 495 36 22