Are you struggling with delivering a potentially releasable working product every iteration? Ever wonder what one of biggest reasons we have difficulty getting things done at the individual, team and organizational level are? Do you keep doing something even though you know it reduces your productivity and lowers quality? We are going to run an exercise that highlights one of the major culprits that you have all experienced and continue to experience. The exercise will likely ignite a little fire that will help you become more productive and improve the quality of your work. We will also discuss ways to improve this at the individual, team and organization levels. Knowing this will help anyone to understand the consequences of not prioritizing and increase their desire to. This will lead to producing faster, higher quality products that should lead to delighted customers.

1. Get Your
Productivity
Game On!!
By Brian Sjoberg (@onek2go)

2. A Little Humor

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• Who are you?
• Where are you on your Agile journey?
• Who am I?
Introductions
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Doing

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Are you struggling with delivering a
potentially releasable working
product every iteration?
So What?

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So What?

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Poor Quality Placeholder

14. Insanity:
Repeating
same behaviors
and expecting a
different
outcome.
- Albert Einstein

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Doing

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Game Time!!
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DoneDoing

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21. We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and Interactions > Processes and Tools
Working Software > Comprehensive Documentation
Customer Collaboration > Contract Negotiation
Responding to Change > Following a Plan
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.
Agile Manifesto

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1. Satisfy the customer through
early and continuous
delivery
2. Welcome changing
requirements
3. Deliver frequently, preferring
a shorter timescale
4. Business & technical team
working together daily
5. Pick the right team, support
them & trust them
6. Face-to-Face
communication
Agile Manifesto (Principles)
7. Working software is the
primary measure of progress
8. Sustainable constant pace
9. Technical excellence and
good design enhances agility
10. Simplicity; maximizing the
amount of work not done
11. Best results emerge from
self-organizing teams
12. Team inspects and adapts to
become more effective

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3. Deliver working software frequently,
from a couple of weeks to a couple
of months, with a preference to the
shorter timescale.
Agile Manifesto (Principles)

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10.Simplicity--the art of maximizing the
amount of work not done--is
essential.
Agile Manifesto (Principles)

25. @ExcellaCo @onek2go
1. Satisfy the customer through
early and continuous
delivery
2. Welcome changing
requirements
3. Deliver frequently,
preferring a shorter
timescale
4. Business & technical team
working together daily
5. Pick the right team, support
them & trust them
6. Face-to-Face
communication
Agile Manifesto (Principles)
7. Working software is the
primary measure of progress
8. Sustainable constant pace
9. Technical excellence and
good design enhances agility
10. Simplicity; maximizing the
amount of work not done
11. Best results emerge from
self-organizing teams
12. Team inspects and adapts to
become more effective

26. @ExcellaCo @onek2go26
Information
Systems Electronic
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Geospatial
Systems
Mission
Systems
Agenda
Introductions
So What?
Agile Manifesto
Wrap Up
Done
Game Time!!
Doing

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Information
Systems Electronic
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Geospatial
Systems
Mission
Systems
Agenda
Introductions
So What?
Agile Manifesto
Game Time!!
Wrap Up
DoneDoing

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Name Game
Brian
Credit – Henrik Kniberg for Sharing!!

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What Factors Influence Time?

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Round 1

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Round 1

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Round 1

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Round 1

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• Never keep a customer waiting
• Start early = Finish early
Round 1 Policy

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Name Game

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Wow! What Happened?

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• Limit WIP (Work In Process)
• Current Limit = 1 Customer at a Time
Round 2 Policy

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Round 2

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Name Game

40. Debrief

41. Round 1
Henrik
Richard
Karen
Melissa
10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s
Mathias
Henrik
Richard
Karen
Melissa
10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s
Mathias
Round 2

42. A
B
C
D
E
A
B
C
D
E

43. Now What?

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Team working 4 projects
Project A
Project B
Project C
Project D
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN

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Org/Div Working Programs
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Program A
Program B
Program C
Program D
Priority
Q5 Q6

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Team Working Projects
JAN FEB MAR APR
Project A
Project B
Project C
Project D
Priority
MAY JUN

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Team Working User Stories
User Story A
User Story B
User Story C
User Story D
Priority
Day 2 Day 4 Day 6 Day 8 Day 10

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Individual Working Tasks
Task A
Task B
Task C
Task D
Priority
9 AM 11 AM 1 PM 3 PM 5 PM

49. How to Prioritize?

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• Superbowl Championship Trophy

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• Create a Vision
• Create long term goals
– Release
– Epics
• Create short term goals
– Iteration
– User Stories
• Align priorities based on the above
How to Prioritize?

55. @ExcellaCo @onek2go56
Information
Systems Electronic
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Geospatial
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Mission
Systems
Agenda
Introductions
So What?
Agile Manifesto
Game Time!!
Done
Wrap Up
Doing

56. @ExcellaCo @onek2go57
Information
Systems Electronic
Systems
Geospatial
Systems
Mission
Systems
Agenda
Introductions
So What?
Agile Manifesto
Game Time!!
Wrap Up
DoneDoing

57. @ExcellaCo @onek2go
1. Satisfy the customer through
early and continuous
delivery
2. Welcome changing
requirements
3. Deliver frequently,
preferring a shorter
timescale
4. Business & technical team
working together daily
5. Pick the right team, support
them & trust them
6. Face-to-Face
communication
Agile Manifesto (Principles)
7. Working software is the
primary measure of progress
8. Sustainable constant pace
9. Technical excellence and
good design enhances agility
10. Simplicity; maximizing the
amount of work not done
11. Best results emerge from
self-organizing teams
12. Team inspects and adapts to
become more effective

59. @ExcellaCo @onek2go60
Information
Systems Electronic
Systems
Geospatial
Systems
Mission
Systems
Agenda
Introductions
So What?
Agile Manifesto
Game Time!!
Wrap Up
Doing Done

60. Contact Info
Brian.Sjoberg@Excella.com
301.404.0765
@onek2go
www.anagilemind.net