How to stop writing failure into your project. Psychology of Agile Scrum meetup. London, Feb 15, 2016

2. How to stop writing
failure into your
project
With Chris Caswell and Ant Gardiner

3. Equidistance Challenge
Warm up

4. Bill
Ben
Bob
Bob is equidistant from
Bill and Ben

5. What is the most important aspect
of a story?
Survey
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6. Let’s make a birthday card
Game

7. TAKE AWAYS

8. Your original birthday cards were
great because…
 … you used the Ultimate Collaboration of the Customer pairing with
the team
 … you evolved the story through Conversation
 … short feedback loops are key to success
 … the Conversation and Collaboration continued until you were
done

9. Business people and developers must
work together daily throughout the
project.
Agile Principle

10. The value of the instructions you
wrote down was limited because…
 …it is impossible to write down a story effectively even when you have
the finished article in front of you.
 …it is impossible to write down a story effectively before you start
because the story evolves until the point of delivery
The value of a written story is simply it’s ability to help recall the
conversations

11. Recreating the birthday card just
from the written story was hard
because we have….
 …Lost Face to face conversation
 …Lost body language
 …Lost facial expression
 …Lost tone of voice
 …Lost conversation
 …Lost short feedback loop
Written language is open to assumption and interpretation

12. The most efficient and effective
method of conveying information to
and within a development team is
face-to-face conversation.
Agile Principle

13. REALITY CHECK

14. ChanceofSuccess
Level of Collaboration
Easy HardRealistic

15. Q+A

16. Luxembourg
18-20 March

17. Thank you!