Im holding a workshop at LAST Conference 2017. The outcome is to Design Think our way towards a 'status' framework for agile projects with no RAG - everything is red until you deliver something working.

3. RED
All projects are
Until they deliver something working

4. Bio Phil Gadzinski
With a very diverse background starting in the army out of high school, where I learnt the true value of
trust and cross functional teams, (you learn to trust people if someone is shooting at you) I then went
onto university on a military scholarship program. Finding myself working as security guard in a bank part
time while studying, I ended working for the bank instead and have never looked back! After some
formative years in Credit Risk and Operational Roles, I moved into the world of program delivery. The
reality of trying to achieve what often looked like the impossible drove me, and i quickly realised you can
only be as good as the team and business support around you. So I saw my role although accountable
for delivery as to create the environment people can thrive in.
Having been fortunate to have spent the last ten years working with some amazing high performing agile
teams comprising passionate people, in Australia and all over the world, I’m now focused on helping
organisations identify and face into the challenges and barriers preventing their own people from being
the best they can be. Love your people and they will love your customers!
In my spare time i work with tech start-ups in early stage activity, helping them define their “why” and get
past concept. I also take an active role in Australian conferences, such as LAST and Agile Australia, and
give back to the community. In my other other spare time i have two young girls who rule my house and
everything i do is kind of for them!
Phil Gadzinski
Executive Agile
Coach;
Start-Up Founder;
Tech Tragic
@PhilGadzinski
https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillipgadzinski

5. Lets all wake up a little...
Stand up
Pair off with someone you don’t already know pick person A & person B and
introduce yourselves. In 60 seconds say as many words as you can. There is a
prize for first. As in life.
1. What makes you happy?
2. What makes you grateful?
3. Who got the most words? Let’s play some words back
4. Now - what’s a word you can think of in the context of the traffic light
Risk Rating system of projects. Pick one person and go!

6. Principles for today...
Using the open spaces theory:
The right people are the people here
The outcome will be the right outcome
Law of two feet - if is not for you feel free to head to another
session
Follow the LAST code of conduct
Experiential learning - no fixed outcome with flexible agenda
You will get out what you put in
Activate your existing knowledge

7. “Potential” agenda for the day...
1. Brief history and discussion of projects, rating systems and agile methods
2. Our intent is to Create a Mini Design Challenge
3. Empathise with the community
4. Define a meaningful challenge
5. Ideate by ‘flaring’ ideas
6. Prototype by ‘focus’ of ideas into the physical world
7. Test on ‘users’
8. What do we think?
9. Close with a call to action
Image from: http://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-if-i-had-an-hour-to-solve-a-problem-i-d-
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8. So why are YOU here?

9. So i wrote a Linkedin post about this idea...
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/projects-fear-red-phillip-gadzinski

10. Brief history of projects
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project:
The word project comes from the Latin word projectum from the Latin verb proicere, "before an action"
which in turn comes from pro-, which denotes precedence, something that comes before something else in
time (paralleling the Greek πρό) and iacere, "to do".
The word "project" thus originally meant "before an action".
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide), Third Edition, Project Management Institute:
a project consists of a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result.

11. Agile Manifesto value:
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Agile Manifesto principles:
Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through
early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
Deliver working software frequently, from a
couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to
the shorter timescale.
Source: http://agilemanifesto.org/
Img: http://agilemanifesto.org/background.jpg
© 2001 Ward Cunninghma
Now we are following ‘agile’ delivery (most of us)

12. The Spirit of Agile
Alistair Cockburn : http://heartofagile.com/
Ask: How do we deliver real
value more frequently?

13. Agile reduces risk faster...
The Agile value proposition tells us
that over time an agile project reduces
risk faster than a planned sequential
single release project.

14. The history of RAG...
First used - And why?
Green is often Red - the Watermelon
And WTF is with AMBER?
Go faster?
Slow down?
What!

15. Now let’s think our way to a new paradigm...

16. Our Mini Design Challenge...
Lets design a better project rating system.
We want to create a new paradigm where every project is Red
until it delivers something working.
In this world how do we still understand status at a glance?
What can we use instead of traffic light rating systems to
convey status?

17. Some guiding principles...

18. Empathise...
Questions:
What do you experience now using traffic
light RAG status reports?
Does it work? where?
Does it not? when?
why?why?why?why?why? All DT slides are from OER commons under a
NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.

19. Define
Propose an hypothesis
using...
We Believe That:
Will Result In:
We Will Know We Have
Succeeded When:

20. Ideate

21. Prototype...

22. Test

23. close..
Wow.
What do you think?
Can you use anything from today?
Will you go and try it in your business?
Tell me if you do! And what happened next!
Must be beer o’clock...