At previous companies I have worked at, we had several pages for our personal development plan. Tens of pages where you needed to fill in all kinds of standardized questions. That activity short-circuited my head. How could a personal plan contain all those standard questions? That plan could never be personal. This ineffective strategy led to my goal to develop an Agile assessment model which is personal, practical, visual and easy to understand and use. Here I will describe how I made my own plan and how you can go and create and use yours. Goal is to explain that large assessmentforms don't work but fast feedback and a visual workspace do!

1. !
Jeroen Molenaar
AgileEvangelist MeetUp 8-2014
ShuHaRi
for the agile employee

2. JEROEN MOLENAAR
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Jobs!
Consultant & Trainer at Xebia NL!
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Major Clients!
ABN Amro, AEGON, Ahold, ING!
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Contact!
Utrechtseweg 49!
1213 TL Hilversum!
The Netherlands!
jmolenaar@xebia.com!
m +31 6 41 85 64 34!
http://nl.linkedin.com/in/jmolenaar/

3. TIME TABLE
• Intro to Shu Ha Ri
• How are employees assessed usually
• Why is a yearly review less effective
• What elements form agile can we use in assessments
• How does a board look
• Lets construct a ShuHaRi board
• Closing and wrap up

4. SHUHARI

5. WHERE DID IT COME FROM?

6. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

7. The teams follow the rules and gain experience
AGILE SHU HA RI
The teams apply and mix gained experience
The teams create their own new techniques

8. USUAL
ASSESSMENT

9. EVERY COMPANY HAS ONE

10. much explanation
MANY PAGES
loads of info / questions

11. Is everybody the same?
GENERAL / STANDARD QUESTIONS

12. YEARLY APPRAISAL
december: talk
about them with
manager
november:
get them from
drawer
rest of year:
keep them in a
safe place

13. WHY??

14. WHY YEARLY IS
INEFFECTIVE?

15. what techniques are popular in 6 months?
THERE IS A LONG TIME IN BETWEEN
know what the client wants next year?
know how to prepare for that?

16. determines pay raise
DONE WITH THE MANAGER
will he/she be objective?

17. first you will be a junior tester
PRESCRIPTIVE LEARNING PATH
then you will be a senior tester
last you need to be a (project manager)

18. most stay in a (digital) drawer
ONLY LOOKED AT ONCE A YEAR

19. USABLE AGILE
ELEMENTS

20. AGILE MANIFESTO VALUES
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

21. INDIVIDUALS

22. cooperate with peers
INTERACTIONS
communicate effectively

23. a developing person
WORKING PRODUCT (SOFTWARE)
over some document?

24. COLLABORATE

25. new techniques this year
RESPOND TO CHANGE

26. PLAN OFTEN
Dwight D. Eisenhower:
!
In preparing for battle, I have always
found that plans are useless
but planning is indispensable.

27. when it still matters
EARLY FEEDBACK

28. everything on the wall
VISUAL MGT & TRANSPARANCY
visible for everyone

29. BOARD
THEORY

30. SHUHARI
BOARD

31. 3 levels of professional
THE RIGHT SIDE
1 for personal / work life balance

32. 1: coding / develop
EXAMPLE DEVELOPER
2: agile scrum
3: consulting

33. 1. quality control
EXAMPLE TESTER
2. agile / scrum
3. trainer

34. 1. agile / scrum
EXAMPLE AGILE CONSULTANT
2. change manager / consultant
3. trainer

35. FULL STRUCTURE AGILE CONSULTANT
Agile consultant
Trainer
People
reading
reflecting
influence
Solutions
finding
implementing
check results
Communications
choosing
communicatie
follow up
Work life Balance
body
rest/sleep
move
nutrition
mind
alone
fun job
awareness
surroundings
family
say no
ask help
Agile & Scrum
People
reading
reflecting
influence
Solutions
finding
implementing
check results
Communications
choosing
communicatie
follow up
Change agent
People
reading
reflecting
influence
Solutions
finding
implementing
check results
Communications
choosing
communicatie
follow up

36. PROFESSIONAL STRUCTURE

37. SUBJECTS ON PROFESSIONAL

38. PERSONAL STRUCTURE

39. SUBJECTS ON PERSONAL

40. keep the dialogue
DON’T BE TOO SPECIFIC
know what you are talking about

41. personal plan board
THE LEFT SIDE
track results
use user stories and tasks
put 1 balance item there

42. about your role
MAKE A FEW USER STORIES
As a tester
I want to know about Tmap
So I can work in teams where its applied

43. diary
POSSIBLE ADD ON

44. WRAP UP

45. SHUHARI
DEVELOPMENT
IN 1 WORD

46. WHAT WILL
YOU APPLY
TOMORROW?