This is my take on what's being practiced and how agility's limits are being pushed.

1. State of Agile Software
Development 2017
Tze Chin TANG
Lean Agile Coach @ SEEK Asia

2. Why Agile?
• Benefits of Agility
• Faster time to market.
• Better customer responsiveness.
• Higher efficiency / Less waste.
• Better work environment and culture
(when done right).
• A systematic methods of pursuing
continuous improvement.
Source: https://techbeacon.com/survey-agile-new-norm

3. About Me
Developer
Agile Leadership
People-first Software Engineering
Coach
Community Organizer
manufacturing
broadcasting
e-Commerce
hospitality
business automation
jobs & careers
BSe, MBA, CSPO, CSM, SPC
2001-2005: Waterfall / No formal process
2005-2007: RUP / XP
2007-2010: Scrum / XP
2010-2013: WaterScrumFall / Theory of
Constraints
2013-2014: Scrum / Scrumban / Agile
Leadership / Continuous Delivery
2014-Curr: Lean Agile, DevOps, Kanban,
Product Development Flow,
Scaled Agile, Lean Startup
Tze Chin TANG
Agile Leader and Coach
SEEK Asia

4. Comparisons to Waterfall & Chaos

5. Manifesto for Agile Software Development
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 over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.
... And 12 principles.
Source: http://agilemanifesto.org/

6. The Agile Practice Triangle
Principles
Values
Process Tools
Agile is commonly misunderstood as a process. It
is much more than that. There are three
components to unlocking the power of methods
based on the Agile values.
Values: A decision making and behavioral
framework.
Principles: A fundamental truth which serves as a
foundation of reasoning.
Process: A series of steps taken to achieve a
particular end.
Tools: A device or implement used to assist in
achieving an end.

7. The Agile Landscape – A Snapshot
Product Management Practices:
Story Slicing
Specification-by-Example
User Story Mapping
Agile Estimation
Agile Roadmaps
UX
Project Management:
Scrum, Kanban
Engineering Practices:
eXtreme Programming
Unit Testing
Test Driven Development (TDD)
Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
Walking Skeleton
Shift-Left Testing
Agile Architecture
Delivery Practices:
DevOps
Continuous Delivery
Infrastructure-as-Code
Portfolio Management / Scaling:
Portfolio Kanban, Scaled Agile, LeSS

8. Scrum Overview
• Values:
• Commitment, Focus,
Openness, Respect, Courage
• Artefacts:
• The Iteration (1-4 weeks)
• Product Backlog
• Sprint Backlog
• User Story
• A way to measure progress
• Roles:
• Product Owner
• Scrum Team
• Scrum Master
• Activities
• Sprint Planning
• Daily Standup
• Product Demo
• Retrospective
• Backlog Refinement
Source: Scrum Inc

9. Lean-Kanban Overview
• Origins
• Toyota Production System
• Principles
• Visualize the workflow
• Limit WIP
• Manage Flow
• Make Process Policies Explicit
• Improve Collaboratively (using models
& the scientific method)
• Artefacts
• A board to visualize the workflow
• Work Items
• Cumulative Chart
• Run Chart
• Lead Time Chart
• Eliminate Wastes
• 7 Wastes of Software Development
Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/267514980_fig1_Figure-1-Kanban-board-and-principles-in-action-adapted-from-Boeg-11
Minimize WASTE, Maximize FLOW – Reduce Lead Time – Faster Time to Delivery

10. eXtreme Programming (XP)
The Secret Sauce of Successful Agile Teams

11. Lean as applied to Software
Development
• Lean is derived from the Toyota
Product System (TPS).
• TPS had its birth in 1924 with the
Toyoda Model G Loom.
• Focuses on delivering value,
efficiency & quality at the same
time!
• Lean has been applied beyond
manufacturing.
• Many Agile methods have
influences from Lean.

12. Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Agile practices as applied to
all levels of an enterprise:
• Portfolio
• Value Stream
• Program
• Team
• SAFe optimizes creating an
enterprise-wide cadence to
solve large organization
synchronization challenges.
• Is a framework whereby
various methods can be used
in conjunction with the core
SAFe practices.

13. Complex Adaptive Systems / Cynefin
• Decision making based on the domain.
• Knowing which domain you are in
determines what actions to be taken
and methods to use.
• 5 Domains
• Obvious
• Complicated
• Complex
• Chaotic
• Disorder
• Cliff of despair, between Obvious and
Chaotic.

14. Some other ideas…
• Convergence of Product Management, UX and Agile.
• Lean Enterprise
• DevOps as extension of Agile
• 3X – eXplore, eXpand, eXtract (Kent Beck)
• Scaling Agile (LeSS, SAFe, DSDM, etc)

15. The Agile Journey – Roles, Specializations and Practices
Product
Management
• Product
Ownership
• Product /
Market Fit
• Incremental
Delivery
• …
Software
Engineering
• Test Automation
• Agile
Architecture
• Clean Code /
SOLID
• Refactoring
• …
Test Engineering
• Test Pyramid
• Testing
Quadrant
• Fast Feedback
• Accessibility /
Usability
• …
Production
Operations
• Automated
Infrastructure
• Continuous
Delivery
• DevOps
• …
Agile Values

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