We Can’t Do That Here!

Greg Reiser greg@thoughtworks.com www.thoughtworks.com

Workshop Guidelines !   Introduction (5 Minutes)

!   Describe instances of “We Can’t Do That Here!” (15 Minutes) •  Personal experiences and learning

•  Problem •  Mitigation

•  Law of 2 Feet applies

!   Share (15 Minutes)

!   Wrap-Up (20 Minutes)

“We Can’t Do That Here!”

Strategies for responding to resistance to effective agile practices?

“We Can’t Do That Here!” Large percentage of Agile adoption initiatives encounter resistance to one or more effective agile practices Results in lower than anticipated benefits, fueling claims such as “agile doesn’t scale”, “agile isn’t appropriate in our business domain”, etc. We even have names for half-hearted attempts at Agile: “Scrum-But”, “Wagile”, and “Scrumerfall”

Strategies for responding to resistance to effective agile practices?

Tools People Process

“We Can’t Do That Here!”

So, Let’s Get Started!

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Share Experiences - “We Can’t Do That Here!”

Wrap-Up

ThoughtWorks Experiences: Examples

Process: Offshore Business Analysts Experienced Business Analysts (BA) on offshore teams “The subject matter expertise is local” “Too expensive to develop that expertise offshore”

Process: Test-Driven Design Developers write unit tests before writing functional code “Double the amount of code == Reduced velocity”

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People: Re-Design the Work Environment Re-arrange to be more conducive to collaborative development “It’s too expensive and will violate corporate standards” “Our lease does not permit it”

Process: Readily Available Product Owner Team requires frequent collaboration with Product Owner “The Product Owner has other more urgent responsibilities”

Process: Manage Support Tickets Specify lightweight Production Support process “Context switching between production support and iterative feature delivery is sub-optimal”

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“We Can’t Do That Here” - Beyond Software

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Greg Reiser greg@thoughtworks.com www.thoughtworks.com

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