The Exorcist Was a Sprint Planning Master
How can teams that have to deal with large, complex legacy systems get through planning and get to work? The Exorcist was a master at this.
Introduction: Creating understanding through conversation can be very difficult for teams dealing with complex, legacy systems.
Introducing Regan McNeil: Poor Regan McNeil was starting go insane, but a team of doctors and specialists in close, face-to-face collaboration, couldn't solve her problem.
The Exorcist: The Exorcist knew how to have just enough conversation to get to work, so his team could deliver the value everyone had been working and praying for.
Summary: "In life, understanding is the booby prize". Sometimes the quest for understanding can be an impediment to delivering value. Having faith in self-organization, sometimes its best just to get to work
Outline/Structure of the Lightning Talk
This is a lightning talk that's presented Pecha Kucha style. Optimally, it should last about 10 minutes, although I can cut it down to a true Pecha Kucha if need be.
Learning Outcome
The listeners should learn that attempting to obtain understanding through face-to-face conversation can sometimes actually be an impediment to delivering value. Sometimes, the most important thing to get to delivery is just to get to work.
Target Audience
Appropriate for anyone attending this conference
Video
Links
This lightning talk has been presented at:
- Agile and Beyond 2014 (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
- Agile India 2015 (Bangalore, Karnataka, India)
It has also been presented at a number of client sites in the United States and India.
The content in this talk was adapted from a workshop I gave at the Scrum Gathering Las Vegas in 2013, entitled "Fast Conversations"
Past Presentations:
- "Exploiting Core Agile Practices at the Program Level", presented at:
- Mile High Agile - April 2014
- Global Scrum Gathering New Orleans - May 2014
- Agile SoCal - August 2014
- Agile India 2015 - March 2015
- Agile Austin - May 2015
- Global Scrum Gathering Shanghai - September 2015
- Global Scrum Gathering Prague - November 2015
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"The Exorcist Was a Lean Planning Master", presented at:
- Agile and Beyond (Detroit) 2014
- Agile India 2015
- Global Scrum Gathering Shanghai 2015
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"Missionizing Your Agile Team" - Global Scrum Gathering, Seattle 2011
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"Fast Conversations" - Global Scrum Gathering, Las Vegas 2013
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"Vince Lombardi, Agile Coach" - Bank of America Agile Speakers Series, 2013
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"Agile Usability" - SDWest, 2009
schedule Submitted 7 years ago
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Workshop
Intermediate
In Hugo’s workshop, participants will create a best practice board in teams of 5-6 people. The teams go through each block of ‘The Bridge Canvas’. The goal is to share best practices, ideas and experiences. Per block, each team selects the ‘best best practice’. At the end of the workshop, each team will present the best best practices for each block.
At the start of the workshop, Hugo shares a few best practices (personal ones + from other distributed agile experts). Each person gets a handout with clear instructions. This includes some questions to stimulate thinking within the team + some best practice examples per block.
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