Hacking Your Processes

Discover effective strategies for enhancing agile methodologies in this insightful conference talk. Learn how to revitalize stale or ineffective processes by exploring common problems and their solutions. Gain valuable tips on improving standups, backlog grooming, planning, and retrospectives to make your processes work better for your team. Explore the importance of inspecting and adapting beyond off-the-shelf Scrum implementations. Understand how to focus on individuals and interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change. Acquire practical advice on preparing in advance, flipping questions, walking the board, and experimenting with meeting times. Learn to avoid pressure tactics and waiting for standups to address issues. Discover techniques for continuous improvement, frequent retrospectives, and setting clear goals. Explore ways to hack the estimation process, plan for small and achievable goals, and design effective experiments. Gain insights into making agile methodologies more dynamic, fun, and results-oriented for your team.

Intro
Hi, I'm Richard
Many teams start with Scrum
Cargo-cult
Dark Agile
Individuals and interactions ...over processes and tools
Working software
Customer collaboration ... Over contract negotiation
Responding to change ... over following a plan
Prepare in advance
Flip the questions
Walk the board
Try different times of day
Don't... use pressure
Don't... wait for the standup!
Focus on improvement
Capture things continuously
Make retrospectives frequent
Don't... resort to blame
Make sure it happens!
Capture all the activity
Set clear goals
Hack the Estimates conversation
Use scope as the variable
Plan for small and done
Start from a goal
Think of ways to move towards the goal
Know what "better" would look like
Design your experiment
A good experiment...