{"id":650,"date":"2012-11-29T22:33:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T22:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agile.logihelgu.com\/?p=650"},"modified":"2012-11-29T22:38:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T22:38:56","slug":"agile-island-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/logihelgu.com\/agile\/agile-island-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Agile \u00cdsland 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t<div class='et-image-slider et_sliderfx_fade et_sliderauto_true et_sliderauto_speed_4000 et_slidertype_images'>\n\t\t\t<div class='et-image-slides'>\n\t\t\t\t<div class='et-tabs-content-wrapper'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et_slidecontent et-image-slide'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"200\" \/><span class='et-image-overlay'> <\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.agileisland.is\/\">Agile \u00cdsland 2012<\/a> conference was yesterday and I really enjoyed it.  Good planning, great people, interesting discussions, good food, inspirational speakers, beer and the whole atmosphere was really good.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There were two lines: people and tech, I took all the lectures in the first one and here are some points I jotted down&#8230;but some are just reminders for me and maybe not that useful for others \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s Help Melly, Changing Work Into Life<\/strong> (Jurgen Appelo)<\/p>\n<ul>\nGreat to get a excerpt from the <a href=\"\/blog\/management-3-0-course\/\">MGMT3.0<\/a> course.  Talked about how different models are getting us into better management and Agile is one step we&#8217;re talking.  Jurgen knows what he&#8217;s doing and does his job well.<\/p>\n<li>At one point he stepped down (of the small 30 cm stage) and walked around and when to the people he got to help him with an example, I liked that gesture to connect better with the audience.<\/li>\n<li>Innovating (and introducing) solutions is all about having fun and creating your &#8220;own&#8221; stuff.<\/li>\n<li>System thinking: Anticipate, adapt &#038; <b>explore<\/b>.  Agile isn&#8217;t focused on exploring, at least XP has spikes. <b>(Steal &#038; tweak, develop models in collaboration, shorten the feedback cycle)<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Mgmt is too important to leave it to the managers!<\/li>\n<li>Everybody should be involved in mgmt (dance)<\/li>\n<li>Marty&#8230;encourage &#038; foster innovation (play&#038;fun)<\/li>\n<li>Daily happiness index wall &#8211; showed an image from a company with daily measurements of people happiness&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Product Ownership over Product Owners<\/strong> (David Hussman)<br \/>\nAs soon as David started talking I felt how much he knew and how talented he was, <i>maybe because he&#8217;s also a musician in a rock band<\/i>&#8230;and one of the first things he said was &#8220;Don&#8217;t talk about things you don&#8217;t do&#8221; \ud83d\ude09  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get people togeather and talking\/sharing<\/li>\n<li>Dude&#8217;s law: Value = How\/Why (people tend to get stuck on why)<\/li>\n<li>Add a Valuable column at the end of the scrum\/kanban wall to measure value<\/li>\n<li>Root cause -> people don&#8217;t like each other (no collaboration)<\/li>\n<li>Value thinking vs. estimation<\/li>\n<li>Building the right &#8220;it&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Check out Story mapping and paths<\/li>\n<li>CardBoard &#8211; David is working on cardboardit.com with Jeff Patton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tearing Down Walls &#8211; Using Kanban to Improve Flow from Marketing to Production<\/strong> (Mattias Skarin)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No center control &#8211; what comes out is decided when working&#8230;exciters must be included (exciters = nice to have, the &#8220;wow&#8221; items)<\/li>\n<li>Should we stop estimating?  SML stories all too similar lead time&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Release checklist for each release&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Idea (item\/feature) owner sees the idea through&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Culture Hacking<\/strong> (Da\u00f0i Ing\u00f3lfsson &#038; P\u00e9tur Orri S\u00e6mundsen)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is culture?  Good question followed with an exercise&#8230;I ended with &#8220;habit in communication&#8221;&#8230;and they explained culture as &#8220;norm&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>In a team it&#8217;s all about knowing: how will we work together, who am I, what is in it for me, what are our colltive tasks, what do I bring to the table.<\/li>\n<li>Core principles (Jim) &#8211; Personal alignment (what do you want)<\/li>\n<li>Ask for help<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>I really liked that they talked about the history of their company (Sprettur) how they had hacked it&#8217;s culture \ud83d\ude09<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Coaching is More Than Telling People What to Do<\/strong> (David Hussman)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Least amount of process that gives tangible results (convert the sceptics)<\/li>\n<li>How do you build software?  Strengths \/ Challenges?  Why change?  What is stopping you?<\/li>\n<li>Team vs. Family?  <i>You protect your family at any cost&#8230;<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;A new person that shows up is thrown into the agile river&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Practice | Value | Example | Constraints<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Open space<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do the first thing that gives me the most<\/li>\n<li>Coaching: ask 1 worst possible outcome and best imaginable outcome&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>This is Your brain on music<\/li>\n<li>NLP in 21 days<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Skrum&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The most reoccurring or interesting subjects I found standing out were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Should we stop estimating?<\/li>\n<li>Be value driven<\/li>\n<li>Check out Dave Snowden (at least 3 of the speakers were pointing to his work)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I had a lof of fun with great people and take a lot with me from this day =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agile \u00cdsland 2012 conference was yesterday and I really enjoyed it. 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