Video: Dancing Along the Agile Fluency Path - Diana Larsen

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlPP3kQmpV8)

Model: Fluency

fluency / flow

- where is the toilet/ how much does this cost

- get around in a city / ask & answer some questions / who is there

- tell a story

- give a speech

- debate / teach abstract concepts

any level of fluency can be the right amount

Intentions for the AF model

[ ] follow Jason on twitter

"strategic staircase... each step removes [...]"

stars are not the teams

stars are the investment the company is making in the teams

0) building code

"focus on interesting technologies, elegant products"

"maybe not what was needed"

individual contributors

1) focus on value

- 4 agile values

metrics: presence/absence of behavior

"dysfunctional IT departments, this is where they needed to be"

no point in investing further

2) Deliver value

C-Integration, C-Deployment, C-Delivery

"when you have to deliver this fast, you don't have time for rework"

capture value back into the company, very frequently

- "Do your customers get what they need, when they need it? Yes or no?"

- "Does your team know the right delivery cadence for customers and the market?"

- "Do the team members have the skills to deliver no defects, consistently"

eg. web based companies, amazon, netflix

3) Optimize value

more organisational involvement, restructure

everything dealt with in the team

embedded in the team: business expertise, product expertise, customer expertise

fully cross-functional

management behaves differently: more working across the org, impediments blocking multiple teams, lower handoffs

anticipate customer needs

ubiquitous language, report progress on 'net profit per employee'

eg. spotify

SAAS, product companies

not: IT departments

4) Strengthening

eg. W Al gore, Semco, Joi Inc

("I wonder if Melo innovations (from Joi) Inc is there")

Investments

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& manage expectations

Q&A

they are cumulative

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startup / product focus have 3 star without 2 star?

Arlow Belshi speaks about that

sometimes you can function at a higher lvl in a language, without learning all the peaces, bust sooner or later it comes back to bite you. But you're gonna get stuck.

You're not gonna get the benefits you could have.

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peer learning environments. when do you start? (wait till n stars?)

start in the beginning

but it will look differently along the way

1) team room environment

2) mob room

fluency is about making an investment in learning

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so far only team mindset in the model

probably also other (company, product, ...) but we have not studied that

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