Agile Fluency - James Shore

( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt6SN6jhacc )

several levels of proficiency

fluency = unconscious competence

[ ] ?? which other levels?

fluency at ANY zone is valuable

Model: company success = business + technology + personal success

Business success makes the company.

TL;DR

many teams

• huge business success

• lousy code

"""

I work with a lot of teams that have huge business success, but have really lousy code.

You go to a company, and you see they are really successful as a company.

You look at their software an you: "Oh my, what is going on here? What is wrong with this code?"

All these companies are really successful with really lousy code.

So I have learned: Business success is independent of technical success.

"""

Lack of technology success breaks the company

TL;DR

5-7-9 years, cannot make anymore progress on it -> rewrite

Rewrites are bad.

No choice, must rewrite

"""

A lot of those companies hire me, after they've gotten to the point where they can't make any more progress on their software.

They've had big business success.

After about5-7 maybe 9 years with their product, they are finding they can't make any more progress on it.

• People are complaining about technical debt.

And so they decide to do a total rewrite.

But that is a terrible thing to do if you're a software company.

It means that the software you have now, is the software you're gonna have for the next couple of years. While you stop everything and do the rewrite.

Meanwhile

• your competitors are catching up

Rewrites are a really bad idea as a company.

But the technical debt on their software is so bad they have no choice.

"""

Personal success

people: stakeholders, team members, everyone involved in the project

They need to have a sense of personal success, or else...

• not give their all

• sabotaging behaviour (worst case)

long term company success = business success + technology success + personal success

Long-term success as a company needs all three

Technology success == Agile Fluency lvl 2

deliver sustainable

requires:

- trust from org

- adaptive planning