ICP ACC Nov 25

Agile transformation journey:

1. Vision, problem statement

* Interview

* customer pulse

* assessment

* Agile penetration

2. Feasibility study, Yes or no

3. Agile contract

4. As - is analysis

* Retro + existing meetings

* Tools evaluation like jira, rally , historical throughput

* One on one meetings

* Value stream mapping

5. Root cause analysis

* Lean Agile values vs current reality

* 5 why

* fishbone /ishikawa diagram

* pareto analysis

* fault tree analysis

* FMEA

* Brainstorming

6. Coaching alliance - informers

7. Road map creation - collective collaboration

* iterative

* Time vs work

* coaching KPI's

Training - days

Mentoring - weeks

coaching - months/ years

Facilitation - months/ years

8. Leadership engagement model

9. Training

* Lean Agile

* Scrum

* kanban,XP

* SAFe, Less,

PPT - training

* Alignment more than knowledge

* all stakeholders

* Big room ~ 25

10. customizing the framework

scrum, xp, kanban - Cynefin framework

Scrum: complex product, wait till sprint end

Kanban: flow, rapic change

XP: Software

11. Team norms/working agreements

- quarterly once

Norms - Culture and values

DOD

DOR

sprint cycle

12. Form the agile teams:

small nimble ~10

cross functional

Fixed teams

Fixed iteration

mixed personalities

13. Mentoring of Business (PO)

PB:

Writing user stories - DOR, D

Vertical Slicing

14. Mentoring of SM/ facilitator

- Agile coach

15. Mentoring of Teams

2 sprints mentor - provide directions and solutions

16. Metrics

17. Sustaining

Conflicts:

- difference of opinion

_ unavoidable

- difference, attachment, prioirity, ego

-

Solutions:

Discussions

constructive

Identify common interest

Customize the framework

1. SCRUMBAN with behavioral values

2. SCRUM + Planning

3. SCRUM + TDD, XP practices

4. Kanban (WIP)+ scrum ceremonies+ TDD

5. scrum+ xp

Suggestion framework:

* ScrumBan

Lack of values from members

Base Framework - Scrum

-Sprint planning

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Advantage of External

1. No pre-conceived notion, neutral view

2. Bring on other teams/project experience, based on tools/techniques

3. Time frame driven focus

4. Right data analysis, get leadership buy in quickly

Cons of Internal:

*Biased

*Limited innovation

* New ways of looking at things

Adv of internal:

1. Knowledge of people, process and tool (culture, relatedness)

2. Trust & Sense of belonging

3. Influential power being internal (Value recognition)

Limited innovation

new ways of looking at things

Disadvantages of being external:

1. Potential resistance based on lack of rapport and trust

2. Lack of understanding of historical culture and politics

3. Time cost to understand status quo of operations

Lean:

Optimizing

Removal of waste

unneceesary baggage

Just do what is needed

Practices of lean:

1. No unnecessary in the system

2. Reduce, recycle, reuse

3. JIT - Just in time , Evolving design, Resource, spike, MVP , User stories,

4. Limit WIP - start finishing stop taking

5. Value flow - As is, cycle time, to be, study the workflow

6. FIFO

7. 5s , sort

Lean in

1. speech

2. Fitness

3. cooking

4. Shopping

5. In Driving

Not Lean

1. Eating

2. Scrum Process

3. electronic gadgets

9 hours- now stretched to 12 to 13 hours

Atleast two days in a week

What do you think will help you from being overstressed?

Domain experts; Senior resources will be helpful to save time;

Problem: Task load due to Attrition

1. How late do you work?

2. Have you thought about a work around?

3. Did you talk to your manager about it?

4. Were you given a solution?

5. Are you happy with the response?

6. What is the impact on your deliverables?

7. What do you expect from others on the team?

8. Is the situation temporary or long run?

9. Did you get support from the team?

10. One immediate solution you want?

1. Why more amount of work is going to Soumya?

2. How the team is feeling?

3. Have you highlighted this concern to SM/PO so that you can focus on one item at a time?

4. Was there any efforts taken to descope the print scope?

Powerful questioning:

* Right question, right time, right audience, right tone

* Open ended questions

* dont ask knowledge based questions

* Questions that make thinking

* Aviod why questions

* Do not touch ego

skills of coach:

1. Active Listening

2. Patience

3. Positive mindset

4. Assertive communication

5. Being present

6. Empathy

7. Emotional intelligence

8. Strong belief

9. Icagile - Self-awareness

10. Non judgemental, neutral mindset

Only Tool of agile coach:

Powerful questioning

Coaching:

help to achieve goal

mindset changes

teaching new ways of doing things

upskilling

impact or influence for goals

owner ship

anti patterns

current --> next level

mental, instilling confidence

mentoring, facilitation

identify the gaps

* Coach is not a trainer , mentor

* Coach never solutions, advise, influence

* coach enable without solutions

* Believe where the problem there is a solution

Intrinsic motivation - self motivation

Welcome!

1. Shilpa - Bang - SM - 8 yrs - 10 yrs - coaching

2. Subramanya - 20 yrs - Bang

3. Delia - Indonesia - banking - SM -

4. eknath - pune - 20yrs - DM - structured approach to coaching

5. Soumya - 14 - Infy - SM - Pune

6. Talina - Indonesia

7. Pichayanan - 10yrs - Agile coach - Thailand

8. Panu - agile coach

- coach - thailand

9. Megana - 6 yrs - PO -

10.Vidhi - Pune - QA -

11. Agnes - SM - 9 yrs -

12. Netri - Pune - infy - 14 yrs - AC -

13. Saratha - Hyd - 10 yrs -

14. Singaraachari - Hyd - Infy -

15. Garima - chandigarh - 25 yrs -

16. Sushma - chennai - infy - 16 yrs -

17. sripriya - hyd - infy - effective

18. swagatika - bang

19. vivek -