Why Everybody Hates Agile • Jesper Boeg • GOTO 2023

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph https://gotocph.com Jesper Boeg - Pragmatic Agile/Lean Coach @jesperboeg RESOURCES https://twitter.com/J_Boeg https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesperboeg http://agileupgrade.com ABSTRACT Faster value in the hands of customers and end-users, faster feedback, better products and happier employees with more decision authority. What could possibly go wrong? A LOT it seems! Endless meetings with too many people, religious discussions about the mandates, responsibilities and accountabilities of developers, Scrum Masters and Product Owners, review meetings only attended by team members (or stakeholders with little care or insights), full time Scrum Masters desperately fighting to find enough work to fill their schedule, 180 people gathered in a gym to preplan 3 month of work, and an almost embarrassing lack of working software. It is no wonder that developers, leaders, and customers are starting to doubt the value of all that effort invested in so little output (let alone outcome). How did the simple concept of Agile turn into such a monster of roles, events, and artifacts? When did it become “processes and tools over individuals and interactions” and how did we manage to ignore outcome in our endless religous strive to do things “by the book”. In this session Jesper will share cases of “Agile gone wrong” from his 18 years in the field and why people rightly doubt the sanity of the imposed overhead of “Agile”. You might even get a few tips and tricks to avoid the worst pitfalls. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 02:42 Agile has been reduced to a set of practices 04:50 Agile has become a monster 07:40 Excuses are abundant 12:11 We should not be surprised 13:34 Agile gone wrong: Theory vs reality 37:55 Summary & advice 47:04 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotocph.com/2023/sessions/2946 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Jesper Boeg • Level Up Agiel with Toyota Kata • https://amzn.to/4aTF5Gl Aino Vonge Corry • Retrospective Antipatterns • https://amzn.to/3naFk84 Derby, Larsen & Schwaber • Agile Retrospectives • https://amzn.to/3hB4eNk Stone, Chaparro, Keebler, Chaparro & McConnell • Introduction to Human Factors • https://amzn.to/3mfXqY2 https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #Agile #AgileDevelopment #ToyotaKata #JesperBoeg Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1