{"id":39,"date":"2011-08-18T19:09:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T17:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proessler.wordpress.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2011-08-18T19:09:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T17:09:58","slug":"soft-agile-transition-slowly-from-nowhere-to-scrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/soft-agile-transition-slowly-from-nowhere-to-scrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft Agile Transition: Slowly from nowhere to Scrum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lean Thinking is what I\u2019m trying to learn and adopt at the moment.
\nWhat a perfect coincidence that I stumbled over Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum<\/a> from Craig Larman and Bas Vodde. On page 54 they describe Kaizen<\/em>, one of the crucial Lean Principles, as a plausible \u201cinspect & adapt\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. choose and practice techniques the team and\/or product group has agreed to try, until they are well understood<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. experiment until you find a better way<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. repeat forever<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    When I try to find this Kaizen<\/em> practice in my work of the last years, it fits to what I call the \u201csoft agile transition from nowhere to Scrum.\u201d \ud83d\ude09
    \nHere is the formula:
    \n(0) Nothing > (1) Daily communication > (2) Visual Workflow > (3) Kanban > (4) Scrumban > (5) Scrum<\/strong><\/p>\n

    When we started working with agile techniques we had a divergent mindset in our product teams. Only one team was ready and willing to start with Scrum straight away. Other teams were reluctant to try anything agile and stayed with \u201cNothing\u201d or were led by project management.<\/p>\n

    By now all our teams are somewhere in the \u201csoft agile transition from nowhere to Scrum\u201d and I\u2019m happy that all of them have passed step \u201c(1) Daily communication\u201d already.<\/p>\n

    The above described Kaizen<\/em> was my fundamental line of action to move step by step from (0) to (5).<\/p>\n

    What are your experiences with introducing agile techniques to your company?<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \"from<\/p>\n

    Characteristics of the \u201csoft agile transition from nowhere to Scrum\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

    (0) Nothing
    \n– Black Box
    \n– Led by Project Management<\/p>\n

    (1) Daily communication
    \n– Daily Scrum<\/p>\n

    (2) Visual Workflow
    \n– Daily Scrum
    \n– Team board
    \n– Regular Retrospectives<\/p>\n

    (3) Kanban
    \n– Daily Scrum
    \n– Team board
    \n– Regular Retrospectives
    \n– WIP
    \n– Lead Time
    \n– Optimize size of batches<\/p>\n

    (4) Scrumban
    \n– Daily Scrum
    \n– Team board
    \n– Regular Retrospectives
    \n– WIP
    \n– Lead Time
    \n– Optimize size of batches
    \n– Agile Estimation
    \n– Regular Review Meetings
    \n– Release Plan via Lead Time<\/p>\n

    (5) Scrum
    \nDo it without ScrumButs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Lean Thinking is what I\u2019m trying to learn and adopt at the moment. What a perfect coincidence that I stumbled over Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum from Craig Larman and Bas Vodde. On page 54 they describe Kaizen, one of the crucial Lean Principles, as a plausible \u201cinspect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,10,11],"tags":[49,71],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agile-coaching","category-books","category-kanban","category-scrum","category-scrumban","tag-lean","tag-soft-agile-transition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterroessler.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}