have we crossed the chasm

Have we crossed the chasmDEEPAK GURURAJA

AGILE COACH @ SOLUTIONSIQ

About Me…

u Agile Coach with 12 + Years of Experience

u Coach by Choice

u Foodie

u Love to travel

u Have worked in a variety of industries – from inbound call centres to Server hardware

u Create Experiential learning sessions

u CSM / CSP / CSPO / KMP / ICP / ACC / CLP / SA

Crossing the Chasm

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Breaking the Chasm

What we will intend to learn today

u Where we are on the On the curve of Agile Adoption

u What are some of the early trends

u Based on these trends, what does the future look like

u What skills should we acquire, for us to be future ready

Would this be worth your time?

Agile Transformation

Agile Transformation

For Some, its a leap of faith

u As a group Discuss –u With respect to the agile adoption curve across the industry, where do we stand

u Innovators

u Early Adopters

u Early Majority

u Late Majority

u Laggards

u Why do you think so?

Where are we with Agility?

Where are we with Agility?

Lets look at the general adoption trend

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• E Commerce• R&D

• Innovators• Cutting Edge• Startup • Services

• Large Sized Org• Legacy• Cautious• Banking• Finance

• Healthcare• Defence• Insurance

Bulk of transformation needs

u Banking

u Insurance

u Finance

u …

What does this trend tell you about where we are on agile transformation?

Surveys and trends

u Version One State of Agile Surveyhttp://stateofagile.versionone.com/

u Ambysoft survey http://www.ambysoft.com/

Have you seen awareness in people

What these tell us

u We have crossed the Chasm

u Awareness of Agility is more

u We have more CSM’s and PSM’s than ever before

u There is one Agile meetup happening every week in Bangalore

Oh.. Wait a minute

u If we have crossed the Chasm… it means

u We are here

u So the need for agile coaching will start to go down???

I just decided to become an Agile Coach

But Wait…..

u Career survey says that the top skill to have isu Agile

u Devops

u Scrum

Top 10 Technology Skills in Demand for 2016

http://www.itcareerfinder.com/brain-food/blog/entry/top-10-technology-skills-in-demand-for-2016.html

Where are you going with this???

So here are my thoughts….

u Agile adoption has largely picked in the last decade

u More companies are Agile today

u Market and competitors are pushing agility

u Agile consulting is a huge industry today

u But, where do we see ourselves in the near future?

A closer look at these survey

What practices have you adopted

Some Obvious missing items

u Continuous Integration

u Dedicated Product Owner

u Single Team ( No Separate Dev and Test Teams )

u Coding standards

u Continuous Deployment

u Collective Code Ownership

u Pair Programming

u TDD/BDD

From Ambysoft Survey

What’s the pattern you see

u Though we have crossed the Chasm,u Our adoption is only at a practices level

u Very little in-principle adoption

u Teams are still struggling with going beyond the ceremonies

Top Reasons for failure of Agile Projects

Let’s take a poll

u Based on your experience, what are some of the areas of challenge during the process of transformation

Based on my experience

u Major Chunk of challenges revolve aroundu Cultural transformation

u Scaling

u Handling distributed teams

u Leadership Agility

u Sustaining Agile Culture

u Code Agility

So, what do you think are the areas where coaching needs would come up next?

What new coaching skills should you acquire?

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How about the idea of a T or a Pi Shaped Skillset for a Coach

Coaching Skills Facilitation Skills Agile Coaching Framework Knowledge

Scaling Disciplines

Leadership Coaching

Leadership Agility

Technical Coaching

Personal Coaching Agile Gaming

Connect

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