have we crossed the chasm
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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
Adoption Lifecycle
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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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