How would you like to know if your presentation you just gave to 100’s of employees actually resonated with them?
It happens to all of us, the all important mandatory all employees meeting where senior leadership communicates something that motivates us or informs us about the business.
We go in excited to hear how our 40+ hours are improving the business.
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It is official; John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group is practicing Agile!
Since 2008 I have been blogging about how Agile is working, but I was never allowed to say who I worked for. That day has come to an end I have received approval to reference John Deere in my blogs. Not only am I making it official, but we are now published in Dean Leffingwell’s new book Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise Requirements in Chapter 11 – Role of the Product Owner.
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This last month we have taken down around 100 personal cubes and replaced them with team pods. 9 pods and counting. Here are some before and after pictures. Pretty cool.
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Last month we sent out a survey to employees that are currently following the scrum framework, and the results are awesome! I created a survey similar to Yahoo! rollout of agile because I wasn’t 100% sure what to measure or ask. Some of the people taking the survey have been doing Scrum for years while half of them have just transition over the last year.
Below are the results. My favorite question is the last one, “If you were king for the day, would you continue to use Scrum?” 100% said YES! I have never seen 100% of a group agree on anything. Simply awesome.
So what is next you as, now it is time to roll agile out to a larger group. Over the next month I’ll start to blog about the transition from small group to enterprise agility. Stay Tuned!
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Last week I played the Marshmallow Challenge with the Program Manager in my area. Each month we have a department meeting and I asked for 30 minutes to conduct the PM challenge. I did not tell anyone what the challenge was because I assume they would go and research to get a leg up.
My goal was to get them to think about doing things more like scrum rather than the traditional waterfall process that they are use to.
So what I did was put all of the pieces into a yellow folder and then described the rules to them. From there I set up a timer and told them that the highest structure would win a prize.
At the end, each team tried to put the marshmallow on the top with about 3 minutes remaining and all 3 of the teams had no standing structure.
If you are looking for a fun game to help the learning of Agile I would strongly suggest the Marshmallow Challenge!
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We are two months away from our production release and, like always, I try to find a way to motivate the team to reach the finish line. So I have turned Friday’s into Food Friday. Three people each week will bring in food and share it with the rest of the team. Last Friday was a big hit as I brought in the famous Chad’s Hot and Sweet Salsa. Below is a picture of the setup.
Here is the recipe if you are interested in feeding your agile team:
Also, here is a picture of us at our daily scrum pointing at the board. As you can see we now have two boards. If we could only take down those cubical walls, things would be easier to see but we make due.
It makes me tingle now to here the team say things like, “maybe we should finish these before we start new stuff,” or “you test my changes and I’ll test yours so that we can get these cards done.”
Overall, things continue to improve and we will make changes as we start our next release.
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