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Agility @ the Speed of Thought
The document summarizes key ideas from a presentation on agility in business given by Tathagat Varma at the Agile in Business Conference. It discusses how companies like Flickr, IMVU, WordPress, Google and Facebook deploy new versions of their products and code very frequently, in some cases multiple times a day. This allows them to change quickly based on feedback. It also discusses lean principles for eliminating waste and how companies like Toyota apply rapid iteration. The presentation argues businesses need an agile mindset to learn and change quickly to succeed.
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- 3. US Airways 1549.15 Jan 2009. The Miracle on the Hudson Agile in Business Conference (c)
- 4. 6,000 stores, $14.4B in Opened first Net profits opening one a 2012, store in 1975 $2.7B day +17% y-o-y Agile in Business Conference (c)
- 5. • creativity, qualitydesign • Give customers what they • Every store in the world and rapid turnaround to want receives new models twice adjust to changing market • Get it to them faster than a week demands -- has…generated anyone else • Product reaches European an excellent public stores in 24-36 hours and response to our retailers' rest of the world within 48 collections.” hours. Since 1970s! Design Rules Logistics Agile in Business Conference (c)
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- 7. The difference… • Conventionalmanufacturing teams gather requirements, design the solution, build the solution, test the solution, then deliver the solution. In automotive companies, the design portion alone takes 3 to 12 years, and then the vehicle design is built for 5 to 14 years. • WIKISPEED follows the model of Agile software teams…We iterate the entire car every 7 days, meaning that every 7 days we reevaluate each part of the car and reinvent the highest- priority aspects, instead of waiting 8 to 26 years to upgrade. Agile in Business Conference (c)
- 8. Scrum: Clearly Agile: Reducing defined team costs to make roles and changes responsibilities TDD: start with XP: Pairing and failing tests Swarming and develop solutions Lean Software The OOP: contract- Design: Use Wikispeed first less stuff development Process Agile in Business Conference (c)
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- 10. • On ‘gooddays’, Flickr releases a new version every half an hour (Jun 20, 2005) • IMVU pushes a revision of code to the website every nine minutes (Feb 10, 2009) • The other day we passed product release number 25,000 for WordPress. That means we’ve averaged about 16 product releases a day, every day for the last four and a half years! (May 19, 2010) • A new version of Google Chrome now due every six weeks (Jul 22, 2010) • Facebook does code push twice a day (Aug 4, 2012) Agile in Business Conference (c)
- 11. What do theseamazing stories tell us? Agile in Business Conference (c)
- 12. “…people who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds.” Agile in Business Conference (c) https://37signals.com/svn/posts/3289-some-advice-from-jeff-bezos
- 13. So…how fast canyou respond, move and deliver?...how fast can you…change your mind? Agile in Business Conference (c)
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- 27. What are welearning? “The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else” – Eric Ries, The Lean Startup “Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.” – Mark Zuckerberg “I Don’t look to jump 7-foot bars: I look around for 1- foot bars that I can step over.” – Warren Buffet Agile in Business Conference (c)
- 28. References • http://blogs.forbes.com/stevedenning/ • http://wikispeed.com • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_154 9 • http://cf.agilealliance.org/program/files/12694.pdf • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W47rcJowx7k • http://www.testingmentor.com/imtesty/2010/06/20/ agile-is-not-a-process-agile-is-a-mindset/ • http://theleanstartup.com/ • http://steveblank.com/ • http://stevedenning.com Agile in Business Conference (c)
- 29. Tathagat Varma http://managewell.net Agile in Business Conference (c)