This document discusses how engineers can drive impact by becoming more agile in their work. It proposes a 6-step process: 1) get disciplined in agile execution; 2) find and protect slack for exploration; 3) adopt a scientific approach; 4) take time to empathize; 5) become a disciplined explorer; and 6) take engineering to scale. The goal is to maximize value delivery while recognizing uncertainty. Engineers are encouraged to solve social and environmental problems using an adaptive, learning-based approach.

1. Beyond Agile
Execution: Agility for
Impact
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3. How many of
you are
Engineers = ?

4. What do you
want to
become = ?

5. CEO

6. Great
Engineer

7. Chief Engineer
Technical
Founder

8. Global/Citizen
Engineer

9. Responsible Engineering
• Technically
• Environmentally
• Socially

10. I know what
you are
thinking!

11. Will the
Company or
my Boss let
me?

12. Can I afford to
breakout and
do a startup?

13. Can I solve
Wicked
Problems?

14. Can I drive
innovation?

15. ?

16. TAKE
Responsibility*
Intention
Awareness
Confront
*Christopher
Avery’s
–Responsibility
Framework

17. Let’s Explore
this problem

18. What we are
taught?

19. My Rock Geology
Professor in 1985
Bernard Amadei

24. In a four year
bachelors of science
degree:
Civil Engineer – 1200 to 2000
Eng Physics – 3000 to 5000

25. You learned
the discipline!
And …

26. What we
assume

27. Gaussian
distributions
h:p://arxiv.org/abs/cond-­‐mat/0412004
h:p://www.flickr.com/photos/danielmorrison/428130095

28. What surprises
us?

31. Low
probability
events have
higher impact

32. Plausible

33. An example

34. 8’1’’
2’5’’
3.3 x
h:p://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howabou:hat/6988398/The-­‐worlds-­‐tallest-­‐man-­‐Sultan-­‐Kosen-­‐and-­‐the-­‐shortest-­‐man-­‐in-­‐the-­‐world-­‐He-­‐Pingping-­‐meet.html

35. h:p://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/4368494308

36. Bill Gates
The
Entire
Room
650 x

37. How do we
make sense of
this?

38. Uncertainty
Chaotic
Complex
Complicated
Simple

39. Engineering
within
Uncertainty

40. Uncertainty
Chaotic
Complex
Complicated
Simple

41. Uncertainty
Natural/
Social
Systems
Mechanical
Systems

42. Neurons
Transistors
Synapses
Links
Flikr by _DJ_
Flikr by Jurvtson

43. EWB example

45. h:p://youtu.be/_vBYjx6ID4g

46. h:p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGiHU-­‐agsGY

47. Uncertainty
P
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p
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r
e
P
l
a
n

48. Uncertainty
E
m
e
r
g
e
A
n
a
l
y
z
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49. Uncertainty
E
x
p
l
o
r
e
E
x
e
c
u
t
e

50. Balance
Execution and
Exploration

51. Annual
Budgets
Comprehensive
Analysis
Detailed
Plans
Waterfall
Execution

52. INSTEAD Assume:
Uncertainty exists
GOAL:
Maximize value
delivery

53. Adaptive
Steering
Disciplined
Exploration
Empirical
Learning
Agile
Execution

54. Six Step
Process

55. 1. Get Disciplined at
Agile Execution

56. Scrum Machine
Daily
Scrum
Product
Backlog
Refinement
Sprint
Planning
Sprint
1-­‐2
Weeks
Burndown
Chart
Product
Backlog
Sprint
Backlog
Sprint
Demo
Review
Sprint
Retrospec@ve
Product
Increment

57. Focus: Strategic Alignment. Code Quality.
SAFe Scrum
Strategic Alignment
! Sprint and PSI/Program
objectives
! Aligned sprints and velocities
! Program architecture and UX
Guidance, governance
! Lean prioritization
XP Inspired Technical Practices
Con8nuous
Integra8on
Test-­‐First:
TDD
ATDD
Code Quality
! Test First: TDD and ATDD
User
Stories
! Continuous integration:
component and system
Scalability
Required
XP
Inspired
Collec8ve
Ownership
Emergent
Design
Agile
Analysis
! Test automation
! Fortnightly system
demonstration
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58. Build a GREAT
TEAM!
Typically 5-9 people
Full-time members
Self-organizing
Self-managing
Cross functional
No egos

59. The Framework

64. Whitepaper
http://rallydev.com/agilemetrics

65. Cycle Time ê
Lifecycle Profit é
Innovation é
Speed é

66. 2. Find
Protect
some
Slack
h:p://www.flickr.com/photos/5wa/6400997231

67. Explore Innovation!
Build
Learn
Measure

68. 3. Add the
Disciplines of a
Scientist

69. h:p://www.flickr.com/photos/memekiller/4564410767

76. Do
Anything
Guess
Learn
Chaotic
Complex
Analyze
Complicated
Follow
Recipe
Simple

77. Uncertainty
Firefighter Entrepreneur
Do
Anything
Chaotic
Guess
Learn
Complex
Engineer Bureaucrat
Analyze
Complicated
Follow
Recipe
Simple

78. Adaptive
Steering
Disciplined
Exploration
Empirical
Learning
Agile
Execution

79. Turn Uncertainty
Into Knowledge

81. Business
Initiative

82. Indian
example

84. Myshkin Ingawale
BioSense

85. Frame
http://rallydev.com/FRAME

90. 4. Take Time to
Empathize

91. Do Engineers
have Empathy?

92. h:ps://vimeo.com/5485269

93. Some
rights
reserved
by
Marek
Mahut

94. It is born into
us!
We just need
to reconnect
with it

99. How many
USERS have
you talked with
in the last
year?

100. Interview people

101. Build empathy

102. Seek insights
Seek Insights

105. Learning
What we
expect
will happen
What
actually
happened
Whole System!

106. 5. Become a
Disciplined
Explorer

107. Adaptive
Steering
Disciplined
Exploration
Empirical
Learning
Agile
Execution

108. Form

109. Discover

110. Evaluate

111. Validate

112. Evaluate

113. Transition

114. http://rallydev.com/ELS

115. Myshkin Ingawale
BioSense

116. Exploration

117. Execution – Touch Hb

118. 6. Take your
Engineering to
Scale

120. Adaptive
Steering
Disciplined
Exploration
Empirical
Learning
Agile
Execution

121. Business
Agility

123. Rally’s Social
MISSION
Create and
Mobilize
Citizen
Engineers

124. Effec8veness
Desirability
Feasibility
Sustainability

126. Chief Engineer
Technical
Founder

127. From “T”
To “E”

128. 1. Get Disciplined at Agile
Execution
2. Find Protect your Slack
3. Add the Disciplines of a
Scientist
4. Take Time to Empathize
5. Become a Disciplined Explorer
6. Take your Engineering to Scale

129. E

130. Global/Citizen
Engineer

131. Dent the World!
Copywrite
2011-­‐
FakeGrimlock
h:p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1x3BZjU5Pw

132. Why Indians must Dent the
World?
1.
2.
3.
4.
7 Billion people create
wicked problems on earth
These problems are
everywhere
India creates the 2X more
engineers than US
The solutions must be
localized

133. Shoulders of whom I am standing on
David
Snowden
Dean
Leffingwell
Kembel
Brothers
Don
Reinertsen
Eric
Ries
Dave
Douglas
Bernard
Amadei
Steve
Blank

134. Namaste
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