1 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:06,330 Welcome to agile for everybody, the essentials of agile 2 00:00:06,330 --> 00:00:10,290 and lean, I'm very excited to talk to you about this today 3 00:00:10,290 --> 00:00:12,540 because agile and lean are terms that 4 00:00:12,540 --> 00:00:16,080 get thrown around a lot in modern organizations. 5 00:00:16,080 --> 00:00:18,840 But there's still a lot of confusion and ambiguity 6 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:22,110 around what these things actually mean. 7 00:00:22,110 --> 00:00:24,810 So to that end, we're going to start today 8 00:00:24,810 --> 00:00:29,180 by debunking three common myths about agile and lean. 9 00:00:29,180 --> 00:00:31,140 These are things you may have heard from people 10 00:00:31,140 --> 00:00:32,410 in your organization. 11 00:00:32,410 --> 00:00:34,530 These are things that you may have thought are what 12 00:00:34,530 --> 00:00:36,480 agile and lean are all about. 13 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:37,740 And that's totally OK. 14 00:00:37,740 --> 00:00:39,910 Each of these myths was something that at one point, 15 00:00:39,910 --> 00:00:42,300 I thought agile and lean were all about. 16 00:00:42,300 --> 00:00:44,100 So let's go through each of these myths, 17 00:00:44,100 --> 00:00:45,810 talk about the myths themselves, and then 18 00:00:45,810 --> 00:00:49,050 talk about the reality that corresponds to each 19 00:00:49,050 --> 00:00:51,210 about agile and lean. 20 00:00:51,210 --> 00:00:55,920 So no one, agile and lean are all about doing things faster. 21 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:58,110 I have been in meetings where senior leaders 22 00:00:58,110 --> 00:01:00,660 have stood in front of product teams and said, 23 00:01:00,660 --> 00:01:02,400 we're going to implement this agile thing 24 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,620 so that we can get way more software out there real fast. 25 00:01:05,620 --> 00:01:07,950 And the product teams always start looking at each other 26 00:01:07,950 --> 00:01:10,160 like, Oh no, is that what this is all about? 27 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:11,580 They just going to work us harder, 28 00:01:11,580 --> 00:01:14,460 try to get more capacity out of us. 29 00:01:14,460 --> 00:01:16,620 In reality, that's not what agile and lean 30 00:01:16,620 --> 00:01:19,320 are about at all. 31 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:23,850 Agile and lean are about working better, not faster. 32 00:01:23,850 --> 00:01:26,850 And in fact, as we'll see, agile and lean 33 00:01:26,850 --> 00:01:30,780 often feel slower before they feel faster. 34 00:01:30,780 --> 00:01:32,610 If you go into agile and lean thinking 35 00:01:32,610 --> 00:01:34,320 that these are going to be magical ways 36 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:37,050 to accelerate your output, you're probably 37 00:01:37,050 --> 00:01:39,780 going to be disappointed. 38 00:01:39,780 --> 00:01:44,340 Our second myth agile and lean our rigid frameworks. 39 00:01:44,340 --> 00:01:48,600 If you are a process averse person much as I am, 40 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:51,120 then you may be a little bit scared of agile and lean 41 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:53,610 because you've heard people talk about these almost 42 00:01:53,610 --> 00:01:54,790 as if they're cults. 43 00:01:54,790 --> 00:01:57,580 They're things that you have to follow to the letter. 44 00:01:57,580 --> 00:02:00,850 And learn all these complicated, rigorous practices. 45 00:02:00,850 --> 00:02:03,090 And if you deviate even the tiniest bit, 46 00:02:03,090 --> 00:02:05,580 then everything is ruined. 47 00:02:05,580 --> 00:02:07,020 That's not how agile and lean work 48 00:02:07,020 --> 00:02:12,840 at all, agile and lean as we'll see our movements with values 49 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:15,660 that are activated through practices. 50 00:02:15,660 --> 00:02:18,000 Now, if you want, you can combine and bundle 51 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,010 these practices into methodologies 52 00:02:20,010 --> 00:02:21,990 or into frameworks, but you can get 53 00:02:21,990 --> 00:02:24,330 a lot of value out of agile and lean without even 54 00:02:24,330 --> 00:02:25,980 going that far. 55 00:02:25,980 --> 00:02:28,980 It's really about why we're doing what we're doing, 56 00:02:28,980 --> 00:02:31,440 not so much about doing things in a specific order 57 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:33,540 or a specific way. 58 00:02:33,540 --> 00:02:37,890 And finally, our third myth about agile and lean, agile 59 00:02:37,890 --> 00:02:40,080 and leaner only for software developers. 60 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:42,640 There are very specific reasons why you might think this. 61 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:45,210 As we'll see, agile and lean, both came out 62 00:02:45,210 --> 00:02:47,640 of the software development community 63 00:02:47,640 --> 00:02:50,490 and in many ways started by asking this question, 64 00:02:50,490 --> 00:02:52,740 how can we build better software? 65 00:02:52,740 --> 00:02:56,550 But in reality, the core values of agile and lean 66 00:02:56,550 --> 00:02:58,870 are for everybody. 67 00:02:58,870 --> 00:03:00,550 The ways of working better. 68 00:03:00,550 --> 00:03:02,010 That agile, I mean, show us, can be 69 00:03:02,010 --> 00:03:04,710 applied not just to people making software, 70 00:03:04,710 --> 00:03:06,750 but to people making anything. 71 00:03:06,750 --> 00:03:09,160 They can be used by marketing teams. 72 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:11,760 They can be used by sales teams. 73 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,610 Agile and lean are for everybody. 74 00:03:14,610 --> 00:03:16,510 And before we move on, one quick bonus. 75 00:03:16,510 --> 00:03:20,010 Mith, agile and lean are the same thing. 76 00:03:20,010 --> 00:03:22,380 And a lot of cases, they're used interchangeably. 77 00:03:22,380 --> 00:03:25,080 And if you do a Google search for our Agilent lean, 78 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,530 the same thing, a lot of results are going to come up. 79 00:03:28,530 --> 00:03:31,240 But as we'll see, agile and lean are distinct, 80 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:32,940 but related movements. 81 00:03:32,940 --> 00:03:36,540 They're related to each other, but they're not the same thing. 82 00:03:36,540 --> 00:03:39,330 So let's dive a little deeper and look at what agile and lean 83 00:03:39,330 --> 00:03:41,710 are, how they're related to each other. 84 00:03:41,710 --> 00:03:44,090 And what we can do about it.