Unpacking Value Delivery - Agile Oxford Meetup - May 2024.pptx

Ever caught yourself nodding along when someone mentions "delivering value" in Agile, but secretly wondering what the heck they actually mean? You're not alone! Join us for an eye-opening session where we'll strip away the buzzwords and dive into the heart of Agile—value delivery. But what is "value"? Is it a mythical unicorn in the world of software development, or is there more to this overused term?

This isn't going to be a sit-and-get lecture. We're talking about a face-to-face, interactive meetup where YOU play a crucial role. Come along to:

Define It: What does "value" really mean? We’ll build a definition that’s not just words, but a compass for your Agile journey.
Contextualise It: Discover what value means specifically to you, your team, your company, and your industry. Because one size does not fit all.
Deliver It: Share strategies and gather new ones for uncovering and delivering true value—no more shooting in the dark!

1. Unpacking Value Delivery Dr. David J Michel davidjmichel The Agile Broadcast

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4. Define it Contextualise it DELIVER IT VALUE…

5. Define it Contextualise it DELIVER IT VALUE…

6. “The entire Scrum Team is accountable for creating a valuable, useful Increment every Sprint” Scrum Guide 2020 Value, Value EVERYWHERE

7. Value Delivery

8. We need to be delivering value When I upgraded the database server… that was valuable, right? Agile Coach Developer

9. What is it? Value

10. Dictionary definition? “I value our friendship” “This item is valued at $100” “Trust and respect are my values”

11. Price is what you pay… …Value is what you get Warren Buffet “

12. Value = Benefits Cost What is perceived as gain What is Perceived as the cost of adoption -

13. There is no concrete definition of health, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have medical science

14. Josh Sneiden Output: Making a new road sign Outcome: Cars still turn left Problem: cars turn left where they should not

15. Maarten Dalmijn All features are innocent of delivering value, until proven guilty. “

16. Declaring Victory Too Soon

17. VALUE is in the outcome!

18. Define it Contextualise it DELIVER IT VALUE…

19. Focusing on output = feature factory

20. Scope creep! Especially When you dont know what the value is

21. Minimise output MAXIMISING OUTCOME while

22. Context matters!

23. What does your industry care about? How long is acceptable before realising value? Is your customer always the end-user? 10min

24. Define it Contextualise it DELIVER IT VALUE…

25. Horizontal vs vertical slicing

26. SPLITTING SLICING vs Neil Killick

27. Good teams celebrate a release. Great teams celebrate a positive business impact From: [email protected] Sent: 09 October 2019 To: [email protected] , Cc: [email protected] All, I’ve tried using the brand new SuperTool 1.0 and it made a real difference to what I could achieve before. The assessment was done in 1h, an 10x speed increase. I love it. Well done team! Mr. Business User vs Redefine what success means

28. Assumption!

29. Done Done Done Done Done Done Code completed, tested Released into production Worked out the value/benefit User Stories were not considered complete until they led to validated learning “ ” Eric Ries “

30. Start validating your assumptions about outcomes Fix the mismatch between prioritisation rigour and validation rigour validation Validation Work in the following sprints The validation work happens after the sprint in which the output was build… … and presented at a later point in a review Validation is an integral part of sprint work validation validation validation validation

31. The most expensive way to validate a product idea is by building it

32. We need to speed up the learning cycle!

33. Building the Eiffel Tower PO -> “Most valuable piece is level 3” Engs -> “but we have to start with building level 1” Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 radio/tv broadcast Delivery -> Level 1 is #1 in the backlog Discovery -> Level 3 is #1 in the backlog Test the assumption that a tv/radio broadcast is better at that specific altitude Mock level 1 & 2, build level 3 Use a crane to place a radio/tv antenna to test it

34. What strategies have you used to deliver value early and regularly? On your current project, what could you do to improve value delivery? 10min

35. https://leanpub.com/demystifyingvaluedelivery I’m writing a book!