All track development - (or how we dropped the collective ego and created a product playbook!) by Ant Boobier at #AgileIndia2019
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Ant Boobier discusses creating a product playbook at Bank of New Zealand to standardize their agile practices and development processes. They tried dual track development with two teams working separately but it led to clashes. They shifted to having one empirical track with the whole team having ownership. They created a playbook test to make it self-explanatory, endorsed by key areas, and enjoyable to read. It brings together best practices in an easy to understand framework that the team adopted and adapted. The playbook treats products like pets to question thinking and say no to features tangential to the main product.
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All track development - (or how we dropped the collective ego and created a product playbook!) by Ant Boobier at #AgileIndia2019
- 1. Ant Boobier Practices Lead, Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) Nomad8 ant@nomad8.com @antboobier All track development (or how we dropped the collective ego and created a product playbook!)
- 4. My agile egoAgile Ego
- 5. Who are BNZ
- 6. Product, UX and development, was just a little bit awkward….
- 7. “Product Management is not just about building things, it’s about solving problems” Melissa Perri
- 8. 1. Whole team has ownership 2. Focus on creating an outcome 3. Do the smallest amount of work possible to start measuring change What Product Management means to us…
- 10. Dual track development is 2 activities happening continuously and in tandem
- 11. Success ! (2 teams to 3 tribes)
- 13. A clash of collective egos Duel Track
- 14. How I hoped people saw me AGILE ! How I sometimes came across
- 15. You can’t read the label of the jar you’re in
- 16. How can I be the conscience for the team?
- 17. “we are often making this mistake of conflating scaling and spreading” David Hussman (The Dude)
- 18. @antboobier
- 19. “Don’t [insert word*] how, if you don’t understand the why” Explain Advise Copy Follow *
- 20. to collaborate on a change! [please bring your expertise]
- 21. This is a playbook This is not a playbook…
- 22. The Playbook test Be understood by anyone who picks it up, so it needs to be.. • no more than 30 pages • self explanatory • endorsed by key skill-set areas • be enjoyable to read
- 23. 1. If it does not fit in your head, don’t use it !
- 24. Dual-track felt and looked like separate ‘duelling’ tracks
- 26. It’s a one for all empirical track
- 28. 2. Acknowledge and mash up the mindsets
- 29. Think agile, but you don’t always have to ‘talk’ agile
- 30. AGILE HAS NO BRAIN PLEASE USE YOUR OWN Original image source for inspiration unknown :-(
- 32. 3. Keep it… and invite input from experts
- 33. • Guided by a specialist • Involve wider product team • Tracked on team board • Time boxed
- 35. UX Researcher Team Designer Data Analytics team Developer Product Owner Team Designer Content Developer Dev team Content and Comms Team Designer Risk Tribe PM Who do you probably need to get involved?
- 36. UX Researcher Team Designer Data Analytics team Developer Product Owner Team Designer Content Developer Dev team Content and Comms Team Designer Risk Tribe PM Who do you probably need to get involved?
- 37. You want us to do what ?!!!!
- 38. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do”
- 39. 4. Say No! treat your Product Playbook like your Product
- 40. “Building a great product isn’t about creating tons of tactically useful features which are tangentially related” Des Traynor (Intercom on Product Management)
- 41. house petsFeatures are like…
- 42. 5. Question the thinking, not the answer
- 46. Who is your customer ?What assumptions do you have? How will you know you are being successful? What does yournext experimentlook like? Who will lead the experiment? Who do you need to involve?
- 49. “[it] brings together all the best parts of our practices in an easy to understand way, providing a framework that our team have adopted and then adapted” Penny Goodwin, Xerofox clan PO
- 50. Team effort !
- 51. Thanks ! Ant Boobier Practices Lead, Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) Nomad8 ant@nomad8.com @antboobier