[OSList] FAST Agile - A proposed experiment for a new Agile Scaled Method built on OST

[John Baxter via OSList]

Cool idea Ron

Have you done any prototyping of the process?  Any experiences to share?

Cheers




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On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Ron Quartel via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Last year at the Scrum Gathering in New Orleans, the last day was an Open
> Space. It was not my first exposure to OST and I was already in love the
> format the from my first experience at an Agile Open Northwest conference
> years before. But what was different this time was the realization that no
> one has yet used this proven technology to organize software development on
> a large scale. And so was the birth of an idea for such a methodology.
>
> After running the idea by some small groups earlier this year - Agile Open
> Northwest 2015 in Portland, The Scrum Gathering Phoenix 2015, a Seattle
> SaFE meetup, I was encouraged to proceed with the idea and began piecing it
> all together into a methodology/framework (frameology?).
>
> Last week at the Agile Roots conference in Salt Lake City I made the
> official launch of FAST with my presentation there. You can see the slide
> deck over at
> http://www.slideshare.net/RonQuartel/continous-deliver-and-agileatscale
> though you will not get much from these as most of the content was on the
> white board, demonstrations, conversations and Q&A. (I'm not a big fan of
> slide heavy presentations.)
>
> At the same time I launched a Google group (FAST Agile), a website
> http://www.fast-agile.com and a twitter account with hashtag
> @FAST_software #FASTAgile. The website is in minimal viable state still and
> I wouldn't be surprised to find that there are some mistakes in there. But
> I will be spending time tending this garden and bringing it to bloom
> hopefully as this is my new baby and passion.
>
> FAST differs to Daniel Mezick's Open Agile Adoption as they have a very
> different focus. As I understand it (and please feel free to correct me
> Daniel), Open Agile Adoption uses OST as the means for helping with the
> transformation of an organization to adopt an agile method - Scrum. FAST
> uses OST as a replacement for Scrum. So you could in fact use Daniel's Open
> Agile Adoption to implement FAST. FAST relies on the strengths of OST to
> essentially ensure self organization, collaboration and a pull model of
> work. All things that scrum pays lip service to but seems to fail at
> actually implementing time and time again. (As well as Code Craftsmanship
> which I have addressed by building it in as a core value.)
>
> Don't get me wrong about scrum. The theory is good and if done well
> produces good results. But as an agile coach I rarely have seen Scrum done
> well and so was inspired to create a methodology that will not lend itself
> to be so poorly implemented time and time again.
>
> FAST uses a variation of OST. You will recognize the inspiration behind
> the values and principals directly attributed to OST's principles and
> strengths :-
>
> FAST Values
>
>    - Face to face communication (includes/implies *Collocation*)
>    - Code Craftsmanship (includes/implies Code Quality and *Technical
>    Excellence*)
>    - Self-organization (includes/implies *Trust *and *Collaboration*)
>    - Shared vision (includes/implies *Shared Single Purpose* and
>    *Alignment*)
>
>
>
>
> FAST Principles
>
>    - The right people will work on the right stories
>    - The right discussions will happen at the right time, with the right
>    people to resolve dependencies and emerge the design
>    - Whatever happens, is the only thing that could have
>    - Stories will start and be completed at the right time and in the
>    right sequence
>
>
>
> FAST stands for Fast Agile Scaled Technology. The Technology refers to
> OST. I'm not really pushing the acronym aspect to the name so you won't see
> it published anywhere but wanted to share it with this small group.
>
> I hope you like FAST, will join the FAST community and help evolving it
> into the methodology that produces software faster than anything on the
> planet today!
>
> Ron Quartel
> Summer Solstice 2015
>
>
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