Tilting the triangle is about why lean and agile work. It gives you a metaphor to explain practices to peers and stakeholders. It puts GTD, scrum, kanban and holacracy in a larger perspective.

1. Tilting the Triangle
@bartvermijlen | Feweb Congress 2015

2. Goal
Understand why agile and lean work.
Evangelize with a simple metaphor.
Detect possible opportunities to implement new practices.
Without talking (too much) about agile and lean.

3. Overview
1_ Intro
2_ What is tilting the triangle?
3_ General principles
4_ How to tilt the triangle?

4. 1_ Intro

5. Goal
Understand why agile and lean work.
Detect possible opportunities to implement new practices.
Without talking about agile and lean.

8. 2_ What is tilting the triangle?

10. _ crisis meetings
_ escalations
_ angry CEO
_ client fear
_ arguments
_ ...

11. The Uphill Triangle

19. The Downhill Triangle

20. The magic happens

21. 3_ General principles

22. From Push to Pull

23. First what is important, then what is urgent.

24. First what is important.

25. Making the implicit explicit.

26. 4_ How to tilt the triangle?

29. Number 1 enemy for every project/process/company
Procrastination by working

31. (Scrum)boards
Visualize WIP

32. Daily Standups

33. Burndowns

35. DoD²
(Definition of Done) x (Demo or Die)
alpha → beta → release candidate → QA

36. Silos

37. User Stories

38. Shared Scope of Work (Minimum Viable Way)

39. Summary
Actively pull risks in early in your project.
Via practices that enforce
_ Transparency
_ Inspection
_ Adaptation
Tilt
_ Your personal triangle (time mgmt)
_ Your project triangle
_ Your organisation triangle

42. Q&A
@bartvermijlen
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