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Agile HRAn Experience Report
Presented by Doc List, Senior Coach and Trainer for Agile Velocity 2016 HR Summit, Dallas
Nice to meet you!
• Senior Agile Trainer and Enterprise Agile Coach for Agile Velocity
• Photographer
• Love People, Learning
A Brief Explanation of Agile
• Origins in Software Development
• Focused on Short-Cycle Delivery
• Highly Team-centric
• Intensely Collaborative
Background
• Gap, Inc., San Francisco, California
• Training and Planning (2014)
• “We want to streamline our recruiting and hiring process.”
• Three champions: co-head of HR, VP, manager
Value Stream
“Craft the team”Best chance for success - kicked off in March 2015 - four months later
“North Star”The team’s BHAG
Working Agile-ly
Key Characteristics• Collocated - one room
• No barriers
• Open communication
• Focused on a clear goal
• Shared CARGO™
Their Journey
- colocation
- Agile training
- Backlog
- team liftoff
- Continuous improvement
- Agility health
- Skepticism
- Reflect and Retrospect
- WORK
- Agile outside IT
- Scrumban
- Switch tools
- sprint 1
- distributed team
- sprint planning
- user story and
decomposition workshop
- value stream map review
- sprint 0
- “product vision”
- Backlog grooming
- Retrospective
Wk. 12Start
What happens when you mix Human Resources with an Agile Workflow?
...a serious lesson in flexibility
Wk. 1 - 3: Liftoff and Visualize
• “we're the first of our kind: a self-organized, self-directed team - using agile methodology to blow the roof off of traditional HR practices”
• Team Chartering - Team Ocelots
• Where is flow blocked
Wk. 4 - 6: Sprinting To The North Star
• Wk: 4: Product Discover
• Wk. 5: Working as a distributed team, Sprint Planning
• First Sprint!
“What will cut the hiring process time in half and result in better candidates?”
“North Star”: One-Day Hiring
• Background checks
• Coffee chats
• Hiring center
• Focus on delays, not events
Wk. 7 - 9: Continuous Improvement
• Wk. 7: From Scrum to Scrumban
• Wk. 8: What did it feel like to be the first HR team to use Agile?
• Wk. 9: Product Review
Wk. 10 - 12: Customer Is Always First
• Wk. 10: Delivering value to our “customers”
• Wk. 11: Backlog Grooming
• Wk. 12: Retrospect
Evolution
• Sprints (Scrum) vs. Flow (Kanban)
• Flexible roles
• Out of the box thinking and working
Big Thanks To…
• Team Ocelots
• Read more about their Agile journey here: www.HRAgileSolutions.com