Comments on: Reported-Benefits-of-Agile

By: Mike Cohn

Mike Cohn — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 02:58:24 +0000

Hi Felix–
I think you are looking at the bottom right where it has the open circle and says “Agile Projects” and thinking that is one data point. It’s the legend for the graph. All the open circles in the graph are various agile projects and most are above the industry average line and many are more than one standard deviation above it.
Mike

By: Felix

Felix — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:37:17 +0000

Hi Mr, Cohn,
maybe just a problem of “understanding” with the diagramm on slide no.5. It seems that the vertical axis is scaled in the wrong way.
–> If agile projects are 16% more productive than others, the agile project dot should be above the industry average. What do you think?

By: Jose Papo

Jose Papo — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:00:53 +0000

Hi Mr. Cohn,

I translated your presentation to Portuguese.

I published the presentation on SlideShare at: http://www.slideshare.net/jpapo/beneficios-reportados-de-processos-geis

Everyone can read and also download the translated version.

Thank you very much for the excellent and always useful books, articles and presentations!

By: Mike Cohn

Mike Cohn — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:44:51 +0000

Hi Claude-- Thanks for providing these additional resources. (As well for previously translating the Introduction to Scrum presentation into French.)

By: Claude Aubry

Claude Aubry — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:37:39 +0000

Hi Mike,

I like your redistribuable presentations, so I also translated this one in French. I added the results of the national survey of the French Scrum User Group (http://www.frenchsug.org/download/attachments/591296/National_survey_FrenchSUG_ENGL_en.pdf?version=2) and dispatched them in the different covered areas. Some results of this survey are included on my future book.

I published the resulting Powerpoint presentation as attached file of this post: http://www.aubryconseil.com/post/Les-b%C3%A9n%C3%A9fices-du-d%C3%A9veloppement-agile (in French)

Claude

By: Taking Agile Beyond “Faster” | bigvisible.com

Taking Agile Beyond “Faster” | bigvisible.com — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:14:59 +0000

[...] me speak to the first question of tactical improvements. Mike Cohn put out a pretty authoritative presentation on the topic of performance improvements, it is available to all and licensed under the creative [...]

By: Mike Cohn

Mike Cohn — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:22:59 +0000

Thanks, Manoj. I’m glad you find it useful.

By: Mike Cohn

Mike Cohn — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:22:03 +0000

Hi Barak-- This is absolutely a risk. I didn't anticipate that someone would use these slides as the only thing to talk about in a presentation. I assumed they would be coupled with something like this redistributable presentation on Scrum or with a discussion of "how we'll starting adopting agile in our company." Hopefully those other parts of a more complete presentation present the balance to these slides, which are just a list of reported benefits. In the Succeeding with Agile book, these benefits come at the end of chapter 1, which is all about why transitioning to agile is hard. So, that chapter has a very deliberate balance. My intent in the chapter was to say how hard adopting agile is. Then, right when a reader is thinking, "Yikes, this is going to be hard, maybe we shouldn't it," I switch to present the benefits. For me the long-term benefits outweigh the pain of the transition.

By: Manoj Vadakkan

Manoj Vadakkan — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:04:28 +0000

Thank you for making the pdf. Very useful information.

Manoj

By: Barak Yagour

Barak Yagour — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:40:27 +0000

Hi Mike,
great presentation.
My only concern (and this seems to happen too often in our side of the Agile fence) is that the presentation could be interpreted as one sided.
Since no downsides mentioned at all, this makes the presentation seem biased and therefore less viable to people that are not fully buying into the concepts.

Barak