How to Bake a Change • Daniel Terhorst-North • GOTO 2023

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph Daniel Terhorst-North - Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal at Dan North & Associates @daniel-terhorst-north RESOURCES @tastapod ABSTRACT There is no one-size-fits-all recipe for transformation, but that doesn’t mean consultants and methodology firms aren’t lining up to sell you one. Be it the ubiquitous SAFe, the “Spotify model“ (which Spotify quickly outgrew), or some other lovechild of Scrum and RUP with its own cutesy vocabulary, the kitchen has decided what you are having without even asking what you want. The usual counter is that every organisation and context is different, so it needs its own unique recipe which you need to figure out from scratch. I think the truth sits somewhere in between. Each situation needs its own contextual approach, but you don’t have to start from nothing. I have spent the last decade exploring, applying, rejecting and adapting all kinds of principles and guidelines, tricks and techniques, and successful playbooks for specific contexts. I won’t try to sell you a recipe for transformation, but I will share some change cooking tips that might mean yours doesn’t fall flat! [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 02:13 Understand the goal 08:49 Decide where to start 10:17 Seek vertical alignment 12:46 Seek horizontal alignment 18:36 Explore some of those options 19:41 Co-create the plan 21:46 Do: VESSA 23:03 Visualize 30:40 Eliminate 31:34 Simplify 33:39 Standardize 34:51 Automate 36:29 Check against the goal 36:59 Adjust based on evidence 37:31 Then do it all agin 37:51 Recap 41:25 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: RECOMMENDED BOOKS Aino Vonge Corry • Retrospective Antipatterns • Subramaniam & Hunt • Practices of an Agile Developer • Derby, Larsen & Schwaber • Agile Retrospectives • Jeff Sutherland • Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time • #Change #Transformation #VESSA #SAFe #SpotifyModel #DigitalTransformation #DanielTerhorstNorth #DanNorth Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at Sign up for updates and specials at SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily.