© 2010 Alistair Cockburn The New Methodology isn't a Methodology Dr. Alistair Cockburn

2 © 2010 Alistair Cockburn in groups of 5-6 people Spend 3-4 minutes taking verbal jabs at each other Light jabs (not heavy insults) technique possibility 1: Escalate One-up each other Reset, restart

3 © 2010 Alistair Cockburn in same groups spend 4-5 minutes building each other up technique possibility 1: Find something to compliment Build on it Escalate Add Reset, restart

4 © 2010 Alistair Cockburn in groups of 3 people spend 2 minutes nominating NAMES for that 1

5 © 2010 Alistair Cockburn In your 3person group in 60 seconds select the top 2 names 2

6 © 2010 Alistair Cockburn Find another group In 90 seconds select the top 2 names technique possibility: Team A names their 2 names Team B names their 2 names One advocate for each name says why it "sings" Quick vote all 4 names Circle/mark the top 2 3

7 © 2010 Alistair Cockburn Find another paired group (now 12 people) in 90 seconds select the top 1 name technique possibility: Team A names their 2 names Team B names their 2 names One advocate for each name says why it "sings" Quick vote all 4 names Circle/mark the top 1 4

8 © 2010 Alistair Cockburn One speaker from each group stand up. In turn, as I call, read the name out I'll write it up. After you read, sit down. 5

9 © 2010 Alistair Cockburn Each person: No talking Write your favorite name on a card. 30 seconds 6

10 © 2010 Alistair Cockburn In your 12person group in 60 seconds Collect the cards with the most popular 3 names. Write down the NUMBER Of CARDS with those names Give those 3 to the group "speaker". Example: "PROCESS : 3" "WEREWOLF : 6" "ZOOLOGY : 1" 7

11 © 2010 Alistair Cockburn I will call out proposed names in alphabetical order. If one of your top 3 is that name, Group speaker : stand up. In turn, as I call, read the NUMBER out. I'll write it up. After you read, sit down. 8

12 © 2010 Alistair Cockburn Ecosystem Methodology Process Techniques Tools Skills Roles Standards Quality Teams Products People MilestonesActivities Personality Jenny Jim Peter Annika Methodology: who, what, when of interactions But people are stuffed full of personality Project manager Documenter Designer Tester Values

13 © 2010 Alistair Cockburn Methodology: a μ -culture embedded in 2 outer cultures. Company culture National culture Methodology is cultural engineering. Fits into the outer culture It can be rejected Both will change Notation Tools People Organization & Culture © 1998 Alistair Cockburn

14 © 2010 Alistair Cockburn Crystal 2.0 The oath of non-allegiance The Crystal 3-step model

15 © 2010 Alistair Cockburn The "Oath of non-allegiance" I promise not to exclude from consideration any idea based on its source, but to consider ideas across schools and heritages in order to find the ones that best suit the current situation. (

16 © 2010 Alistair Cockburn Techniques & Strategies Shu-Ha-Ri The Crystal 3-step model Self-Awareness Values Priorities Personalities Reflection Theory Cooperative Game Lean Processes Knowledge acquisition Properties of Successful Projects

17 © 2010 Alistair Cockburn Users & Sponsors Testers Business Analysts Programmers UI Designers Software = manufacturing if Inventory = Decisions! Users & Sponsors

18 © 2010 Alistair Cockburn What's really happening is a System of Conversations Sponsor UX User ProgrammerBA TesterBuyer PMDeveloperProgrammer People resolving conflicts of parameters Programmer UX BASponsor Programmer UX

19 © 2010 Alistair Cockburn The new XXX is a mindset, cultural rules, structures of conversations, (and …?) What is the name for this?