adopting the scaled agile framework: the theory and the practice - dallas aln - october 2013
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Presentation given at Dallas Agile Leadership Network Meetup on 24th October 2013. http://www.meetup.com/Dallas-ALN/events/144390642/TRANSCRIPT
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ADOPTING THE SCALED AGILE FRAMEWORK: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE EM CAMPBELL-PRETTY, GM STRATEGIC DELIVERY
@PrettyAgile
www.prettyagile.com
au.linkedin.com/in/ejcampbellpretty/
THE EDW AGILE RELEASE TRAIN
Average delivery cycle time down from 12 month to 3 months
Frequency of delivery increased from quarterly to fortnightly
Cost to deliver down 50%
95% decrease in product defects
100% projects delivered on time and on budget
Happy project sponsors
Happy teams
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AGILE PILOT
5 Wagile Teams
4 Projects
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Image source: http://www.vectorloft.com/img/purple-person.jpg
THE AGILE RELEASE TRAIN
• A virtual organization of 5 – 12 teams (50-100 individuals) that plans, commits, and executes together
• Common cadence and normalized story point estimating
• Aligned to a common mission via a single program backlog
• Operates under architectural and UX guidance
• Produces valuable and evaluate-able system-level Potentially Shippable Increments (PSI) every 8-12 weeks
The ART is a long-lived, self-organizing team of agile teams that delivers solutions
Define new functionality
Implement Acceptance
Test Deploy
Repeat until further notice. Project chartering not required.
THE BEST WAY TO START
Train everyone at the same time
Same instructor, same method
Cost effective
Align all teams to common objectives
Commitment
Continue training during planning
Orientation for specialty roles
Open spaces
Tool training for teams
Training:
SAFe
ScrumXP
Release
Planning
Enterprise
Scrum
Master
Quickstart
Enterprise
Product
Owner
Quickstart
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
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You
Are
Agile,
Now
When you find the first train, go “All In” and “All at Once”
HOW WE
STARTED
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Deployment
Services
Development Services
Pipeline
Services
STRUCTURING THE AGILE RELEASE TRAIN
EPICS
FEATURES
STORIES
STRUCTURING THE WORK
VISUALISE THE PROGRAM PORTFOLIO
SCALING THE PRODUCT OWNER
Source: Agile Portfolio and Program Management in the Scaled Agile Framework, Dean Leffingwell, Agile Melbourne Meetup, 15/02/12
SCALING THE PRODUCT OWNER
EPIC OWNER
FEATURE OWNER
PRODUCT OWNER
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OPERATING THE AGILE RELEASE TRAIN
SCALING THE SPRINT
RELEASE PLANNING
• Two days every 8-12 weeks
• Everyone attends in person if at all possible
• Product Management owns feature priorities
• Development team owns story planning and high-level estimates
• Architects, UX folks work as intermediaries for governance, interfaces and dependencies
• Result: A committed set of program objectives for the next PSI
Cadence-based PSI/Release Planning meetings are the “pacemaker” of the agile enterprise
‘PSI-LITE’ BECOMES UNITY DAY
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THE PROGRAM BOARD
THE FEATURE WALL
CONTINUOUS INTER-TEAM COORDINATION
• Agile team members may visit other team’s…
• Backlog grooming: to see what’s coming next sprint, request adjustments
• Sprint planning: request adjustments
• Daily standups: follow up on execution
• Team Demo: summarize current stage
Agile teams self-manage dependencies and resolve risks
Agile Team 1
Agile Team 2
Dependent
story
Join other
team scrum
ceremony
SCALING COMMUNICATION: THE DAILY COCKTAIL PARTY
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9:00am 9:15am 930am
9:45am
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THE SYSTEM TEAM
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FEATURE TEAMS
SAFE SCRUM / XP
LEAN PRINCIPLES
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Respect for
People
Product
Development
Flow
Kaizen
RESPECT FOR PEOPLE
Net Promoter Score
Source: http://www.netpromotersystem.com/
KAIZEN MINDSET
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Source: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1018963/Articles/SpotifyScaling.pdf
THE FOUNDATION IS LEAN LEADERSHIP
A LITTLE TASTE OF OUR CULTURE
http://www.prettyagile.com/2013/05/the-power-of-haka.html
WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE EDW AGILE RELEASE TRAIN?
Check out my blog: www.prettyagile.com
• A Perspective on the Scaled Agile Framework
• What Happens to Project Managers When You Implement SAFe?
• Book Clubs at Work – Are You Serious?
• Bookshelf
• Leading Through Vulnerability
• The "Bubble Up" Approach to Scaling Retrospectives
• The Power of Haka
QUESTIONS?