3 ways to sync up development and operations' dependencies

Dominica DeGrandis

www.ddegrandis.com

@dominicad

Three ways to sync up dev and ops dependencies

Sponsored and hosted by –

Swift-Kanban Mountain View, CA

Sep 5th, 2012

Agenda:

• Introductions

• A Quick word from the Sponsor

• Three Ways to Sync-up Dev and Ops Dependencies

• Q&A

• Wrap-up

Today’s Panelists

• Dominica DeGrandis

Host

• Mahesh Singh, Co-founder, Sr. VP – Product, Digite, Inc.

A Quick Overview

• A Pioneer in Web-based Collaborative Products/ Solutions for Geographically Distributed Teams

• Headquartered in Mountain View, CA

• Nearly 300,000 users in the Americas, Europe, Asia/ Pacific

• Products that cover Lean/ Kanban, Agile ALM, Project/ Portfolio Management

• Swift-Kanban is our flagship Lean/ Kanban product.

• Named by Gartner in ALM Market Scope report and other ALM documents

Partial list of Digité Customers

Key Customers

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Audience Questions

problem

“Um, we just discovered you need to…”

another problem

“Sorry, project x is a higher priority...”

problems

1. Emergencies from unknown dependencies

2. Dependencies are not considered a priority from another department or vendor.

1. Add dependent tasks from another team to your kanban board

Courtesy David Lutz

Duplicate ticket from other

teams board placed on Ops

board.

Dependency tags

Data Input Design Test Deliver

work item tagged as

impacting Ops team.

3. Waiting …

Courtesy Mike Burrows 4. Special boxed area

#5 Dependency matrix

How will we know?

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

On hold

Proposed

Prioritised

Ready for Dev

Dev

Testing

Ready forReleaseReleased

Implemented

Courtesy Mike Burrows

How will we know?

emergencies

projects

Maintenance/ improvements

How will we know?

emergencies

projects

Maintenance/ improvements

3 5 ways to sync up dev and ops dependencies

1. Add tasks directly to other teams kanban board.

2. Dependency tags on each others boards.

3. Waiting queue

4. Special boxed area

5. Dependency matrix for large orgs or external vendors.

Questions?

Dominica DeGrandis

www.ddegrandis.com

@dominicad

3 5 ways to sync up dev and ops dependencies

Kanban Buffet: Pick and choose what works

for you and leave

the rest behind.

Thank You!

Visit us at –

http://www.ddegrandis.com/

Write to us at –

dominica@ddgrandis.com

Visit us at –

www.swift-kanban.com

Write to us at – sales@digite.com

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