Jaco Viljoen

Principal

Consultant

The Agile Enterprise

Problems/Challenges

Now that we solved these problems,

what’s next?

Problems/Challenges

• Binary Thinking

• Project-level paradigm

• Management and Governance

• The bottleneck (IT Ops)

How does the world go about solving these?

What are the themes or trends?

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Trends

• Dominance of Scrum

• Agile is growing “up”

• Emergence of “Lean”

• DevOps: The New Kid on the Block

• Marriage of Agile, Lean and DevOps

“2 dimensional grid depicting enterprise agile frameworks" - Charles Cobb 2013

Trends: Dominance of Scrum

Scrum

"7th ANNUAL STATE of AGILE DEVELOPMENT SURVEY" - VERSIONONE® 2012

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Ken Schwaber Index

Trends: Agile is growing ‘up’

Scrum

Trends: Emergence of

Lean and Kanban

• Focus on the end-to-end value stream

• Different way to look at flow of work

• Lean looks at “delays”

• Kanban looks for “bottlenecks”

Kanban is principally

about making work flow

visible. It revolves around

a visual board for

managing work in

progress and making

flow—constraints to

flow—visible.

Trends: DevOps, the New Kid on

the Block• Generation 1: Operations use development tools

• Generation 2: Get developers and operations to collaborate

• Generation 3: Scale up to whole organisation

• Agile, Lean and DevOps are complementary

• Agile Reaches Ops (“Small DevOps”)

• Agile & Lean applied to the whole software delivery chain, not just

developers (“Big DevOps”)

• Should have been “BizDevQaSecReleaseOps”

Family name is “DevOps”

Trends: Marriage of

Agile, Lean and DevOps

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Putting it all together: “The Big Picture”

DevOps as the “backbone” of enterprise agility

• Emphasise the performance or agility of the entire system

• “Concept to Cash”

• Value stream: Include customers, business owners, development/test and operations/production)

• Collaboration; breaking down barriers

• Continuous flow of work

• Minimise delays

• Manage work in progress (bottlenecks)

Putting it all together: “The Big Picture”

DevOps as the “backbone” of enterprise agility

• Continuous Feedback

• Understand and respond to all customers, internal and external

• shorten and amplify all feedback loops

• embed knowledge where we need it

• Continuous Improvements (Culture of continual experimentation and learning)

• Create a culture that fosters two things:

• continual experimentation, taking risks and learning from failure

• understanding that repetition and practice is the prerequisite to mastery

The Agile Enterprise

The Agile Enterprise: What is most

important

Values:

1. Agility2. Collaboration3. Continuous… 4. Automate

Everything

1. Agility

• “A”gile vs.

“a”gility

• Pragmatism

• Agile fit in the

enterprise

Scrum

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

• Developed by Dean Leffingwell

• Enterprise-level agile framework

• Goal: “Sustainable Shortest Lead Time”

• Builds on:• Lean

• Principles of Product development Flow

• Agile (Scrum and XP)

• DevOps (small)

• Two knowledge bases:1. SAFe

2. Implementing SAFe

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Implementing SAFe

• Can co-exist with

Waterfall

• Implementation

Guidance

• Training and

Certification

2. Collaboration: Breaking Down Walls

Is your organisation like this?

2. Collaboration: Breaking Down Walls

"Agile was instrumental in development regaining the trust in the business, but it

unintentionally left IT operations behind. DevOps is a way for the business to regain

trust in the entire IT organization as a whole.“ - Clyde Logue, founder of StreamStep

3. Continuous …• Continuous Business Planning

• Continuous Build and Delivery Pipeline

• Continuous Integration

• Continuous Testing

• Continuous Delivery

• Continuous Monitoring

• Continuous Feedback and Improvements

What about

projects?

3. Continuous …

Is your organisation like this?

What about

projects?

3. Continuous …Two paradigms:

1. PMO view work as continues flow

(a.k.a. pipeline)

2. PMO view work as projects (work

flow within batch)

What about

projects?

4. Automate Everything

• Embed knowledge/learnings using

automation/tools

• The best way to change culture is to change

the tools

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Entry Points into the Agile Enterprise

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Managed Agile Development

Framework

• Developed by Charles Cobb

• Hybrid project-level framework

• Plan-driven approach layered on top of an Agile development

process

• Typically merge PMI/Prince 2 with Scrum

Disciplined Agile Delivery

Framework (DAD)

• Developed by Scott Ambler

• A project-level framework

Lean Startup Approach

• Developed by Eric Ries

• A startup

• is a human institution designed to

deliver a new product or service

under conditions of extreme

uncertainty

• Startup = Experiment

• Principles

• Entrepreneurship is management

• Validated Learning

• Innovation Accounting

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