Dan LeFebvre Agile/Scrum Coach, CSC © DCL Agility, 2012-2015

Meet Scrum’s Big Brother, Dynamic Governance Effectively Delivering Large Programs

John Buck Certified Sociocracy Consultant © Sociocratisch Centrum, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2012-2015

* Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) Certified Scrum Coach (CSC)

* Extensive experience in software product development as a developer, manager, director, and coach

* Using agile practices since 2003 * Agile Coach since 2006

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John Buck Director, GovernanceAlive LLC A division of The Sociocracy Consulting Group

* Certified Sociocracy (Dynamic Governance) Consultant since 2001

* Co-author: We the People: Consenting to a Deeper Democracy

* Extensive experience managing software development and large information systems implementation.

* Prototype experience using dynamic governance to bring Agile concepts to a whole organization (AdScale, Ltd.)

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* Three Dynamic Governance (DG) principles help Agile scale up:

o  Circles o  Double linking o  Consent

•  Policies •  Elections

* Use the principles to design whole organizations that are Scrum and Agile friendly.

Total design toolkit

Structure: -  Circles -  Double linking

Decision Making: - Consent

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* What's happening now? * What techniques are you using to scale?

* What challenges are you facing with large scale agile?

* Exercise * Each table is a scrum in a larger organization. Yellow card = product

owner (down-link).

* Person with the lowest birthday number is facilitator. (If you were born May 4, 1967 your number is 4; tie breaker: born earliest in day.)

* Person to right of Facilitator is Scribe.

* Facilitator - lead your table in answering the above questions. Go around to each person (including you). Each says their name, speaks once and answers both questions. Complete the task in no more than 2 minutes. Scribe take clear, legible notes.

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* “Operating System 2.0” • A comprehensive and elegant feedback system

• Guides production and planning

* Agile design increases capacity (“velocity”) throughout.

* Behavior: “political” to “scrummy” = joy J

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Circles (“Scrums”) - a hierarchy Lead-Do-Measure circular systems that overlays and guides the operational structure

Double-Linking – Circles/Scums connect both up and down.

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Department

Branch

Branch

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* Hierarchy isn’t inherently bad * Deal with abstractions

* Applying DG takes advantage of Conway’s Law * Each level of abstraction must be cross functional

* Apply scrum principles at each level

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“...organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.”

Conway’s Law

Scrum A1 Scrum A2

Product Line AB

Product B

Scrum B2 Scrum B1

Product A

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Explain job (In this case: scrum up link)

Fill out & hand in nomination forms: “(name) nominates (name)” (NOT Down-link)

Share reasons

Change round

Consent round (consent: no argued & paramount objection)

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DO NOT! •  Elect for an unlimited term •  Ask for a volunteer •  Inquire who is interested

•  Have dialog during a Round •  Seek the perfect candidate

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Form picture: F ask each up-link to summarize scaling challenges

Form proposal: What should be the key scaling challenge? (in a round)

Consent: F summarize the “all mind.” Consent to add to backlog?

* Three Dynamic Governance (DG) principles help Agile scale up:

o  Circles o  Double linking o  Consent

•  Policies •  Elections

* Use the principles to design whole organizations that are Scrum and Agile friendly.

Total design toolkit

Structure: -  Circles -  Double linking

Decision Making: - Consent

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* Questions?

* Next Steps

More information at:

www.DCLAgility.com &

www.GovernanceAlive.com

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