Release Planning Days @meeticStory of a collective ritual of agile acculturation

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Speakers

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Nicolas Kalmanovitz

Agile transformation director @meetic@kalmanovitzN

Agile Game player & creator I Trop calme I

Alban Dalle

Scaling Agile Tribe leader & Agile coach @Octo Technology@adalle

# Release Planning Days in practice @meetic# Lessons learned in implementation # A powerful lever of agile transformation

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Agile transition @meetic

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Product team pilots

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# Release Planning Days in practice @meetic# Lessons learned in implementation # A powerful lever of agile transformation

A quarterly meeting for teams to synchronize

Release Plan - Example

Team Release Plan

July

Aug.

Sept.

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4

5

6

1 – Strategy presentation

2 - Release Planning tentative per team

3 – Dependencies management

4 - Release Plans finalization

5 – Results sharing and confidence vote

# Release Planning Days in practice @meetic# Lessons learned in implementation # A powerful lever of agile transformation

# how did we implement it?

# thing big – start small – scale fast

# rely on your agile champions…

# …and on management

# survey+retrospective on the ritual

# communicate!

# Release Planning Days in practice @meetic# Lessons learned in implementation # A powerful lever of agile transformation

#another story

#ready to scale?

#deal with resistance to change

#…#use the resistance

# find the connector

#just piggyback

#well known or tailor made

#waterfall & agile together ?

#easier to scale

#culture hacking ?

#learning by doing

#one rhythm for all

#taste the magic

#start with why

#adapt collaboratively

#lean is great, less is more

#process is yours

#neuroscience

#culture

#proud

#collective strenght

#do you want to try?