The document discusses an agile development approach called "The Pivotal Way". It emphasizes building a collaborative culture focused on agile practices like prioritized backlogs, daily standups, retrospectives, test-driven development, continuous integration, and pair programming. Pair programming involves developers working in pairs at shared machines with frequent rotation and is highlighted as a key competitive advantage. The document promotes bringing the agile and collaborative "Silicon Valley mindset" to more locations to help companies digitally transform.

1. Agile Development
The Pivotal Way
Josh Knowles
VP Engineering, Pivotal Labs EMEA

2. BECOMING A GREAT
SOFTWARE COMPANY…
IS NOT Just about agile development
OR Changing how products are built

3. IT’S ABOUT BUILDING A
GREAT CULTURE

4. Picture of Dev Environment of the past. Fills screen.
Your teams can’t look like this…

5. They need to look like this.

6. How you used to deploy – file ticket to get environment spun up
done with a build; ask IT to deploy; some sense of being slow
Deploying and release management can’t look like this…

7. Picture of CF Deploy
It needs to look like this.

8. PRODUCT ENGINEERS CONSULTANTS SOFTWARE ENGINEERS
Industry Expertise Business Model Software Development
LEGACY APPROACH TO
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

9. LEGACY APPROACH TO
ENGINEERING
Engineers
Quality Assurance
Release Engineers
Infrastructure
Operations
x500
x100
x25
x35
x50
ENGINEERING DIVISION

10. THERE IS A NEW WAY
OF DOING THINGS

11. IN THE FUTURE
REFOCUS

12. FOCUS NOW MEANS BEING AN
INDUSTRY EXPERT
AND A GREAT
SOFTWARE COMPANY

13. ENABLING SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
WITH PIVOTAL OPEN
CLOUD PLATFORM

14. Embrace cloud platform evolution, adopt an agile development
methodology, and let your developers find their voice.
Rediscover So=ware Development
DEPLOYDEVELOPDESIGNDEFINE

15. Embrace cloud platform evolution, adopt an agile development
methodology, and let your developers find their voice.
DEPLOYDEVELOPDESIGNDEFINE
BUILD SOFTWARE WITH YOU
VALUE PROPOSITIONS
SHOW YOU HOW WE DO IT
THE PIVOTAL WAY
COLLABORATIVE
DISCIPLINED
ITERATIVE
TRANSPARENT
HOW WE DO IT

16. PRIORITIZED BACKLOG

17. INCEPTION

18. ITERATION PLANNING

19. DAILY STANDUP

20. RETROSPECTIVES

21. COLLABORATION

22. PAIR PROGRAMMING

23. Pair Programming
● Developers sit in pairs
● Projects are staffed in even numbers
● All machines are communal
● No laptops/iPhones
● Ping pong pairing
● Frequent pair rotaJon
● Pair is a “sacred” unit
● UX designers and testers pair with developers as needed

24. Pairing Benefits
● Shares codebase knowledge quickly
● Very high bus count
● Higher quality code (two heads beRer than one)
● More focus (you actually work for 8 hours/day)
● Forced verbalizaJon avoids ratholes
● Greater discipline around other technical pracJces
● Faster onboarding
Pair programming is truly our top compeJJve advantage

25. AGILE PAIR PROGRAMMING
SCALES
3 MONTHS 6 MONTHS 9 MONTHS 1 Year
EXPERT
NOVICE

26. TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT

27. CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION

28. SILICON VALLEY
IS NOT A PLACE.
IT’S A STATE OF MIND.

29. THE SILICON VALLEY
MINDSET IS PORTABLE
San Francisco Palo Alto Boston Boulder Chicago Denver
Los Angeles London New York Toronto Washington DC

30. LET’S BRING
SILICON VALLEY
TO GERMANY
jknowles@pivotal.io

31. Digital Transformation Forum
Disrupt or Be Disrupted
19 OCTOBER · BMW WELT EVENT CENTRE · MUNICH