Transcending Cultures, Timezones and Countries

Transcending Cultures, Timezones,and CountriesPresented by Mahesh BaxiPrepared by ChiragDoshi, NitinDhall & Mahesh BaxiJanuary 2010
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About Me
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About the Topic
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Key Tenets of Agile
Something that can negatively impact the success of an agile project
Large scale development
Distributed development
Command-and-control
Forcing agile on teams

What Does Scaling Mean?
Team Size Geographical Distribution Domain Complexity Technical Complexity Volumes DurationPerformance Release Planning Project Management DistributedMulti-Team Projects Functionality Stakeholders Integration Points
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Journey Through Agile Key Principles
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Early and continuous delivery of valuable software
Welcome changing requirements
Deliver working software frequently
Collaboration
Face-to-face conversation
Maintain constant pace indefinitely
Attention to technical excellence and good design
Self-organizing teams

What you don’t want
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Agility and Scale – It can work
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Shared goal, vision and objectives
Team Organization
Planning
Communication
Bottlenecks
Implementing new ideas
Team rotations
Continuous Integration
Staying Focused
Importance of Toolsets

Shared Vision, Goals & Objectives
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Shared Vision, Goals & Objectives
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Team Organization – Typical Agile Team
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Installables
Code Repository
Cruise

Team Organization – Scaled Agile Team
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Installables
Code Repository
Cruise

Planning
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Inceptions
Across Teams
Roll-up Plans
Capacity & Schedule
Dependencies

Planning – Watch out for
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Story size and estimate baseline across teams
Story dependencies between teams
Individual team velocity not to be used for comparison
Story and feature level automation

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Team Organization
Planning
Communication
Bottlenecks
Team rotations
Staying Focused

Communication
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Communication – Be Creative
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Video conferencing
Scrum of scrums
Daily delivery catch-up
Information radiators
Release charts with key dates
Dependency charts
Program update meetings
Huddles
Knowledge sharing and maintaining shared context

Bottlenecks / Constraints – put it in perspective
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Story sign-offs
Automation / Regression
UAT
Release Planning
Builds
Check-ins / SVN / Branching
Capacity Planning

Ideas – Ground-up, Keep it coming
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Idea Wall
Larger Picture
High impact
Allocate Capacity
Communicate Innovation

Team Rotations - Ownership
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Collective Ownership
Financial Impact
Capacity Planning
Technical Excellence
Aspiration / Happiness

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Team Organization
Planning
Communication
Bottlenecks
Team rotations
Staying Focused

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Faster Feedback
Installers
Impact of broken builds
Single Build vs. aggregation
Conflict Resolution
Tool Selection

Staying Focused
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Executive
Dashboard
Programme Status
Work Steam Status

Staying Focused
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Importance of Tools – Key Player
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Scalability is important
Change is not easy
Easy to use / Intuitive
Flexibility
Reporting / Dashboarding
Should fit with architecture

Scalable Agility across cultures, countries and Time zones
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Early and continuous delivery of valuable software
Welcome changing requirements
Deliver working software frequently
Collaboration
Face-to-face conversation
Maintain constant pace indefinitely
Attention to technical excellence and good design
Self-organizing teams

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Thank you!

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