What does it take for a software development process to result in a successful delivery? What are the factors that lead to that success? Join me for stories from the field to take you into the heart of a successful (and/or failed) software delivery process. How are the new ways of delivery (e.g. Agile Software Development) can assist? And how to begin with? Bring in your curiosity and don’t hesitate to ask any questions that come to your mind.

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Inner Stories of Successful Agile
Software Delivery; Discovering The
Golden Key Of
Shahin Sheidaei

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Once Upon A Time!
Shahin Sheidaei
Founder & Principal Coach
Elevate Change Inc.
Developer Frustrated
To Gain Experience
Need Experience
Scrum Master
Project Manager

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Once Upon A Time!
Shahin Sheidaei
Founder & Principal Coach
Elevate Change Inc.
Certified Scrum Master
Certified Agile Professional
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Agile Team Facilitation
Professional in Agile Coaching
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Systems Coaching

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Hello! Nice to Meet you!
Shahin Sheidaei
Founder & Principal Coach
Elevate Change Inc.
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What Are You Going
to Hear About?
1. Stories of Agile Software Delivery
a. Experiences, observations, and learnings
b. Failures and Patterns
2. A tool that you might use, and it might be stinky!
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Let’s do
Software
Delivery
My Story
We’re
Smart!
Even they are
doing it!
Code is
Future!
Artificial
Everything
It’s the
Trend!
It’s cool!
Solving Puzzle
You and
Machine

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Let’s Dig In

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Software Development Process (SDLC)
● Structured Programming
● Cap Gemini SDM
● Structured systems analysis and
design method
● Information Requirement
Analysis/Soft systems
methodology
● Object-oriented programming
(OOP)
● Rapid application development
(RAD)
● Dynamic systems development
method (DSDM)
● Scrum
● Team software process
● Rational Unified Process (RUP)
● Extreme programming
● Agile Unified Process (AUP)
● Disciplined agile delivery (DAD)
● Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
● Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)
● DevOps

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Software Development Methodologies
● Agile development
○ DSDM
○ Kanban
○ Scrum
○ Crystal
○ Atern
○ Lean software development
● Continuous integration
● Incremental development
● Rapid application development
● Spiral development
● Waterfall development
● Advanced methodologies
● Behavior-driven development
● Chaos model
● Incremental funding methodology
● Lightweight methodology
● Structured systems analysis and
design method
● Slow programming
● V-Model
● Unified Process (UP)
● Big Bang methodology

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● Java
○ 1.5
○ 1.6
● JavaScript
○ JScript
○ React
○ NodeJ
○ Angular
# of Computer Programming Language
9000+
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What Can Go Wrong?
● So many options to choose from?
○ Processes
○ Frameworks
○ Methodologies
○ Principles
○ ...
● We are smart, collectively!
● The result should be awesome!

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Working Hard Story
● Team Lead
● Spinning hard
● Less than 5% used it
Sequential
(Waterfall)

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Working Hard Story Team Lead
Spinning hard
Less than 5% used it
Sequential
(Waterfall)

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Shouting Story
Scrum Master
Team Set up
Sprint Review
A request from VP
Scrum

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Shouting Story Scrum Master
Team Set up
Sprint Review
A request from VP
Scrum

17. Government Story
Kanban
A huge program
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18. Government Story
Still lots of handoffs,
miscommunication,
missed requirements ...
Still lots of dependencies,
with other teams to make it
Done Done!
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19. Government Story
Kanban for the
Infrastructure Team
It’s a gentle change, meet
them where they are
...
It’s a flow, let’s Kanban! Security Tooling Incident Infra
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20. Government Story
Started locally, to elevate
all to a level that we can
talk about flow.
To show them the
common denominator to
agree upon.
If you think about it, each
providing a service.
Although systematically
looking was a service for
Dev teams.
Security Tooling Incident Infra
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21. Government Story
We got some local to
whole flow optimization:
Agree on Dissatisfactions
was not there: The basis
of evolution.
Each providing a service.
Changes of managers in
between, consultants as
managers, not there for
the full picture.
Security Tooling Incident Infra
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22. What Happened at Last?
Was it the culture the root
cause?
A complex domain it is.
No more consultants!
No more program level
improvements!
Organization-wide cease.
Was it the layers of
Decision Making?
Was it the vision?
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23. Is that All? More Story? Around It? In Depth?
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24. Speed of “things” ...
Startup
Telecommunications
Banks
Government
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25. Work/Life Balance
After a month
No one showed up
This was for a session to
agree on change
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26. Doers v.s. Deciders
Security Tooling
Incident
Support
Infrastru
cture
4 Senior
Leadership
w/o CIO
Team of 6
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27. What Did You Learn? What Are You Going To Do
Different Tomorrow?
Aha moments
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Lessons
Practices

28. Success in Software Delivery is more than ...
Processes
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Framework
Methodology

29. Success is more about ...
People
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Change
Whole Working

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Integral Theory
Leadership Circle
There are more than things just “Software”

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There are more than
things “Software” and even
can be combined!

32. Since 2000, over 52% of fortune 500 companies are
gone
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It’s a fast pace, complex and always changing world we live in!
Speed of change is
amazingly fast!

33. Success is more about ...
People
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Change
Whole Working

34. The Golden Key Of is ...
Follow The Path
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Build On Skills You Have
Experience, Fail, Learn & GROW

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Thanks
Shahin Sheidaei
Founder & Principal Coach
Elevate Change Inc.
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