3. Today’s Agenda
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9:30AM to 9:45AM Kickoff
9:45AM to 11:45AM Data Hack
11:45AM to 1:00PM Lunch
1:15PM to 1:30PM Video Presentation
1:30PM to 2:10PM Data Hack Demo
2:10PM to 2:30PM Guest Presentation
2:30PM to 3:15PM Data Hack Demo Continued
3:15pm to 3:45pm Scoring and Results
AXP Internal
5. Hackathon Teams and Ideas
Software
Capitalization
Exposure
Educate our
Customers!
CA Agile
Central
activity
reporting
Turning
Questions
into
Exclamations!
Predictive
Resourcing
Design the integration and
reporting hierarchies of
PMT and CA Agile Central
Connecting Plan-Build-
Run with E2E reporting
End to End Transparency
Rock
Our Assets Change Zone The Matrix KNERDS 2.0
Predictive
Resourcing TrIdea
AXP Internal
16. Change Zone
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Educate our Customers!
Joe Sworan
Sujoy Chakraborty
Amanda Gilmore
Amy Newman
John Lodola
Sara Ann Mayo Knab
Tina Napier-Harvey
AXP Internal
25. TRIDEA
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Design the integration and reporting hierarchies of PMT and CA Agile Central
Connecting Plan-Build-Run with E2E reporting
End to End Transparency
David Packman
Greg Amundson
Chand Warrier
Tim Eaton
Nikunj Anil Kumar Jain
Eva Platten
Karin Hicks
AXP Internal
26. 26
Tridea
Design the integration and reporting hierarchies of PMT and CA Agile Central
Connecting Plan-Build-Run with E2E reporting
End to End Transparency
29. 29
Thank
you
Leadership & Oversight
Lorraine Shumway
Kevin George
Logistics
Peggy M Kirkeby
John Dolecek
Lokesh Joshi
Amanda Gilmore
Jagadish Nagavajhala
David Packman
Participant Check-in Terri Thompson
Master of Ceremony
(EMCEE)
Tina Napier Harvey
John Lodola
Food & Beverages Peggy M Kirkeby
Judge
Co-ordination
Tina Kluemper
Amanda Gilmore
Rock Our Assets
Software Capitalization Exposure
Francine DiMicele
Melyssa Olsen
Laura Beal
Lisa Mendez
Faby Munoz
Change Zone
Educate our Customers
Joe Sworan
Sujoy Chakraborty
Amanda Gilmore
Amy Newman
John Lodola
Sara Ann Mayo Knab
Tina Napier-Harvey
The Matrix
CA Agile Central Activity Reporting
Deille Wagner
Lokesh Joshi
Kristen McManus (Virtual)
KNERDS 2.0
Turning Questions into Exclamations!
Jeffrey Hughes
Douglas Gavilanes
Shian Weeresinghe
Manikumar Raju Alluri
Predictive Resourcing
Predictive Resourcing
Mike Faulds
Mikelyn Labrum
Rob McCoy
TrIdea
Design the integration and reporting hierarchies of PMT and CA Agile Central
Connecting Plan-Build-Run with E2E reporting
End to End Transparency
David Packman
Greg Amundson
Chand Warrier
Tim Eaton
Nikunj Anil
Kumar Jain
Eva Platten
Karin Hicks
A short brief of SDLC-Reimagined
TT Data Hack is part of the SDLC-Reimagined initiative
Data is the building block of everything we do! In the reports we build, analysis we perform, decisions we influence and optimizations we drive. A great combination of Product Management and data focused on value to customer is paramount.
In data analysis, success depends on asking the right questions. Framing a proper business question/right question is critical to end up with the useful insights.
Confident that there are wonderful examples of data and insights in the ideas competing today.
Be Back at 1:00 PM
Problem StatementSoftware Capitalization that is lost in Cancelled initiatives or held hostage in Approved/On-Hold initiatives cost American Express millions by not reducing our expenses on our balance sheet where we show our profitability.
For example, if a Top Master was Approved in 2012 and carried over year after year, even if its Sub-Projects were closed along the way, SWC would not be realized until the Top Master Project is marked as Complete (closed). There are many projects that were Approved between 2012 and 2016, but remain in Approved or On-Hold status with yearly actuals.
We need to identify these projects in order to either close them out or educate folks on the proper procedures in order to realize SWC benefits going forward.
Describe the Solution- Generate reports for the following:
1. Cancelled Projects - Identify the Cancelled projects, amount of SWC actuals lost by Project Type, Project Sub-Type, Work Classification, Agile vs. Waterfall, Created or Approved Year, LOB2, Resource POD Level 4, 5, and 6, Project ID, Funding Type, and Master Project Indicator
2. Approved and On-Hold Projects - Identify the Approved and On-Hold projects, amount of SWC actuals being held hostage (by year and total) by Project Type, Project Sub-Type, Work Classification, Agile vs. Waterfall, Created or Approved Year, LOB2, Resource POD Level 4, 5, and 6, Project ID, Funding Type, and Master Project Indicators.
- After the reports are generated, perform the following:
1. Analyze each of these to determine trends and outliers, and capture overall insights into the data that can then be shared with leadership. This will help in determining the key info to use for building visualizations.
2. Build visualizations on the key trends and insights to share with leadership.
3. Create a final analysis documents that includes graphs, charts, learning's, and recommendations (next steps) to share with leadership.
Problem StatementCustomer satisfaction has been one of our on going goals, but we tend to be reactive instead of proactive most of the time. ( regardless of the information we throw at the customer during change moments)
We can certainly be as proactive as we can with monthly forums, open coaching and other communications, but when they come a knockin' (via SPOT, IM or Emails) directing them to information to educate themselves would be key in reducing the "frequent flyers" as well as creating a better educated customer. (and perhaps even reducing SPOT tickets)
Describe the SolutionHere are my proposed solutions;
First - A redesign of the SPOT landing page. Let's turn that page into more of a self help guide, and have the option to open a ticket as a very last option. We currently have "open a ticket" as the customers first option, and do not give any opportunity for them to explore a resolution for themselves. Granted there are truly technical issues that need to be addressed by our application SME's, it's a small percentage compared to resolutions that can be done by the customer themselves..
Second - Review our information in the SDLC Learning Center and CAPA to ensure
content is updated and accurate. We will link the customer directly to that content.
Third - Continue to collect detailed metrics on what the customers struggle with and addressing monthly forums and open coaching sessions
Fourth - Create an "application blog" and collect customer comments about change moments in an effort to be more proactive on how we can improve communications for these changes. (This could also provide data into whether we really need to do that change?)
Problem StatementWe are looking to find out:
how many standing agile teams do we have across the AET work space
how many "teams" are using multiple (execution) spaces for their work instead of one home space
how disbursed or dedicated are Scrum Masters and Product Owners
is the space being used for scrum or Kanban based on what we can tell from the behaviour on the space
Describe the SolutionThe look back API can provide activity per user per space. We are looking for a way to retrieve this information and aggregate it to be able to identify the points above and others that might become available as we review the data.
Problem StatementThe forecasting environment is challenging, with teams and departments using different methodologies that often result in less than accurate forecasts. This can cause consternation when forecasts go awry. For example, cumulatively, the AET forecast was off by around $592 million last year. We think we can do better.
Describe the SolutionDeep dive into Clarity and Rally data to determine what attributes help or derail projects, teams, and/or departments from not hitting the forecast they’ve committed to. Use data crunching, math, and stats to give us a competitive advantage. Utilize regression models and decision trees when and where possible.
Problem StatementThere is little or no transparency into resource utilization.
Describe the SolutionBy correlating data from Rally, the Enterprise Blue Print and the PMT we believe that we can develop a better understanding the of capability(ies) that each team supports and the capacity allocated to those capabilities.
Idea 1: Design the integration and reporting hierarchies of PMT and CA Agile Central:
Problem StatementCurrently, there is not a consistent reporting hierarchy that links the Rally data and metrics to the PMT data and metrics to provide leadership a view of the delivery metrics by product, platform, funding unit and team.
Describe the Solution1. Define the needed metrics and aggregations being requested by the PMO teams and Leaders
2. Redefine the definitions of Project in PMT and Initiatives in Rally
3. Utilize the Portfolio Items hierarchy(Rally) and the POD/Department hierarchies(PMT) to provide the new reporting.
Idea 2: Connecting Plan-Build-Run with E2E reporting:
Problem StatementToday there is no mechanism to connect our Investment-to Spend-to Performance (all three are important, most of the time organization miss the 3rd piece i.e. performance). We have this challenge today because we use multiple tool and we have not connected these tools together to get the E2E data we need.
E.g., For the $$$$ that is invested by the business, at any given point of time I do not know how much of work has been accomplished, what is the productivity/ velocity that I am getting for these $$$, at the given productivity/ velocity when will I run out of money, what is the performance of the invested $$$ like how many deployments were done, how much BV has already gone into production and what else will I get with the remaining invested $$$$, etc.
PS: This idea is an extension to what Greg's idea to integrate and Rally.
Describe the SolutionConnecting these 5 tools (CAPPM, CAAC, JIRA, XLR, ServiceNow) will give us a big start. Before we jump into connecting these tools we need to spend time, brainstorm on Data architecting our solution which rarely happens. I see this dataHack to be an opportunity to get the architecture going.
Idea 3: End to End Transparency
Problem StatementCurrently there is no complete transparency from idea to investment, from investment to development and from development to production in delivering software solutions. In order to get value stream, product, team or other quantifiable performance metrics we need the ability to connect the data in multiple systems in order to make quicker and valuable decisions.
Describe the SolutionBy connecting and extracting data from CAPPM, CAAC and ITSM, leadership will have the insight into investment decisions, value propositions, team capacity, failure rates, etc. This solution sharing data between the three systems will provide:
the connection between the development effort (user stories) (CAAC) and production deployment (ITSM)
defects (incidents and problems in ITSM) and the development team, via service ops back into the development tool CAAC)
the development work (CAAC) and funding (CAPPM)
automation of the RFC process (ITSM)
burn rate (CCAC) to compare to forecast and budget (CAPPM)
3rd Place:
Idea in Backlog for further development
3rd Place Certificate (Soft) for every team member
500 BlueAward points for every FTE Team member in the team
Bragging Rights!
2nd Place:
2nd Place Team Trophy
Idea in Backlog for further development
2nd Place Certificate (Soft) for every team member
1000 BlueAward points for every FTE Team member in the team
Bragging Rights!
Champion/Winner:
Team Trophy – Champions
Idea in Backlog for further development
Winner Certificate (Soft) for every team member
2000 BlueAward points for every FTE Team member in the team
Bragging Rights!
Leadership and Oversight
Lorraine Shumway (Executive Sponsor)
Kevin George (Direction and Leadership)
Logistics
Peggy M Kirkeby
John Dolecek
Lokesh Joshi
Amanda Gilmore
Jagadish Nagavajhala
David Packman
Participant Check-in
Terri Thompson
Master of Ceremony (MC)
Tina Napier Harvey and John Lodola
Food, Snacks and Beverages
Peggy M Kirkeby
Judge Co-ordination
Tina Kluemper, Amanda Gilmore
Media
Tom McMorris (Blog)Sujoy Chakraborty (Photos, Videos)
Technical Support
Gordon Arunga
Rahul Gupta
Lokesh Joshi