The document provides an overview of agile strategies and challenges in large companies adopting agile. It discusses two main agile strategies - iterations for development and continuous flow for sustainment. Some common challenges in large firms include lack of clarity, experience, collaboration, strategic testing, and alignment. Ways to overcome these challenges include practicing agile principles, removing blockers, influencing others to pivot, and modifying team structures. Resources for learning agile include coaches, slack channels, and materials from IBM, Harvard Business Review, and VersionOne.

1. Agile in 20 min
• Why agile @IBM
• Who’s using?
• 2 kind of agile strategies
• The secret of agile
• Agile & velocity
• Challenges & how to overcome them
• Resources from outside and inside

2. Why Agile @IBM Now?

3. Why?
• Agile accelerates the delivery of Business Value (time to market)
• Agile fosters innovation and creativity in teams (wisdom of the crowd)

4. Big companies using the agile way

5. There are 2 main kinds of strategies
• Development  Iterations
• Sustain  Continuous Flow

6. Development  Iterations

7. Sustain  Continuous Flow

8. The secret of agile

9. What is agile?
What is velocity?
ability to move quickly and easily
the speed of
something in a given
direction

10. Challenges with Agile in
large companies

11. 1) Lack of clarity

12. - Iteration
- Release
- Project
Start setting goal for

13. 2) Continue referring to
old method

14. How to overcome?

15. How to overcome?
Just copy

16. 3) Lack of experience

17. How to overcome?
https://agile-ibm.mybluemix.net/
- Coaches
- Slack channels
Practice, practice and learning the new way of working…

18. 4) Lack of
collaboration

19. How to overcome?
Don’t do any planning alone!
Think, create and execute the plan together

20. 5) Lack of strategic
testing

21. How to overcome?
• Create a test plan
• Automate the test plan
• Don’t negotiate quality
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22. 6) Lack of alignment

23. How to overcome?
Through iterations
• Transparency
• Inspection
• Adaptation

24. 7) Large teams and big pyramid structures

25. How to overcome?
• Small teams  From 3 to 9
• Planning some iterations ahead
• Remove blockers
• Make the roadmap visible

26. 8) Not changing the objectives

27. How to overcome?
• Just change…
• Have courage to convince you boss
• Influence others to pivot

28. Modifying the structure of the teams should be the long term goal.
As Mike Cottmeyer says:
"True Agility is about breaking
dependencies across the entire
organization".

29. Good Resources from IBM (you may know =)
https://agile-ibm.mybluemix.net/
- Coaches
- Slack channels

30. Good Resources from Outside
• Harvard Business Review
• Embracing Agile
• The Secret History of Agile Innovation
• How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices
• VersionOne
• (2017) Annual State of AgileTM Report
• AGILE DONE RIGHT AND AGILE GONE WRONG
• Webcast with Jeff Satherland (co-creator of Scrum)

31. Questions, please =)