State of Affairs in Agile Value Creation - Impact and Value of Agile 2014 - Ben Linders

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Organizitions want to have insight in the values that Agile can bring to them. They want to know if and how Agile can help to satisfy customer needs more quickly, and what they can do to increase productivity and reduce development and operations costs. It is important to know the value that Agile can deliver and to be able to measure it. At the event Impact and Value of Agile, organized by the Agile Consortium, I presented the State of Affairs in Agile Value creation.

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State of Affairs Agile Value creation
The Impact and Value of Agile, May 23 Bilthoven
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Agile, Lean, Quality & Continuous Improvement
Retrospectives Facilitator, Agile Coach/Mentor
CMMI & People-CMM Assessor
Freelance Editor on Enterprise Agile for InfoQ.com
Who is Ben Linders?
Co-Author Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives
A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises
eBook: Download on InfoQ or Leanpub
Print: June 2014 on Lulu.com

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Agile Value
• Deliver Right Product
• Short Time to Market
• Increased Productivity
• Happy Employees
• Lower Costs
• Higher Quality
 Self-Organization
 Continuous Improvement

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Does Value Matter?
Managers
• Decide to Invest
• Manage Agile Adoption
Teams
• Doing Things Right
• Doing the Right Things

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Can we Measure Value?
1968 – NATO conference on Software Engineering
Measuring Software Development started in the 1970’s
Most software methods include how to measure
Software Measurement Pitfalls
• Too few measurements
• Too many measurements
• Bad analysis of the data
• Measurement is not the Goal
• You get what you measure

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Studies on Agile
2007 Empirical studies of agile software development by Alarcos
2008 The Agile Impact Report by QSM for Rally Software.
2009 The Business Value of Using Agile Project … by David F. Rico.
2011 Economics of Software Quality by Jones and Bonsignour
2012 Evidence of Success of Agile Projects Columbus Agile Productivity
2012 Agile Werkt by Hennie Huijgens
2013 Evaluating Agile and Scrum … by Capers Jones
2013 Agile Performance Metrics by Rally and SEI
2014 Agile portfolio management … by Christoph Johann Stettina

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Value is in the eye of the beholder
Lake Gunn, New Zealand

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Value is in the eye of the beholder
Koh Tao, Thailand

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Value is in the eye of the beholder
Taal Vulcano, Philippines

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Background Information

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Assessing yourself
• Agile Readiness
• Agile / Scrum Practices
• Culture & Mindset
• Agile Fluency
• Roadmaps for Adoption
• Maturity
Agile Self-Assessments

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Books on Software Metrics
• Value Based Software Engineering
• Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach
• Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering
• Five Core Metrics: The Intelligence Behind Successful Software Management
• The Economics of Software Quality
• Software Engineering Economics
• The Economics of Iterative Software Development
• Principles Of Software Engineering Management
• Practical Software Measurement
• Measuring the Software Process
• Applied Software Measurement
• The Business Value of Agile Software Methods
• Agile Werkt
• Trends in Business & IT

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Articles on Effective Agile
• Designing Valuable Agile Retrospectives
• We Want Agile Processes
• Self-Assessing How Agile You Are
• Sustainable Improvement through Agile Retrospectives
• Becoming Agile and Lean
• Succes Factors for Using Scrum and Getting Benefits
• Process Improvement: The Agile Way
• Golden Rules for Agile Process Improvement
• How to deal with Resistance when Implementing Agile
• Managing Projects with Agile Teams
• Agile Project Management
• Establishing and Maintaining Stable Teams
• Getting Business Value out of Agile Retrospectives
• Sharing Knowledge is Power
• Are your Professionals Empowered?

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Other resources
• Sources of Software Benchmarks by Capers Jones
• SEI Measurement & Analysis

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Where we are seeing more and more individual and team level learning and continuous improvement in organizations, improvements at the higher levels still tend to pose significant challenges. We learn as a team and learn how to be a team, but when we reach the borders of our team and have to deal with more complex systems involving people from our ecosystem and even sometimes from people outside our ecosystem, many improvement practices break down and don’t lead to sustainable results. At the same time, the bigger and more complex our solutions become, the more we need to be able to secure improvement at all levels in the organization. In this talk, Ben Linders will explore what we can do to increase our understanding of systematic problems at higher levels in organizations, and how to use that to improve the performance and agility of organizations. He will show how we can apply techniques like system/multi-team retrospectives and systems thinking to get improvement going at a level of two higher than the team, and present the benefits that this can bring to teams and organizations as a whole.

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Nowadays, many agile teams are doing retrospectives regularly. They are investing time to reflect, learn, and take action to improve their way of working and deal with problems that they are facing in a structural way. Organizations are seeing the benefits from this: teams that are becoming empowered, being able to deliver more value, happy employees, and fewer people leaving the organization. It’s time to take retrospectives to a higher level, and use them to reveal and solve systematic organizational problems. Problems that exist at a project or product level are related to the collaboration between teams and their stakeholders. Agile retrospectives can be used to do that, but you need a different approach. In this session, Ben Linders will show how we can use retrospectives to improve the agility of organizations.

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1. 1 Ben Linders Advies State of Affairs Agile Value creation The Impact and Value of Agile, May 23 Bilthoven Ben Linders Advies

2. 2 Ben Linders Advies Agile, Lean, Quality & Continuous Improvement Retrospectives Facilitator, Agile Coach/Mentor CMMI & People-CMM Assessor Freelance Editor on Enterprise Agile for InfoQ.com Who is Ben Linders? Co-Author Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises eBook: Download on InfoQ or Leanpub Print: June 2014 on Lulu.com

3. 3 Ben Linders Advies Agile Value • Deliver Right Product • Short Time to Market • Increased Productivity • Happy Employees • Lower Costs • Higher Quality  Self-Organization  Continuous Improvement

4. 4 Ben Linders Advies Does Value Matter? Managers • Decide to Invest • Manage Agile Adoption Teams • Doing Things Right • Doing the Right Things

5. 5 Ben Linders Advies Can we Measure Value? 1968 – NATO conference on Software Engineering Measuring Software Development started in the 1970’s Most software methods include how to measure Software Measurement Pitfalls • Too few measurements • Too many measurements • Bad analysis of the data • Measurement is not the Goal • You get what you measure

6. 6 Ben Linders Advies Studies on Agile 2007 Empirical studies of agile software development by Alarcos 2008 The Agile Impact Report by QSM for Rally Software. 2009 The Business Value of Using Agile Project … by David F. Rico. 2011 Economics of Software Quality by Jones and Bonsignour 2012 Evidence of Success of Agile Projects Columbus Agile Productivity 2012 Agile Werkt by Hennie Huijgens 2013 Evaluating Agile and Scrum … by Capers Jones 2013 Agile Performance Metrics by Rally and SEI 2014 Agile portfolio management … by Christoph Johann Stettina

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11. 11 Ben Linders Advies Background Information

12. 12 Ben Linders Advies Assessing yourself • Agile Readiness • Agile / Scrum Practices • Culture & Mindset • Agile Fluency • Roadmaps for Adoption • Maturity Agile Self-Assessments

13. 13 Ben Linders Advies Books on Software Metrics • Value Based Software Engineering • Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach • Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering • Five Core Metrics: The Intelligence Behind Successful Software Management • The Economics of Software Quality • Software Engineering Economics • The Economics of Iterative Software Development • Principles Of Software Engineering Management • Practical Software Measurement • Measuring the Software Process • Applied Software Measurement • The Business Value of Agile Software Methods • Agile Werkt • Trends in Business & IT

14. 14 Ben Linders Advies Articles on Effective Agile • Designing Valuable Agile Retrospectives • We Want Agile Processes • Self-Assessing How Agile You Are • Sustainable Improvement through Agile Retrospectives • Becoming Agile and Lean • Succes Factors for Using Scrum and Getting Benefits • Process Improvement: The Agile Way • Golden Rules for Agile Process Improvement • How to deal with Resistance when Implementing Agile • Managing Projects with Agile Teams • Agile Project Management • Establishing and Maintaining Stable Teams • Getting Business Value out of Agile Retrospectives • Sharing Knowledge is Power • Are your Professionals Empowered?

15. 15 Ben Linders Advies Other resources • Sources of Software Benchmarks by Capers Jones • SEI Measurement & Analysis

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