This document outlines 10 ingredients for a successful Agile transformation: 1) Establish why changes are needed by aligning with organizational values and goals. 2) Develop an Agile strategy including practices, tools, and empowering self-organization. 3) Train managers. 4) Use a pilot project to test changes. 5) Scale practices across teams using a transition team to address culture, support, resources and impediments. 6) Create new roles and provide training/coaching. 7) Use cross-functional teams. 8) Maintain technical excellence. 9) Drive cultural change to prioritize customer satisfaction. 10) Make the transformation self-sustainable through coaches, communities of practice, and HR support.

1. 10 INGREDIENTS
FOR A SUCCESSFUL
AGILE
TRANSFORMATION
Giuseppe De Simone
http://evolutionaryagility.blogspot.it/
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2. Once upon a time…

3. Once upon a time…

4. La situazione di partenza

5. Let’s do Agile!

6. But…

7. 1. The first step: Why?
Make changes
Simple and Cheap

8. - Organizational values
- Vision and Business goals
- Management culture and behaviors
- Resources and support
2. The Strategy
- Agile practices and tools
- Self organization and empowerment

9. 3. Training managers

10. 4. The pilot project

11. 4. The pilot project
Ref. Mike Cohn - Succeeding with Agile, Software Development Using Scrum

12. 5. Scaling up

13. Agile Teams
6. The Transition Team
Transition
Backlog
Product
Backlog
Product
Backlog
Product
Backlog
Transition Team
Culture, Support,
Resources, Guidance
Impediments

14. 7. Creating the new roles:
Training and Coaching

15. 8. Cross-Functional Teams

16. 9. Technical Excellence
Continuous attention to
technical
excellence and
good design
enhances agility.

17. 10. The Cultural Change
Our highest priority is to satisfy the
customer through early and continuous
delivery of valuable software.
The best architectures, requirements, and
designs emerge from self-organizing
teams.

18. 11. Make your transformation
self-sustainable
• Internal Coaches
• CoPs
• HR

19. Baby
Steps
Il miglioramento continuo
12. Use an Empirical Approach

20. “All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current
conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by
challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.
Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of
censorship.”~ George Bernard Shaw

22. Is it worth it?

23. Is it worth it?
Average Lead Time
(Different Agile releases)

25. Conclusions

26. The inevitable truth
“Agile development will not solve
any of your problems – it will
just make them so painfully
visible that ignoring them is
harder”
Ken Schwaber

28. Contacts
• Giuseppe De Simone
– mail: giuseppe.desimone@ericsson.com
– Twitter: @giusdesimone
– Linkedin:
• http://it.linkedin.com/in/giuseppedesimone
– Slideshare:
• http://www.slideshare.net/giusdesimone/
– web:
• http://evolutionaryagility.blogspot.it/