The document discusses business agility and how to achieve it through continuous experimentation, rapid feedback, and keeping systems poised for change. It outlines factors like agile software development principles, internal software quality measures, evolutionary architecture principles, and continuous delivery practices. These help lower the cost and risk of experimentation while maximizing visibility and feedback. The goal is for the business to be agile through experimenting often, being prepared to change quickly yet safely, and relying on evidence over guesses to balance predictability and opportunities.

1. Poised for Change
The Virtuous Cycle of Business Agility
Rebecca Parsons
Chair Agile Alliance

2. Measure the outcomes
Quick delivery and release (aka Agile)
and then... repeat
Continuous design and experimental design
Testable hypothesis
The virtuous cycle goes like this
Business Agility

3. So... what does
it really take?

4. Experiment often
Be prepared to change quickly yet safely
Visibility into progress and performance
Rely on evidence not guesses
Balance predictability and opportunities
Factors

5. And How Do We Do
That?

6. Agile Software
Development
Transparency, rapid feedback, unambiguous definition of done,
PRINCIPLES!

7. Internal Software
Quality
time scope quality trade-off, evolvability, measure continuously and
focus on trends

8. Principles of
Evolutionary
Architecture
Architect for testability and Postel’s law and micro-services and
reversability

9. Last Responsible
Moment
Delay as long as you can, maximize info minimize debt, drivers
define responsible

10. Continuous
Delivery
Automate almost everything, standardize as much as you can, CI,
automated testing, boring deployments

11. Continuous Design
Bring agility to user experience, incremental design on experience
metaphor, focus on user, how to really test the hypothesis and
measure results

12. What About the
Organization?

13. Dilemma
Cost control requires stability
whereas
Value generation requires
responsiveness

14. Differentiators
Matter! What are
yours?
Actually, what hold for your business?

15. Separate
Commodity
Activities
But be ready to pull back

16. Manage at the
Portfolio Level

17. Goal
Business Agility

18. Lowering the cost and risk of
experimentation
Architecting for real adaptability
Keeping systems poised for change
Aligning the organization
Maximizing visibility and feedback
Achieved by

19. Thank you!
http://rebeccaparsons.com
rebecca.parsons@agilealliance.org