An Enterprise Agile Transformation: Lessons Learned at Unum - Miljan Bajic, Agile Coach at Unum

1. “IT often has multiple generations of technology, one overlaid on the other,
customized into strange designs by unique requirements, deployment styles,
and the crazy pressures of costs and deadlines.
It is the technology equivalent of the Grand Canyon’s layered and eroded geology.
We are all curators of IT museums. We spend much of our budget maintaining them.”
- Dan Blum
We are all curators of IT museums

2. Miljan Bajic, CEC, MBA, PMP
Agile Coach
@miljanbajic @agilemaine
An Enterprise Agile Transformation: Lessons Learned at Unum

3. Our IT systems are a tangled mess
“Software and cathedrals are much the same – first we build them, then we pray.”
-Sam Redwine

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5. So, how's it going at Unum?

6. So, what did we learn?
We can't be “agile” if only the development teams are doing “Agile”

7. “Water-Scrum-Fall” is a Reality for Unum

8. Building an internal capability for scaling and
sustaining changes is essential.