This document discusses delivering business value through agile practices. It notes that being agile is about exhibiting agility through one's work rather than labeling oneself as agile. It also discusses deal breakers such as prioritizing story points over value delivered, focusing on customer needs over features, dysfunctional teams, lack of demos, and ignoring business factors like budgets, forecasts and economics. The document advocates an approach combining lean manufacturing principles with agile software development to scale delivery while also emphasizing strategy, collaboration, autonomy and learning.

1. Delivering Business Value
The Deal Breakers
Ravi Kumar
ravikumar.rk@gmail.com
June 28, 2014

2. First things first…
• You aren’t an agile programmer—you’re a
programmer who programs with agility.
• You don’t work on an agile team—your
team exhibits agility.
• You don’t use agile tools—you use tools
that enhance your agility.
• It’s easy to tack the word “agile” onto
just about anything. Agility is harder to
misappropriate.
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http://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/
time-to-kill-agile/ - Dave Thomas
Agility?
www.clickertraining.com

3. Value?
First things first…
• the regard that
something is held to
deserve; the importance,
worth, or usefulness of
something.
• the material or monetary
worth of something.
• the worth of something
compared to the price
paid or asked for it.
-Google www.shutterstock.com

4. Deal Breaker - 1
• Is there a standard
way to do this?
• Story Points delivered
is misleading
Measuring Value
www.eclipsepc.com

5. What’s in the Backlog?
Deal Breaker - 2
Kano's model focuses on
differentiating product features,
as opposed to focusing initially
on customer needs

6. Dysfunctional agile teams!!
Deal Breaker - 3
Namesake Backlog
Standardised
Estimates
Sprint Plannings
Iteration Chaos
Nothing to Show & Tell

7. Industrialised Software Delivery
Process…
Deal Breaker - 4
www.theverge.com
• Replicating lean
manufacturing in software
development.
• Factory approach

8. SCALE Agile…..but is there
Deal Breaker - 5
S - Strategy
C - Collaboration
A - Autonomy
L - Learning
E - Evolve
www.skmurphy.com

9. Where’s the Business side of things?
•Budgets and Forecast
•Forecasts are not
estimates
•Ignoring Economics is not
pragmatic
Deal Breaker - 6
http://www.contactvirginmedia.com

10. 10
Business Forecasting
Future Ready: How to Master Business Forecasting
Choices
Predictability

11. www.makeuseof.com
Agility in dev alone will not
drive Business Value !!