Presentation at Mastering SAP 21st May 2017
Struggling with agile at scale? Thinking about scaling agile beyond the team? Want to learn from others’ mistakes? There is a lot to be learnt from those who have successfully hitchhiked their way through the galaxy of scaled agile. This session celebrates the scaled agile hitchhiker, the people who bravely tried ideas that were occasionally brilliant but often plain stupid. You will laugh, you will cry but you will also walk away with a nice long list of ideas not to try when scaling agile!
• Seven failure patterns in scaling agile
• An understanding of why these patterns lead to less than optimal results
• Tips on how to avoid falling into these failure patterns
5. INTRODUCING THE TOTAL PERSPECTIVE VORTEX
“To Trin Tragula’s horror, … he realised that he had
proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a
universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot have
is a sense of proportion”
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SURELY LIFE WOULD BE SIMPLER WITH ONE BIG TEAM...
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7. Who has seen or experienced this
anti-pattern in the enterprise?
8. 22 PEOPLE ON ONE AGILE TEAM?!?!
Project
Manager
Product Owner
Business
Analyst
Change Lead Technical Lead
Logical Data
Modeller
Physical Data
Modeller
Physical Data
Modeller
Vender Project
Manger
On Site ETL On Site ETL
On Site ETL Off shore ETL
Off shore ETL Off shore ETL
DBA
Business
Intelligence
Test Lead
Test Analyst
Enterprise
Architect
Data SME
Scrum Master
16. INTRODUCING THE BABEL FISH
The Babel Fish, by
effectively removing all
barriers to communication
between different races and
cultures, has caused more
and bloodier wars than
anything else in the history
of creation!
18. …..even with all these improvements, the game is no fun at all.
WE TRIED BASEBALL, AND IT DIDN’T WORK.
http://ronjeffries.com/xprog/articles/jatbaseball
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19. Who has seen or experienced this
anti-pattern in the enterprise?
23. INTRODUCING EDDIE, THE SHIPBOARD COMPUTER
Eddie:
I am pleased to inform you that two nuclear
missiles are now headed this way. If you don’t
mind, I am going to take action.
Zaphod:
COMPUTER DO SOMETHING!
Eddie:
Ok, switching to manual mode. Good luck!
31. MEET THE GALACTIC HYPERSPACE PLANNING COUNCIL
“People of Earth, your attention please.
This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council.
As you will not doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying
regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyerspatial express route
through your star system, and regrettably your planet is one of those
scheduled for demolition.
The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank
you.”
32. WATERFALL GOVERNANCE APPLIED TO AGILE DELIVERY?!
Executive Governance
Business Steering
Program Committee
OCM BPR
Assurance
Committee
IT Control
Program Board
Project
Control
Board
Project
Control
Board
Project
Control
Board
Program Board
Project
Control
Board
Project
Control
Board
Project
Control
Board
Compliance
Service
Operations
Agile Team
48. Who has seen or experienced this
anti-pattern in the enterprise?
49. What is the biggest impediment to delivery?
Agile without
Technical Practices:
Just doesn’t cut it!
Availability of
environments
Technical
Debt
Access to
data
Manual
Deployment
Processes
Lack of
Continuous
Integration
53. MEET ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, PRESIDENT
Trillian:
You idiot, you signed the
order to destroy Earth!
Zaphod:
I did?
Arthur:
He did?
Trillian:
Love and kisses, Zaphod? You didn’t even read it, did you?
Zaphod:
Well, I’m president, I don’t have a lot of time for reading.