To stay relevant in a world of accelerating change, business executives are increasingly striving for greater business agility. To achieve this, the modern enterprise faces challenges such as: • Increased responsiveness to market demands, • Managing business agility at the portfolio and program level, • Aligning business and IT agility, • Extending software development agility to the greater application life cycle, • Scaling agile practices so that it perpetuates throughout the organisation, • Enabling agility using DevOps toolsets that significantly enhance productivity and speeds up delivery. Join Jaco Viljoen, Principal consultant for Agile Software Development at IndigoCube and hear about the latest thinking in scaling agile to the enterprise and learn how to address these problems. Furthermore, Viljoen will discuss the state of agile today, agile frameworks for the agile enterprise, enabling DevOps toolsets, and how it all comes together to facilitate business agility.

2. Jaco Viljoen
Principal
Consultant

3. The Agile Enterprise

4. Problems/Challenges
Now that we solved these problems,
what’s next?

5. Problems/Challenges
• Binary Thinking
• Project-level paradigm
• Management and Governance
• The bottleneck (IT Ops)
How does the world go about solving these?
What are the themes or trends?
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6. Trends
• Dominance of Scrum
• Agile is growing “up”
• Emergence of “Lean”
• DevOps: The New Kid on the Block
• Marriage of Agile, Lean and DevOps

7. “2 dimensional grid depicting enterprise agile frameworks" - Charles Cobb 2013
Trends: Dominance of Scrum
Scrum
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8. 2001
2004
2007
Ken Schwaber Index
Trends: Agile is growing ‘up’
Scrum

9. Trends: Emergence of
Lean and Kanban
• Focus on the end-to-end value stream
• Different way to look at flow of work
• Lean looks at “delays”
• Kanban looks for “bottlenecks”
Kanban is principally
about making work flow
visible. It revolves around
a visual board for
managing work in
progress and making
flow—constraints to
flow—visible.

10. Trends: DevOps, the New Kid on
the Block
• Generation 1: Operations use development tools
• Generation 2: Get developers and operations to collaborate
• Generation 3: Scale up to whole organisation

11. • Agile, Lean and DevOps are complementary
• Agile Reaches Ops (“Small DevOps”)
• Agile & Lean applied to the whole software delivery chain, not just
developers (“Big DevOps”)
• Should have been “BizDevQaSecReleaseOps”
Family name is “DevOps”
Trends: Marriage of
Agile, Lean and DevOps

12. The Agile Enterprise

13. Putting it all together: “The Big Picture”
DevOps as the “backbone” of enterprise agility
• Emphasise the performance or agility of the entire system
• “Concept to Cash”
• Value stream: Include customers, business owners, development/test and operations/production)
• Collaboration; breaking down barriers
• Continuous flow of work
• Minimise delays
• Manage work in progress (bottlenecks)

14. Putting it all together: “The Big Picture”
DevOps as the “backbone” of enterprise agility
• Continuous Feedback
• Understand and respond to all customers, internal and external
• shorten and amplify all feedback loops
• embed knowledge where we need it
• Continuous Improvements (Culture of continual experimentation and learning)
• Create a culture that fosters two things:
• continual experimentation, taking risks and learning from failure
• understanding that repetition and practice is the prerequisite to mastery

15. The Agile Enterprise

16. The Agile Enterprise: What is most
important
Values:
1. Agility
2. Collaboration
3. Continuous…
4. Automate
Everything

17. 1. Agility
• “A”gile vs.
“a”gility
• Pragmatism
• Agile fit in the
enterprise
Scrum

18. Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Developed by Dean Leffingwell
• Enterprise-level agile framework
• Goal: “Sustainable Shortest Lead Time”
• Builds on:
• Lean
• Principles of Product development Flow
• Agile (Scrum and XP)
• DevOps (small)
• Two knowledge bases:
1. SAFe
2. Implementing SAFe
http://scaledagileframework.com/

19. Implementing SAFe
• Can co-exist with
Waterfall
• Implementation
Guidance
• Training and
Certification

20. 2. Collaboration: Breaking Down Walls
Is your organisation like this?

21. 2. Collaboration: Breaking Down Walls
"Agile was instrumental in development regaining the trust in the business, but it
unintentionally left IT operations behind. DevOps is a way for the business to regain
trust in the entire IT organization as a whole.“ - Clyde Logue, founder of StreamStep

22. 3. Continuous …
• Continuous Business Planning
• Continuous Build and Delivery Pipeline
• Continuous Integration
• Continuous Testing
• Continuous Delivery
• Continuous Monitoring
• Continuous Feedback and Improvements
What about
projects?

23. 3. Continuous …
Is your organisation like this?
What about
projects?

24. 3. Continuous …
Two paradigms:
1. PMO view work as continues flow
(a.k.a. pipeline)
2. PMO view work as projects (work
flow within batch)
What about
projects?

25. 4. Automate Everything
• Embed knowledge/learnings using
automation/tools
• The best way to change culture is to change
the tools

26. The Agile Enterprise

27. Entry Points into the Agile Enterprise

28. The Agile Enterprise

30. 30

31. Managed Agile Development
Framework
• Developed by Charles Cobb
• Hybrid project-level framework
• Plan-driven approach layered on top of an Agile development
process
• Typically merge PMI/Prince 2 with Scrum

32. Disciplined Agile Delivery
Framework (DAD)
• Developed by Scott Ambler
• A project-level framework

33. Lean Startup Approach
• Developed by Eric Ries
• A startup
• is a human institution designed to
deliver a new product or service
under conditions of extreme
uncertainty
• Startup = Experiment
• Principles
• Entrepreneurship is management
• Validated Learning
• Innovation Accounting
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