Managing Projects/Releases using Lean/Agile techniques
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Learn how to plan, manage and measure Projects/Releases using Lean/Agile techniques Emphasis on visibility, estimation techniques, different approaches to commitments and buffering.
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Title:
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Struggling to create a healthy synergy between OKRs and Agile/Scrum/SAFe? You're not alone. In this session, we provide a high-level overview of OKRs, identify some common OKR usage issues/anti-patterns, and suggest improvements leveraging Lean/Agile principles and practices. You will learn how to organize around value through an OKR lens. We will understand the connection between OKRs, KPIs, Products / Value Streams, and what that means for leveraging OKRs in the different Scrum/SAFe elements. We will discuss how Evidence-based Management (EBM) can amp up OKR empiricism. By the end of this session, you will understand the relationship between OKRs, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, and EBM and have concrete ideas for how to help your organization leverage them in synergy.
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Struggling to create a healthy synergy between OKRs and Agile/Scrum? You're not alone. In this session, we provide a high-level overview of OKRs, identify some common OKR usage issues/anti-patterns, and suggest some improvements leveraging Lean/Agile principles and practices.
You will learn how to organize around value through an OKR lens. We will understand the connection between OKRs, KPIs, Products / Value Streams, and what that means for leveraging OKRs in the different Scrum elements. We will discuss how Evidence-based Management (EBM) can amp up OKR empiricism.
By the end of this session, you will understand the relationship between OKRs, Agile, Scrum, and EBM and have concrete ideas for how to help your organization leverage them in synergy.
Using OKRs in the SAFe Enterprise - Align and Focus on outcomes and enable bu...
Struggling to create a healthy synergy between OKRs and Agile/SAFe? You're not alone. In this session, we will identify some OKR anti-patterns and suggest alternative approaches more aligned with SAFe Lean/Agile principles. You will learn how to organize around value through an OKR lens as well as how to improve portfolio focus through economic prioritization and flow management of OKRs. We will understand the connection between OKRs, KPIs, Operational and Development Value Streams, and what that means for leveraging OKRs in the different SAFe elements. By the end of this session, you will have an understanding of the relationship between OKRs and SAFe and concrete ideas for how to help your organization leverage them in synergy.
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Struggling to create a healthy synergy between OKRs and Agile/SAFe? You're not alone. In this session, we will identify some OKR anti-patterns and suggest alternative approaches that are more aligned with SAFe Lean/Agile principles. You will learn how to organize around value through an OKR lens as well as how to improve portfolio focus through economic prioritization and flow management of OKRs. We will understand the connection between OKRs, KPIs, Operational and Development Value Streams, and what that means for leveraging OKRs in the different SAFe elements. By the end of this session, you will have an understanding of the relationship between OKRs and SAFe and concrete ideas for how to help your organization leverage them in synergy.
In this session, you will learn to:
Understand the relationship between OVS/DVS through KPIs and OKRs and using it to reorganize around value through the OKR lens
Focusing at the strategic level by combining OKRs, Epics, WSJF and the Portfolio Kanban
Using SAFe's PIP PI Objectives approach to set more aligned and realistic OKRs. Using OKRs thinking in PIP to move from output to outcomes on the DVS/ART
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-What Scrum means for you as a leader
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-How leaders can support the Scrum accountabilities, artifacts and events
-How leaders can leverage Scrum to help them lead their teams
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Learning Objectives:
Assess their competency level of their ART/Program when it comes to ability to validate value
Evolve their Inspect and Adapt events to enable validation value based on real outcomes
Extend their Program and Portfolio Kanbans to help manage the flow of learning and validation.
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SAFe for Marketing – Extending Towards Real Business Agility - Global SAFe Su...
SAFe’s home turf is product/systems/applications development. Let’s talk about challenging this comfort zone by applying it in one of the core business functions – Marketing. Why? Because the marketing operating system is being disrupted and the larger the marketing organization the more it struggles to maintain relevancy and impact. More and more marketing organizations are seeing the impact of Agile and want to benefit as well. How should an organization using SAFe in R&D/IT look at Agile in Marketing? Is SAFe the right choice? Does it work “as is”? Are there any changes needed to support this new context? What are some lessons learned from trying this in the field?
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At some point in your enterprise transformation you should consider applying SAFe outside of Product Development/IT. Marketing is a great candidate for a next Value Stream to implement SAFe in.
Agile Marketing is possible not just for small nimble companies but also for large organizations with hundreds of marketers and several legacy silos. SAFe provides a blueprint for how to achieve this.
Understand the differences in applying SAFe outside of Product Development/IT and how to adjust the Big Picture / Implementation Roadmap to accommodate these differences.
The ideal “Business Agility” state is actually to bring together Marketing, Product Management/Development, Sales into one Value Stream.
This talk was delivered in the global SAFe Summit in DC in October 2018
Building Quality In in SAFe – The Testing Organization’s Perspective
SAFe emphasizes Building Quality In. We will take a deep dive into how this looks from a testing organization’s perspective and what does a SAFe implementation mean for Testing/QA professionals. We will map SAFe’s approach to best practices in the “”Agile Testing”” world. We will look at examples from the real world of how traditional testing organizations shift left and evolve towards continuous testing.
Learning Objectives and Key Takeaways:
Understand how best practices from the “”Agile Testing”” world map to SAFe’s context
Learn ideas and patterns for evolving Testing/QA’s role during a SAFe implementation
Understand how Test-Driven looks like and how techniques like Acceptance-Test-Driven-Design/Behavior-Driven
Development can empower testers as well as improve the flow on SAFe agile teams.
See how SAFe’s principles can be used to guide the evolution towards a lean/agile testing organization
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Should you use Scrum, Kanban, or DevOps? You don’t have to choose: Scrum teams improve when they look at flows inside and outside their sprints from a Lean/Kanban perspective. In this session we will talk about Kanban-related myths prevalent in the Scrum world and identify common ground between them. We will look at ways to bring Kanban flow into your Scrum: the Kanban-based Sprint/product backlog, flow-based daily Scrum, visualizing aging work, and flow-based Sprint planning .We will describe ways to wrap Scrum with a Kanban flow system, and at the higher-level picture of a DevOps culture and process.
You’ll leave with a better understanding of how Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps relate to each other and with ideas for experiments to try when back at work.
Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps Sitting in a Tree… - Big Apple Scrum Day 2018
Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps Sitting on a Tree... (Learn how to leverage Kanban & Scrum together and how to fit DevOps into the picture) Should we use Scrum? Should we use Kanban? Where does DevOps fit into the picture? The best agile teams already know they don’t need to choose. Scrum teams improve when they start to look at flow inside and outside their sprints. Kanban teams improve when they have a disciplined cadence, and effective Product Ownership and Scrum Mastership. DevOps really is mainly about doing Agile the right way. In this session, we will look at a core definition of Scrum, Kanban & DevOps, do some myth-busting as well as identify the quite significant common ground between Scrum, Kanban and DevOps. We will then look at practical ways like the Kanban-based Sprint Backlog, Flow-based Daily Scrum, Visualizing aging work, Flow-based Sprint Planning - which bring some Kanban flow into your Scrum. We will look at how to bring Scrum roles/events/artifacts into your Kanban. We will look at ways to wrap Scrum with a Kanban Flow system that looks upstream/downstream and at the higher level picture of a DevOps Culture/Process. You’ll leave with a better understanding of how Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps relate to each other and with some ideas for experiments to try when back at work.
10 Essential SAFe(tm) patterns you should focus on when scaling Agile
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It's time to call an end to this stupid civil war within the agile camp. The best agile teams already know that it is not a choice between Scrum and Kanban, but they are complementary. Scrum teams improve when they start to look at flow inside and outside their sprints. Kanban teams improve when they have a disciplined cadence, and effective Product Ownership and Scrum Mastership.
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Common Ground - The foundations that both approaches highlight
Complementary Practices - what can we add from Kanban to our Scrum and vice versa
Key differences - where you really need to make a choice
Myths - differences that are talked about which really are not there
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- 1. Managing Projects/Releases Using Lean/Agile Techniques Yuval Yeret Lean/Kanban/Agile Coach @ AgileSparks
- 2. Brief Intro AgileSparksis an elite firm focused entirely on helping companies improve their product development operations, by leveraging Lean/Agile/Scrum thinking and techniques. Find us at www.agilesparks.com Yuval Yeret – Lean/Kanban/Agile Consultant/Coach, coming from R&D leadership background, specializing in Kanban and scaling agile through Lean.
- 3. Agenda Agile Release Planning in the Real world Managing Agile Releases Agile End Game Agile Program/Release Trains Measuring Agile Release
- 4. Agile has no Buffers Must Scope 4 Average Velocity? Finish Date Planned Capacity? Priority Worst case Velocity
- 7. “There are no Buffers in Agile” TASK
- 8. Fit Scope to Timeline 8 Worst Average
- 9. Fit Timeline to Scope Stretch Scope Must Scope 9 Stretch Velocity Finish Date Priority Safe/ Committed Velocity
- 10. The Chicken and Egg problem(aka Bootstrapping Velocity…) http://www.truthandscience.net/chicken_or_egg.%202gif.jpg
- 11. History 101 Compare current features/stories to previous releases (even if before Agile) Look at actual effort and time of previous releases Derive approximate Velocity
- 12. Flash Forward Plan the few upcoming Features/Stories in detail Guesstimate the ratio between estimate time and actual time on tasks (Ideal to Actual) Derive the velocity
- 13. Team Commitments within Release Commitments 13 Committed scope DELIVERED Teams commit to what they CAN BUT stretch and able to close gap Finish Date Trend shows Exceeding release stretch goals!!! Priority Back on track Committed Scope in risk!!!
- 16. Release Cumulative Flow https://wiki.rallydev.com/display/rlyhlp/Release+Cumulative+Flow+Chart
- 19. Tracking Dark Matter David Anderson - http://agilemanagement.net/index.php/Blog/revealing_dark_matter/
- 20. AgileEVM Courtesy Amdocs Process Eng group
- 21. The Endgame
- 25. How do we minimize Buffering for the next Project/Release?
- 26. Better Predictability Must Scope 26 Finish Date Priority
- 27. Stable Velocity
- 28. Which is Better?
- 33. Focus on a “Train service” rather than “Taxis” “Project” requirements delivered on main product releases Product Roadmap delivered on main product releases Key? Delivering a frequent and reliable main product release. Build Quality In – Focus on making these releases bulletproof Improve Customer Satisfaction Solution for “Give it to me on the stable release” How to escape this Vicious Cycle?
- 34. Product or Project Release Iteration Story
- 35. Measures for effective Releases
- 37. Release Cost Breakdown Trend Reduced overheads lead to more budget for New Features
- 38. Ask us how “Managing Agile Projects/Programs” Workshop – Coming Soon… (Contact me to be notified about next public workshop) yuval@agilesparks.com @yuvalyeret www.linkedin.com/in/yuvalyeret http://www.slideshare.net/yyeret/