Agile methods provide benefits over traditional approaches such as lower costs, fewer defects, and higher success rates. Studies show that agile projects have lower costs by 61% on average and 93% fewer defects. Agile adoption is widespread, with 80% of organizations using some agile practices. The number of certified scrum masters has doubled in two years, yet there remains a shortage of qualified agile practitioners. Agile is used successfully across many industries, including highly regulated domains.
Business Value of Agile Organizations: Strategies, Models, & Principles for E...David Rico
Agile Organizations, Enterprises, and Businesses are emerging models for successfully managing 21st century human-capital, knowledge, and Internet technology-intensive global businesses. Dr. Rico will establish the context, provide a definition, and describe the value-system for lean and agile organizational strategies. He'll provide an overview and comparative analysis of major lean and agile frameworks, models, principles, and practices. He’ll then introduce a meta-model for achieving business-level agility based upon best-of-breed values, principles, and practices discussed herein. He'll also provide a brief survey of the costs, benefits, and performance results achieved by lean and agile organizations. Finally, he'll close with a summary of tips, tricks, technique, and common pitfalls of the lean and agile business paradigm. This briefing has been warmly received by multiple government agencies, businesses, and Fortune 500 firms throughout the U.S.
Intro to Agile Methods for Execs, Leaders, and ManagersDavid Rico
Quick, overview of an Introduction to Agile Methods for Business Executives, Technical Leaders, and Systems Developers. Begins with the impetus for using agile vs. traditional methods and techniques, an overview of why traditional projects fail, a definition of agile methods, and a quick overview of its value system, principles, and organizational context. Then, provides a quick survey of major competing lean and agile methods, techniques, paradigms, their evolution, and history. Provides a quick snapshot of the predominant agile methodology Scrum and its major ceremonies. Then, it provides a broad survey of the costs, benefits, return on investment, and business performance of using lean and agile methods at the project, program, portfolio, organization, industry, and national levels. Wraps up with a few high-profile case studies, and a summary of agile project management principles.
Business Value of CI, CD, & DevOpsSec: Scaling to Billion User Systems Using ...David Rico
This is a presentation on the "Business Value of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, & DevOps(Sec): Scaling Up to Billion User Global Systems of Systems Using End-to-End Automation & Containerized Docker Ubuntu Cloud Image-Based Microservices," which are late-breaking 21st century approaches for rapidly and cost-effectively building high-quality global information systems, minimum viable products, minimum marketable features, service oriented architectures, web services, and microservices using containerization and end-to-end automation.
Growth of SAFe in Government Acquisitions, Contracts, & PortfoliosDavid Rico
Highly-practical 20-minute overview of the growth of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 4.5 for managing multi-billion dollar U.S. Government portfolios of Petabyte-Scale Cloud-Computing Data Center-based Repositories. Starts with a brief definition and overview of portfolio management, agile timelines, government adoption, sample of competing lean and agile frameworks, and then goes into a deep-dive and cross examination of SAFe 4.5's major anatomical elements. Focuses on principles of lean and agile portfolio management, leadership, business value, and, more importantly the lean and agile value system itself. Clears up nagging misconceptions concerning SAFe, like it’s undeserved reputation as a heavy, unproven WIP-intensive traditional framework (by focusing on lean and agile thinking, practical real-world business value, and the softer principles of the agile manifesto like conversations, visualizations, flexibility, simplicity, and continuous improvement).
Comprehensive overview of using Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Development Operations (DevOps), and Development Operations Security (DevOpsSec). Describes the current global environment, basic lean and agile principles, and the evolution of Microservices. From there, a detailed deep-dive of TDD, BDD, CI, CD, DevOps, and DevOpsSec principles and practices ensues. Closes by identifying key DevOps tool automation ecosystems/pipelines, metrics, case studies, return on investment (ROI)/business cases, implementation roadmaps, adoption statistics, leadership insights, and a summary. Contains a lot of helpful data for constructing DevOps strategic business cases as well as tactical implementation strategies (while not ignoring essential elements such as microservices, containerization, and application security).
Highly-innovative and unique introduction to bleeding-edge lean and agile concepts, values, principles, frameworks, models, and practices for organizational change. Learn how to design state-of-the-art 21st century organizations successfully innovate, change, adapt, compete, and achieve sustainability in the new merciless global high-technology landscape. Begins with the impetus for using lean and agile thinking and an overview of why organizational struggle and even so often fail. Provides definition of agile and lean thinking, a quick overview of lean and agile values, principles, behaviors, context, and frameworks. Introduces bleeding-edge lean and agile organizational change models and then dives into a model-by-model explanation, illustration, and overview. Also introduces key metrics, measurements, models, and outcomes, as well as real-world business results and effects at organizational, national, and global landscape. Closes with a summary of key lessons, principles, insights, and critical success factors for achieving global large-scale organizational change and competitiveness (as well as further resources).
Quick overview of Metrics, Models, and Measures for successfully measuring and managing the performance of Lean & Agile portfolios, programs, projects, and teams. Begins with the impetus for using lean and agile vs. traditional methods and techniques, an overview of why traditional projects fail, a definition of lean and agile metrics, and a quick overview how metrics support its basic value system, principles, and organizational context. Then presents a broad taxonomy of product, project, tracking, testing, business value, health, and portfolio metrics, models, and measures. Then, it provides a broad survey of the costs, benefits, return on investment, and business performance of using lean and agile methods at the project, program, portfolio, organization, industry, and national levels. Wraps up with a few high-profile case studies, and a summary of lean and agile project measurement principles.
Business Value of Agile Organizations: Strategies, Models, & Principles for E...David Rico
Agile Organizations, Enterprises, and Businesses are emerging models for successfully managing 21st century human-capital, knowledge, and Internet technology-intensive global businesses. Dr. Rico will establish the context, provide a definition, and describe the value-system for lean and agile organizational strategies. He'll provide an overview and comparative analysis of major lean and agile frameworks, models, principles, and practices. He’ll then introduce a meta-model for achieving business-level agility based upon best-of-breed values, principles, and practices discussed herein. He'll also provide a brief survey of the costs, benefits, and performance results achieved by lean and agile organizations. Finally, he'll close with a summary of tips, tricks, technique, and common pitfalls of the lean and agile business paradigm. This briefing has been warmly received by multiple government agencies, businesses, and Fortune 500 firms throughout the U.S.
Intro to Agile Methods for Execs, Leaders, and ManagersDavid Rico
Quick, overview of an Introduction to Agile Methods for Business Executives, Technical Leaders, and Systems Developers. Begins with the impetus for using agile vs. traditional methods and techniques, an overview of why traditional projects fail, a definition of agile methods, and a quick overview of its value system, principles, and organizational context. Then, provides a quick survey of major competing lean and agile methods, techniques, paradigms, their evolution, and history. Provides a quick snapshot of the predominant agile methodology Scrum and its major ceremonies. Then, it provides a broad survey of the costs, benefits, return on investment, and business performance of using lean and agile methods at the project, program, portfolio, organization, industry, and national levels. Wraps up with a few high-profile case studies, and a summary of agile project management principles.
Business Value of CI, CD, & DevOpsSec: Scaling to Billion User Systems Using ...David Rico
This is a presentation on the "Business Value of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, & DevOps(Sec): Scaling Up to Billion User Global Systems of Systems Using End-to-End Automation & Containerized Docker Ubuntu Cloud Image-Based Microservices," which are late-breaking 21st century approaches for rapidly and cost-effectively building high-quality global information systems, minimum viable products, minimum marketable features, service oriented architectures, web services, and microservices using containerization and end-to-end automation.
Growth of SAFe in Government Acquisitions, Contracts, & PortfoliosDavid Rico
Highly-practical 20-minute overview of the growth of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 4.5 for managing multi-billion dollar U.S. Government portfolios of Petabyte-Scale Cloud-Computing Data Center-based Repositories. Starts with a brief definition and overview of portfolio management, agile timelines, government adoption, sample of competing lean and agile frameworks, and then goes into a deep-dive and cross examination of SAFe 4.5's major anatomical elements. Focuses on principles of lean and agile portfolio management, leadership, business value, and, more importantly the lean and agile value system itself. Clears up nagging misconceptions concerning SAFe, like it’s undeserved reputation as a heavy, unproven WIP-intensive traditional framework (by focusing on lean and agile thinking, practical real-world business value, and the softer principles of the agile manifesto like conversations, visualizations, flexibility, simplicity, and continuous improvement).
Comprehensive overview of using Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Development Operations (DevOps), and Development Operations Security (DevOpsSec). Describes the current global environment, basic lean and agile principles, and the evolution of Microservices. From there, a detailed deep-dive of TDD, BDD, CI, CD, DevOps, and DevOpsSec principles and practices ensues. Closes by identifying key DevOps tool automation ecosystems/pipelines, metrics, case studies, return on investment (ROI)/business cases, implementation roadmaps, adoption statistics, leadership insights, and a summary. Contains a lot of helpful data for constructing DevOps strategic business cases as well as tactical implementation strategies (while not ignoring essential elements such as microservices, containerization, and application security).
Highly-innovative and unique introduction to bleeding-edge lean and agile concepts, values, principles, frameworks, models, and practices for organizational change. Learn how to design state-of-the-art 21st century organizations successfully innovate, change, adapt, compete, and achieve sustainability in the new merciless global high-technology landscape. Begins with the impetus for using lean and agile thinking and an overview of why organizational struggle and even so often fail. Provides definition of agile and lean thinking, a quick overview of lean and agile values, principles, behaviors, context, and frameworks. Introduces bleeding-edge lean and agile organizational change models and then dives into a model-by-model explanation, illustration, and overview. Also introduces key metrics, measurements, models, and outcomes, as well as real-world business results and effects at organizational, national, and global landscape. Closes with a summary of key lessons, principles, insights, and critical success factors for achieving global large-scale organizational change and competitiveness (as well as further resources).
Quick overview of Metrics, Models, and Measures for successfully measuring and managing the performance of Lean & Agile portfolios, programs, projects, and teams. Begins with the impetus for using lean and agile vs. traditional methods and techniques, an overview of why traditional projects fail, a definition of lean and agile metrics, and a quick overview how metrics support its basic value system, principles, and organizational context. Then presents a broad taxonomy of product, project, tracking, testing, business value, health, and portfolio metrics, models, and measures. Then, it provides a broad survey of the costs, benefits, return on investment, and business performance of using lean and agile methods at the project, program, portfolio, organization, industry, and national levels. Wraps up with a few high-profile case studies, and a summary of lean and agile project measurement principles.
Return on Investment (ROI) of Lean & Agile MethodsDavid Rico
Quick overview of the Return on Investment of (ROI) of using Lean & Agile Methods for managing the development of high-technology products and services. Begins with the impetus for using lean and agile vs. traditional methods and techniques, an overview of why traditional projects fail, a definition of lean and agile methods, and a quick overview of its value system, principles, and organizational context. Then, provides a quick survey of major competing lean and agile methods, techniques, paradigms, their evolution, and history. Then, it provides a broad survey of the costs, benefits, return on investment, and business performance of using lean and agile methods at the project, program, portfolio, organization, industry, and national levels. Wraps up with a few high-profile case studies, and a summary of lean and agile project management principles.
Intriguing Survey, Overview, and Tour of Key Lean & Agile Leadership principles, values, frameworks, models, and measurements. Examines key Lean & Agile Leadership behaviors at the global, national, industry, organization, portfolio, program, team, and individual levels. Begins by illustrating the market and technological challenges facing today's leaders and key definitions and proven concepts in Agile Thinking, Lean Thinking, and Contemporary Leadership Thinking to help successfully overcome 21st century challenges to survive, overcome, and thrive. Probably one of the most holistic, whirlwind composite or aggregated tours of key leadership concepts, ideas, frameworks, models, practices, behaviors, attributes, metrics, performance, and recent discoveries. Uniquely illustrates the correlation between traditional thinking and undesirable leadership characteristics AND Lean-Agile thinking and some of the most desirable and highly coveted leadership behaviors in the early 21st century.
Using SAFe to Manage U.S. Government Agencies, Portfolios, & Acquisition Prog...David Rico
Highly-practical overview of the growth of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 4.5 for managing multi-billion dollar U.S. Government portfolios of Petabyte-Scale Cloud-Computing Data Center-based Repositories. Starts with a brief definition and overview of portfolio management, agile timelines, government adoption, sample of competing lean and agile frameworks, and then goes into a deep-dive and cross examination of SAFe 4.5's major anatomical elements. Focuses on principles of lean and agile portfolio management, leadership, business value, and, more importantly the lean and agile value system itself. Clears up nagging misconceptions concerning SAFe, like it’s undeserved reputation as a heavy, unproven WIP-intensive traditional framework (by focusing on lean and agile thinking, practical real-world business value, and the softer principles of the agile manifesto like conversations, visualizations, flexibility, simplicity, and continuous improvement).
ROI of Evolutionary Design to Rapidly Create Innovatively New Products & Serv...David Rico
Brief 20-minute summary of using Evolutionary Design principles and practices. Includes Evolutionary Design theory, foundation, basic practices, and metrics for Lean-Agile Roadmapping, User Experience (UX) Mapping, and Models such as Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and SAFe. Late-breaking CI, CD, DevOps, and Cloud Computing case studies and whitepapers are mentioned on title slide ...
ROI of Organizational Agility for Transforming 21st Century EnterprisesDavid Rico
A short survey and overview of the top studies, factors, and statistical results of public sector, enterprise, organizational, and business agility (along with extensive summary tables for quick analysis, quotation, and further usage) ...
Overview of Metrics used in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 4.5. Quickly identifies the metrics, models, and measures associated with SAFe's Portfolio, Large Solution, Program, and Team levels. Begins with the impetus for SAFe, market conditions, definition of agile and portfolio management, and then a quick overview of SAFe based performance measurement.
Lean & Agile Thinking Principles for LeadersDavid Rico
A short synopsis of the principles, practices, and thinking mindset for enterprise, organizational, and business leaders who need to quickly understand how to manage lean-agile digital transformation initiatives, uncover roadblocks and impediments, and comprehend their role in the broader lean-agile worldview ...
Highly-innovative and unique introduction to bleeding-edge concepts, principles, dimensions, practices, and case studies on business agilities. Learn how to design state-of-the-art 21st century organizations to compete in the new merciless global high-technology landscape. Illustrates the business need, justification, and case for business agility. Defines and disambiguates key concepts, history, and terms. Then goes into a practical, principle-by-principle deep-dive into the eight (8) major dimensions of business agility (strategy, culture, process, products & services, technology, IT infrastructure, organizational design, and capital infrastructure). Provides key metrics, assessment instruments, business cases, and bottom-line business performance associated with business agility.
Quick overview of using Lean & Agile Project Management techniques for successfully planning, managing, and delivering high-technology products and services. Begins with the impetus for using lean and agile project management vs. traditional project management, an overview of why traditional projects fail, a definition of lean and agile project management, and a quick overview of its value system, principles, and organizational context. Then, provides a quick survey of major competing lean and agile project management paradigms, their evolution, and history. Provides a deep-dive of the prevailing lean and agile project management techniques. Wraps up by identifying major lean and agile project management metrics, the business case, quick case studies, and a summary of lean and agile project management principles.
Short introduction to key, critical concepts, metrics, models, and measurements with respect to lean thinking, innovation, and development of new products and services ...
Business Value of Agile Human Resources (AHR)David Rico
A short overview of the field of Agile Human Resources (AHR), motivations and challenges, definitions, lean and agile values and principles, agile human resources frameworks and models, video case studies, popular industry surveys, exercises, textbooks, and much more!
Business Value of Agile Product ManagementDavid Rico
A very short overview of contemporary lean and agile product management concepts, their role in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), definitions, principles, practices, and tools, what differentiates it from Scrum product owner(ship), user experience (UX) design, and other popular customer-centric thinking approaches.
Lean & Agile Enterprise Frameworks: For Managing Large U.S. Government Cloud ...David Rico
This is a presentation on "Lean & Agile Enterprise Frameworks: For Managing Large U.S. Government Cloud Computing Projects," which are emerging models for managing high-risk, time-sensitive R&D-oriented new product development (NPD) projects with demanding customers and fast-changing market conditions (at the enterprise, portfolio, and program levels). It establishes the context, provide a definition, and describe the value-system for lean and agile program and project management. It provides a brief survey and comparative analysis of the pros and cons of emerging lean and agile frameworks such as Enterprise Scrum, LeSS, DaD, SAFe, and RAGE. Then it describes the Scaled Agile Academy's Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) in greater detail (which is the de facto international standard for scaling the use of agile methods to the enterprise, portfolio, and program levels for both systems and software development). SAFe is hybrid model best known for "blending" megatrends such as lean and agile principles into a single unified framework, establishing an authoritative foundation for scaling agile methods to large-scale private and public sector programs, and unifying East (lean) and West (agile) into a common language for systems and software development that is both lean "and" agile. In addition to SAFe case studies, late-breaking developments on the use of "Continuous Delivery," "DevOps," and bleeding-edge "Unstructured Web Databases" at Google and Amazon to automate large sections of the enterprise value stream will be discussed (which has been successfully used by some of the world's largest firms to boost organizational productivity by one or two orders of magnitude). This briefing has been warmly received by multiple U.S. government agencies, contractors, and PMI audiences throughout Baltimore-Washington, DC.
Brief, but descriptive tutorial of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 4.5. Starts with impetus for agility, overview of lean and agile thinking, definition of portfolio management, explanation of SAFe and its values and principles, etc. Then, provides a level-by-level overview of SAFe, including case studies, metrics, business case, adoption statistics, roles, responsibilities, and other considerations. Closes with a nice summary of key SAFe implementation principles ...
Business Value of Agile Testing: Using TDD, CI, CD, & DevOpsDavid Rico
Presentation on the "Business Value of Agile Testing: Using Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, & DevOps," which are highly-disciplined contemporary new product development (NPD) approaches for rapidly building high-quality information technology-intensive systems. Identifies the motivation for agile methods, provide a brief introduction to agile methods, describe the fundamental mechanics of agile methods, and a brief survey of the benefits of agile methods as reported by major industry studies (including rarely seen, late-breaking economic data and results from the top consulting firms). Defines agile testing and introduce basic and advanced agile testing practices, strategies, metrics, outcomes, costs & benefits, cost of quality, and statistical performance data. Introduces basic and advanced agile scaling practices, case studies of enterprise-level agile testing, Continuous Delivery, and DevOps at major Internet firms, and common agile testing tools and automation suites. Closes with a summary of agile testing adoption rates, common barriers to agile testing, organizational change models for agile testing, and a summary of the benefits of agile testing.
Return on Investment (ROI) of Lean & Agile MethodsDavid Rico
Quick overview of the Return on Investment of (ROI) of using Lean & Agile Methods for managing the development of high-technology products and services. Begins with the impetus for using lean and agile vs. traditional methods and techniques, an overview of why traditional projects fail, a definition of lean and agile methods, and a quick overview of its value system, principles, and organizational context. Then, provides a quick survey of major competing lean and agile methods, techniques, paradigms, their evolution, and history. Then, it provides a broad survey of the costs, benefits, return on investment, and business performance of using lean and agile methods at the project, program, portfolio, organization, industry, and national levels. Wraps up with a few high-profile case studies, and a summary of lean and agile project management principles.
Intriguing Survey, Overview, and Tour of Key Lean & Agile Leadership principles, values, frameworks, models, and measurements. Examines key Lean & Agile Leadership behaviors at the global, national, industry, organization, portfolio, program, team, and individual levels. Begins by illustrating the market and technological challenges facing today's leaders and key definitions and proven concepts in Agile Thinking, Lean Thinking, and Contemporary Leadership Thinking to help successfully overcome 21st century challenges to survive, overcome, and thrive. Probably one of the most holistic, whirlwind composite or aggregated tours of key leadership concepts, ideas, frameworks, models, practices, behaviors, attributes, metrics, performance, and recent discoveries. Uniquely illustrates the correlation between traditional thinking and undesirable leadership characteristics AND Lean-Agile thinking and some of the most desirable and highly coveted leadership behaviors in the early 21st century.
Using SAFe to Manage U.S. Government Agencies, Portfolios, & Acquisition Prog...David Rico
Highly-practical overview of the growth of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 4.5 for managing multi-billion dollar U.S. Government portfolios of Petabyte-Scale Cloud-Computing Data Center-based Repositories. Starts with a brief definition and overview of portfolio management, agile timelines, government adoption, sample of competing lean and agile frameworks, and then goes into a deep-dive and cross examination of SAFe 4.5's major anatomical elements. Focuses on principles of lean and agile portfolio management, leadership, business value, and, more importantly the lean and agile value system itself. Clears up nagging misconceptions concerning SAFe, like it’s undeserved reputation as a heavy, unproven WIP-intensive traditional framework (by focusing on lean and agile thinking, practical real-world business value, and the softer principles of the agile manifesto like conversations, visualizations, flexibility, simplicity, and continuous improvement).
ROI of Evolutionary Design to Rapidly Create Innovatively New Products & Serv...David Rico
Brief 20-minute summary of using Evolutionary Design principles and practices. Includes Evolutionary Design theory, foundation, basic practices, and metrics for Lean-Agile Roadmapping, User Experience (UX) Mapping, and Models such as Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and SAFe. Late-breaking CI, CD, DevOps, and Cloud Computing case studies and whitepapers are mentioned on title slide ...
ROI of Organizational Agility for Transforming 21st Century EnterprisesDavid Rico
A short survey and overview of the top studies, factors, and statistical results of public sector, enterprise, organizational, and business agility (along with extensive summary tables for quick analysis, quotation, and further usage) ...
Overview of Metrics used in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 4.5. Quickly identifies the metrics, models, and measures associated with SAFe's Portfolio, Large Solution, Program, and Team levels. Begins with the impetus for SAFe, market conditions, definition of agile and portfolio management, and then a quick overview of SAFe based performance measurement.
Lean & Agile Thinking Principles for LeadersDavid Rico
A short synopsis of the principles, practices, and thinking mindset for enterprise, organizational, and business leaders who need to quickly understand how to manage lean-agile digital transformation initiatives, uncover roadblocks and impediments, and comprehend their role in the broader lean-agile worldview ...
Highly-innovative and unique introduction to bleeding-edge concepts, principles, dimensions, practices, and case studies on business agilities. Learn how to design state-of-the-art 21st century organizations to compete in the new merciless global high-technology landscape. Illustrates the business need, justification, and case for business agility. Defines and disambiguates key concepts, history, and terms. Then goes into a practical, principle-by-principle deep-dive into the eight (8) major dimensions of business agility (strategy, culture, process, products & services, technology, IT infrastructure, organizational design, and capital infrastructure). Provides key metrics, assessment instruments, business cases, and bottom-line business performance associated with business agility.
Quick overview of using Lean & Agile Project Management techniques for successfully planning, managing, and delivering high-technology products and services. Begins with the impetus for using lean and agile project management vs. traditional project management, an overview of why traditional projects fail, a definition of lean and agile project management, and a quick overview of its value system, principles, and organizational context. Then, provides a quick survey of major competing lean and agile project management paradigms, their evolution, and history. Provides a deep-dive of the prevailing lean and agile project management techniques. Wraps up by identifying major lean and agile project management metrics, the business case, quick case studies, and a summary of lean and agile project management principles.
Short introduction to key, critical concepts, metrics, models, and measurements with respect to lean thinking, innovation, and development of new products and services ...
Business Value of Agile Human Resources (AHR)David Rico
A short overview of the field of Agile Human Resources (AHR), motivations and challenges, definitions, lean and agile values and principles, agile human resources frameworks and models, video case studies, popular industry surveys, exercises, textbooks, and much more!
Business Value of Agile Product ManagementDavid Rico
A very short overview of contemporary lean and agile product management concepts, their role in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), definitions, principles, practices, and tools, what differentiates it from Scrum product owner(ship), user experience (UX) design, and other popular customer-centric thinking approaches.
Lean & Agile Enterprise Frameworks: For Managing Large U.S. Government Cloud ...David Rico
This is a presentation on "Lean & Agile Enterprise Frameworks: For Managing Large U.S. Government Cloud Computing Projects," which are emerging models for managing high-risk, time-sensitive R&D-oriented new product development (NPD) projects with demanding customers and fast-changing market conditions (at the enterprise, portfolio, and program levels). It establishes the context, provide a definition, and describe the value-system for lean and agile program and project management. It provides a brief survey and comparative analysis of the pros and cons of emerging lean and agile frameworks such as Enterprise Scrum, LeSS, DaD, SAFe, and RAGE. Then it describes the Scaled Agile Academy's Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) in greater detail (which is the de facto international standard for scaling the use of agile methods to the enterprise, portfolio, and program levels for both systems and software development). SAFe is hybrid model best known for "blending" megatrends such as lean and agile principles into a single unified framework, establishing an authoritative foundation for scaling agile methods to large-scale private and public sector programs, and unifying East (lean) and West (agile) into a common language for systems and software development that is both lean "and" agile. In addition to SAFe case studies, late-breaking developments on the use of "Continuous Delivery," "DevOps," and bleeding-edge "Unstructured Web Databases" at Google and Amazon to automate large sections of the enterprise value stream will be discussed (which has been successfully used by some of the world's largest firms to boost organizational productivity by one or two orders of magnitude). This briefing has been warmly received by multiple U.S. government agencies, contractors, and PMI audiences throughout Baltimore-Washington, DC.
Brief, but descriptive tutorial of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 4.5. Starts with impetus for agility, overview of lean and agile thinking, definition of portfolio management, explanation of SAFe and its values and principles, etc. Then, provides a level-by-level overview of SAFe, including case studies, metrics, business case, adoption statistics, roles, responsibilities, and other considerations. Closes with a nice summary of key SAFe implementation principles ...
Business Value of Agile Testing: Using TDD, CI, CD, & DevOpsDavid Rico
Presentation on the "Business Value of Agile Testing: Using Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, & DevOps," which are highly-disciplined contemporary new product development (NPD) approaches for rapidly building high-quality information technology-intensive systems. Identifies the motivation for agile methods, provide a brief introduction to agile methods, describe the fundamental mechanics of agile methods, and a brief survey of the benefits of agile methods as reported by major industry studies (including rarely seen, late-breaking economic data and results from the top consulting firms). Defines agile testing and introduce basic and advanced agile testing practices, strategies, metrics, outcomes, costs & benefits, cost of quality, and statistical performance data. Introduces basic and advanced agile scaling practices, case studies of enterprise-level agile testing, Continuous Delivery, and DevOps at major Internet firms, and common agile testing tools and automation suites. Closes with a summary of agile testing adoption rates, common barriers to agile testing, organizational change models for agile testing, and a summary of the benefits of agile testing.
This is a presentation on "Lean & Agile Organizational Leadership: History, Theory, Models, & Popular Ideas," which are emerging models for managing high-risk, time-sensitive R&D-oriented new product development (NPD) projects with demanding customers and fast-changing market conditions (at the enterprise, portfolio, and program levels). It establishes the context, provide a definition, and describe the value-system for lean and agile methods, principles, and core ideas. It provides a brief history and comparative analysis of agile methods (i.e., Crystal Methods, Scrum, Dynamic Systems Development Method, Feature Driven Development, and Extreme Programming), project management models (i.e., Radical, Adaptive, Extreme, Agile, and Simplified Agile), and portfolio frameworks (i.e., Enterprise Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework, Large Scale Scrum, Disciplined Agile Delivery, and Recipes for Agile Governance). Then it provides multiple histories of the fields of organizational leadership, administration, and management over the last 100 years. It then introduces, delves into, describes, and provides a brief survey and comparative analysis of emerging theories, models, and methods of lean and agile leadership (i.e., Agile, Employee, Radical, Lean, and Leadership 3.0). Finally, it closes with an expose of the top organizational change paradigms most closely aligned with the field of lean and agile development, project management, and portfolio management methodologies (along with a unique summary of the major tenets, principles, and practices of lean & agile organizational leadership). This briefing has been warmly received by multiple U.S. government agencies, contractors, and university audiences throughout Baltimore-Washington, DC.
Business Value of Agile Methods: Using Return on InvestmentDavid Rico
Provides a brief introduction to agile methods, an overview of popular agile methods, and a brief survey of the benefits of agile methods as reported by major industry studies. Also provides a suite of basic metrics useful for quantifying the business value of agile methods. Discusses parametric models derived from industry data, a methodology for estimating the return on investment (ROI) of agile methods, and a comparison of the costs and benefits of 11 major agile and traditional methods.
Secure Software Development Lifecycle.pptxLeonHamilton4
SDLC or the Software Development Life Cycle is a process that produces software with the highest quality and lowest cost in the shortest time possible. SDLC provides a well-structured flow of phases that help an organization to quickly produce high-quality software which is well-tested and ready for production use.
SDLC works by lowering the cost of software development while simultaneously improving quality and shortening production time. SDLC achieves these apparently divergent goals by following a plan that removes the typical pitfalls of software development projects. That plan starts by evaluating existing systems for deficiencies.
Next, it defines the requirements of the new system. It then creates the software through the stages of analysis, planning, design, development, testing, and deployment. By anticipating costly mistakes like failing to ask the end-user or client for feedback, SLDC can eliminate redundant rework and after-the-fact fixes.
It’s also important to know that there is a strong focus on the testing phase. As the SDLC is a repetitive methodology, you have to ensure code quality at every cycle. Many organizations tend to spend few efforts on testing while a stronger focus on testing can save them a lot of rework, time, and money. Be smart and write the right types of tests.
SDLC done right can allow the highest level of management control and documentation. Developers understand what they should build and why. All parties agree on the goal upfront and see a clear plan for arriving at that goal. Everyone understands the costs and resources required.
Several pitfalls can turn an SDLC implementation into more of a roadblock to development than a tool that helps us. Failure to take into account the needs of customers and all users and stakeholders can result in a poor understanding of the system requirements at the outset. The benefits of SDLC only exist if the plan is followed faithfully.
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Business Value of Agile Methods: Its Leadership Considerations
1. Business Value of
Agile Methods
& Its Leadership Considerations
Dr. David F. Rico, PMP, ACP, CSM
Twitter: @dr_david_f_rico
Website: http://www.davidfrico.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidfrico
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1540017424
Dave’s Agile Articles: http://davidfrico.com/agile-message.doc
2. Author Background
DoD contractor with 30+ years of IT experience
B.S. Comp. Sci., M.S. Soft. Eng., & D.M. Info. Sys.
Large gov’t projects in U.S., Far/Mid-East, & Europe
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Published six books & numerous journal articles
Adjunct at George Wash, UMBC, UMUC, Argosy
Agile Program Management & Lean Development
Specializes in metrics, models, & cost engineering
Six Sigma, CMMI, ISO 9001, DoDAF, & DoD 5000
Cloud Computing, SOA, Web Services, FOSS, etc.
4. Traditional Projects
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Big projects result in poor quality and scope changes
Productivity declines with long queues/wait times
Large projects are unsuccessful or canceled
Jones, C. (1991). Applied software measurement: Assuring productivity and quality. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Size vs. Quality
DefectDensity
0.00
3.20
6.40
9.60
12.80
16.00
0 2 6 25 100 400
Lines of Code (Thousands)
Size vs. Productivity
CodeProductionRate
0.00
1.00
2.00
3.00
4.00
5.00
0 2 6 25 100 400
Lines of Code (Thousands)
Size vs. Requirements Growth
Percentage
0%
8%
16%
24%
32%
40%
0 2 6 25 100 400
Lines of Code (Thousands)
Size vs. Success
Percentage
0%
12%
24%
36%
48%
60%
0 2 6 25 100 400
Lines of Code (Thousands)
5. Global Project Failures
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Standish Group. (2010). Chaos summary 2010. Boston, MA: Author.
Sessions, R. (2009). The IT complexity crisis: Danger and opportunity. Houston, TX: Object Watch.
Challenged and failed projects hover at 67%
Big projects fail more often, which is 5% to 10%
Of $1.7T spent on IT projects, over $858B were lost
16% 53% 31%
27% 33% 40%
26% 46% 28%
28% 49% 23%
34% 51% 15%
29% 53% 18%
35% 46% 19%
32% 44% 24%
33% 41% 26%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
1994
1996
1998
2000
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
Year
Successful Challenged Failed
$0.0
$0.4
$0.7
$1.1
$1.4
$1.8
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Trillions(USDollars)
Expenditures Failed Investments
6. Requirements Defects & Waste
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Sheldon, F. T. et al. (1992). Reliability measurement: From theory to practice. IEEE Software, 9(4), 13-20
Johnson, J. (2002). ROI: It's your job. Extreme Programming 2002 Conference, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy.
Requirements defects are #1 reason projects fail
Traditional projects specify too many requirements
More than 65% of requirements are never used at all
Other 7%
Requirements
47%
Design
28%
Implementation
18%
Defects
Always 7%
Often 13%
Sometimes
16%
Rarely
19%
Never
45%
Waste
7. What is Agility?
A-gil-i-ty (ə-'ji-lə-tē) Property consisting of quickness,
lightness, and ease of movement; To be very nimble
The ability to create and respond to change in order to
profit in a turbulent global business environment
The ability to quickly reprioritize use of resources when
requirements, technology, and knowledge shift
A very fast response to sudden market changes and
emerging threats by intensive customer interaction
Use of evolutionary, incremental, and iterative delivery
to converge on an optimal customer solution
Maximizing BUSINESS VALUE with right sized, just-
enough, and just-in-time processes and documentation
Highsmith, J. A. (2002). Agile software development ecosystems. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley.
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8. What are Agile Methods?
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People-centric way to create innovative solutions
Product-centric alternative to documents/process
Market-centric model to maximize business value
Agile Manifesto. (2001). Manifesto for agile software development. Retrieved September 3, 2008, from http://www.agilemanifesto.org
Rico, D. F., Sayani, H. H., & Sone, S. (2009). The business value of agile software methods. Ft. Lauderdale, FL: J. Ross Publishing.
Rico, D. F. (2012). Agile conceptual model. Retrieved February 6, 2012, from http://davidfrico.com/agile-concept-model-1.pdf
Customer Collaboration
Working Software
Individuals & Interactions
Responding to Change
valued
more than
valued
more than
valued
more than
valued
more than
Contracts
Documentation
Processes
Project Plans
Frequent comm.
Close proximity
Regular meetings
Multiple comm. channels
Frequent feedback
Relationship strength
Leadership
Boundaries
Empowerment
Competence
Structure
Manageability/Motivation
Clear objectives
Small/feasible scope
Acceptance criteria
Timeboxed iterations
Valid operational results
Regular cadence/intervals
Org. flexibility
Mgt. flexibility
Process flexibility
System flexibility
Technology flexibility
Infrastructure flexibility
Contract compliance
Contract deliverables
Contract change orders
Lifecycle compliance
Process Maturity Level
Regulatory compliance
Document deliveries
Document comments
Document compliance
Cost Compliance
Scope Compliance
Schedule Compliance
9. Network
Computer
Operating System
Middleware
Applications
APIs
GUI
How Agile Works
Agile requirements implemented in slices vs. layers
User needs with higher business value are done first
Reduces cost & risk while increasing business success
9Shore, J. (2011). Evolutionary design illustrated. Norwegian Developers Conference, Oslo, Norway.
Agile Traditional
1 2 3 Faster
Early ROI
Lower Costs
Fewer Defects
Manageable Risk
Better Performance
Smaller Attack Surface
Late
No Value
Cost Overruns
Very Poor Quality
Uncontrollable Risk
Slowest Performance
More Security Incidents Seven Wastes
1.Rework
2.Motion
3.Waiting
4.Inventory
5.Transportation
6.Overprocessing
7.Overproduction
MINIMIZES MAXIMIZES
JIT, Just-enough architecture
Early, in-process system V&V
Fast continuous improvement
Scalable to systems of systems
Maximizes successful outcomes
Myth of perfect architecture
Late big-bang integration tests
Year long improvement cycles
Breaks down on large projects
Undermines business success
10. Thousands of Tests
Continuously Executed
No More Late Big
Bang Integration
Agile Development Model
User needs designed & developed one-at-a-time
Changes automatically detected, built, and tested
System fully tested and deployed as changes occur
10Humble, J., & Farley, D. (2011). Continuous delivery. Boston, MA: Pearson Education.
Duvall, P., Matyas, S., & Glover, A. (2006). Continuous integration. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Build
Integration
Server
Version
Control
Server
Build
Scripts
UsesWatches
Build
Status
ProvidesDeveloper A
Developer B
Developer C
Commits
Changes
Commits
Changes
Commits
Changes
Builds
Database
Analysis
Testing
Reporting
Documentation
Deployment
Early, Automated, Fast,
Efficient, & Repeatable
Constant Readiness
State & CM Control
Lean, Waste Free, Low WIP,
No Deadlocked Test Queues
Rapidly & Successfully
Dev. Complex Systems
11. Agile Cost of Quality (CoQ)
Agile testing is 10x better than code inspections
Agile testing is 100x better than traditional testing
Agile testing is done earlier “and” 1,000x more often
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Rico, D. F. (2012). The Cost of Quality (CoQ) for Agile vs. Traditional Project Management. Fairfax, VA: Gantthead.Com.
12. Agile Cost & Benefit Analysis
Costs based on avg. productivity and quality
Productivity ranged from 4.7 to 5.9 LOC an hour
Costs were $588,202 and benefits were $3,930,631
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Rico, D. F., Sayani, H. H., & Sone, S. (2009). The business value of agile software methods: Maximizing ROI with just-in-time processes and documentation.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL: J. Ross Publishing.
d1 = [ln(Benefits Costs) + (Rate + 0.5 Risk2) Years] Risk Years, d2 = d1 Risk Years
5
1i
13. Studies of Agile Methods
Dozens of surveys of agile methods since 2003
100s of Agile and CMMI case studies documented
Agile productivity, quality, and cost better than CMMI
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Rico, D. F. (2008). What is the return-on-investment of agile methods? Retrieved February 3, 2009, from http://davidfrico.com/rico08a.pdf
Rico, D. F. (2008). What is the ROI of agile vs. traditional methods? TickIT International, 10(4), 9-18.
14. Benefits of Agile Methods
Analysis of 23 agile vs. 7,500 traditional projects
Agile projects are 54% better than traditional ones
Agile has lower costs (61%) and fewer defects (93%)
Mah, M. (2008). Measuring agile in the enterprise: Proceedings of the Agile 2008 Conference, Toronto, Canada.
Project Cost in Millions $
0.75
1.50
2.25
3.00
2.8
1.1
Before Agile
After Agile
61%
Lower
Cost
Total Staffing
18
11
Before Agile
After Agile
39%
Less
Staff
5
10
15
20
Delivery Time in Months
5
10
15
20
18
13.5
Before Agile
After Agile
24%
Faster
Cumulative Defects
625
1250
1875
2500
2270
381
Before Agile
After Agile
93%
Less
Defects
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15. Agile vs. Traditional Success
Traditional projects succeed at 50% industry avg.
Traditional projects are challenged 20% more often
Agile projects succeed 3x more and fail 3x less often
Standish Group. (2012). Chaos manifesto. Boston, MA: Author.
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Agile Traditional
Success
42%
Failed
9%
Challenged
49%
Success
14%
Failed
29%
Challenged
57%
16. Hoque, F., et al. (2007). Business technology convergence. The role of business technology convergence in innovation
and adaptability and its effect on financial performance. Stamford, CT: BTM Institute.
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Study of 15 agile vs. non-agile Fortune 500 firms
Based on models to measure organizational agility
Agile firms out perform non agile firms by up to 36%
Benefits of Organizational Agility
17. Agile Enterprise Delivery Model
Beck, K., & Fowler, M. (2001). Planning extreme programming. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley.
Highsmith, J. A. (2010). Agile project management: Creating innovative products. Boston, MA: Pearson Education.
Larman, C., & Vodde, B. (2010). Practices for scaling lean and agile development. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Leffingwell, D. (2011). Agile software requirements: Lean requirements practices for teams, programs, and the enterprise. Boston, MA: Pearson Education.
Begins with a high-level product vision/architecture
Continues with needs development/release planning
Includes agile delivery teams to realize business value
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18. Agile Adoption
18House, D. (2012). Sixth annual state of agile survey: State of agile development. Atlanta, GA: VersionOne.
VersionOne found 80% using agile methods today
Most are using Scrum with several key XP practices
Lean-Kanban is a rising practice with a 24% adoption
Continuous
Integration
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19. Agile Proliferation
Scrum Alliance. (2012). Scrum certification statistics. Retrieved February 6, 2013, from http://www.scrumalliance.org/resource_download/2505
Taft, D. K. (2012). Agile developers needed: Demand outpaces supply. Foster City, CA: eWeek. 19
Number of CSMs have doubled to 200,000 in 2 years
558,918 agile jobs for only 121,876 qualified people
4.59 jobs available for every agile candidate (5:1)
20. Agile Industry Case Studies
80% of worldwide IT projects use agile methods
Includes regulated industries, i.e., DoD, FDA, etc.
Agile now used for safety critical systems, FBI, etc.
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Industry
Shrink
Wrapped
Electronic
Commerce
Health
Care
Law
Enforcement
Org
20 teams
140 people
5 countries
Size
15 teams
90 people
Collocated
4 teams
20 people
Collocated
10 teams
50 people
Collocated
3 teams
12 people
Collocated
U.S.
DoD
Primavera
Google
Stratcom
FBI
FDA
Project
Primavera
Adwords
SKIweb
Sentinel
m2000
Purpose
Project
Management
Advertising
Knowledge
Management
Case File
Workflow
Blood
Analysis
1,838 User Stories
6,250 Function Points
500,000 Lines of Code
Metrics
26,809 User Stories
91,146 Function Points
7,291,666 Lines of Code
1,659 User Stories
5,640 Function Points
451,235 Lines of Code
3,947 User Stories
13,419 Function Points
1,073,529 Lines of Code
390 User Stories
1,324 Function Points
105,958 Lines of Code
Rico, D. F. (2010). Lean and agile project management: For large programs and projects. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Lean
Enterprise Software and Systems, Helsinki, Finland, 37-43.
21. Structure, reward, decision, staffing, leadership, etc.
Top-down, individualism, regulation, compliance, etc.
Focus on reforming acquisition & procurement system
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Type/Kind Common DoD Agile Perceptions
Discipline
Reality with Respect to Agile Methods
Scalability
Domain
Management
Requirements
Architecture
Quality
Inspections
Security
Undisciplined Cowboy Coding
Only Applies Small Projects
Only for Protoperational Systems
Flexible Scope/Can't Use EVM
Doesn't Use Requirements
Spaghetti Code from Iterations
No Documents/Unmaintainable
High CoQ from No Inspections
Vulnerabilities from Hacking
Rigorous process, plans, requirements, QA, CM, testing, documents etc.
Used by 100, 500, 1,000, 10,000+ person person projects & organizations
Used in DoD, medical devices, avionics, autos, electronics, etc.
Lightweight EVM model is used with its release planning methodology
Always begins with valuable, well-defined, & prioritized requirements
Begins with lean architecture or create waste-free emergent design
Electronic plans, requirements, designs, tests, manuals, documents, etc.
One or two orders of magnitude more inspections & tests performed
Security practices result in smaller attack surface & fewer vulnerabilities
Rico, D. F., Sayani, H. H., & Sone, S. (2009). The business value of agile software methods: Maximizing ROI with just-in-time processes and documentation.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL: J. Ross Publishing.
Perceptions of Agile Methods
22. Agile Recap
Agile methods DON’T mean deliver it now & fix it later
Lightweight, yet disciplined approach to development
Reduced cost, risk, & waste while improving quality
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Rico, D. F. (2012). What’s really happening in agile methods: Its principles revisited? Retrieved June 6, 2012, from http://davidfrico.com/agile-principles.pdf
Rico, D. F. (2012). The promises and pitfalls of agile methods. Retrieved February 6, 2013 from, http://davidfrico.com/agile-pros-cons.pdf
Rico, D. F. (2012). How do lean & agile intersect? Retrieved February 6, 2013, from http://davidfrico.com/agile-concept-model-3.pdf
What How Result
Flexibility Use lightweight, yet disciplined processes and artifacts Low work-in-process
Customer Involve customers early and often throughout development Early feedback
Prioritize Identify highest-priority, value-adding business needs Focus resources
Descope Descope complex programs by an order of magnitude Simplify problem
Decompose Divide the remaining scope into smaller batches Manageable pieces
Iterate Implement pieces one at a time over long periods of time Diffuse risk
Leanness Architect and design the system one iteration at a time JIT waste-free design
Swarm Implement each component in small cross-functional teams Knowledge transfer
Collaborate Use frequent informal communications as often as possible Efficient data transfer
Test Early Incrementally test each component as it is developed Early verification
Test Often Perform system-level regression testing every few minutes Early validation
Adapt Frequently identify optimal process and product solutions Improve performance
23. Conclusion
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Agility is the evolution of management thought
Confluence of traditional and non-traditional ideas
Improve performance by over an order of magnitude
“The world of traditional methods belongs to yesterday”
“Don’t waste your time using traditional methods on 21st century projects”
Agile methods are …
Systems development approaches
New product development approaches
Expertly designed to be fast and efficient
Intentionally lean and free of waste (muda)
Systematic highly-disciplined approaches
Capable of producing high quality systems
Right-sized, just-enough, and just-in-time tools
Scalable to large, complex mission-critical systems
Designed to maximize business value for customers
Wysocki, R.F. (2010). Adaptive project framework: Managing complexity in the face of uncertainty. Boston, MA: Pearson Education.
24. Books on ROI of SW Methods
Guides to software methods for business leaders
Communicates business value of software methods
Rosetta stones to unlocking ROI of software methods
http://davidfrico.com/agile-book.htm (Description)
http://davidfrico.com/roi-book.htm (Description)
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26. Agile World View
“Agility” has many dimensions other than IT
It ranges from leadership to technological agility
The focus of this brief is program management agility
Agile Leaders
Agile Organization Change
Agile Acquisition & Contracting
Agile Strategic Planning
Agile Capability Analysis
Agile Program Management
Agile Tech.
Agile Information Systems
Agile Tools
Agile Processes & Practices
Agile Systems Development
Agile Project Management
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27. Leadership Theory
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Van Seters, D. A., & Field, R. H. (1990). The evolution of leadership theory. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 3(3), 29–45.
Daft, R. L. (2011). The leadership experience. Mason, OH: Thomson Higher Education.
Day, D. V., & Anbtonakis, J. (2012). The nature of leadership. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Northouse, P. G. (2013). Leadership: Theory and practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Many leadership theories emerged in last 100 years
Many believe there is no unified theory of leadership
Truth is somewhere in the midst of old and new ideas
28. Agile Leadership Theories
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Numerous theories of agile leadership have emerged
Many have to do with delegation and empowerment
Leaders have major roles in visioning and enabling
Augustine
(2005)
Pink
(2009)
Denning
(2010)
Poppendieck
(2010)
Appelo
(2011)
Organic Teams
Guiding Vision
Transparency
Light Touch
Simple Rules
Improvement
Autonomy
Alignment
Transparency
Purpose
Mastery
Improvement
Self Organizing
Communication
Transparency
Iterative Value
Delight Clients
Improvement
Talented Teams
Alignment
Systems View
Reliability
Excellence
Improvement
Empowerment
Alignment
Motivation
Scaling
Competency
Improvement
Augustine, S. (2005). Managing agile projects. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.
Pink, D. H. (2009). Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
Poppendieck, M, & Poppendieck, T. (2010). Leading lean software development: Results are not the point. Boston, MA: Pearson Education.
Anderson, D. J. (2010). Kanban: Successful evolutionary change for your technology business. Sequim, WA: Blue Hole Press.
Appelo, J. (2011). Management 3.0: Leading agile developers and developing agile leaders. Boston, MA: Pearson Education.
29. Agile Project Leadership
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Agile management is delegated to the lowest level
There remain key leadership roles & responsibilities
Communication, coaching, and facilitation key ones
Customer Communication
Product Visioning
Distribution Strategy
Team Development
Standards & Practices
Telecom Infrastructure
Development Tools
High Context Meetings
Coordination Meetings
F2F Communications
Performance Management
Facilitate selection of methods for obtaining and maintaining executive commitment, project
resources, corporate communications, and customer interaction
Facilitate selection of methods for communicating product purpose, goals, objectives, mission,
vision, business value, scope, performance, budget, assumptions, constraints, etc.
Facilitate selection of virtual team distribution strategy to satisfy project goals and objectives
Facilitate selection of methods for training, coaching, mentoring, and other team building
approaches
Facilitate selection of project management and technical practices, conventions, roles,
responsibilities, and performance measures
Facilitate selection of high bandwidth telecommunication products and services
Facilitate selection of agile project management tools and interactive development environment
Facilitate selection of high context agile project management and development meetings
Facilitate selection of meetings and forums for regular communications between site
coordinators
Facilitate selection of methods for maximizing periodic face to face interactions and
collaboration
Facilities selection of methods for process improvement, problem resolution, conflict
management, team recognition, product performance, and customer satisfaction
Maholtra, A., Majchrzak, A., & Rosen, B. (2007). Leading virtual teams. Academy of Management Perspectives, 21(1), 60-70.
Hunsaker, P. L., & Hunsaker, P. L. (2008). Virtual teams: A leadership guide. Team Performance Management, 14(1/2), 86-101.
Fisher, K., & Fisher, M. D. (2001). The distance manager: A hands on guide to managing off site employees and virtual teams. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
30. Agile Leadership Coaching
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Executive coaching considered latest development
100s of books on executive coaching and mentoring
Well coached teams & individuals perform 10x better
Davies, R., & Sedley (2009). Agile coaching. Raleigh, NC: Pragmatic Bookshelf.
Adkins, L. (2010). Coaching agile teams: A companion for scrummasters, agile coaches, and project managers in transition. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Respect. Always treat people with respect and dignity
Peaceful. Be slow to speak, anger, and overreact
Composed. Walk away from a situation when in doubt
Space. Give space, don't crowd, and don't be pushy
Patience. Be calm, cool, rational, and even-tempered
Objective. Keep focus and don't escalate or exacerbate
Maturity. Strive be a role model of maturity at all times
Listen. Observe and wait for subtle cues to add value
Guide. Gently and respectfully guide, correct, and lead
BE OPEN OBSERVE LISTEN LEARN CONNECT RESPECT PRIVACY
31. Traditional Organizational Change
Satir, V., Banmen, J., Gerber, J., & Gomori, M. (1991). The satir model: Family therapy and beyond. Palo Alto, CA: Science and Behavior Books.
Humans can’t cope with large technological change
Changes may be resisted for a long time (years)
Big changes plunge organizations into chaos
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32. Agile Organizational Change
Sidky, A. (2008). Becoming agile in an imperfect world. Washington, DC: Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN).
Enable us to cross-the-chasm sooner or earlier
Reduce chaos associated with large-scale change
Reduce or divide the risk of change into small pieces
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33. Organizational Change Models
Heath, C., & Heath, D. (2010). Switch: How to change things when change is hard. New York, NY: Random House.
Patterson, K., et al. (2008). Influencer: The power to change anything: New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Change, no matter how small or large, is difficult
Smaller focused changes help to cross the chasm
Shrinking, simplifying, and motivation key factors
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Switch - How to Change Things When Change is Hard Influencer - The Power to Change Anything
Direct the Rider
Follow the bright spots - Clone what works
Script the critical moves - Use prescriptive behaviors
Point to the destination - Focus on the end game
Motivate the Elephant
Find the feeling - Appeal to emotion
Shrink the change - Use incremental change
Grow your people - Invest in training and education
Shape the Path
Tweak the environment - Simplify the change
Build habits - Create simple recipes for action
Rally the herd - Get everyone involved
Make the Undesirable Desirable
Create new experiences - Make it interesting
Create new motives - Appeal to sensibility
Surpass your Limits
Perfect complex skills - Establish milestones
Build emotional skills - Build maturity and people skills
Harness Peer Pressure
Recruit public personalities - Involve public figures
Recruit influential leaders - Involve recognized figures
Find Strength in Numbers
Utilize teamwork - Enlist others to help out
Enlist the power of social capital - Scale up and out
Design Rewards and Demand Accountability
Use incentives wisely - Reward vital behaviors
Use punishment sparingly - Warn before taking action
Change the Environment
Make it easy - Simplify the change
Make it unavoidable - Build change into daily routine